Introducing Top Picks

Shared on Twitter, discovered on Svven, delivered on Medium

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2 min readFeb 5, 2016

Svven is a social news discovery tool that runs on Twitter. It has been looking at all the links tweeted by ~200K influential people and bots.

Top Picks listed below are the 15 most tweeted links during January.
I’m willing to make it on a weekly basis and publish Last Week’s Top Picks every Monday if you guys find it interesting and recommend this story.

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users…

medium.com

Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88

Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist's thirst for knowledge with a philosopher's quest for truth as a pioneering…

nytimes.com

Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter. Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things…

recode.net

52 Places to Go in 2016

Correction: January 17, 2016 An article last week about 52 places to go in 2016 misstated the timing of a visit Pope…

nytimes.com

Bloomberg, Sensing an Opening, Revisits a Potential White House Run

Michael R. Bloomberg has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this year's…

nytimes.com

The Website Obesity Crisis

Let me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with…

idlewords.com

"Internet of Things" security is hilariously broken and getting worse

Shodan, a search engine for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently launched a new section that lets users easily browse…

arstechnica.com

Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy

Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a…

techcrunch.com

The End of Twitter - The New Yorker

It wasn't that long ago that I-and many other people I know-would have argued that Twitter was more than just another…

newyorker.com

El Chapo Speaks

Disclosure: Some names have had to be changed, locations not named, and an understanding was brokered with the subject…

rollingstone.com

Amazon’s customer service backdoor

As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure…

medium.com

Alan Rickman, giant of British screen and stage, dies at 69

Related: 'We are all so devastated': acting world pays tribute to Alan Rickman Alan Rickman, one of the best-loved and…

theguardian.com

Introducing Top Picks

Shared on Twitter, discovered on Svven, delivered on Medium

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users…

Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88

Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist's thirst for knowledge with a philosopher's quest for truth as a pioneering…

Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets

Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter. Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things…

52 Places to Go in 2016

Correction: January 17, 2016 An article last week about 52 places to go in 2016 misstated the timing of a visit Pope…

Bloomberg, Sensing an Opening, Revisits a Potential White House Run

Michael R. Bloomberg has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this year's…

The Website Obesity Crisis

Let me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with…

"Internet of Things" security is hilariously broken and getting worse

Shodan, a search engine for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently launched a new section that lets users easily browse…

Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy

Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a…

The End of Twitter - The New Yorker

It wasn't that long ago that I-and many other people I know-would have argued that Twitter was more than just another…

El Chapo Speaks

Disclosure: Some names have had to be changed, locations not named, and an understanding was brokered with the subject…

Amazon’s customer service backdoor

As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure…

Alan Rickman, giant of British screen and stage, dies at 69

Related: 'We are all so devastated': acting world pays tribute to Alan Rickman Alan Rickman, one of the best-loved and…

Written by Alexandru Stanciu