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​​🗞News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020 As #SocialMedia companies struggle to deal with misleading information on their platforms about the #USElection, the #COVID19 pandemic and more, a large portion of Americans continue to rely on these sites for news. About half of US adults (53%) say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Among 11 social media sites asked about as a regular source of news, #Facebook sits at the top, with about a third (36%) of Americans getting news there regularly. #YouTube comes next, with 23% of US adults regularly getting news there. #Twitter serves as a regular news source for 15% of US adults. Other social media sites are less likely to be regular news sources. About one-in-ten Americans or fewer report regularly getting news on #Instagram (11%), #Reddit (6%), #Snapchat (4%), #LinkedIn (4%), #TikTok (3%), #WhatsApp (3%), #Tumblr (1%) and #Twitch (1%). These lower percentages for news use are in some cases related to the fact that fewer Americans report using them at all, compared with the shares who use Facebook and YouTube. Read more on Pew Research Center. 🦅@perspectiveix

👩‍💻StackOverflow's 2019 Developer Survey Results👨‍💻 This year, nearly 90,000 developers took the survey. Here are some key results: - For the 7th year in a row, #JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language, but #Python has risen in the ranks again. - Over half of respondents had written their first line of code by the time they were 16, although this experience varies by country & by gender. - Respondents were asked to think about the last time they solved coding problems with & without #StackOverflow. The data indicate that Stack Overflow saves a developer 30 to 90 minutes of time per week! - About 65% of professional developers on Stack Overflow contribute to #OpenSource projects once a year or more. - #Reddit & #YouTube were the most common answers to what social media site they use the most. (No #Telegram in the list! Wtf, StackOverflow!?) 🔗 Read more here. 🚀@PerspectiveIX

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ 55% of European retail sales will either take place online or be digitally-influenced offline sales by 2021. (Source: Forrester) INSIGHT 👻#Snapchat experiments with sharing ad revenue with creators: prs.pctvix.co/2yFzEOu OTHER NEWS 🤑#Monzo partners with #TransferWise for international payments: t.me/iXNews/28132 📺 7 #IGTV video ideas you can steal for your brand or business: prs.pctvix.co/2yHphts 🤓#Spectacles’ latest update finally optimizes videos for sharing outside #Snapchat: t.me/iXNews/28090 🗞#Reddit launches a ‘News’ tab into beta testing: t.me/iXNews/28084 🤷‍♀️ TanaCon: How a convention thrown in retaliation led to mass chaos, cancellation: t.me/iXNews/28130 🚫#MicrosoftEdge for #Android now comes with a built-in ad blocker: t.me/iXNews/28142 — ☕️ If you like our channel, please support us: prs.pctvix.co/2taiWBz — "Be so good they can’t ignore you." ― Steve Martin 🙂 If you had time, take a look at our Instagram Story: prs.pctvix.co/2yFHQy8 Ben, @iXNews

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ More than a third (37%) of UK consumers think Facebook does not care about its users. (Source: the7stars) INSIGHT 🤳 How pro-eating disorder posts evade filters on #SocialMedia: prs.pctvix.co/2t2nQkf OTHER NEWS 👍#LinkedIn introduces Kudos: say thanks and show your appreciation: prs.pctvix.co/2sU1Rfg ⏯#Reddit rolls out auto-play video ads for web and mobile: prs.pctvix.co/2sYfpWX 🍎#Apple strikes blow to Facebook as it clamps down on data harvesting: prs.pctvix.co/2sWzltm 🍏 Apple will update #iOS to block police hacking tool: t.me/iXNews/27474 👻 At #Snapchat, Redrawing the Bounds of Reality: prs.pctvix.co/2sWZqID EXTRA 🗞 Fewer people 'using Facebook for news': prs.pctvix.co/2sW5WPY ⬇️ Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 (PDF): prs.pctvix.co/2sRVdWL — ⚽️ The FIFA World Cup 2018 commences in Russia today. Are you excited? Ben, @iXNews

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ While 85% of marketers are confident they know the difference between ePrivacy and GDPR, 93% of companies are currently still using cookie-based advertising to reach their customers (Source: Mailjet) INSIGHT 📱 Technology is driving us to distraction: prs.pctvix.co/2LaAioA OTHER NEWS 🏆#Reddit beats out #Facebook to become the third-most-popular site on the web: prs.pctvix.co/2L9ppDi ⛔️#Telegram says #Apple has been rejecting app updates even outside of Russia: t.me/iXNews/26408 🕶 Facebook's #Oculus Venues streams its first VR concert: prs.pctvix.co/2La0kIw 🔔#Google launches video doorbell with facial recognition in UK: prs.pctvix.co/2LbSk9T 👶🏻 Messenger Kids no longer requires the kids’ parents to be friends, too: prs.pctvix.co/2L9cAsF — "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." ― Lao Tzu Ben, @iXNews