Twitter now displays popular articles from your timeline

Twitter keeps looking for ways to improve its service to better meet the needs of its diverse and, er, passionate audience. Last September, code in the Android app pointed to an experimental “tweetstorm” feature aimed at helping longer-form content make sense on Twitter. Just a few months earlier, the company also added a new inbox […]

Judge grants ex-NFL cheerleader’s request to delete dozens of online articles

Enlarge (credit: Arizona Cardinals) In 2013, Megan Welter had a really bad night. Welter, at that time a cheerleader for the Arizona Cardinals, got into a drunken fight with her boyfriend. It ended with her calling 911 and reporting him for domestic violence. Welter’s boyfriend was a professional fighter, who “smashed [her] head into the tile” and […]

One year in: How publishers are finding wins with Facebook Instant Articles

GUEST: In her 2017 Internet Trends report, Mary Meeker reported that time spent using the Internet on mobile rose again in 2016 to 3.1 hours per day, up from 2.8 hours per day in 2015. Internet usage on PCs, in contrast, was flat at 2.2 hours per day. Meanwhile, Facebook and Google continue to be […]

Scribd’s all-you-can read service adds major newspaper articles

Scribd’s transformation into an all-you-can-read subscription-based service hasn’t always been smooth-sailing, but it’s truly moving farther away from its PDF roots. The company has just announced that it’s teaming up with its first newspaper partners and a few popular news brands, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Financial Times, […]

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader run community: The Legend of Heroes Series: Overv

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader run community: The Legend of Heroes Series: Overview And Origins • Back in the TAY: NES Classic Edition • Mobile Suit Gundam Is A Perfect Fit For VR You’re reading TAY, Kotaku’s community-run blog. TAY is written by and for Kotaku readers like you. We write about games, art, culture and […]

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader run community: Spacemon: A Pokemon TRPG: Frontier

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader run community: Spacemon: A Pokemon TRPG: Frontier – Chapter 1: The Discovery • Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen is the Embodiment of a Franchise (For Better or Worse) • Opinion: The Double Standard Of Nostalgia In Gaming You’re reading TAY, Kotaku’s community-run blog. TAY is written by and for Kotaku readers […]

Facebook to start showing fact-checked ‘related articles’ in News Feed before you click a link

Facebook announced today that it’s testing a new version of related articles that appear in your News Feed, which will underneath the linked story. It’s similar to the existing implementation of the related article feature, but instead of only showing the relevant content after you read an article, Facebook will now surface those links to […]

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader run community: Dubs w/ Dil: Your Name • Tekken Ta

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader run community: Dubs w/ Dil: Your Name • Tekken Tag Tournament 2's Customization Menu Theme Shines Bright • Berserk (2017) – Episode Sixteen You’re reading TAY, Kotaku’s community-run blog. TAY is written by and for Kotaku readers like you. We write about games, art, culture and everything in between. […]

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader run community: Mr.

GIF Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader run community: Mr. Shifty: The TAY Review • Puyo Puyo Tetris: A Brief Overview And Demo Impressions • Let’s Talk About Horizon Zero Dawn You’re reading TAY, Kotaku’s community-run blog. TAY is written by and for Kotaku readers like you. We write about games, art, culture and everything in […]

Twitter’s testing a new way to show you news articles

Twitter is trialling a way to surface relevant tweets around real-life events and conversations. The company confirmed that it’s experimenting with a “suggested reading” module within your timeline that showcases news articles it thinks you might be interested in. No public release date has been provided. “We’re continuing to experiment with new ways to surface the best […]