Twitter is in decline and less stable under Elon Musk, echoing LiveJournal and Tumblr falling apart under new ownership that didn't understand their communities
Gita Jackson / The Verge : Tweets: @chrismessina , @speedriver_ , and @delunaelizabeth . Thanks: @ants000 Tweets: Chris Messina / @chrismessina : “Twitter is in a period of decline. The site still fu...
Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia
complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : NE...
Sources: emergency meetings continue inside Facebook amid WSJ exposé, as some research staff decry Facebook's public response in group chats
Read in app Isaiah Poritz / OpenSecrets.org : Facebook maintained big lobbying expenses ahead of Senate hearing on teen social media use Robin Raskin / Techonomy : Instagram for Kids: Doomed from the ...
Sources: the FBI is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hack
don't have sensitive conversations in Twitter DMs. Move that stuff to Signal. You don't know who'll be in charge of Twitter five, ten, or twenty years from now. Remember the example of LiveJournal. ht...
Twitter says a “conversation participants” compose screen tool is coming in 2020, letting users limit who can reply, and conversation threading will improve
although, isn't that the point of private accounts? For political/public figure persons, entities, networks, or corporations it's certainly the wrong way forward. https://twitter.com/... @chelseacirru...
A look at the history of LiveJournal, the early blogging platform that boasted 10M+ accounts at its height but faltered after questionable business decisions
George RR Martin's platform switch reminds us of an early blogging giant greatly changed. — Last April, famed writer …
A look at “niche memes”, personal clip art diaries teens post on Instagram to close-knit followers, a trend that took off when they returned to school this fall
Almost every day, while she's waiting for soccer practice to begin or for her mom to pick her up from school … Tweets: @chaykak , @taylorlorenz , @parismartineau , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @tay...