Social Media Newsfeed: Turkey YouTube Ban | Facebook Drones

[emailonly]{{{ sbox300x250 }}}[/emailonly] Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Turkish Government Blocks YouTube After Court Overturns Twitter Ban (SocialTimes) Turkish authorities have blocked YouTube just one day after a court ruled that the government could not block Twitter. The ban comes in response to a leaked recording of a security meeting that was posted to YouTube. The Wall Street Journal The recording, published anonymously on the platform, purported to reveal a conversation in which Turkey's foreign minister, spy chief and a top general appear to discuss how to create a pretext for a possible Turkish attack within Syria. One of two recordings, listened to more than 140,000 times apiece, appeared to show a voice identified as Hakan Fidan, head of the National Intelligence Organization, appearing to suggest a missile assault as justification for such an incursion. Reuters The foreign ministry said the recording was of a crisis management meeting to discuss threats stemming from clashes in Syria and that elements of the recording had been manipulated. The leakers would face heavy punishment, it said. The New York Times / The Lede Although the authenticity of the leaked audio about Turkey’s planned response to this threat remains in dispute, Ilhan Tanir, Washington correspondent for the Turkish daily Vatan, noted that links to the transcript, and an English translation of the audio, had been posted on other sites, including Dropbox. Despite the spread of information online, the government also moved to ban reporting on the leaked audio by news organizations in Turkey, Emre Peker of The Wall Street Journal said. BBC News As conflicting reports emerged over the blockage, Google, which owns YouTube, confirmed that some users were unable to access YouTube in Turkey. The term #youtubeblockedinturkey has begun trending worldwide on Twitter. Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is Building Drones, Satellites and Lasers to Deliver Internet Access (The Next Web) While Google is experimenting with helium balloons for Internet access, Facebook is working on drones, satellites and lasers. The company Thursday unveiled the Connectivity Lab, which has evolved as part of its Internet.org initiative. How Will Twitter and Billboard’s Music Partnership Impact Social TV? (LostRemote) Twitter is expanding its reach as a hub for TV conversation to the music industry, partnering with Billboard for a real-time music chart. Twitter, which partnered with Nielsen in 2012 to create the Twitter Nielsen ratings, will now track the real-time music conversation with Billboard, using the music industry’s top charts list to sort through which stars and songs are popping on social. [emailonly]{{{ jodslot01 }}}[/emailonly] Google and Facebook Team Up to Modernize Old-School Databases (Wired) Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google have teamed up to create what they call WebScaleSQL, a custom version of MySQL designed just for large scale web companies. Their changes to the database will be open sourced, meaning they’ll be freely shared with the world at large, and the companies plan to contribute their changes back to the original MySQL project. Multiple Pinterest Accounts Hacked, Flooded With Butt Pics (TechCrunch) If you log onto Pinterest and see that one of your friends has suddenly developed a fixation with weight loss ads and butt pics like the ones below, don’t click on the pins. Multiple accounts have been hacked and flooded with spam, including our own co-editor’s account. Nielsen Expands Twitter TV Ratings to Australia (AllTwitter) Australia will be the third country to receive Neilsen’s Twitter TV Ratings treatment, a metric that measures consumer behavior in tweets. Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings was born back in December 2012 in an effort to create a new metric for understanding what consumers watch and buy based entirely on tweet data. [emailonly]{{{ sbox01 }}}[/emailonly] Facebook Algorithm Tweaks Hurt Viral Sites More Than Other Publishers (Adweek) Adweek reached out to comScore to find out how referral traffic through Facebook has changed from November 2013 to February 2014 for several top properties. “The reported tweaks to Facebook's Newsfeed algorithm, formerly called EdgeRank, are just the latest in a progression of changes that have slowly diminished the organic reach of brand pages over the past couple of years,” Joseph Tam, senior director of digital for media agency MEC, said via email. Why Conspiracy Theories Take Hold on Social Media (SocialTimes) Social media is unparalleled when it comes to the speed at which information spreads. It’s not just the BuzzFeed articles, or the woman that was fired before she even landed on the continent she insulted. Conspiracy theories spread pretty quickly too, and their accuracy doesn’t really factor into their virality. The Newsonomics of NYT Now (Nieman Journalism Lab) The product is compelling and a big step forward for The New York Times in a number of ways. But can a $2-a-week iPhone app compete with the free and open web? [emailonly]{{{ sbox02 }}}[/emailonly]

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Social Media Newsfeed: Turkey YouTube Ban | Facebook Drones

Turkey bans YouTube following leaked government recording. Facebook unveils Connectivity Lab to increase Internet access around the world. These stories, and more, in today's Morning Social Media Newsfeed.

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