news review
News Review: Instacash, more cash less dash for Tortoise, and Substack gets into video
Six stories from around the web that will inform your audience strategy.
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. .
X (Twitter)
5 tweets worth your attention this week
Even a hellsite can produce gems worth your time.
X (Twitter)
Twitter Social Distancing
I’m stepping back from Twitter for a month or so. Here’s why.
X (Twitter)
Fleets were fleeting, and there's a lesson in that
Twitter's clone of the Stories feature lasted less than a year. That should serve as a warning to those who love jumping on the early adopter train.
audience engagement
A feast of audience engagement reading
Now just watch me justify that headline in the first par…
X (Twitter)
Twitter is regenerating — time to start paying attention again
Twitter launching Spaces and acquiring Scroll shows a new vision of the service coming together. But let's pour one out for Nuzzel (RIP), too.
Morning Conference emails
Morning Conference: asking the right questions
How to ask better questions as a journalist, some changes to Substack — and the changes Twitter needs to make.
trust
Social & Digital Coffee Break: let's amplify the experts
When two trade publications hit the headlines, and some worrying insight into the experience of female journalists online.
social networks
Attack of the clones: all social networks are NOT becoming the same
Yes, all social networks are developing the same feature set. No, that doesn’t mean they’re all becoming the same. Here’s why.
X (Twitter)
Social & Digital coffee break: 3 stories in 3 sentences
Because your time is precious, and I respect it, dammit.
niche
Metamorphosis of the Journalist
In today’s round-up of good internet reading, we learn to love the niche, look (again( at newsletters, and get attention hacking
polarisation
Twitter, death threats and civility: rethinking journalism on social media
The platforms undoubtedly need to do more to deal with the toxic environment on social media. But it's worth considering our own role in stoking that febrile atmosphere.