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How to Understand Twitter’s New Checkmarks and Labels

Screenshot: TwitterIt’s fair to say it’s been a busy few months for Twitter, with a lot of changes coming in a short amount of time. Those changes have included a revamp of how checkmarks and account labels are used, and if your head is spinning while scrolling through your Twitter timeline, then we’re here to carefully and calmly explain what eachbadge and icon means... at least until the next revamp.Blue checkmark (new)Twitter has recently changed how blue checkmarks work. Now, they indicate that an account is paying

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‘Twitter for Android/iPhone’ labels are now gone

About a month ago, Elon Musk announced that ‘Twitter for…’ labels will be gone in the near future. It has now happened, ‘Twitter for Android’, ‘Twitter for iPhone’, and ‘Twitter for Web’ labels are now gone.‘Twitter for Android’ and ‘Twitter for Phone’ labels are now goneWhy are these labels gone? Well, Elon Musk didn’t really see the reason to keep them around. Last month, he said that they’re a “waste of screen space & compute”, as they’re displayed below every tweet.He obviously believed they don’t serve a…

Move over Morricone! The record labels rescuing lost Italian B-movie scores | Music

The first time Silvano D’Auria watched the film La Mano Lunga del Padrino (The Long Arm of the Godfather) was at the Teatro dei Filarmonici in his hometown of Ascoli Piceno, Italy, in 1972, the year of its release. The multi-instrumentalist had composed all the music for the low-budget crime flick, its title an obvious attempt to forge artificial links to Hollywood hit The Godfather, and the theatre was packed with an audience there to support a son of the city.D’Auria had been recruited by the movie’s director, Nardo…

Recurrence, Rashomon, and Arbitrary Labels | by Danielle Boccelli | Dec, 2022

Photo by Peter Olexa on UnsplashReadings in computational social scienceThis article comments on three papers associated with computational social science research: (1) Do Cascades Recur? (Cheng et al., 2016); (2) Integrating Text and Image: Determining Multimodal Document Intent in Instagram Posts (Kruk et al., 2019); and (3) Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (Breiman, 2001); these papers focus on (1) recurrence in content sharing on social media (here, Facebook); (2) the use of multimodal data (image–caption pairs)…

How to Evaluate Clustering Performance without Ground Truth Labels | by Thomas A Dorfer | Dec, 2022

An illustrative guide to choosing an appropriate validity metric based on cluster conformationPhoto by steve_j on UnsplashThere are plenty of methods available from the supervised learning playbook to evaluate clustering performance for situations where the ground truth labels are known. However, performance evaluation is not as straightforward when the ground truth is not available. In this case, we need to rely on validity metrics that give us an indication of how well clusters are defined. These validity metrics rely…

FCC Mandates ‘Nutrition Labels’ on Internet Bills

New broadband labels break down prices and hidden fees. Screenshot: FCCInternet service providers will soon have to publish “nutrition labels” that prominently display the actual costs of their services, breaking down hidden fees, data caps, speed promises, and information about when discounts expire, the Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday. The labels will make it far easier to comparison shop in a market where real prices are often shrouded behind hidden fees and confusing bills. The FCC mandated label

US mandates new comparison internet service labels

US broadband providers must display information similar to nutrition labels on food products to help consumers shop for broadband internet services, according to new rules finalised by the US Federal Communications Commission. The rules require broadband providers to display, at the point of sale, labels that show prices, speeds, fees and data allowances. The labels were first unveiled as a voluntary program in 2016. Congress ordered the FAA to mandate them under the 2021 infrastructure law.Read Also "The black and white…

FCC orders ISPs to display labels clearly showing speeds and itemized fees

Internet service providers (ISP) will soon have to be a lot more transparent with what their plans come with and how much they truly cost. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has introduced new rules that will require ISPs to display easy-to-read-and-understand labels that show key facts about their products at the point of sale. These labels will resemble the nutrition labels at the back of food products and should include, among other things, the price, speed, data allowances and other aspects of a company's…

‘Twitter for Android’ & ‘Twitter for iPhone’ labels are going away

Elon Musk has announced a new change for Twitter. The company’s new owner said that ‘Twitter for Android’ and ‘Twitter for iPhone’ labels are going away (including the Twitter for Web label as well, of course). He doesn’t see a point in keeping them around.‘Twitter for Android’ & ‘Twitter for iPhone’ labels are going away, says Elon MuskHe said, via Twitter: “we will finally stop adding what device a tweet was written on below every tweet”. Elon Musk claims this is a “waste of screen space & compute”, it…