Kris Holt
Based in Montreal, Kris Holt has been writing about technology and web culture since 2010. He writes for Engadget and Tech News World, and his byline has also appeared in Paste, Salon, International Business Times, Mashable, and elsewhere.
Obama posts most retweeted tweet of all time
A photo of the newly-reelected president hugging his wife, captioned “four more years,” easily busted Justin Bieber’s Twitter record.
On Nov 7, 2012 by Kris Holt
Vote-changing machine recalibrated after viral video
A YouTube video helped lead to the fixing of a buggy voting maching in Pennsylvania.
On Nov 6, 2012 by Kris Holt
Google cofounder urges election winners to turn independent
In a Google+ post, Sergey Brin called for an end to partisan politics.
Instagram mimics Facebook, finally creates Web profiles
On a practical level, the move to Web profiles affords Instagram more of an opportunity to actually start making money off the service.
On Nov 5, 2012 by Kris Holt
With 800,000 photos, Sandy was Instagram’s biggest moment yet
CEO Kevin Systrom says the hurricane was a milestone moment for the Instagram community.
Twitter gets more transparent about copyright takedowns
Tweets removed for copyright violations are now labeled as such, rather than just deleted.
The Tweekender: How Hurricane Sandy dominated Twitter
More than 20 million Hurricane Sandy tweets were sent between Saturday and Thursday. Plus, more news from the week on Twitter.
On Nov 2, 2012 by Kris Holt
Instagram blocks URLs from comments in spam crackdown
Instagram responded to a recent increase in spam by banning users who include links in their comments
On Nov 1, 2012 by Kris Holt
The Internet saves a same-sex wedding from Hurricane Sandy
Thanks to Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson and Foursquare engineer/wedding officiant Anoop Ranganath, two women were able to get married even after Hurricane Sandy closed the City Clerk’s Office.
@DavidCameron is not the Prime Minister—but he is funny
@david_cameron is Britain’s Prime Minister. @davidcameron is a 20-something man from Oregon who’s having a lot of fun responding to misdirected tweets.
Hurricane Sandy rips the side off of an NYC apartment building
A YouTube video captures the destruction, and the work of some heroic FDNY firefighters.
On Oct 30, 2012 by Kris Holt
How false Sandy news spread on Twitter
Several false reports of riots and flooding apparently originated with one user.
Peer through the eye of Hurricane Sandy with Instacane, webcams
Instagram curators and webcams let you watch the hurricane as it unfolds.
On Oct 29, 2012 by Kris Holt
The Tweekender: How a parody account revived a gaming legend’s career
All the news this week from Twitter, racapped in bullet points of 140 characters or less.
On Oct 26, 2012 by Kris Holt
Secret Service: Don’t tweet us about Twitter threats
The Secret Service would prefer that you call them immediately—instead of tweeting—if you spot a Twitter threat against the President .
On Oct 25, 2012 by Kris Holt
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