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STAT
⚡️ 9% of leading companies agree that they can attribute value to dark social compared to just 21% of mainstream companies. (Source: eMarketer)

INSIGHT
🤳 Does #SocialMedia Connect or Disconnect People in Real Life? prs.pctvix.co/2wNRmOI

OTHER NEWS
📲 #WhatsApp revamps Groups to fight #Telegram: t.me/iXNews/25370

👻 ‘A clone of #Facebook’: #Snapchat’s beta test of its reach and frequency tool is helping media buys: prs.pctvix.co/2wJCKzX

⏰ #Instagram CEO confirms upcoming “time spent” Usage Insights: prs.pctvix.co/2wMR2jd

🔒 Facebook closed 583m fake accounts in first three months of 2018: prs.pctvix.co/2KtH1cG

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"You are beautiful because you let yourself feel, and that is a brave thing indeed." ― Shinji Moon
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​​🌐 This is what everybody’s doing when they’re glued to their screens!

2018 #InternetMinute:

187 Million Emails
18M Texts
2.4M Snaps created on #Snapchat
973k #Facebook Logins
481k Tweets on #Twitter
375k App Downloads
266k #Netflix Hours

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Read more at prs.pctvix.co/2Kqodva

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STAT
⚡️ Facebook fake accounts represented approximately 3% to 4% of its 2.19 billion monthly active users during the fourth quarter of 2017 and first quarter of 2018. (Source: Facebook/BuzzFeed News)

INSIGHT
👂 Where the Yanny and Laurel meme comes from: prs.pctvix.co/2L83tcw

OTHER NEWS
🏛 #Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to face members of European Parliament: t.me/iXNews/25490

👻 #Snapchat’s programmatic augmented reality ads are gaining traction: prs.pctvix.co/2L7DySn

📈 #YouTube channels are seeing a lift in live video viewership: prs.pctvix.co/2L3fMad

🔉 Facebook adds Voice Posts, Stories archive, and new cloud storage features: t.me/iXNews/25406

⏯ #YouTubeMusic and #YouTubePremium announced as #YouTubeRed replacements: t.me/iXNews/25487

🙀 Gfycat starts rolling out 360 degree GIF content: t.me/iXNews/25399

‼️ Shady marketplaces selling fake Facebook profiles operate in plain sight (Thirty minutes and a little bitcoin can buy you an army of believable Facebook users): prs.pctvix.co/2L85EwI

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"The Way Get Started Is To Quit Talking And Begin Doing." ― Walt Disney
Ben, @iXNews

🌐 The Entire Internet 45 Years Ago

Less than half a century and we went from this 👆 to this 👉 t.me/PerspectiveIX/1273

#TBT

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📰 #iXDailyBrief

STAT
⚡️ Stories daily user counts as of May 2018.
- WhatsApp Status: 450 million daily users out of 1.5 billion monthly users.
- Snapchat: 191 million daily.
- Facebook Stories: 150 million daily out of 2.2 billion monthly.
(Source: TechCrunch)

INSIGHT
🗺 What happened to Facebook's grand plan to wire the world?: prs.pctvix.co/2LcUnve

OTHER NEWS
🐦 Twitter is changing how conversations happen based on user behavior and conduct: prs.pctvix.co/2Lakvqo

📉 Cambridge Analytica just filed for US bankruptcy: prs.pctvix.co/2LcamcN

🤳 Facebook is working on its own influencer platform (in German 🇩🇪): prs.pctvix.co/2L9MJBK

🦇 Lego’s new line of connected toys will let you build and program the Batmobile: t.me/iXNews/25543

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"Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today." ― Will Rogers
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😂 Happy Friday!

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​​⚡️ Stories daily user counts as of May 2018.
- #WhatsApp Status: 450 million daily users out of 1.5 billion monthly users.
- #Snapchat: 191 million daily.
- #Facebook Stories: 150 million daily out of 2.2 billion monthly.

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Read more at t.me/iXNews/25534

📚 The knowledge path

Beginner: I know nothing
Expert: I know nothing

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🔊 What do you hear?

💛 LAUREL
💚 YANNY

​​💰 With at least $1.3 billion invested globally in 2018, VC funding for blockchain blows past 2017 totals

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Read more at t.me/iXNews/25659

Do you own any #CryptoCurrency?
👍🏻 Yes
😅 No, but I'm thinking of buying
👎🏻 No, not interested at all

​​📰 #iXDailyBrief

STAT
⚡️ 40.2% of UK 18-25 year olds said that the posts they see on #SocialMedia have influenced their career decisions. (Source: CV-Library)

INSIGHT
🌳 Eventually All the Dots Will Connect: An Organic Growth Strategy: prs.pctvix.co/2LjuVo0

OTHER NEWS
👑 The best social media reactions to the royal wedding: prs.pctvix.co/2Ld8yR3

🗞 News publishers recoil at Facebook’s new political advertising rules: prs.pctvix.co/2LkglfU

⚖️ The UK wants to police social media with new ‘online safety’ laws: t.me/iXNews/25674

🤝 Progressive advocacy groups call on the FTC to “make Facebook safe for democracy”: t.me/iXNews/25668
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"It always seems impossible until it's done." ― Nelson Mandela #MondayMotivation
Ben, @iXNews

🤑 BEST TELEGRAM CHANNELS LIST

We're creating a list of BEST Telegram Channels. If you have a channel and think it's great, get it on the list!

Here:
🔗 https://prs.pctvix.co/2Lld9QW

💸 Behind the Design: Monopoly

Meet the woman behind Monopoly, the board game played by more than 1 billion people worldwide.

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🔗 prs.pctvix.co/2Lld9QW

​​🏥 How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness

May 20th marked the end of “#MentalHealth awareness week”, a campaign run by the Mental Health Foundation, a British charity. Roughly a quarter of British adults have been diagnosed at some point with a psychiatric disorder, costing the economy an estimated 4.5% of GDP per year. Such illnesses have many causes, but a growing body of research demonstrates that in young people they are linked with heavy consumption of #SocialMedia. A survey by the Royal Society for Public #Health found that Britons aged 14-24 believe #Facebook, #Instagram, #Snapchat and #Twitter have detrimental effects on their wellbeing. They said that these social networks gave them scope for self-expression and community-building, but exacerbated anxiety and #depression.

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🔗 prs.pctvix.co/2ISIKvh

📰 #iXDailyBrief

STAT
⚡️ One in five 16-24 year-old football fans now create and craft their own graphics, GIFs, image reactions or memes. (Source: Digiday/COPA 90)

INSIGHT
🙂 Forget fake news: How in-feed native ads can spread positive news: prs.pctvix.co/2LnJ9Uy

OTHER NEWS
📺 Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe to ‘clarify’ #Facebook’s data practices. Here’s how to watch his interview live today: prs.pctvix.co/2J4sreC

🎮 #Livestreaming and #eSports to drive the sports market in Asia: prs.pctvix.co/2Ln65Ua

📸 #Instagram says ‘you’re all caught up’ in first time-well-spent feature: t.me/iXNews/25724

📱 HTC website leaks new flagship phone: t.me/iXNews/25734

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Today we remember the 22 children, teenagers and adults who tragically lost their lives in last year’s Manchester Arena attack. #WeStandTogether. 🐝💗
Ben, @iXNews

​​☕️ Starbucks’s mobile payments system is so popular than Apple’s or Google’s in 🇺🇸

By the end of this year, a quarter of U.S. smartphone users — 55 million people — over the age of 14 will make an in-store mobile payment. More than 40 percent of those people will have done so through Starbucks’s mobile payments app, according to new data from research firm eMarketer.

The Starbucks app, which launched before the other three top payments apps — #ApplePay, #GooglePay and #SamsungPay — has long been the most successful payments app. It’s likely going to maintain that lead over the next few years.

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📖 Read more at t.me/iXNews/25746

💰 Bitcoin Pizza Day

8 years ago the very first #Bitcoin transaction took place:
two 🍕 for 10,000 coins 😳

- Today that's about $82 million;
- Would buy you 6.5 million pizzas;

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📰 #iXDailyBrief

STAT
⚡️ Mobile users linger for an extra 0.5 seconds if a tweet contains more than 140 characters and spend up to 0.7 seconds longer on tweets if they contain an ad image (Source: The eWord)

INSIGHT
📱 Just having your cell phone in your possession can impair your learning, study suggests: prs.pctvix.co/2GIHyVZ

OTHER NEWS
📸 #Instagram now lets you mute your annoying friends: t.me/iXNews/25780

🚨 #Amazon dismisses surveillance state concerns over police facial recognition tech: prs.pctvix.co/2KITNUM

📺 Nielsen will now measure #YouTube TV viewership on a local level: prs.pctvix.co/2KPhISP

🇪🇺 Mark Zuckerberg faced a bunch of tough questions in Europe yesterday. He didn’t really answer any of them: t.me/iXNews/25830

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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." ― Socrates
Ben, @iXNews

👻 Want More Followers on Snapchat?

Getting discovered on #Snapchat is not the easiest thing, so we thought we share what we’ve learned so far: https://prs.pctvix.co/2IdOu23

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