On the internet, as with most of life, you can’t count on things lasting forever. Websites close down, servers get turned off, the wrong button gets hit and years of work is erased. But just as you ...

My least favorite part of Snapchat is mistakenly opening a video Snap when I can’t hear it, like in a noisy public place or when my sound is off. Snapchat tried to address that today with an ...

TRUE TO ITS NAME, the word ephemerality—from the Greek ephēmeros, meaning "lasting only a day"—has crept into the modern technological lexicon, gaining traction as a buzzy catchphrase to describe a ...

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has been known to be pretty surreptitious when it comes to sharing secrets about how the company works, but today he provided a little more transparency around its mission ...

Leading social media platforms are introducing features that allow users to share content that can only be viewed once. For example, consumers can set chats to be deleted immediately after being ...

On September 1, 2017, Tuenti — the Spanish social media network launched in 2006, which for a time was the platform par excellence for teenagers — shut down permanently. With it, the more than six ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click ...

A study by John Bowers, Clare Stanton, and Jonathan Zittrain examined hyperlinks in New York Times articles from 1996 through mid-2019. “Linkrot and content drift at this scale across the New York ...