Twitter and Facebook hit year-end rough patch

Twitter and Facebook hit year-end rough patch

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Two social media behemoths have been grabbing the headlines, but not in a good way. Twitter has been seeing trouble on both the business side and the customer side. Yesterday, thousands of users were prompted to log-out of their Twitter app and weren’t able to log back in. Twitter blames a bug. This comes on the heels of mounting pressure for the CEO to resign for lack of leadership. And Facebook is feeling the heat after their year-in-review feature ran into sensitive territory. What if you wanted to forget the year that was? Facebook won’t let you. Brad Spirrison, the Managing Editor of Appolicious, talks about what these stories mean for social media giants.