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Twitter - Everyone Must Change Passwords. Hacked

May 4, 2018 11:24PM PDT

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(NT) Well, since real men don't twit or friend or link ...
May 5, 2018 6:33AM PDT
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almost have to even on news sites now
May 5, 2018 11:15AM PDT

True journalism has been taking a holiday at major news sites. Their concept today of a story is to post a paragraph, then post links to alluded comments by 3-4 twitter accounts of celebrities or politicians, then a final comment paragraph. In those cases, a "trash" account with twitter helps.

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Worse. So many sites use only fb for login.
May 5, 2018 2:03PM PDT

Can't give them the benefit of my exalted wisdom.
Oh, well. Humanity's loss.

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Might as well insert this here.
May 14, 2018 5:51AM PDT

Remember how fb's value sank after its skullduggery was revealed? Good ol' ethical Wall Street. They don't tolerate bad guys.
Latest: "The company, however, regained much of its lost market value after it reported a surprisingly strong 63 percent rise in profit and an increase in users when it announced quarterly results on April 25."

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Demand
May 14, 2018 8:25PM PDT

Well, if only a small amount of those who are "in harm's way" really leave the site for good or even care about such leaks, i am not really surprised about the FB development, even while it was the talk of town for nearly a month. If something is convenient enough and gives us a way to make our daily life a bit easier, it is effing hard to make it go away. Blaming WS is not wrong but the demand of the users is the real reason for the rebound.

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Good point. It is popular.
May 14, 2018 8:47PM PDT

My point, and maybe the irony wasn't made clear, is that the real drivers of stock rarely have ethical motives. They're not un-ethical, just income-driven. At the time I saw opinions that said fb was being "punished" by Wall Street. No such thing, it was a reaction to possible government controls.