The last three years have seen a surge in Twitter use among American adults.
That’s the latest finding from Pew’s Internet & American Life project, who measured Twitter use among those aged 18+ in their new social media study. According to Pew, 18% of American adults are now using Twitter – up from just 8% back in the Fall of 2010. That’s an increase of 125% in less than three years.
The bulk of the gains come from the younger crowd – those aged 18 to 29. In the latest study, 30% of that age group reported using Twitter. Back in 2010, that figure was just 14%.
Twitter’s explosion mimics that patterns seen for social media as a whole, which can now claim 72% adoption among American adults.
“Today, 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Although younger adults continue to be the most likely social media users, one of the more striking stories about the social networking population has been the growth among older internet users in recent years. Those ages 65 and older have roughly tripled their presence on social networking sites in the last four years – from 13% in the spring of 2009 to 43% now,” says Pew.
Oddly enough, the older demographic is the only one that hasn’t jumped on the Twitter bandwagon over the past 3 years. While use by those aged 65 and older has increased on other social networks, Twitter hasn’t seen that uptick. In fact, just 5% of the 65 and older crowd use Twitter, up only a percent from the 4% that reported using it back in 2010.
Based on Pew’s research, your typical Twitter user is a black or hispanic person between the ages of 18 and 29, with at least some college, making more than $30,000 per year.
If you ever find yourself in the middle of a movie, there’s one rule you should remember. Well, there are actually plenty of things that would be handy to know, but this one is pretty important. Whatever you do, for the love of all that is holy, do not go into a phone booth.
If you’re in a phone booth, things are going to end poorly. For the younger kids out there wondering what this “phone booth” thing is, it’s a death trap. Plain and simple. Thank the heavens for cellphones.
Pinterest, like many other social sites, has had to deal with an unavoidable amount of nudity, porn, and the battle between the two. Is a bare breast considered pornographic? I don’t know, ask Facebook. How much porn is too much porn, and how hard should you make it for the average user to stumble upon it? I don’t know, ask Vine. If porn is what the users want, should the company get it the way? I don’t know – Yahoo seems to think they shouldn’t.
Pinterest has explicitly banned sexual content, nudity, and even partial nudity. It’s right there in the Acceptable Use Policy. “You agree not to post User Content that is sexually explicit or contains nudity, partial nudity or pornography.” If you search a term like “sex” or “nude” on Pinterest, you’re greeted with this message:
Reminder: Pinterest does not allow nudity. Pinning or repinning photographs displaying breasts, buttocks or genitalia may result in the termination of your Pinterest account.
Though that sounds pretty straightforward, well, it’s not. Sure, Pinterest says that they do not allow nudity or pornography. Yet there’s plenty of porn and more “tasteful” nudity on Pinterest. See? See? (NSFW, obviously).
Now, it looks like Pinterest is taking a proactive step (at the behest of users) to make sure that the nudity that exists on the site is an acceptable type of nudity – artistic nudity.
“Pinterest is about expressing your passions and people are passionate about art and that may include nudes,” Pinterest told the Financial Times. “So we’re going to try to accommodate that.”
Gizmodo received another quote from Pinterest spokesman Barry Schnitt.
“Pinners have asked us for a policy on nudity that makes a distinction between works of art and things like pornography. A change like that poses a lot of questions. We’re working our way through those questions but we don’t have any additional details to offer just yet.”
Pinterest has to face it: Their UI is great for art and photos. And if the people want tasteful nudes, well, the people should get tasteful nudes. Lest they run off to a place where it won’t be persecuted. Not that Pinterest has done a great job of enforcing their policy up until this point anyway. Moving forward, Pinterest is probably going to have a problem making that distinction between artistic nudity and porny nudity. It’ll be interesting to see how that plays out.
The story behind what happened to a murdered Maine teen is coming into focus after police unsealed an affidavit on Wednesday.
15-year-old Nichole Cable was reported missing on May 13th. After a statewide search that went on for a week, she was found dead on the night of May 20th. 20-year-old Kyle Dube has been indicted on charges of murder and kidnapping after he reportedly used a fake Facebook account to lure Cable outside, where he proceeded to kill her and dump her in the woods.
The story gets even stranger. According to the affidavit, obtained by the AP, Dube told his brother that the planned to stage Cable’s kidnapping in order to eventually rescue her and become a hero. Dube’s brother says that Dube lured her outside of her home, grabbed her and duct taped her, and put her in the back of his truck. Dube later discovered that Cable was dead, so he dumped her in the woods and covered her with branches.
The medical examiner is still trying to determine the cause of death.
Police say that Dube set up the fake account in the name of Bryan Butterfield, a friend of Cable’s. Butterfield told police that Dube had wanted to start a sexual relationship with Cable, but was denied. Police say that on the night of the murder, Cable agreed to meet Butterfield outside of her home. Of course, she didn’t know that she was actually agreeing to meet Dube, who used the fake Facebook profile to gain her confidence.
Apparently, Facebook aided investigators by revealing the true identity of the fake Butterfield account, which was then traced to Dube.
Ultimate bad muthaphukka Samuel L. Jackson is looking to raise awareness (and cash, of course) for the Alzheimer’s society. And he’s doing it in a pretty amazing way.
Posted to reddit’s r/movies subreddit Wednesday, Jackson has made an offer reddit cannot refuse. Think up a 300-word or less monologue, post it in the comments, and whichever one gets the most upvotes will win. Win what? Well, it will be read, on video, by Jackson himself.
Here’s the post:
It’s simple, write 300 words and the most upvoted post I’ll read out loud in monologue form.
I’m doing this for one of my favorite non-profits, Alzheimer’s Society, as my family have been unfortunate enough to have been affected by the disease.
As a BONUS, I’m offering you all the chance to be flown to the UK for lunch with ME in return for just a tiny donation to this amazing cause. I’ll also sign a beloved Kangol hat and mail it to anyone that donates $200 or more!
Let’s go muthaphukkas give me something interesting to say!!!!
The post has received a lot of attention – too much, in fact. 4chan got wind of the content and, well, went all 4chan on it. I’ll let movies moderator girafa explain what happened:
Here’s what occurred: Within a few minutes of the posting of this thread, the internet forum 4Chan got wind of it and began a campaign to hijack this thread with the NavySeals copypasta, encouraging people to get accounts, upvote one comment and downvote the others. They even dox’d (found out the real identity of) the poster of the Alarm Clock monologue and have been harassing him all day.
Oh well, things look to be back on track – at least for now.
The contest (of sorts) ends on Thursday at midnight (PST). You can get to thinking, but this is the current most-upvoted monologue. It’s damn motivational, if I do say so myself (and full of colorful language, as you would expect).
(I call it “my new alarm clock.”)
Good morning, sunshine. It’s time to get up now. Another bright and beautiful day is out there, just waiting for you to go out and- stop. Do not hit that snooze button. Do not hit that god damned snooze button. You think anything great in this world ever got done by a lazy motherfucker who never even tried? You think it’s supposed to come easy? You think I’ve had it easy? Get your ass up. Get. Your ass. Up. Right now.
Beautiful things can be done in a day, god damn it. Tell someone you love them. Make art. Get into trouble, for fuck’s sake, hurt yourself, make someone happy, get laid. Quit your job, or destroy your job – whichever one it is you want to do, it starts with you rolling out of bed right now. And brush your teeth, god damn it, your breath smells like ass.
WAKE. UP. Now. Get the fuck out of bed. This is life. You’re not gonna make it out of here alive, you’re running out of time this very second, and you want to hit snooze? Did nobody tell you that you’re capable of great things? Do you need someone to tell you that shit? Here, if you’re gonna be a god damned fool, let me say it for you: I believe in you. I think you can do it. I think you’re the baddest, most batshit crazy and capable-of-anything motherfucker there ever was.
Now get the fuck out of bed and get something done.
Another popular idea was to have Mr. Jackson read The Raven, but replace the word “nevermore” with “motherfucker.” Good idea – except for two major issues. First, that poem is well over 1,000 words. And second, that’ll just throw off the rhyme, man. Not cool.
While you wait, enjoy this. I’m not sure that anything reddit comes up with can top this:
iOS users should expect Google Play Music All Access to arrive on their platform in the next couple of weeks.
The news comes from Sundar Pichai, SVP Android, Chrome, and Apps at Google, who was speaking at the All Things D D11 conference Thursday afternoon.
“In Google’s DNA, we wanted to be universally accessible. The goal with search was to make it work for everyone in the world, and I think that philosophy extends today. We brought Google Now to iOS. A couple weeks from now we will launch Google Play Music All Access for iOS, the teams are working like crazy to do it,” he said.
TechCrunch notes that Pichai made a point to say that Google wants its services on as many devices as possible, and that mean that iOS users can then become Google users.
“In Google’s fundamental DNA, we want [our services] to be universally accessible…for us, users on iOS who want to use Google services, we want them to be Google users.”
On the flip side, speaking at the same conference earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook suggested that Apple wasn’t against porting its own apps to Android – at least on a base level. It’s just that it doesn’t want to right now.
“Would Apple port an app from iOS to Android? We have no religious issue,” he said. “If we thought it made sense to do that, we would do that. You can take the same philosophy and apply it to iCloud. Would it make sense for iCloud? It doesn’t today.”
As you probably know, Google launched their new Spotify competitor Google Play Music All Access earlier this month. For $9.99 a month, you can have full streaming access to millions of songs, all of which play well with your existing Google Play music in order to deliver radio and recommendations. You can check out my full walkthrough of the service here.
LinkedIn has just taken a significant step in making the homepage stream much more interesting. Today, they’ve announced the addition of photos, documents, and presentations to updates.
“Whether it’s a thought provoking presentation about the future of big data or it’s a picture of an inspirational quote, or perhaps it’s an infographic showing the top trends impacting your industry, the possibilities are endless for what you can share on LinkedIn to add a richer and more visual component to your professional discussions.”
Yes, your stream is about to fill up with photos:
Earlier this month, LinkedIn began to allow users to adds photos, videos, and other rich media to their profiles, but this is the first time that it’s come to the homepage.
LinkedIn says that the new sharing feature will begin to roll out globally today and will complete in the next few weeks. Once you gain access to the new functionality, you should see a little dialog box at the upper right-hand corner of your share box that asks you to “add a little something to your update.”
“We also introduced the ability to directly upload images and files to 2.9 million Company Page admins, so you can expect to see richer and more engaging visual content flowing across your LinkedIn experience. In the meantime, we look forward to seeing what you have to share and say about your professional universe through pictures, slides and more,” says LinkedIn.
Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann will not seek a fifth term in Congress representing the state’s 6th district, as she made an official announcement in YouTube video.
“After a great deal of thought and deliberation, I have decided next year, I will not seek a fifth congressional term to represent the wonderful people of the 6th district of Minnesota. After serious consideration, I am confident that this is the right decision,” she said.
Bachmann also said that in her opinion, the 8-year term limit for the U.S. President makes sense for members of Congress as well. She claims that the decision had nothing to do with concerns about possibly losing her next bid.
“I’ve always in the past defeated candidates that are capable, qualified, and well-funded. And I have every confidence that if I ran, I would again defeat the individual who I defeated last year, who recently announced that he is once again running.”
Bachmann also denies that the decision was influenced by the recent inquiries being made into campaign spending during her failed presidential campaign.
“I fully anticipate the mainstream liberal media to put a detrimental spin on my decision not to seek a fifth term,” she said. “They always seemed to attempt to find a dishonest way to disparage me. But I take being the focus of their attention and disparagement as a true compliment of my public service effectiveness.”
I have prepared a personal video just for you.michelebachmann.com/announcement/t… I wanted to share this important breaking news with you first.
Last week, we told you about episode 1 of Convos With My 2 Year Old, a new YouTube series that depicts short conversations between a father and his daughter – except a grown man replaces the daughter in the reenactment. It’s hilarious.
Thankfully, they haven’t wasted any time in debuting episode 2. This time, the daughter gets out of bed and wanders into her dad’s room. A vicious battle of “who’s the boss” ensues.
Despite the fact that I’ve seen every movie trailer online way before I see them inside the movie theater nowadays – I still kind of like watching trailers at the cinema. Maybe it’s nostalgia – it’s always been like that. The lights go dark, you watch a few trailers, and finally your movie comes on. That’s the experience.
But there’s a problem. Are movie trailers too long and thus too revealing? It’s not uncommon to spend 20 minutes watching previews during the average theatergoing experience. And by the end of that 20 minutes, I usually have a pretty good idea about the entire plot of at least 4 or 5 movies that are set to come out in the near future.
Spoilers. Spoilers. Spoilers.
Apparently, theater owners aren’t too happy about this part of the moviegoing experience. They think that trailers are too long and too revealing, and they are looking to change that.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) are making a push to cap trailers at 2 minutes – 30 seconds shorter than the current norm. Hollywood studios, as you might imagine, aren’t too happy about this.
THR’s sources says that studios execs are a little sour about NATO’s proposals, which are being pushed by its executive board.
“My trailers are 2.5 minutes because that’s what we need to send the right message. This could be a paradigm shift. Thirty seconds is a long time,” one anonymous studio exec told THR.
Although the idea is barely in its nascent stage, studios are concerned that the voluntary guidelines proposed by NATO could lead to theaters strong-arming longer trailers out of rotation.
What do you think? While you think, enjoy my favorite spolier-filled trailer. Want to watch the movie The Island in 2 minuteas and 20 seconds – I mean, the entire thin? Well, thankfully you can.
John Holbrook Vance, better known to the literary world as Jack Vance, has died. He was 96.
Vance, a prolific author who penned more than 60 books in his more than 60-year career, wrote across multiple genres including mystery, sci-fi, and fantasy. Most of his work was penned under the name Jack Vance, but he also had multiple pseudonyms inducing Ellery Queen, Alan Wade, Peter Held, and John van See.
Friends and family, who manage Jack Vance’s site, have posted a message about the author’s passing:
“Jack Vance passed away at home on the evening of Sunday May 26, 2013, ending a long, rich and productive life. Recognized most widely as an author, family and friends also knew a generous, large-hearted, rugged, congenial, hard-working, optimistic and unpretentious individual whose curiosity, sense of wonder and sheer love of life were an inspiration in themselves. Author, friend, father and grandfather – there will never be another like Jack Vance.”
Vance won Hugo Awards for his 1963 work The Dragon Masters, as well as 1967′s The Last Castle. He also won for his 2010 memoir This Is Me, Jack Vance!. He also won a Nebula Award, an Edgar, a Jupiter Award, and a World Fantasy Award for his writing. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2001.
With 49 million daily users, Waze has been the topic of some acquisition rumor drama over the past couple of weeks. Rumors that Facebook was in serious talks to buy the Israel-based navigation company have swirled since early May – but recent reports indicate that those have fallen apart. It appears that Google and a few other unspecified companies are also in the mix, however.
Acquisition rumors aside, Waze is still working on making their app better. Today, they’ve released v3.7 which brings a bunch of new features including Facebook event integration and more.
Now, if you have Facebook connected to Waze, your Facebook events will automatically appear in your Waze navigation lists in the hours before the event is supposed to begin. That way, you can just tap the event when you’re ready to go and get to navigating – no hassle.
“Our vision is to create a completely seamless experience when meeting colleagues, family or friends,” said Yael Elish, VP of Product & Marketing, Waze. “Waze frees you from the hassle of dealing with addresses or coordinating meeting places. One-tap navigation to Facebook Events is only the start…drivers will enjoy much more in upcoming versions soon.”
Waze also added a feature that will show you when your friends are on the way to the same destination that you are. They’ll appear on a new bar on the right-hand side of the map, one which will show you who’s going to get there first.
Here’s Waze’s full list of updates to 3.7:
Real time and offline “beep beeps” at friends.
Exclusive moods for map editors – T. Rex, robot and 8-bit.
Redesigned, sleeker pop-up alerts.
Inbox has moved to the main menu.
New 3-state mute button in the main menu (mute, alerts only & on).
Foursquare check in available from report menu.
Lock up north added to settings.
Support for JVC App Link Mode” for compatible in-dash car audio receivers.
Last December, Spotify announced a brand new “discovery” feature that harnessed the streaming music company’s data on your past streaming habits and various recommendation engines to give users suggestions on what to listen to next. Today, Spotify is making the Discover tab available to all users via the web player.
“With the Discover page, we’re making good on our promise of helping you choose what to listen to when faced with millions of songs,” says Gustav Söderström, Chief Product Officer, at Spotify. “We’ve made your listening experience more personal, more social and more current.”
The Discover tab features a bunch of different ways to find new music as well as more information on music you currently love. Personalized recommendations suggest artists and tracks based on what you’ve listened to and who you’ve followed. You’ll also see the music and playlists shared by your Spotify friends. And a related music feature also gives you suggestions on what to play next, based on the song you’re currently listening to.
Spotify harnesses the power of Pitchfork, Songkick, and Tunigo (which they just purchased) for these recommendations. According to the company, it’s now available for everyone on the web and will continue to roll out to Spotify’s desktop and mobile apps in the coming weeks.
Google wants you to teach yourself how to better utilize its various mapping products.
Google has just launched registration on a brand new online mapping course that they say will allows interested parties to better “harness the world’s most comprehensive and accurate mapping tools.”
It’s called Mapping with Google, and you can register today. The online courses will begin on June 10th and run through June 24th. Since the courses are made up of online videos and text lessons, students of the Mapping with Google program can complete it at their own pace.
“Through a combination of video and text lessons, activities, and projects, you’ll learn to do much more than look up directions or find your house from outer space. Tell a story of your favorite locations with rich 3D imagery, or plot sights to see on your upcoming trip and share with your travel buddies. During the course, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from Google experts and collaborate with a worldwide community of participants, via Google+ Hangouts and a course forum,” says program manager Tina Ornduff.
Participants can choose to focus on Google Maps, Google Earth, or both. They’re also given the chance to complete a project for which they will earn a certificate from Google.
U.S. audiences will see the third season of The Killing air this Sunday, June 2nd, on AMC. And Netflix users across the pond, in the U.K. and Ireland won’t have to wait very long after that to stream it themselves.
Netflix has announced that new episodes of the show will become available to stream in the aforementioned markets just one day after they air in the U.S. on AMC. That means that season 3, episode 1 will be available to stream on Monday, June 3rd.
The Killing was presumed dead after its first two season as AMC initially chose not to renew the series for a third season. Back in March, Fox Television Studios made a deal with Netflix to become the exclusive subscription-based streamer of the series. That deal with Netflix afforded the studio enough of an additional revenue stream to complete a third season of the crime drama
Fox TV Studios president David Madden even said that the Netflix deal “played an extremely significant part in the studio’s strategy that enabled us to bring The Killing back for a third season.”
“We’re thrilled to be bringing Season 3 of The Killing exclusively to our members in the UK and Ireland,” said Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix. “The Killing is an incredibly gripping fan favorite so we wanted to make each new episode available as soon as possible.”
In the U.S., The Killing will appear on Netflix, in its entirety, three months after the season finale airs on AMC. Though it’s not the day-after-for-each-episode setup that some may want, it’s still a shorter window between network and Netflix availability than is usually seen.
A 37-year-old Australian Man has admitted to setting a fire at a Quaker Hill nursing home that took the lives of 11 elderly patients and injured another 8.
Roger Dean had been working as a nurse at the nursing home for just two months.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the incident occurred on the morning of November 18th, 2011. Dean admitted to setting an empty bed ablaze. He then moved to the room of 80-year-old Dorothy Sterling and 85-year-old Dorothy Wu.
From the SMH:
Around 4.50am, Dean set an empty bed on fire in one wing, before moving to the room where Ms Wu and Ms Sterling were sleeping. When resident Helen Perry, 63, saw her friends’ room was on fire she told Dean, “We have to get them out”.
But Dean grabbed her arm and moved her on, saying, “People are on their way”.
They weren’t. As firefighters battled to contain the first blaze Dean had started, they had no idea the room of Ms Wu and Ms Sterling was also on fire. He didn’t tell them and by the time they reached the spot, the blaze had reached the roof. As the fires raged, Dean “actively assisted in moving residents and their beds, being careful to keep up the appearance of having nothing to do with the lighting of the two fires,” the documents said.
Dean had already stolen over 200 pills from the nursing home, and hours before the fire police visited the home to investigate the theft.
Now, in a New South Wales court, Dean has admitted his guilt. Previously, he had said that it was Satan that made him do what he did. The oldest victim of the fire was 97, and the youngest was 73.
A new hoax making the rounds on Facebook claims that users must like, comment, and share in order to fund surgery for a little girl born with mermaid syndrome. Although this one is different from many we’ve seen recently because it alleges a partnership between Facebook and CNN, it’s the exact same in the only way that matters – it’s totally fake.
The hoax claims that Facebook and CNN have teamed up to pay for half of the medical expenses for the child’s surgery, and it’s all dependent on how many likes, comments, and share the image receives. It claims that for every like, $20 will be put toward the cause. For every comment, it’s $50, and for every share, $100.
Here’s what the hoax post looks like:
The image is actually of Milagros Cerron, a little girl in Peru that’s known as the “mermaid baby” as a result of sirenomelia, or “mermaid syndrome.” She’s had surgeries to separate her legs, and the medical procedures are still ongoing. Although Milagros is now 9 years old, the photo used above to exploit Facebook likes was taken nearly 8 years ago.
Facebook has not, and will never donate money to causes based on how many likes or shares a post gets. That means that every single one of these types of posts you see is a hoax. Don’t feed the like-whores, please.
One redditor had a pretty interesting night over the weekend, as they awoke to their Samsung Galaxy S3 on fire – and they have the pictures to prove it. According to the account, the device was stock everything – battery, charger, etc.
Last night at about 3:15am EST (about 1 hour after i plugged it in and went to sleep) I was awoken by a loud noise and a weird squeaking sound. (I charge my phone while I’m sleeping on my bed right next to me)
So, I woke up, and saw a ton of smoke coming out of my phone — it also smelled REALLY bad. Half asleep, I jumped out of bed and turned the light on, only to see that my phone was just beginning to go on fire. I dumped a glass of water I had in the room on it to stop it from burning…then woke up my brother to come help. The smoke smelled so bad and wafted through the entire second floor of my house. I had a foam mattress pillow top that had a hole burned through it too–which we later threw out because it was still burning throughout. Also, some of the plastic on my phone was melting and kind of shooting out of it, and some landed on my pinky finger and burned some skin off (very small burn though).
From the rest of their comments on the post, it appears that the redditor has tried to contact Samsung and is at least debating the idea of legal action.
Here are some more images:
The battery:
Of course, Samsung phones aren’t the only ones that may have a history fo spontaneous explosions. We’ve seen plenty of iPhones catch fire in the past few years.
Viral content site BuzzFeed and CNN have partnered to create a brand new YouTube channel that will see BuzzFeed repurpose CNN content in a more viral fashion. According to The Wall Street Journal, the content will be specifically designed to be shared via social media – something BuzzFeed knows quite a bit about.
The new channel, CNN BuzzFeed, launches today. The initial goal is for BuzzFeed to create about three new videos a week, which will sit alongside other videos from CNN. BuzzFeed, who has already been producing original videos for their multiple YouTube channels, is said to be planning on focusing some videos on serious news issues.
“There has been a massive cultural shift in how people – particularly young people – consume news and entertainment and Ze [Frank] and his team are tapping into the next generation of video production and consumption,” said BuzzFeed president and COO Jon Steinberg.
It’ll be ad-free at the start, but that will eventually change:
“The more agile way to do it is to launch without letting advertising products dictate editorial content,” said Steinberg. “BuzzFeed and CNN will figure out ways to do various ad formats and sponsored content down the road,”
For Buzzfeed, the new partnership means more expansion. The company plans to hire 30 more employees to work in a new L.A. studio.
Here’s the first video on the channel, which is a mashup of famous rescue moments originally broadcast on CNN.
If you’re excited about this weekend’s big Arrested Development season 4 premiere and you want to watch it on your TV, Microsoft is giving you another option.
The Xbox Netflix app will be unlocked this weekend – meaning that those with just an Xbox LIVE Silver membership will be able to utilize the app (as long as you have a Netflix subscription). Usually, you must have an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription to access Netflix.
“If you’ve been yearning for more of the Bluth family, look no further. The new season of Arrested Development finally premieres this Sunday, May 26. And it gets even better. Starting today, Xbox Live Gold will be unlocked* for the weekend for Netflix members in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Chile, Colombia and Argentina. Basically, we’ve made it ridiculously really easy for you to catch up on the first three seasons of Arrested Development. If you’re not a Netflix member, fear not,” says the Xbox Wire.
The new season of Arrested Development drops (all 15 episodes) at 12:01 am PT on Sunday. Netflix offers a free 1-month trial right now, so it looks like the perfect storm for Xbox LIVE Silver members who want to watch via their Xbox. If you want to get caught up, you have until then to stream the first 3 seasons, which are all available on Netflix.
This sort of deal promotes binge watching – but be careful. According to Arrested Development’s creator, that could make it less fun. Marathonning is hard to resist, however. So, do what you want.
