Buzzfeed's experience with breaking news makes it clear that hoaxes are eroding Twitter's value during a major news event.
Hoaxers are crippling Twitter's breaking news value
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Twitter’s abuse problem is, at heart, a technology problem
This is a damning summation of Twitter’s structural problems: “It’s a technology company with crappy technologists, a revolving door of product heads and C.E.O.s, and no real core of technological innovation. You had Del saying,…
A million accounts gone and a journalist suspended after fake follower exposé
It looks like Twitter is acting on the NYT fake followers exposé: More than a million followers have disappeared from the accounts of dozens of prominent Twitter users in recent days as the company faces growing criticism over the proliferation…
Twitter closing on Facebook for social traffic
Interesting piece by Alex Kantrowitz for Buzzfeed yesterday. Facebook’s feed changes might be making Twitter more relevant again: In October 2017, Facebook sent 4.7 visitors to publishers for every one visitor Twitter sent, according to data from SocialFlow,…
A decade of #hashtagging
A decade ago, the hashtag (as we know it) was born with a single tweet: how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]? — ⌗ChrisMessina (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007 What’s interesting is that the discussion…