In recent months, some of the biggest houses in the social media sphere have quietly butted heads and blocked access between one another. To illustrate the feuds, social media management tool Hootsuite created this Game of Thrones themed infographic to showcase the online battles. For instance, Twitter brought an end to Google’s RealTime Search back in 2011, and more recently, Facebook armed its gates so that Twitter’s newest application Vine could not access its massive community. These barricades and social media quibbles among platforms unfortunately aren’t always built to protect the citizens. While wars rage on behind the scenes, the users of these paths are beginning to find their favorite networks a lot less accessible, and a lot less social. Take a look at the effects below:
