Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Weekend Reads: social media cycles, AI and a podcast car crash Paid Members Public
Insights into the decline and fall of social networks, the audience capture of celebrities — and the surprisingly dangerous nature of podcasting.
Weekend reading — from the serious to the silly Paid Members Public
From lessons we should learn from the coverage of Nicola Bulley’s disappearance, to AI copyright, to that weird, mysterious content on TikTok, it’s all here.
Accountability for my TikTok Heresy Paid Members Public
Plus some explanation of why social platforms go bad, and how the FT’s Mastodon experiment died.
It’s really time to stop embedding tweets in articles Paid Members Public
Things are changing so fast under Elon Musk, embedding Tweets may no longer be safe, if they're important to the story
Social media isn’t dead — it’s regenerating Paid Members Public
Despite Twitter and Meta’s troubles, humanity’s desire to create and share will not diminish. They’ll just find new ways of connecting. And they already are.
Mastodon servers for journalists Paid Members Public
Looking for a Mastodon Instance to begin your journey in the fediverse as a journalist? You’ve come to the right place!
What today’s Twitter layoffs could mean for journalists Paid Members Public
Elon Musk is busy gutting Twitter’s staff — and where he chooses to cut will tell us what the platform’s future relationship with news will look like.
Platforms and Publishers: the best of frenemies? Paid Members Public
Are we any nearer buidling a more healthy relationship between news publishers and social media platforms? The outlook is not good, suggests a news:rewired panel…
