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Accidental Tech Podcast Episode 249-My Review on It

So I'm not one who usually listens to podcasts I mean I occasionally listen to them when a friend sends me a link to listen one. That being said lets get to the topic on hand. So I listened to episode 249 Accidental Tech Podcast or ATP for short which a link to it can be found here    http://atp.fm/   .  I liked what I heard I thought it had some parts that were informing but others not so much.  The first thing they started off to talk about was the iPhone X multitasking gesture. They explained how they didn't like to hold their finger in spot for a couple of seconds when doing the gesture to activate  the multitasking feature.  I'm not one for waiting myself  but I'm ok with waiting to a certain extent as it sometimes takes time to start up a application and depending on what that application is also. One topic they also talked about was that you could request refunds on AppleCare. I didn't know you could do that.  The refund can be a full refund if before the

Netflix and Amazon and their Social Media Use

Many companies now use Facebook and Twitter too for social media advertising. Today I want to discuss how Netflix and Amazon utilizes them and I want to start off with Netflix first. Netflix uses Facebook for advertising through the use of Facebook's marketing API's.  Facebook has a large user base which is why Netflix uses Facebook as place to gain more customers. Netflix uses Facebook's marketing API's by creating an ad and having it tweaked slightly to meet and incite every type of potential audience/customer.  Netflix added over 19 million new members last year with a good portion of these coming from Facebook users. Netflix usage with Twitter has been a positive one and a eye opener.  Netflix has openly shared its Netflix content watched per second with the public and its quarterly financial results  though not a new technique show such transparency with the general public has had a positive impact. Netflix has also used Twitter to not only listen to its custom