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During the last 6 weeks of lockdown within the United States, small and large media outlets have posted numerous videos of athletes creating innovative workouts and means to stay healthy. This includes makeshift weights, unique workout machines, and even completing marathons in small spaces like driveways, balconies, and treadmills.

Americans are resilient, creative, and social; what pulls all of these things together is the connection to fitness and wellness, and ultimately a connection with each other.

As the weight of our new reality sets in, it becomes more imperative that people follow Social Distancing guidelines to keep themselves and others healthy. But how do you keep yourself physically active and healthy while protecting others from the spread of the Coronavirus?

Luckily, there are a lot of resources that provide tips and guidelines, and Sportable has been collecting articles from all media and publishing them within its own social network to open its users to this information. The Sportable Team frequently posts articles from leading running, biking, and swimming publications showing how athletes can maintain a healthy and safe fitness regimen during this tumultuous time. Posting weekly and sometimes daily updates to help its users stay active while staying safe is a core value in Sportables mission.

To limit the spread of the virus, athletes are limited to at-home fitness schedules and fitness applications. Sportable provides its user base a variety of Sports App connectors to help pull all fitness and activity data into a single location. Sportable supports connectors to Peloton, Apple HealthKit, MapMyFitness (which includes MapMyRun, MapMyWalk, MapMyRide, and MyFitnessPal), Strava, Fitbit, ClassPass, Mindbody, and Active.

The integration between the Apple Health app allows me to sync my activity that my Apple Watch tracks to Sportable. Sportable not only lets me track my goals via the Bucket List functionality, but also allows me to share my goals and results with friends and family. Seth (Male, 25)

Whether running around your neighborhood (or balcony) using Strava, taking a walk using Fitbit, spinning on Peloton, or taking a virtual Mindbody class, Sportable has you covered. By simply pressing the Connect button and entering your credentials, you can pump all your real-time and historical workouts into Sportable to monitor and track your progress and prevent any further fitness atrophy. And with features like Medal Rack and Bucket List, you can organize and share all your accomplishments and goals with your friends, no matter how distant you may be.

Staying physically healthy is extremely important during any quarantine, but staying mentally healthy is also a primary focus. Enter Sportables network that promotes encouraging and empowering connections to help athletes stay focused and informed. The apps Starting Line Search and Messaging features allow users to keep close connections to one another when Social Distancing is in order.

It is a great way to set goals and track them. The information from all my sports apps are located in 1 area and I especially use it to compare training sessions with friends (which has definitely kept us motivated during quarantine). Debbie (Female, 39)

The Sportable apps easy-to-use interface, seamless integration with third-party sports applications, and unique networking and messaging features are a necessity for novice and experienced athletes alike to stay safe, healthy, and connected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Athletes Social Network is staying true to its mission of delivering a safe place for users to connect, collaborate, encourage, and empower while delivering an arsenal of must-have features to keep home-bound athletes focused and motivated.

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Published April 23, 2020

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Sometimes a tweet can be very popular and start a retweet conversation at the same time, and Twitter is now experimenting with a way to more easily find those comments within a thread.

Twitter understandably likes to keep things simple, which is why we've only got three main options to react to a tweet with: Like, Retweet, and Comment. But opting to retweet unlocks two options, either just a plain retweet or a retweet with comment. As The Verge reports, Twitter is experimenting with highlighting retweets that include a comment.

Multiple users have confirmed via Twitter that their accounts now differentiate between retweets and retweets with comments by splitting them into two separate counts. This is clearly an experimental feature as users are seeing different implementations of the same feature. For example, @divacaroline sees a breakdown of retweets with and without comments just below the Retweets heading on Twitter, where as @mehedih_ has an extra line of text below the Likes and Retweets count which says "X Retweets with comments."

For the more popular tweets, it's sure to be a welcome feature allowing the comments to be more easily and quickly viewed in their own thread with the click of a button or tap of the screen. However, there's no guarantee Twitter will decide to roll it out as a standard feature of the service. Experiments happen all the time, but very few make it past the public testing phase.

Jane Manchun Wong, well known app reverse engineer, suggested Twitter was working on such a counter back on April 16. Internally, it looks as though the feature is being referred to as a "quote_count" and a way of easily viewing quoted tweets.

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Twitter Is Testing a 'Retweets With Comments" Counter - PCMag UK

Political distancing

Analysis of anonymized smartphone tracking data reveals that fewer residents of Republican-leaning, compared to Democrat-leaning, counties appeared to be staying home after their state issued a stay-at-home order a difference that did not appear to be explained by other county, date, or policy factors. Residents of Democrat-leaning counties in states with Republican governors were an exception showing similar patterns of defiance.

Painter, M. & Qiu, T., Political Beliefs Affect Compliance with COVID-19 Social Distancing Orders, Saint Louis University (April 2020).

Play time

Sociologists compared nationally representative surveys of young childrens social skills from the 1990s through the 2000s as computer and Internet access became widespread. Neither parents nor teachers assessments of kids skills changed much. If anything, they offered slightly more favorable reviews over time. Controlling for changes in parenting and socio-economic characteristics did not change these findings. In the later generation, there was a modest negative association for extensive gaming and social networking, but it was positive for moderate use.

Downey, D. & Gibbs, B., Kids These Days: Are Face-to-Face Social Skills among American Children Declining? American Journal of Sociology (January 2020).

The more you know

In an experiment, people were asked their opinions on climate change, nuclear power, genetically modified food, and water fluoridation. Before giving their opinions, some participants read about a politician railing against corruption; some of those participants were also told where most experts stood on the aforementioned issues; and all participants were asked how much they trusted experts. While those who trusted experts unsurprisingly became more aligned with the expert positions after being told about them, the opposite happened for those who didnt trust experts, particularly among those who had been exposed to the populist political rhetoric.

Merkley, E., Anti-Intellectualism, Populism, and Motivated Resistance to Expert Consensus, Public Opinion Quarterly (forthcoming).

Fail forward

Its not surprising that people dont like to talk about their own failures. But new research suggests that this isnt just about ego. People generally assume that failures are less informative, regardless of whether thats the case. In various experiments, people were less willing to share negative outcome information, even though sharing that information was objectively more helpful to a recipient. Likewise, in a real-world example with teachers who were asked to write about both a professional failure and a professional success, most chose to share the success story with other teachers, despite having anonymity.

Eskreis-Winkler, L. & Fishbach, A., Hidden Failures, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (March 2020).

Feed the children

Economists used anonymized data from the United States Census and the Social Security Administration going back decades to determine the long-term outcomes of children who were born in counties that offered food stamps compared to those born in counties that did not. Living in an area with access in utero through age five but not at older ages was associated with better education, work, housing, and longevity outcomes, and less incarceration, into adulthood. The economists estimate that the lifetime value to recipients was approximately 56 times the cost to the government.

Bailey, M. et al., Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program, National Bureau of Economic Research (April 2020).

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Social Studies: Social distancing by political party, social skills in the Internet age, and the power of food stamps - The Boston Globe

The actor gave a powerful message.

If you are one of those who during this quarantine has fallen into the temptation and be a part of the ranks of the users of Tik Tok, maybe you can understand Johnny Depp, who shocked all her fans when you open your account on Instagram, your first social network.

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In the midst of the legal fight with his ex, Amber Heard, the actor made his debut in the social networks and did to give an important message to all who are going through the pandemic that has the whole world in check.

Great hosting was Depp, who in just a couple of hours amounted to 2 million followers, who await with curiosity the type of content that will be going up the actor.

The first post of Depp was a photo that announced his arrival on the social network, in addition to advised them that I was recording.

The second publication was a video of eight minutes in which he spoke of the situation of the coronavirus: Hello everyone. This is my first experience in the world of social networking. Ive never done anything like this before. I dont think they felt any particular reason to do so up to an hour. Now is the time to open a dialog, when the threat of this invisible enemy has already caused immeasurable tragedy and an enormous damage in the lives of people.

The interpreter of Jack Sparrow lamented the global situation in which we are living:Many cant provide for their families Some have lost their jobs business Some, many even now are living in the streets without protection, without refuge, without any option to escape.

Finally, the musician thanked the support of his fans:Thank you for your kindness, your unwavering support and strength throughout these years. I am moved beyond words.

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Meetup, the social networking platform designed to connect people in person, is being spun out from shared office space provider WeWork, the company confirmed on Monday. The site is being sold to AlleyCorp and other private investors for an undisclosed sum, but one thats reportedly far less than the $156 million acquisition price WeWork paid for the social network back in 2017.

Fortune (paywalled) was first to break the news of Meetups sale. The company has also now put out a press release with further details.

Meetup, which has operated for two-and-a-half years as a WeWork subsidiary, will divest itself from its parent company and continue to operate, it says. The site today serves 49 million registered members and more than 230,000 organizers who create an average of 15,000 in-person events per day.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Meetup had been struggling. The company in November announced a round of layoffs amid other cost-cutting measures. And these had followed earlier cuts of 10% of staff during acquisition negotiations.

With the COVID-19 pandemic now in full force, fewer people than ever are willing and able to meet in-person, leading to Meetup to position itself today as a place for groups to meet online during times of crisis, its release said. That remains to be seen.

The investor groups in Meetups latest acquisition are led by Kevin Ryans AlleyCorp and also include other mission-driven private funds and accomplished technology executives, the company claims.

The deal will see Ryan joining Meetup as chairman of the Board. David Siegel will remain Meetup CEO and board member, and will continue to lead the company.

Meetup groups will continue to operate, as will Meetups enterprise business solution, Meetup Pro, which has been used by over 1,500 clients to date, including Adobe, Google, Microsoft Azure, IBM, Twitter and Looker, among others.

This acquisition provides the long-term capital to ensure that Meetup focuses on what is most important: the organizers who make Meetup successful, our passionate members, and our dedicated employees, said David Siegel, CEO of Meetup, in a statement. We are excited to continue on our mission of empowering personal growth through real human connections, and Im happy to have brought in a team of smart investors who share and support the same values, he said.

WeWorks intention to sell off Meetup was previously known. Unfortunately for the longtime social network, it was one of several casualties arising from WeWorks larger troubles.

Its unclear, however, what the future holds for Meetup. Though the government lockdown policies may eventually end, consumers appetite for getting together in real-life groups with people they first met online may not be as strong as it was before. Meetup may have to shift more of its focus to supporting online-only groups a market thats today dominated by Facebook Groups, or niche apps catering to specific categories, like Peanut for moms or Nextdoor for neighbors, for instance.

We are confident in the enormous potential of the business and Meetups mission of bringing people together in substantive ways, said AlleyCorps Ryan, in a statement. We are very excited to collectively serve and grow Meetups extensive and incredibly engaged user base.

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WeWork sells off social network Meetup to AlleyCorp and other investors - TechCrunch