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. .
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Charles Arthur [https://theoverspill.blog]: > Before the retweet was a function, one had to manually copy the content of a tweet and put âRTâ or âMTâ (modified tweet) in front of it. This friction meant something had to be really worthwhile to achieve any velocity. Increasingly it looks as
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Could Twitter be about to kill the Like? What impact would that have on the network?
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The internet is having a rough adolescence
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The very structure of Twitter is creating the toxic atmosphere on there. Can it be fixed without completely reinventing itself?
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Twitter has fallen a very long way from its roots as the place where you went to find out what was happening - and to discuss it. If it's just about an elite telling us their thoughts, does it really matter all?
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Why do we give Twitter our most valuable thoughts?
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Twitter is all about 280 characters right? Wrong. It's a video compnay nowâŚ
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Buzzfeed's experience with breaking news makes it clear that hoaxes are eroding Twitter's value during a major news event.
product management
This is a damning summation of Twitterâs structural problems [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-twitter-lost-the-internet-war]: > âItâs 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, âTrolls
fake followers
Twitter wiped out over a million fake followers after an NYT report
audience development
Interesting piece by Alex Kantrowitz for Buzzfeed yesterday. Facebookâs 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
hashtags
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]? â âChrisMessina (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007 [https://twitter.com/chrismessina/status/223115412] Whatâs interesting