Social Media
The post X-battle: Threads is down, but not out
The fight to capture ex-X users heats up, as Meta, the sleeping giant, wakes up and realises that it has a blue butterfly problemā¦
microblogging
The last post for Post News
Another would-be Twitter replacement is dead in the water. What killed this one?
Meta
Better Threads than dead
Threads has gone global by finally launching in the EU, and is beginning to add ActivityPub, connecting it to the Mastodon world. Could it be winning?
Blogging
What if the Twitter replacement isnāt a Twitter clone?
Twitter's growth was fuelled by making it easier to publish micro blog posts there than on a website. That was a trap, and we fell into it.
microblogging
The would-be Twitter replacements: who's winning and who's dead?
Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter prompted a raft of competitors to launch. Which ones are still surviving?
X (Twitter)
Let's kick the Tweetstorm habit
Why do we give Twitter our most valuable thoughts?
indieweb
Micro.blog: what Twitter would be if it was built as part of the open web
For the last couple of months, Iāve been really enjoying using micro.blog [https://micro.blog], a Kickstarted Twitter-like microblogging service. It has made some interesting design choices ā like not disclosing how many people follow you, and keeping Favourites as a purely personal bookmarking tool ā that tend to promote
adam tinworth
One Man on app.net
 In news not entirely unrelated to my [last post](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/09/twitter_has_chosen_a_fickle_monetization.html), you can now find me [on Twitter
Blogging
The Dangers of Web Neophilia
My job pretty much comes down to looking at all the new, shiny stuff on the internet, and figuring out how we can use it to garner traffic (or, more often, the right traffic), and then use that to make some money. In my experience, new social media tends to
engagement
Opening Keynote: Suraj Kika on Twitter
Opening keynote is by Suraj Kika of Jadu [http://www.jadu.co.uk/]. Heās compared the massive growth of Twitter (1600% in 2009) with the wholesale shift of peopleās attention away from mass media toĀ personalisedĀ media.Itās been a very example-based presentation so far. He cited
Journalism
On Twitter, Journalism and Mumbai
Todayās unfortunate events in mumbai have raised some interesting questions about the relationship between Twitter and journalism. A few places worth visiting:- Dave asks [if Twittering can be journalism](http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/11/27/isTwitterJournalism.html)? - CiarĆ”n thinks about the implications of[ the Indian
community
Plurk: 3 Week Verdict on MicroBlogging Service
This way of accessing Plurk makes it a different experience for me than Twitter. I have Twitter running all the time, getting updates either through software on my computer, or my mobile phone. Itās firmly in the arena of ambient awareness. Plurk, on the other hand, is somewhere I