Twitter just applied for a patent for a drone that can take photos and videos, and then transmit them through users' Twitter accounts. “Of course, applying for the patent doesn’t necessarily mean Twitter plans on building a drone,” The Verge notes. “However, it could be laying a foundation for a Twitter-controlled UAV.”

Vine is rolling out a personalized channel dubbed "For You," and filled with what it considers must-see posts from across the platform. “For You should help users get to know more about what's on Vine, similar to how Twitter's Moments, a curated tab of collected tweets, helps users understand what's going on in the world (or at least the world of Twitter),” The Verge reports.

Flipboard is giving publishers, celebrities and brands ‘verified’ checkmarks on its news aggregation platform. The Next Web calls the move “a bid to help users quickly find what they’re looking for in search.” Effective immediately, more than 600 accounts have been verified, with more on the way.

After apparently failing to respond to a criminal case, a Brazial court has ordered telecom companies to block WhatsApp for 48 hours. “The order was handed down from the 1st Criminal Court of São Bernardo do Campo in São Paulo, Brazil, due to an unnamed petitioner seeking an injunction against the company,” Buzzfeed reports, citing a story in Brazilian newspaper O Globo.

Twitter is expanding Moments to the UK, this week. “The company debuted the feature in the U.S. back in October, and has since also rolled it out in Brazil,” TechCrunch notes. “So this is not the first international expansion for Moments, but given the size of the U.K. market for Twitter it’s an important next step as it tries to ramp up mainstream interest in its platform.”

LinkedIn is focusing its analytical prowess on job listings. “LinkedIn is taking the wraps off a new version of its Jobs section, where -- alongside details about the job itself -- you can now see more data about the company, who works there, and how you compare to previous applicants,” TechCrunch reports.

Employees at The Las Vegas Review-Journal have launched a Twitter campaign to uncover the paper's new financial backers. The publication was reportedly just sold to News + Media Capital Group LLC, an unknown entity, for $140 million. “There's been speculation that Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate and Republican donor, could be involved in the mystery purchase,” Huffington Post reports.

Twitter is telling a number of users know that their accounts may have been targeted as part of a state-sponsored attack. “The attack is currently being investigated by Twitter,” Motherboard reports. “In their notice to users, Twitter said that the attack only impacted usernames, IP address, email addresses, and phone numbers if a phone number was associated with the account.”

Career website Glassdoor today released its eighth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the 50 best companies to work for in the coming year. Airbnb has unseated Google as the top place to work in 2016, Marketing Land reports, citing the latest Employees’ Choice Awards report from Glassdoor.

Twitter moved Moments for Web and Android viewers yesterday to where the Notifications button was, unnerving users. It also raises the question if social media company is happy with the metrics that Moments has been getting so far. Various tweets accuse the company of tricking users.