X's pivot to video mirrors past social media trends, but its reliance on user-generated videos from TikTok and other platforms may not ensure long-term success
X's New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to Nowhere Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : X Calls Itself ‘Indispensable’ With 8B Minutes And 1.7M New Users Every Day — But Users Question If It's Making Money X: John H...
Google says there are no plans to remove the News tab on search results pages, after testing temporarily removing the filter for “a small subset of users”
but the deck is often stacked against them. Threads: Sheila Dang / @sheiladangit : I don't understand how removing the News tab is helpful to anyone https://www.niemanlab.org/... Kali Hays / @kalihays...
Source: Parler has ~50,000 DAUs and its parent company Parlement had been trying to sell the social network for the past few weeks at a “wildly inflated” price
conservative opportunists have seen the partisan split emerging across Big Tech and decided they want a piece of the action. But instead of innovating — which is hard — they pump out crappy copies of ...
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta's announcements at Connect 2022: James Troughton / TheGamer : Meta's Virtual Leg Update Was Actually Motion Capture Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Mark Z...
An in-depth look at OnlyFans agencies, which manage hundreds of models' accounts and use teams of ghostwriters to chat with subscribers in private messages
Clever marketers have figured out how easy it is to simulate online intimacy at scale, ventriloquizing alluring models with cheap, offshore labor. Tweets: @justinhendrix , @liamstack , @walldo , and @...
Twitter buys Scroll, the $5/month service that removes ads from partner news sites; Scroll's Nuzzel email service will shut down on May 6
Manage your Stratechery subscription. Scroll Blog : Scroll is joining Twitter! Casey Newton / Platformer : Twitter subscribes to Scroll Dave Winer / Scripting News : Having written so much about paywa...
Sources: Microsoft and ByteDance hoped to have broad strokes of a TikTok deal by Monday, but then Trump's comments led them to seek clarity from the White House
Trump Deletes TikTok Ivan Mehta / The Next Web : Microsoft might buy TikTok — here's what's going on Hadlee Simons / Android Authority : It's official: Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok's US ope...
An in-depth look at the baseless conspiracies attempting to turn Bill Gates into the pandemic's villain, widely shared on Facebook and YouTube
with his tech-made money and philanthropic efforts to improve public health — has become an avatar of populist rage at those who possess technical fluency, an elite education, and well-stamped passpor...
Slack unveils a new design with an updated navigation bar, collapsible sections within the sidebar, improved ways to respond to threads and mentions, and more
Yet Phil Wainewright / diginomica : Risky! As millions start working from home, Slack changes its UX. Here's why Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Slack Desktop App Update Introduces Major Platform Redesign ...
Twitter will begin testing “Fleets”, letting iOS and Android users make posts that disappear after 24 hours, in Brazil, finally using a Stories-like format
Fleets Ali Salman / Wccftech : Twitter in Works to Introduce Disappearing Tweets Called ‘Fleets’ BBC : RIPTwitter trends as firm tests vanishing tweets Julio Cachila / International Business Times : F...