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Your profile page on Codecademy started as a list of the courses you had taken, but it quickly became overly complex as we expanded the variety of ways to interact with Codecademy and each other.
We've recently taken a step back and reworked your profile to better serve its most important purpose - to showcase who you are and what you've achieved on Codecademy.
Show who you are
We wanted to make your profile really easy to personalize. You can upload a photo, write about yourself, and share some basic information without leaving the page. To make it easier to share, you can access it at www.codecademy.com/[your username].
Show what you've accomplished
The old profile, like a report card, emphasized your progress - which courses you still had to do in a track. The new one highlights your accomplishments and contributions. At the moment, completing a track is the biggest accomplishment on Codecademy, so we show the tracks you've completed and are working on front and center.
And if you've created a course, everybody should know about it, so we spotlight the courses you've contributed.
Make it look good!
We've cleaned up and streamlined the new profile to make sure that people looking at it are able to get the important information they want. The visual style is also now consistent with the one first introduced in the new learning experience.
How can you get it?
You can opt in now, or wait until Monday at 4:30 PM EST, when we are going to switch it over to everyone. Let us know what you think about it and how we can make the profile best represent all your hard work and learning on Codecademy.
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Page edited by Anna Sniadach
There has recently been a spike in the number of compromised Twitter accounts, which has increased concerns about the trustworthiness of information broadcast on Twitter and other social networks. Just yesterday, the Associated Press Twitter account (@AP) was hacked and used to send out a false Twitter post about explosions at the White House. Last weekend saw Twitter accounts of CBS News (@60minutes & @48hours) compromised. Corporate accounts belonging to Burger King and Jeep were also hacked in February this year.
We are working on techniques to predict that a given account is “fake” (falsely appears to represent a person or organization) or has been compromised and is being used to spreading malicious content. Our approach analyses the account’s metadata, properties, network structure and the content in its posts. We also use both content and network analysis to identify the “real” account handle when multiple accounts appear or claim to represent the same person or organization on Twitter.
We recently analyzed a case where both @DeltaAssist and @flydeltassist appeared to represent Delta Airlines. In February 2013, @flydeltaAssist, which turned out not to be associated with Delta, began tweeting an offer of free tickets if users “followed” them. Eventually, the account was banned as a fake handle by Twitter. Our approach was able to answer the question “Which one of them belongs to the real Delta Airlines?” by analyzing the tweets and social network of these handles.
We are still in the process of writing up our research and evaluation results and hope to be able to post more about it soon.
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