Members only Readers Write: on comment toxicity and TikTok arguments The important figures The Times omitted, evidence of real name toxicity and more feedback from readers Adam Tinworth Feb 1, 2023 3 min read
The Times tames trolls with the power of naming The results of The Times’s experiment in enforcing real names in comments look promising, and the EU starts looking warily at TikTok. Adam Tinworth Jan 31, 2023 4 min read
community management Substack buys in community management expertise The VC-backed newsletter firm has acquired community management consultants People & Company Adam Tinworth May 14, 2021 4 min read
comments The need for intelligent skepticism, proved through links Can you trust your commenters? Can you trust your transcription service? In the digital world, here be dragons… Adam Tinworth Oct 9, 2020 4 min read
facebook Facebook launches new Groups tools, and Google spends lobbying money on journalism Facebook does a good thing, and Google does something that merely looks nice. This is platform economy life. Adam Tinworth Oct 2, 2020 5 min read
newsletters Newsletters: Rise of the Blogletter Why today's newsletter actually take a lot from blogging and why The Economist is on Instagram: answered. Adam Tinworth Jul 13, 2020 6 min read
Members only social media How do we solve our online civility problem? Some more thoughts on deescalating the culture war, as well as ways of looking better in your Zoom calls and an interesting new business opportunity… Adam Tinworth Jul 8, 2020 6 min read
Members only social media Abuse, arrogant tech VCs and hypocrisy everywhere. It's time for the weekend, folks. The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please? Adam Tinworth Jul 3, 2020 5 min read
toxic communities Narcissism and toxic communities Dispatches from the dark places of community management, where comics pros groom young women, and My Little Pony communities get infested with Nazis… Adam Tinworth Jun 24, 2020 5 min read
social & digital lunchbreak Niches, networks and the secrets of TikTok revealed Useful reading on the future of publishing, the secrets of TikTok and the growth of online community during the pandemic. Adam Tinworth Jun 22, 2020 4 min read
audience engagement Social & Digital lunchbreak: the engaging, managing & uplifting edition Three helpful links (and a memorialisation of a failure) to help you find positivity in dark days… Adam Tinworth Jun 3, 2020 3 min read
trolling Engaged Reading Digest: the escalation of trolling to the global stage If you were in any doubt that the fundamental tools of the online troll are now at play in global politics, the last week should have put paid to that. Adam Tinworth Jun 1, 2020 5 min read
community management Naming and shaming is not a community management strategy The Bristol Post named and shamed abusive commentators. But that was the easy option. Adam Tinworth Mar 12, 2020 3 min read
tiktok TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed TikTok stars are “fading” already - and the reason why suggests the challenge ahead for the platform. Adam Tinworth Feb 4, 2020 1 min read
Twitter Engaged Reading Digest: engaging ethically and slaying trolls The best of the web on engaged journalism ethics, troll fighting and mentorships. Adam Tinworth Jan 17, 2020 6 min read
engaged reading digest Engaged Reading Digest: image verification, cops on TikTok — and why celebs are using a social platform you've never heard of It's easy to get sucked into the idea that social media is mainly a promotional tool. Today's digest is a reminder that it's much more than that — for good and ill Adam Tinworth Jan 8, 2020 4 min read
engaged journalism Engaged Reading Digest: walking up the subs hill, radicalization on Reddit and more More useful reads from the audience engagement mines. Adam Tinworth Nov 25, 2019 3 min read
community management Engaged journalism, membership models and communities under attack: important new research from the Reuters Institute By deeply researching the audience engagement of three news outlets under sustained assault by hostile organisations, Dr Julie Posetti and team have come up with some vital work Adam Tinworth Oct 25, 2019 6 min read
Twitter Twitter seems to have accidentally unfollowed its trust & safety advisors Twitter really doesn't seem to be carrying through on its commitments. Adam Tinworth Aug 26, 2019 1 min read
the correspondent How The Correspondent plans to handle audience engagement The Correspondent has revealed a little bit about how it's going to be run — and where its money is going. Adam Tinworth Jul 8, 2019 1 min read
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