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Program Description Soul music stretches to create a rock and roll revolution in rhythm and attitude in the '70s. Innovators james brown, sly and the family stone, george clinton and famed bass players larry graham and bootsy collins take viewers on a tour of funk as the music becomes bolder and more expressive of the realities of black life. Filmed in new york, san francisco and philadelphia, the program also examines how funky dance hits blazed a musical trail to the disco craze of the late '70s. We were recording at King Records, which happened to be over in Cincinnati, Ohio, which happened to be where James Brown recorded his records.

So, that was our opportunity to get on the big stage. We knew that, so we hung over at King Records every day after school, waiting and watching for anybody. We happened to run into a guy called Charles Spurling, who was an A&R guy. And he liked us, he had heard about us, he wanted to come and hear us. So we invited him down to a club and he came down and checked us out.

He said, "Man, you cats have got a whole new energy, you've got the rhythm thing you all got. I want ya'll to be my band over at King Records." So, that started it, we went over to record some stuff at King Records with him. Once we did that, all the other producers there – Henry Glover, who produced Bill Doggett, Hank Ballard, Arthur Prysock, a whole slew of mugs. He was the first black country & western, soul, gospel, jazz producer, we had a chance to play on all these records before we got with James Brown. So, we got to learn discipline by coming in the studio and vibing, like we did last night.

You come in the studio and vibe, because we didn't know what was gonna happen. All we know is we've got our instruments and if you allow us to play, we're gonna tear this mother up! So, we took that attitude wherever we went. But at the same time, give us a chance and we'll show you. He's eight years older than I am, Catfish Collins.

I was just a young, long-haired sucker that looked up to his brother, didn't have a father in the home. You know how young boys look up to their brothers and want to be like them? That's what really inspired me – him.

You didn't get music like you get it today, it was kind of far and in between. First of all, we didn't have a radio. You'd hear music coming from a club or the house of someone who could afford a radio or record player.

So, we just had to get music however we could get it or listen to it however we could hear it. Every now and then, my brother would come and practice at the house, and that's where I witnessed music firsthand and how it affected people. I wanted to be like that, I wanted to be cool like that.

Especially the jazz players, they werereally cool. Not only my brother, there was this guy called Wilbert Longmire. He was a jazz player out of Cincinnati, Ohio, he became really big. George Benson took what he was doing and just blew it all the way up. But Wilbert was a local guy who could play like that, but never stepped out.

We've got a lot of those musicians, who are great at what they do but get distracted by the home life, different things, they'd get a little distracted and so you don't step out. So, he didn't step out and George Benson stepped out and just smashed. We were a local band that decided to step out and the way I got to be with my brother was I had to prove to him that I was worthy. You know, because big brothers are just, "Ah no, you get out of here." I was young. I was nine, I started messing around with the guitar when I was nine years old, and I started sneaking my brother's guitar when he was on his paper route.

So, while he was gone, I'd get my brother's guitar out the closet, but the deep thing unbeknown to me was, he knew how he had his guitar packed. Any little move he'd know someone had been messing with his guitar. An edited version of the song was made into a music video which features cameos by many other Bengals players. It has garnered tremendous local airplay and is viewable on Bengals.com Additionally, Cincinnati Bell is offering "Fear Da Tiger" as a free ringtone for its wireless customers in both polyphonic and MP3 formats. Collins appeared with Little Richard, Bernie Worrell, and other notable musicians as the band playing with Hank Williams, Jr. for the Monday Night Football opening during for the 2006 season. Collins was the only all star to return with Williams for the 2007 season.

Collins appeared with Little Richard, Bernie Worrell, and other notable musicians as the band playing with Hank Williams, Jr. for theMonday Night Footballopening during for the 2006 season. It has garnered tremendous local airplay and is viewable on Bengals.com Additionally, Cincinnati Bell is offering "Fear Da Tiger" as a free ringtone for its wireless customers in both polyphonic and MP3 formats. In 1990, Collins collaborated with Deee-Lite on their massive hit "Groove Is in the Heart" where he contributed additional vocals. Although he also appeared in the music video playing the bass, the bassline in the song is actually a sample of a Herbie Hancock song called "Bring Down the Birds".

Bootsy's Rubber Band became the de facto backing musicians for Deee-Lite during a world tour. The Rubber Band also recorded the EP "Jungle Bass", their first recording in 11 years. In 1990, Collins collaborated with Deee-Lite on their biggest hit "Groove Is in the Heart", and he contributed additional vocals. The Rubber Band also recorded the EPJungle Bass, their first recording in 11 years. The Rubber Band also recorded the EP Jungle Bass, their first recording in 11 years.

In 1990 Bootsy collaborated with Deee-Lite on their massive hit "Groove Is In The Heart" where he contributed additional vocals. Bootsy's Rubber Band became the defacto backing musicians for Deee-Lite during a world tour. In 1990 Bootsy collaborated with Deee-Lite on their massive hit "Groove Is In The Heart" where he contributed additional vocals. Although he also appeared in the music video playing the bass, the bassline in the song is actually a sample of a Herbie Hancock song called "Bring Down the Birds".

Bootsy's Rubber Band became the defacto backing musicians for Deee-Lite during a world tour. Yes, they were the ones who found Rihanna. That's who's playing behind Sparkle on the record. Evan Rogers on the conga, Carl Sturken on guitar. The drummer is Kevin Cloud and the keyboard is Keith Cloud. The bass player is John 'Noodle' Nevin.

That's the band behind the Sparkle album. His influence in popular culture is seen in that he has been referenced by a number of television series. Collins got his start in music by tagging along after his older brother, guitarist Phelps Collins.

"I just kept bugging him and kept stealing his guitar when he went on his paper route. James Brown also recorded at King's studio, and in 1969 he hired the Collins brothers and their drummer, Frank Waddy, into his band. William "Bootsy" Collins is a pioneering funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. Bootsy was instrumental in Parliament and Funkadelic together with George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. He is well known as one of the founding members of the 'P-Funk' sound.

Known worldwide for pioneering funk music with James Brown and Parliament Funkadelic, Collins is a singularly influential bassist. His star-shaped "Space Bass" and the driving grooves he produced with it have become synonymous with modern funk and inspired everyone from The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Primus to NWA and OutKast. Aside from his seminal work with James Brown and George Clinton, Collins achieved considerable success as a frontman for several groups, including Bootsy's Rubber Band. Vice President of the GRAMMY Foundation Scott Goldman will moderate the discussion, and Collins will also take audience questions. In July 2010, Collins, in partnership with former child actor Cory Danziger, launched Funk University ("Funk U"), an online-only bass guitar school in which he also serves as curator and lead professor.

Funk University offers an intense curriculum tailored for intermediate to advanced bass players as well as anyone interested in a deeper understanding of funk. Born on October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bootsy Collins is one of the greatest bass players of all-time. While continuing to tour and record with Clinton, he launched his solo career in 1976 with Bootsy's Rubber Band. Player of the Year, reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart. Yeah, everybody has come up off of somebody, is a fan of somebody. With this album I wanted to make sure that young people especially knew that, OK, they might be fans of us now, but we were fans of somebody else.

And whom you just saw was a fan of somebody else. So, what you do in that case is you go back and connect the dots so you can be educated, because if you just go with what's happening today like everyone's been programmed to do, then you don't really know the history. Not only do you want to be a great musician, you wanna know the history of where your music came from and all of that. So, you'll be that much ahead of the next drummer, the next bass player, the next guitar player. You'll have something more to offer.

It's not just, "I'm an artist." Take your artistry as many places as you can, especially on an educational tip. That's what we did also on the James Brown tribute. If we can leave out on that one, we'll be good to go.

This is on the same album as well, a tribute to James Brown who brought me into the business. Our biggest one was "Sex Machine." That was the first to get international attention. Most of the sessions were after a show. James was always into not letting us have wild fun and hanging out with girls. As you know, you and the fellas, I just don't know about you cats, man. You're young, you want to get out there, drink a little bit, have a bit of this and that.

But we were known for that and James wasn't down with that. He knew if we got distracted we were gonna miss some of those hits he was doing. So, what he'd do was take his time, then take us to the studio, and in the studio we'd rehearse or record something.

With "Sex Machine" we were on our way to the studio and we were riding a bus, from the gig, and he said , "Bobby, gimme something to write with." He got a brown paper bag, tore the paper bag in half and he started writing. Bootsy, Catfish, come on up here." Man, when I talk like him, it's… man! He said, "Come on up here." We went up in the bus, sat right behind him and Bobby Byrd, and he wrote the lyrics. Get on up, get on up…" That was our thing, so we had to read his body language.

So, it was like being in Japan and you don't know the language. You have to interpret what he's doing, what he's feeling, what he's saying. " "Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it, that's it. That's it, son," , and then I'd fall in with the bass thing. "Yeah, Bootsy, Bootsy, Bootsy, you're killing me, you're killing me!

" So, we started right there, and we'd take that to the studio. Once we got to the studio, we had a good vibe of where we were going. That's pretty much the way we would start it up. Some of the times we would go to the studio and we might be rehearsing on something, and James might hear something and go, "Uhh, right there, right there. Just do that." And then that would become a song. Of course, we've got all the goodies to help us.

But then it was right off the top, and you had to do it until you got it right. It wasn't like you could walk in the studio and bam, there it is. You might come up with the thang, but you have to make it perfect. We all wanted it that way, too, so that was another good point.

There were a lot more instrumentals back then. I heard a guy, Lonnie Mack, I don't know if you ever heard of this guy? Lonnie Mack played guitar and he was like a country-folk-western-funk mesh combo. There was no singing, just him playing guitar, and the style of guitar he played, I just loved it. My brother loved it, and we played all the Lonnie Mack-type records.

Then we had to play all the top stuff on the radio. Later on, we figured out how to play the stuff on the radio, but to us that wasn't fun. For us, what was fun was coming up with stuff that we could play and watch people say, "What the hell is that? " And we got off on that and that kind of lasted on through. It was during this period that Collins "took LSD every day for at least two years, right up until the point I began feeling like I was living in another world." Collins recorded as both a solo artist and with the Rubber Band in the '80s.

In 1988, he returned on Columbia with the appropriately named What's Bootsy Doin'? In 1989, Bootsy was a member of the Bootzilla Orchestra on Malcolm McLaren's album Waltz Dancing. One year later, he became a featured guitarist and bassist with the dance music trio Deee-Lite, signed with 4th and Broadway, and also toured England with a group co-led by Parker and Wesley. Born in Cincinnati, William Earl "Bootsy" Collins started on guitar, inspired by Jimi Hendrix and older brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins.

When the bassist in Catfish's band was a no-show, the younger Collins substituted and stuck with his new instrument. The Collins brothers became the nucleus of the Pacemakers, a unit that also included vocalist Philippe Wynne, later of Spinners fame. The band made the local King Records their adoptive home base and established themselves as a session and live band for label artists such as Hank Ballard, Marva Whitney, and Lyn Collins.

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Twitter is what's happening in the world and what people are talking about right now. From breaking news and entertainment to sports, politics and everyday interests, see every side of the story. Available in more than 40 languages around the world, the service can be accessed via twitter.com, an array of mobile devices and SMS. For more information, please visit about.twitter.com, follow @Twitter, and download both the Twitter and Periscope apps at twitter.com/download and periscope.tv. ".@Sixers President of Basketball Operations Bryan Colangelo joins Tom & Dei on @TCNPhilly live right now! According to an advanced Twitter search, this is the only occasion the 87ers account has mentioned Colangelo and the only time any of the five accounts in this investigation referenced the 87ers.

Clicking through the hashtag, I found a slightly more irritating story. Earlier that day, the alt-right personality Jack Posobiec had tweeted, "Today I am launching the #NoPawsLeftBehind Campaign," and asked people to post photos of their dogs "in solidarity with the service dogs left behind in Afghanistan." "Use the hashtag," he wrote. "Let's get it trending." Of course, random people obliged, because random people like nothing more than to tweet blurry pictures of their pets with captions such as "Mocha and Macey sending prayers of comfort and safety to those brave service dogs! "Sparky stands in solidarity with every service dog," wrote New York Representative Claudia Tenney.

With the new IT rules coming in effect, social media companies in India originally had till 25 May to comply with the new rules. The new guidelines require social media platforms to establish a grievance redressal mechanism and name a grievance officer, who must register a grievance within 24 hours and redress it in 15 days. Depending on who you ask, social media is either a life-changing resource for like-minded people to find each other, or a time-sapping sewer of anonymous abuse and shallow clicktivism, writes Annabel Crabb. Read moreThe ABC's last Australia Talks survey found that only 6 per cent of Australians use Twitter regularly — the same proportion as Reddit. Sixty-seven per cent of Australians say they never use Twitter.

It is well past time for news websites to stop running lazy stories that begin with "Twitter has reacted angrily to ". You don't have to make yourself a target to help deal with online abuse It can be difficult to speak up when we see someone being harassed on social media, but if we don't, victims are left feeling isolated — and the experience can be harrowing. Read moreThis is an unusual experience for ABC journalists because we are usually targeted in the real world by the right. Coalition cheerleaders such as Andrew Bolt, Chris Kenny and Gerard Henderson, along with leading Liberal politicians, including at times the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Defence Minister Peter Dutton, accuse the ABC of a Labor/Green bias. Follow media topics, Tweet threads & live videos, to keep your finger on the pulse of what's happening. Whether you're interested in sports highlights, pop culture memes or politics, Twitter is your source of information.

Retweet, chime in on a thread, go viral, or just scroll through the Twitter timeline to stay on top of what everyone's talking about. Twitter is your go-to social media app and the new media source for what's happening in the world, straight from the accounts of the influential people who affect your world day-to-day. That afternoon, within hours of the call, all three of the accounts I hadn't discussed with the team switched from public to private, effectively taking them offline—including one that hadn't been active since December. The Still Balling account, which had been tweeting daily, has not posted since the morning of the 22nd .

Surges in share price for companies like GameStop and Blackberry illustrate how social media swarm behavior has become a driving force in today's stock market. Each event will have a little downward facing arrow in the top right corner. Tap that if you want to see why Twitter thinks you're interested in it or to hide it from your timeline. This new feature joins other recent Twitter additions including expanded tweet limits and an upcoming bookmarking function. As of now, Happening Now will only include sports events, but Twitter says the feature will be expanded in the coming months to include things like breaking news and entertainment developments.

In Q2, as the COVID-19 pandemic had companies cutting ad spending across the board, Twitter's revenue fell short of analysts' expectations, falling 19% YOY, and earnings also failed to meet expectations. The one bright spot was that its number of average monetizable daily active users was 186 million, higher than expected. On Monday morning, South Africa's Star newspaper printed an account of the story as fact.

"Tears for young Kamo as her young life is senselessly and brutally cut short," read the headline, now itself the subject of ridicule on Twitter. Sceptical social media users took issue with the paper's article, asking if they had verified the death, or been in touch with the author. It is unparalleled for following breaking news, crowd-sourcing talent and marketing program content. Third, many journalists use Twitter and so it is a way to influence their reporting, and therefore the public conversation, by promoting issues that deserve more attention, emphasising relevant data or highlighting examples of spin or hypocrisy. Channel Ten journalist and former Q+A host Hamish MacDonald has publicly said that one of the reasons he left the ABC was the intolerable barrage of social media abuse directed at him. Insiders host David Speers is the target of vicious attacks before and after almost every program.

As social media researchers who have tracked events online by analysing keywords, topics and sentiments organised under hashtags, we were not surprised by what we saw on Twitter following England's defeat. In anticipation of abuse and bullying post-match, we archived tweets just prior to kick-off and kept a close eye on Twitter after the result was announced. We were familiar with the power of English football to dominate Twitter conversations. Background Twitter is a rapidly growing social networking site with approximately 124 million users worldwide. Twitter allows users to post brief messages ('tweets') online, on a range of everyday topics including those dealing with health and wellbeing. Currently, little is known about how tweets are used to convey information relating to specific injuries, such as concussion, that commonly occur in youth sports.

It might be a major sporting event, like a national championship game. It could be a cultural touchstone, like an awards show, Black Friday, or ‎#TacoTuesday. It may be an issue of social importance, such as global climate change or gender inequality. It might be breaking news about a natural disaster or the latest meme.

With a 24-win improvement and an exhilarating run to the Eastern Conference semifinals this season, the Sixers were one the league's feel-good stories. But behind all that could be the story of a team president who has spent the past two years using Twitter to anonymously spar with the media and defend Colangelo's reputation. Most alarmingly, though, the Eric jr account urged members of the Sixers media to ask Okafor about a failed physical that the account alleges scuttled an in-the-works trade.

Together, these acts, if true, could be severely damaging to Colangelo's organization and amount to a huge breach of trust between him and the people he oversees. Twitter can be a great source of connections, industry news and light-hearted fun (if you follow the right people!). Unfortunately, the "What's happening" trending topics sidebar can be a constant source of misery that by now can be simply too much to bare. If you'd rather keep on top of your news and trends in a more mindful way rather than have it shoved in your face every time you browse your feed then here's what you can do. So was social media, as the good people of Twitter and TikTok unabashedly chronicled what went down when Robin Hood came for the stock market — or at least tried to.

Keep in mind that it will take a while for Twitter to delete all of the data associated with your account after the account is deleted. Twitter's Privacy Policy states that it will not begin the process of deleting your information for 30 days – and then it usually takes about a week to fully delete. Twitter explains that the blue verified badge on the profile lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic. The company notes that governments, companies, news organisations, entertainment, sports stars, and activists can all apply to get the verified badge. If your account qualifies basis requirements, you should keep a lookout for the account verification option to appear in your account settings. Select the appropriate category that you fall under, supply a government-issued identity document, and hit submit.

That conversation is accompanied by a near-industry-wide effort by tech companies to sever ties with the president, his office and his campaign. Twitter debuted a new ad campaign on Monday that attempts to define the former social network and now news company. "Twitter is where you go to see what's happening everywhere in the world right now," Twitter CMO Leslie Berland wrote in a company blog post —titled "See What's Happening" — announcing the campaign. Twitter is such a black hole—of words, of images, of coherent thought—that it's hard to remember sometimes that there are actual human beings employed to manage its chaos so that, on the surface at least, it appears to be a sensibly functioning social media application. The most tangible example of this is the "What's Happening" sidebar, where trending topics are corralled with explanatory paragraphs that describe in short sentences why a given news item is all over the place. It is that the bullying and harassment now comes, not in an occasional phone call from a real person, but at a furious pace on social media from politicians' acolytes, lackeys, fans and proxies, mostly — but not always — operating anonymously.

It is non-stop, personal, often vile, frequently unhinged and regularly based on fabrications. It has the effect of an angry phone call from a politician magnified thousands of times over. Twitter is today releasing a new feature called "Happening Now" aimed to make its service more accessible to newcomers by highlighting groups of tweets about a topic, beginning with sports, before expanding to other areas like entertainment and breaking news. If this sounds similar to Twitter's existing Moments feature….well, it is. To message someone on Twitter, follow the steps below.u003cbru003e• Open your home timeline and click or tap the compose box. You can do this by selecting the reply icon and typing in your tweet.

This kind of situation would have been unthinkable 15 years ago. But as we see repeatedly, in cases of social media faux pas and fiascos, the internet affords a certain level of anonymity, but can also be the tool that undoes that very sense of privacy. These accounts could exist only in the fog of 2018, when the line between personal and public, private and anonymous, authentic and unreal is vanishingly thin. One of the few non-basketball accounts followed by Eric jr is an Arizona man named Lawrence "LB" Bain. Bain's Twitter bio lists his location as Paradise Valley, a small town in Maricopa County, Arizona, that is five miles from the address of JDM Partners LLC, a financial company where Jerry Colangelo is a partner. An SEC-filed prospectus from 2007 shows that Bryan Colangelo sold 25,000 shares of stock in ProLink Holdings Corp., a company that makes GPS golf-course management systems.

On the document, Bain is listed as ProLink's president and CEO. At the time of publication, Bain had only 53 Twitter followers, including both Eric jr and @Phila , the account that the Sixers confirmed as belonging to Colangelo. Twitter Inc. , the social media company, is grappling with two opposing trends as the COVID-19 pandemic forces millions of people globally to shelter at home, shutting down big parts of the U.S. and global economy.

For Twitter, millions of home-bound consumers have caused a welcome spike in the social media company's traffic. But the economic shutdowns also have begun to cause a decline in advertising, which Twitter depends on for most of its revenue and profit. The company explained that it had been subject to a significant hack in which a large number of high profile accounts were compromised in an attempt to scam bitcoins from people. The story of a brutal rape and murder has provoked an outpouring of emotion from South African social media users, and was picked up by the press. It turned out to be completely fabricated, but has sparked a very real debate about rape in the country.

If you have been online at all the last few days, you must have noticed a lot of posts with the words Reddit, GameStop, Wall Street, hedge funds and stock market. If you don't fully understand what is happening in the stock market, you are not alone. To put it very simply, the huge buzz was generated after popular subreddit WallStreetBets raised the stock price of GameStop - causing hedge funds to lose money. In short, the tech platforms responded to challenges of user moderation with performances of helplessness hiding assertions of power. The labels told us what was wrong and what wasn't going to be done about it. Now that Twitter has the answer again — and maybe a better grasp of how to relay it thanks to Leslie Berland's hire as CMO earlier this year — it's going to make a big point of telling everyone what it is, including your dad.

The company will run digital and video ads highlighting the things that happen on Twitter. A Twitter spokesperson did not immediately respond to a question about where those ads will run and what forms they'll take besides video. I'm also waiting to hear back on what exactly the "new look and feel in our marketing," as mentioned in Berland's blog post, will be.

In the meantime, you can check out another of Twitter's new video spots below. Twitter, as a significant social media intermediary, was legally required to comply with the new Intermediary Rules by May 25, 2021 after the expiry of the three months' time given to all intermediaries after notification of rules by the government. This is not the first time Twitter will try to make its service more useful to newcomers who just want to follow topics, not people. Last year, it updated its homepage for logged-out users so they could dive into various categories like News, Sports, Music, Entertainment, and more; plus view Moments and other featured tweets. Based on this knowledge, the rapid immediate cascades that result in the predictable cycle of hateful content and condemnation could be minimised using tools Twitter have already developed, such as prompting users to rethink their tweets that may include harmful language. These tools could be adapted to provide warnings that encourage users to think before they retweet, and slow the rate of reactions to hateful content.

While not a comprehensive solution, they can be applied in high profile events such as the Euro 2020 final to stem the spread of abuse online. Tweet, Retweet, Reply to Tweets, Share or Like - Twitter is the #1 social media app for latest news & updates. Search hashtags and trending topics to stay updated on your friends & other Twitter followers. Follow the tweets of your favorite influencers, alongside hundreds of interesting Twitter users, and read their content at a glance. ⭐ Tweet, Retweet, Reply to Tweets, Share or Like - Twitter is the #1 social media app for latest news & updates.

Explore what's trending in the media, or get to know thought-leaders in the topics that matter to you; whether your interests range from #Kpop Twitter to politics, news or sports, you can follow & speak directly to influencers or your friends alike. Other times, Embiid was described as "a bit lazy," "selfish," and "acting like a tool," and accused of partying too much. "Ben is going to be better than Joel@snd less distracted by models and social media," Still Balling wrote in October 2017, in response to Sixers Nation.

In two responses to a February 2017 tweet from actress Gabrielle Union, who pointed out that Tom Brady didn't visit the White House when Barack Obama was president, Eric jr went on the attack. "I sat NEXT to you and at Beijing Olympics and saw you both being rude nasty to little kid fan," the account said. … You showed no respect to this little kid, who are you to stand on high grounds?

Never looked at DW the same after that." During the 2008 Olympics, Jerry Colangelo, then the managing director of the U.S. men's national basketball team, was in Beijing. Despite Colangelo's position, the accounts rarely focus on basketball strategy or statistics, nor show much interest in players aside from Sixers and superstars. In fact, most posts are ignored, scoffed at, or roasted by other Twitter users.

While researching this story, I realized that I had muted the Still Balling account in the past. The ultimate insiders, players, coaches, and executives are professionally vested in the conversations that swirl daily across social media—but they often can't speak freely without kicking up a media haboob. TORONTO -- Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau on Monday defended a video posted to Twitter by Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland that was flagged by the social network as "manipulated media." In honor of Fowler and his fellow scribes, we've collected 20 tweets from 20 Georgia-based journalists who have helped all of us—whether you live in the United States of America or in the Caucasus region of Eurasia—process the mania of the past two days. We suggest you follow the work of each of them; it looks like the mania will continue for at least another two months, until the Senate runoffs.

And this being 2020, it's doubtful we'll have a single slow news day in the interim. On Thursday afternoon one or more angry employees took to the microblogging site to vent their anger and "tweet live from HR". They managed to post seven subversive messages before the company regained control of the account and deleted the posts.

Other social media platforms like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook continue to enjoy the immunity of a social media intermediary in India. Dr Nigam Nuggehalli, Professor, School of Law, BML Munjal University says just appointing a compliance officer isn't enough, we need a "transparent and comprehensive public discussion leading to a sensible law on the regulation of social media intermediaries". Twitter is introducing a new feature to timelines that will keep you up to date on particular ongoing events.

At the top of your timeline, you'll start to see a Happening Now label that will show you all of the events and current topics Twitter thinks you're interested in, which when clicked, will take you to tweets people have posted about them. In the few states that have laws granting executors authority to access digital accounts, "account custodians" like Twitter could be required to provide access to executors. So an account that you believe to be private could be made available to the person wrapping up your estate. These are new and untested laws, and you can expect most technology companies to resist providing access to accounts, even in the states where the law requires it to do so. Twitter does not currently allow you to decide what should happen to your account when you die, but it might someday.

Tech companies are recognizing that users might want a choice about whether their accounts should be deleted, archived, or passed onto another person. And some companies are providing tools that allow account holders to decide the fate of their accounts. For example, Google's Inactive Account Manager allows account holders to decide whether to delete the account or pass account information on to survivors after a period of inactivity.