chat apps
Engaged Reading Digest: a changing language, unfluencers and dodging state surveillance
Some interesting reading on how the internet is changing language, reverse influencer psychology and apps in pretests.
blogosphere
Don't be an influencer: earn influence (a grumpy old blogger writes)
Is "influencer" really a useful catch-all term for creators on social platforms? And is there a danger in the way it's become the default label?
fake followers
A million accounts gone and a journalist suspended after fake follower exposé
Twitter wiped out over a million fake followers after an NYT report
bots
Fake Followers: the black market in cargo cult influencers
There’s a great piece of reporting from the New York Times that’s been, quite deservedly, doing the rounds for the last couple of days, exposing the seedy underbelly of the influencer economy [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/100000005704904.app.html] . It’s been an
alexia tsotsis
Klout clouted at Le Web
Klout's founder Joe Fernandez failed to defend his product under the lightest of criticism at LeWeb London.