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. .
Social Media
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
Blogging
> 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.
dead sites
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…
ethics
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
social video
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]: >
analysis
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]]
The social media platforms decide if we are journalists or not. How… odd.
X (Twitter)
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
acquisitions
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
disney
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
algorithms
Twitter has gone all in on that algorithm [http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2016/03/17/twitter-quietly-turned-new-algorithmic-timeline-everyone/] You’re now getting a Twitter timeline with added algorithmic sorting by default: > The algorithm now appears to be enabled by default across the social network, with users reporting that the company started
abuse
Twitter’s fundamental problem is that it has got seedy [http://nymag.com/following/2016/03/julieanne-smolinski-quitting-twitter.html] Julieanne Smolinski: > Twitter is like a beloved public park that used to be nice, but now has a rusty jungle gym, dozens of of really persistent masturbators, and a nighttime bat