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AOL

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138 articles accelerating

AOL has appeared in 138 articles since 2015-01. Coverage peaked in 2025Q4 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Verizon, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter.

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138
mentions
Velocity
+400.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+4.000
velocity change
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43
publications

Coverage Timeline

2024-08-28
Business Insider 33 related

Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit

Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Chairman Jim Jordan and the House … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Mark Zuckerberg Ingratiates Himself With U.S. Republican Politicians Casey Newton / Platformer : Zuckerberg dra...

2024-01-31
TechCrunch 2 related

Ofcom: 22% of search results around basic self-injury terms on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and AOL produced single-click links to more harmful content

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :

2023-07-05
TechCrunch 52 related

Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features

Amanda Silberling:  —  Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor … PC Gamer : With Elon Musk's Twitter in chaos Mark Zuckerberg sees his chance: Meta's Threads launches Oli Welsh / Polygon : Instagram to...

2023-05-26
CNBC 45 related

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces was delayed by ~25 minutes of crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures

even after Ron DeSantis' glitchy campaign kick off Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Twitter's Flaws Snag Elon Musk's Media Ambitions Steve Peoples / Associated Press : DeSantis set to make m...

2021-05-04
CNBC 3 related

Source: AOL has ~1.5M users paying $10 to $15/month for tech support and ID monitoring service AOL Advantage; dial-up users now number in the “low thousands”

for identity theft and tech support services. https://www.cnbc.com/...

2020-06-02
New York Times 22 related

In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand

Since macOS 10.12 there's … Theodore Schleifer / Vox : Change will be harder for Silicon Valley than just donating money Wall Street Journal : Social Media Becomes Battleground Over Days of Street Pro...

2019-11-27
TechCrunch 2 related

Twitter should offer a way to memorialize dead people's accounts before removing accounts that have been inactive for over six months

Editor's note: Drew is a geek who first worked at AOL when he was 16 years old and went on to become a senior writer at TechCrunch.

2019-04-14
OneZero

Q&A with people who still pay for email with EarthLink and AOL, which reported $600M revenue from email and dial-up in 2014 and estimated $400M in 2018

Charlotte West / OneZero :

2019-04-13
OneZero

Q&A with people who still pay for email with EarthLink and AOL, which reported $600M revenue from email and dial-up in 2014 and estimated $400M in 2018

It's not just Mike Pence and your grandma — a lot of people still use AOL and EarthLink, and pay for the privilege

2018-08-28
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Yahoo's Oath has been pitching advertisers on a service that analyzes its 200M+ Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail inboxes; source says practice began 10+ years ago

Web giant analyzes more than 200 million inboxes for clues about what products people might buy—a practice much of Silicon Valley has declared off-limits Tweets: @wsj , @djtgallagher , and @reaganbrad...

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 87 Techmeme articles mentioning AOL, dating back to December 2014. The biggest stories include AOL is shutting down Instant Messenger (AIM) on December 15 after 20 years and AOL is shutting down Instant Messenger (AIM) on December 15 after 20 years. Frequently covered alongside Verizon, Yahoo, TechCrunch, Tim Armstrong, and Google.

Key Moments

2025Q3enterprise +50pts; safety -50pts; funding +50pts
2025Q4enterprise -40pts; developer +20pts; consumer +20pts

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