Facebook’s Twitter account was briefly hacked Friday afternoon by prominent group OurMine. The tweet read, “Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security better than Twitter.” The tweet appeared multiple times in sort of a cat-and-mouse game, with Twitter deleting the initial one just a few minutes after it was posted, only for it to be posted again. According to the tweet, the third-party platform used may have been Khoros, a social media management site.

Instagram: Can influencers monetise IGTV?

Instagram may, at long last, share a piece of its $20 billion ad revenue with creators. Spotted by the Hong Kong-based developer Jane Manchun Wong, who reverse-engineers apps to unearth unreleased features, the Facebook-owned social network is found to be testing a monetisation platform for its long-form vertical video arm, IGTV. Dubbed as the Instagram Partner Program, it will allow eligible influencers to earn money by “running short ads” on their IGTV videos. Similar to other video-based platforms such as YouTube, Instagram will have set criteria to decide which accounts can monetise their content. We don’t know yet whether it will be based on the number of watch hours a creator has accumulated over a certain period or their follower count or both.

Reddit partners with Tagboard

Reddit has this week announced a new partnership with Tagboard which will facilitate connection with TV broadcasters, enabling them to use Reddit content in their programs. As explained by Reddit: "The partnership marks Reddit’s first foray into aggregated content sourcing for broadcast, enabling more than 250 of the largest global broadcast entities to leverage the voice and ideas of redditors for broadcast news, sports television, and entertainment shows."