Krystal Wan, Business of Media Spring '23: Social Media

Twitter posted a new announcement on its  official blog , saying that non-Twitter Blue subscribers have 30 days to change to another security method. After the 20th of March 2023, only subscribers can use text messages as two-factor authentication.  What is the current 2FA on Twitter? In order to log in with 2FA, users must also provide a code or security key in addition to their password. There are   three methods of 2FA : text message, authentication app, and security key.  Why did Twitter make the change? As  Twitter  explained, ' While historically a popular form of 2FA, unfortunately, we have seen phone-number based 2FA be used - and abused - by bad actors. ' In other words. Twitter charges for this method of authentication because of its lack of safety from hacking. As  Social Media Today  suggested, it meant that Twitter would only trust the subscribers willing to pay $8 monthly are real humans, though there was no guarantee for accounts' ...

Four years after Instagram's founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, left Instagram, they came back to the area of social media with a new AI social media called ARTIFACT. It is now available to join its waitlists for both Android and IOS app.  The word ARTIFACT is defined by Social Media Today as 'articles, facts, and artificial intelligence’. By using the AI technology, the app pushes what the readers like based on their in-app activities. ARTIFACT was described by PlatFormer as 'TikTok for the text' . Its creator, Kevin Systrom, said it is 'a personalized news feed'. Similar to TikTok, the app automatically pushes news articles for users based on their searching and reading history. It also shows more articles from users you follow, their commentary on the posts , and direct messaging inboxes , suggested by Mashable .  It looks like the For You page in TikTok, but delivers information in the text format. Different from Twitter, it adds  AI pushes. Unlik...