Social media giants slapped with over 3 billion in fines over GDPR violations, Meta tops the list
Nov 21, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Data breaches and similar violations have sent social media giants to court several times so far. But how much did they actually have to pay…
X/Twitter glitch erases most photos posted to the platform before Dec 2014
Aug 21, 2023
John Aldred
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at this, really. The transition from Twitter to X hasn’t exactly gone smoothly since Elon Musk took the reins…
Twitter vs. Flickr: A View Count Comparison for Photographers
Dec 30, 2022
Thomas Hawk
Yesterday Twitter announced that they were adding view counts to tweets on Twitter. I thought I’d use this announcement to very unscientifically compare the number of…
Twitter bans astrophotographer for three months over an “intimate” shot of a meteor
Nov 18, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Can you imagine seeing anything “dirty” in a photo or video of a meteor? Yeah, neither can I. However, Twitter can, and it banned an…
Oh look, now Twitter has Reels too
Sep 30, 2022
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
After Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, now it’s Twitter’s turn to copy TikTok’s short-form videos. That’s right, from now on, you can also go to Twitter…
Twitter account One Perfect Shot becomes an HBO TV series
Aug 11, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Twitter account One Perfect Shot is all about the iconic frames from movies and TV series. But here’s an interesting twist: the account itself is…
Lady Gaga shares watermarked photo, Shutterstock responds. Then Twitter exploded
Jan 26, 2020
Udi Tirosh
It sometimes amazes me how big artists can be ignorant of copyright laws. Take this latest incident with Lady Gaga from earlier this week. Lady…
Photographer wins copyright lawsuit over embedded tweets, now sues more publications
Nov 30, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Last year, photographer Justin Goldman filed a lawsuit against several publications that featured someone’s embedded tweet with his copyrighted photo. The court ruled that this…
Samsung busted tweeting stock photos to promote Galaxy A8 camera
Aug 18, 2018
John Aldred
With as much as Samsung gives Apple a hard time in its promotional material, Apple fans will probably get a chuckle over this one. Samsung…
19 year old girl banned from social media for posting nude photos of another woman
May 11, 2016
John Aldred
19 year old Courtney Marie Mulkentine from Gympie, Queensland, posted photos of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend to Facebook and removed them after Mulkentine received a phone call from…