As any social platform expands and reaches the online equivalent of middle age, there are often criticisms of what that growth requires and cries of “it was better when,” and Twitter (s twtr) is no exception to that rule. One of the most prominent complaints about the service — one that I have made myself in the past — is that as more and more people have joined the network, the signal-to-noise ratio has plummeted, and the stream has become increasingly filled with meaningless chatter about inanities like Justin Bieber’s latest PR stunt.
A recent piece in the New York Times, entitled “Valley of the Blahs: How Justin Bieber’s Troubles Exposed Twitter’s Achilles’ Heel,” is a good example of this genre. In it, writer Jenna Wortham (@jennydeluxe on Twitter) argues that the volume of users has changed the nature of Twitter, transforming it from a kind…
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Um problema que já afetou até mesmo o “The New York Times” assombrou mais dois sites populares na ultima semana: peças publicitárias infectadas com vírus foram veiculadas por sites do Yahoo na Europa e pelo site de compartilhamento de vídeos DailyMotion, um dos maiores sites do mundo. Para os hackers, os anúncios permitem inserir códigos nesses sites, sem que seja preciso realizar qualquer invasão, a um custo bastante baixo – porque a publicidade na web costuma ser bastante acessível.
Autor: John Ribeiro