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. .
When you come to the end of the Vine Paid Members Public
Three years of Vines, in one video. I was never a huge user of Vine – but it’s nice to see the four minutes of time I put into it all in one place…
WikiLeaks Task Force doxing concerns: is Twitter verification making you a target? Paid Members Public
Remember when I was amused by Twitter deciding that I’m not a journalist [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/11/journalism-social-media-arbitration.html] or in the media? Well, now I’m profoundly glad. Why? Well, this little Tweet from a WikiLeaks-affiliated group went out on Friday: Of course, many, many
Less than two weeks to rescue your Vines Paid Members Public
Are you now, or have you ever been, a Viner? In which case, you need to act sharpish, to rescue access to your content. Vine as we know it dies on January 17th, and you only have until then to download your content [https://medium.com/@vine/vine-update-59426a5adfab#.s226qsl2z]: >
Trump's tweets, analysed Paid Members Public
This is a fascinating analysis of the way Donald Trump uses Twitter: The key message? Trump seems to instinctively understand what so many miss: you talk on social media, not write.[via Daring Fireball [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/01/03/nerdwriter-trump-tweets]]
You're only a journalist if Twitter and Facebook say so. Paid Members Public
The social media platforms decide if we are journalists or not. How… odd.
Twitter prepares to cull the flock Paid Members Public
The lack of a buyer for Twitter is coming back to bite it [http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2016/10/25/300-twitter-employees-might-lose-their-jobs-this-week/] : > Twitter is gearing up to lay off 300 employees this week, Bloomberg reports. That means the company’s workforce will shrink by about 8 percent. Lord, I hate
What Twitter needs Paid Members Public
Nobody wants to buy Twitter. It made it obvious it was up for sale – but one by one the buys dropped out. The reasons seem numerous – the trolling problem for one [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/disney-said-to-have-dropped-twitter-pursuit-partly-over-image] . But, at its core, the reluctance seems to be based around
Social networks are the new TV Paid Members Public
Silvia Killingsworth on Instagram ads [https://theawl.com/instagram-is-the-new-tv-ce13e3dcbceb#.3dkk2efpk]: > Today I was fed a full commercial from Karlie Kloss, which was amazing because it was just a fully produced video ad like the ones you used to see on television when you used to watch live television. And
