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Ali Spice, TikTok star, dies at 21 in highway car crash – USA TODAY

Ali Spice, a former Hooters girl who garnered almost a million followers on TikTok, died with two other friends when a wrong-way driver plowed into their car on a Florida highway early Sunday, friends and family said on Tuesday. Angela Gillis, who spoke to The Daytona Beach News-Journal, part of the USA TODAY network, on Tuesday, said […]

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What apps were popular in 2022? – Marketing magazine Australia

320×100Marketing intelligence platform, Pathmatics with parent brand, Sensor Tower, has revealed the Australian brands that spent the most money in digital advertising alongside the most popular app downloads for the year.Amid a global pandemic, and coming out of lockdowns, the ‘My GovID’ was the most downloaded app of 2022. Scoring a total of 3,392,000 app

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Doctor joined TikTok, learned effect social media has on perception – Insider

The following is an adapted excerpt from Brian Boxer Wachler’s book “Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception.”During the COVID shutdown, my medical practice — like that of most doctors — dramatically slowed down, giving me a lot of unaccustomed downtimes. One day, my twin daughters approached me and urged, “Dad, there are

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Tom Cotton: Delete TikTok, then get a new phone – Washington Examiner

Warnings don’t come as blunt as the one Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) dished Thursday to the users of the highly popular Chinese TikTok app.“Let me just be clear,” said Cotton, a China critic. “If you have TikTok on your device, you should delete it from your device. And even better, you should go and buy

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Facebook plans ‘discovery engine’ feed change to compete with … – The Verge

By Alex Heath / @alexeheathFacebook employees were recently given a new directive with sweeping implications: make the app’s feed more like TikTok.Simply bringing Reels, the company’s short-form video feature, from Instagram into Facebook wasn’t going to cut it. Executives were closely tracking TikTok’s moves and had grown worried that they weren’t doing enough to compete.

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Twitter chaos too much? There are plenty of other options – The Associated Press – en Español

Twitter has been engulfed in chaos since billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the helm, cutting the company’s workforce in half, upending the platform’s verification system, reinstating previously banned accounts — including those of white nationalists — and suspending journalists who’ve been covering him.While it’s not clear if the drama is causing many users to

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Should you use the Bilt Mastercard? Why it could be a game changer for renters – The Points Guy

Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information.TPG founder Brian Kelly is a Bilt advisor and investor.In 2021, points program Bilt Rewards was launched as a way for renters to build credit and earn points on rent payments. It debuted a cobranded credit card shortly afterward.The concept of paying rent with

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Students turn to TikTok to fill gaps in school lessons – WJXT News4JAX

Cheyanne MumphreyAssociated PressPublished: December 13, 2022, 7:46 AMCheyanne MumphreyAssociated PressCopyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.High school student Mecca Patterson-Guridy, 17, poses for a portrait in Philadelphia, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. Scrutiny from conservatives around teaching about race, gender and sexuality has made many teachers reluctant to discuss issues that touch on cultural divides. To

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