X (Twitter)
Insight about X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The former news social media mainstay once described as "microblogging", and now better known as "that hell site", is in the midst of some dramatic changes. .
Twitter is a video company now Paid Members Public
Twitter is all about 280 characters right? Wrong. It's a video compnay now…
Hoaxers are crippling Twitter's breaking news value Paid Members Public
Buzzfeed's experience with breaking news makes it clear that hoaxes are eroding Twitter's value during a major news event.
Twitter’s abuse problem is, at heart, a technology problem Paid Members Public
This is a damning summation of Twitter’s structural problems [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-twitter-lost-the-internet-war]: > “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, ‘Trolls
A million accounts gone and a journalist suspended after fake follower exposé Paid Members Public
Twitter wiped out over a million fake followers after an NYT report
Twitter closing on Facebook for social traffic Paid Members Public
Interesting piece by Alex Kantrowitz for Buzzfeed yesterday. Facebook’s feed changes might be making Twitter more relevant again [https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-is-sending-more-clicks-to-publishers-as-facebook] : > In October 2017, Facebook sent 4.7 visitors to publishers for every one visitor Twitter sent, according to data from SocialFlow, a publishing tool
A decade of #hashtagging Paid Members Public
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 [https://twitter.com/hashtag/barcamp?src=hash] [msg]? — ⌗ChrisMessina (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007 [https://twitter.com/chrismessina/status/223115412] What’s interesting
Twitter is stagnant Paid Members Public
Bloomberg [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/twitter-s-revenue-tops-estimates-monthly-user-growth-evaporates] : > A long-term turnaround depends on Twitter expanding its audience. That number stands at 328 million monthly active users — the same as in the prior quarter, the San Francisco-based company said in a statement Thursday. I used to love Twitter. I
Blog, people Paid Members Public
> My Twitter feed is turning into terribly long, competing threads. Blog, people. — Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) July 30, 2017 [https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/891804687783129088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Amen.
