6 ways to follow, and report, breaking news events online

When a big news event is unfolding quickly, it can difficult to keep track of the latest news updates. Here we take a look at ways to keep on top of breaking news, and to cover it yourself. Twitter Well, it has to be in here, doesn’t it? Many people look to Twitter for breaking news now, and there’s lots of it to be found. People often follow hashtags associated with news they’re interested in, but the search results for these tags can sometimes be fartoo busy to keep up with....

4 min · 812 words · Lucas Cantrell

6 ways to remain healthy whilst working from your desk

In modern workplaces, the chances are you will perform your daily duties from behind a desk. Gone are the days of conversations by the water-cooler, that’s been replaced by email and instant messaging. In fact any task that required you to get up from your desk has likely been stopped in the interest of reducing the time spent away from your computer. With all that time spent at a computer, your body isn’t getting the chance it needs to shake out those muscular aches and pains but it also doesn’t have the opportunity to burn off calories that have been added whilst you snacked at your computer....

6 min · 1125 words · James Ryan

6 wickedly creative job applications for the digital age

As the job market becomes increasingly competitive, there are ever more random lengths people will go to in order to secure a job or even get noticed by potential employers. A standard CV won’t really cut it these days, particularly if you want to get into the digital or media industry, where you have to prove your ability even in the way you apply for a job. We’ve put together some of the best job applications around, that provide interesting case studies on how people are reaching out to potential employers....

5 min · 947 words · Kimberly Parker

60% of the world is online — 10 big takeaways on the state of the internet in 2021

The newDigital 2021 April Global Statshot Report– published in partnership betweenHootsuiteandWe Are Social– reveals that more than 6 in 10 people on Earth now use the internet. Internet users have grown by more than 330 million over the past year, reaching a total of more than 4.7 billion at the start of April 2021. That’s not the only big story in this quarter’s report though; we also cover: Check out the video below for a quick summary of the top stories, then scroll down for the full report and my analysis of the latest essential trends....

19 min · 3865 words · Kathryn Wilson

600k developers, 900k apps & 13 billion API requests a day… the Twitter ecosystem is huge

Twitter‘s #devnest event in San Francisco is under way, and some incredible stats about the Twitter ecosystem are coming to light. There are 600,000 developers working on apps that use the Twitter API, and Twitter is processing a whopping 13 billion — with ab— API requests every day. There are 900,000 applications in the wild that integrate with Twitter. It is important to note that not all of those developers are real software engineers actively working on new apps....

2 min · 351 words · Peter Bryant
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