On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions
happy bday @Techmeme 🎂. Nearly old enough to drink. 🍻https://news.techmeme.com/ ... Dave McClure / @davemcclure : my favorite (un?)healthy addiction: @techmeme 💕🤓🔥 been an avid fanboi for 20 years — thanks @gaberivera https://news.techmeme.com/... Brij Singh / @brij : Waking up every day with this site, almost since its early days ❤️ Tom Giles / @tsgiles : Congrats to @Techmeme 20 years strong. Here's to a thriving tech press, as @gaberivera eloquently outlines here: https://news.techmeme.com/... Yury Molodtsov / @y_molodtsov : Happy birthday to @Techmeme, the best tech news aggregator I wish we had more websites like this Ashley Mayer / @ashleymayer : 20 years of @Techmeme, and 10 years of Tawny. IYKYK. [image] Drew Breunig / @dbreunig : @gaberivera Happy birthday techmeme! Congrats Gabe - amazing achievement. Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera : Link is here, BTW: https://news.techmeme.com/... (Basically I used Techmeme's 20th birthday as an occasion to opine on some media trends) Kevin Kwok / @kevinakwok : This is great. Also I am moderating a panel on tech and media tonight. So now like tech meme at its best I can just crib Gabe's notes as all the discussion topics Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan : Since I started WatchMojo 20 years ago, I have seen every fad come & go, with investors & entrepreneurs chasing the latest shiny object and fad. The one site/operator that has been consistent? @Techmeme - FWIW, @mediagazer remains the first non-platform website I check. Cole Garry / @colegarry2 : Happy birthday to what is, I think, my favorite website. And smart thoughts from @gaberivera https://news.techmeme.com/... Josh Constine / @joshconstine : There's no website I've visted more. @Techmeme is by far the best way to keep up with tech news. Algorithmic crawls curated by human editors. If you don't, read it. If you can, sponsor it. If you ignore it, the future will sneak up on you. Happy 20 years! [image] Jeff Roberts / @jeffjohnroberts : Crazy how Gabe's site is just as influential as it was when I first encountered it as a tech reporter over 15 years ago Techmeme was also a critical research resource for my book. If Gabe ever packs it in, he should provide the archives to Library of Congress! LinkedIn: Andrii Degeler : Following up on my recent post about Techmeme — the site actually turns 20 years today! — Fred Vogelstein talked to Gabe Rivera to mark the occasion … Gabe Rivera : It's Techmeme's 20th birthday today so I wrote a post! If you work in comms, check out the last part where I list some new and better ways to send helpful tips to Techmeme. … Bluesky: Chirag Mehta / @chirag : After 20 years, @gaberivera.bsky.social finally gets a headline at techmeme [embedded post] Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : “... enough journalists who joined Bluesky in prior years have stuck around that it often feels like the current home of “tech journalism Twitter”, along with the sort of conversations that extend from that.... ” [embedded post] Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera : So I wrote a thing on the occasion of @techmeme.com's 20th birthday, and I couldn't help but drag Bluesky into it (don't dogpile me please). news.techmeme.com/250912/20- ye... [image] Jordan Novet / @jordannovet : “While it's challenging enough that a great deal of news is now paywalled, a more serious challenge is that with the rise of LLMs, many websites now simply block all bots except for a small number of search engines.” [embedded post] Will Oremus / @willoremus.com : The guy who runs it seems, not coincidentally I think, pretty thoughtful about the media ecosystem. bsky.app/profile/gabe... [embedded post] Will Oremus / @willoremus.com : Techmeme turns 20 today. This is a @techmeme.com appreciation post. — In a time of personalized feeds, fragmented audiences and endless noise, an old-school, hand-curated (with input from algorithms) landing page that collates the day's most noteworthy tech news is a godsend. www.techmeme.com David Connell / @dsammyc : I quit working at techmeme 5 years ago and burned the bridge but I still can't stop fucking reading it (it's that good) [embedded post] M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler.com : An anniversary post that straddles being nostalgic and promotional while also acting as a subversive rant! Well played, @gaberivera.bsky.social — happy bday @techmeme.com 🎂. Nearly old enough to drink. 🍻 Danny Groner / @dannygroner : “There have long been way too many companies for the media to report on in a way that would move the needle, either for you, or for them. An even stranger idea sometimes bundled with “go direct” is that you should never even communicate with journalists.” [embedded post] Frederic Lardinois / @fredericl : When I started blogging, my #1 goal was to get listed on Techmeme. I wouldn't have a career in this business without @gaberivera.bsky.social news.techmeme.com/250912/20- ye... Fred Vogelstein / @fvogelstein : Here's the piece @gaberivera.bsky.social refers to in his note. crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/ a... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Happy 20th birthday to the indispensable @techmeme.com! @gaberivera.bsky.social only writes about once every 10 years, so I pay close attention when he does. Great discussion of the current state of tech media news.techmeme.com/250912/20- ye... Tau-Mu Yi / @taumuyi : #Good @techmeme.com has become my “go to” for latest and greatest on #AI #commercialization [embedded post] Dave Lee / @davelee.me : Should say, this is a really thoughtful piece from Gabe that's well worth reading Dave Lee / @davelee.me : Lead image confirms what we all suspected, @gaberivera.bsky.social [embedded post] Jeff Greco / @jeffgreco.com : Techmeme and Memorandum are as good as front pages of the internet get. [embedded post] Threads: Brandon LeBlanc / @bleblanc83 : Happy 20th birthday to Techmeme. This has been my go-to for tech industry news for most of that time and one of the homepages that opens whenever I launch my browser (Edge of course). I've also been featured on Techmeme for blog posts I've written which is always fun. Chris Messina / @chris : Once every 20 years, @techmeme is on top of @techmeme, so I'm clapping, as requested! Tech 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 👏🏻 … Kevin Fox / @kfury : Techmeme is also absurdly fast, and has stayed absurdly fast (and clean!) for 20 years, resisting bloat. Respect. Harry McCracken / @technologizer : Techmeme turns 20 today and I'm as obsessed with it as ever. Also, I forgot that I WAS the top story in 2007. Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera : Ten years ago I published this: https://news.techmeme.com/... Today I'm publishing an important update: https://news.techmeme.com/... specifically to note that the dog pictured in the first post is still reading Techmeme 10 years later. The second post covers some other territory as well, and as a bonus, mentions Threads in a few places. Tom Warren / @tomwarrenuk : still one of only a few websites I visit every day, multiple times. Congrats on the 20 years! Amy Widdowson / @amyofcanada : Techmeme and memeorandum remain the first page I visit every day to get news. This piece from @gaberivera about the 20th anniversary of the site is amazing. Mike McCue / @mmccue : Thank you to @techmeme and @gaberivera for 7,301 days of gathering the most important tech headlines and perspectives into a super simple, fast and useful site. I checked it again this morning like I've done every day for the past 20 years. It's just as essential as ever.