On average, Snapchat’s Live Stories are now attracting an audience of 20 million people every 24 hours, the social network tells Re/code. “Snapchat charges around two cents per view on a 10-second ad inserted alongside user submitted content,” R/code reports. “The rates change slightly depending on the specific event and expected audience, but two cents per view equates to $400,000 worth of ad space for a story generating 20 million views.” 

Wired is not impressed with Twitter’s recently launched sharable troll-blocking feature. “While the intentions are good, the implementation is bafflingly underwhelming, especially coming from a marquee technology company,” it writes. “In fact, even calling it ‘shared’ blocking at all is a misnomer, because there is no sharing mechanism to speak of.” 

Do platforms like Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter risk alienating retailers -- many of which are also ad partners -- by adding Buy buttons? So suggests Re/code’s Jason Del Ray, who writes: “They have to allay fears of retailers that they will steal the customer relationship, banishing them to glorified warehousing and shipping partners.” And, that’s just one problem facing these platforms and their efforts to break into ecommerce. 

Despite the best efforts of Facebook, the data clearly shows that augmented reality is poised to be a far bigger market than virtual reality. The Atlantic explains why that is, and some of the challenges facing the assent of augmented reality. “Two of the highest-profile augmented-reality devices -- Microsoft’s HoloLens and the Google-backed Magic Leap -- have vague timelines for release,” it writes. 

In the wake of Dick Costolo’s resignation, everyone and their uncle is telling Twitter how to move forward. The New York Times’ Farhad Manjoo says the secret to Twitter’s future success is live events. “Focus on live events,” he writes. “People never tire of gabbing about what’s going on right now … Twitter could be the best place for that.” Whatever direction it decides on, “Choosing a single intent for Twitter -- and working to make that a reality -- ought to be the next chief’s main task.” 

In its war on trolls, Twitter is now letting people share lists of users they’ve blocked with other people. While Gizmodo doesn’t think Twitter can completely rid itself of trolls, it calls the move “the smartest thing Twitter has done to help users deal with abuse.” Indeed, “by allowing people to import and export their lists of blocked users, Twitter is giving them a way to block known trolls in bulk.” 

A majority (51%) of Facebook’s ad revenue now comes from foreign markets, Carolyn Everson, VP global marketing solutions at Facebook, tells Reuters. That equals about $1.7 billion, by Reuters’ calculations. “International advertising revenue rose 36 percent from a year earlier,” it writes. Not surprisingly, the biggest annual ad growth (57%) is coming from Asia, Everson said. 

Windows phone users will now have a tougher time syncing with select Facebook services. “Because of a change in [Facebook’s] Graph API, Facebook Connect features are no longer available for [Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone], along with other services from Microsoft,” Windows Central reports. “If you enjoy using some Facebook features in apps like OneDrive, People and others in Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone, it looks like they won't be available anymore.” 

Giving conspiracy theorists one less plot to chew on, Facebook has reportedly decided not to get into the satellite business. “The plan was to use [said satellite] to help provide cheap Internet access in the developing world,” Business Insider reports. But, the estimated price tag of $500 million was “apparently prohibitive,” according to BI. 

Publishers are not actively participating in Facebook’s Instant Articles program, according to Business Insider. “The actual launch has been much slower and less dramatic than anyone expected,” it writes. In fact, by BI’s count, “No new stories have been published since launch.” To be fair, “Facebook didn't give a concrete timeline for its Instant Articles roll-out plans,” BI admits.