Social Studies looks at what’s trending on social media throughout the day so you don’t have to. I’m back from the Thanksgiving break, well rested and ready to see what’s happening on the social networks! As you probably know, today is Cyber Monday, the online shopping version of Black Friday, where you can find some …
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Social Studies looks at what’s trending on social media throughout the day so you don’t have to. I always like to keep an eye on what’s trending on Twitter to see what people are talking about and hashtag games are a fun way to take a break from the more newsy content. Today there have been several that gained some …
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Social Studies looks at what’s trending on social media throughout the day so you don’t have to. Thanksgiving, as you probably know, is this Thursday and the conversation about the holiday is ramping up on social networks. A new hashtag game called #SurvivalGuideToThanksgiving is getting a lot of responses on Twitter with tips for getting you through the holiday. Unlike …
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Social Studies looks at what’s trending on social media throughout the day so you don’t have to. I’ve talked here before about subreddits, which are basically topics on Reddit where you can find stuff you’re interested in. The default subreddits are what you see across the top of Reddit.com when you go to the site and offer a pretty good …
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Reddit’s Photoshop battles forums can be amazing, turning one photo into several different things. Reddit user -WhistleWhileYouLurk recently posted a long-exposure photo of the Soyuz rocket launch, which is headed for the International Space Station. Redditors pounced on it immediately with a ton of cool looking tweaked images. One even created a GIF to show how he/she created a movie …
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This is too good to pass up on a Friday. Apparently, a giant blob of foam is consuming the streets of Santa Clara, California, about an hour south of us in San Francisco. People are tweeting photos and video from the scene. Officials say a malfunction in an airplane hangar near San Jose Mineta International Airport caused the foam, known …
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Mickey Mouse turned 88 today and Twitter responded with tons of tweets to wish a happy birthday to the Disney character who started it all. While there are tons of good wishes, I decided to collect some of the original clips posted by Disney and other Twitter users so you could check them out in one place. Happy birthday, Mickey!
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#Spectacles isn’t trending because your parents are in need of new magnifiers. Snap’s new Spectacles, glasses that let you record and upload to Snapchat, are white hot right now. We got a pair here at CNET HQ yesterday and CNET’s Lexy Savvides has already given us her first impressions. Our full review is coming soon. What’s amazing is just how …
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You may have seen my post yesterday for the hashtag game #LessNoteworthyMovies, which dared people to change words in the titles of movies to make them instant flops. It was trending all day on Twitter and I saw a lot more great ones after publishing my post. On Thursday , the trending hashtag game is slightly different, but already has …
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With Thanksgiving only one week away, it shouldn’t be a surprise that people are starting to talk about it on social networks. Getting together with family for a huge meal can be a great thing, but it also can be…not so great. Someone on Twitter started a hashtag game called #OverheardAtThanksgivingDinner and it’s up to almost 6,000 tweets as of …
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