Chartbeat data for 1,350 publishers: Twitter referral traffic fell from 1.9% in April 2018 to 1.2% in April 2023; medium-sized publishers' traffic dropped 40%
Twitter - already a small source of clicks for publishers - has further declined in importance as a traffic referrer in recent years. Tweets: @samanthatwenty , @mattnavarra , @richleighpr , and @randf...
[Thread] Twitter CEO gives context on how Twitter counts spam, saying “multiple human reviews” of thousands of accounts seen as mDAUs have found <5% are spam
Exit Content Preview — On the off chance you weren't on Twitter … Jody Serrano / Gizmodo : Elon Tells Twitter: Prove That Bots Aren't a Big Deal, or I Sink This Buyout Scott Bicheno / Telecoms.com :...
[Thread] For media and advertising, Web3's focus on decentralization and tokenization solves few, if any, problems and is the last thing ad tech needs
Ari Paparo Dot Eth / @aripap : Tweets: @randfish , @film_girl , @jubiweb , @mandestin , @livepaola , @craw , @dustinwstout , @davlgd , @levie , @zachweinberg , @bznotes , @tkawaja , @dhruvapandey , @...
Gupta Media: Facebook ad prices, measured in cost per thousand impressions, rebounded from a $1 monthly average last spring to almost $5 in November
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information : Tweets: @joshua_sisco , @randfish , and @lauramandaro See also Mediagazer Tweets: Josh Sisco / @joshua_sisco : Great story from @SylviaVarnham about increas...
Google Maps' moat is vanishing after a ~1,400% price hike for API usage in 2018, as OpenStreetMap improves with support from Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft
Joe Morrison / A Closer Look with Joe Morrison : Tweets: @randfish and @samgoeta Tweets: Rand Fishkin / @randfish : How can anyone ever compete with Google? In search, I don't have an answer. But in ...
Expensify's CEO emailed all users to encourage them to vote for Biden, says “anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy”
Trump has pressed every boundary of the office, beyond its breaking point in some cases. Michael Kapilkov / Cointelegraph : Charles Hoskinson calls for a different kind of apoliticism than Brian Armst...
With troubles at Mozilla and dominance of Chrome, Android, and AdWords, Google is close to replicating the WeChat and Facebook walled garden model on the web
Looking at Mozilla's finances, it's reasonable to conclude that Google is keeping them on life support to keep the anti-trust hounds at bay. Tweets: @apyth , @dankogai , @gullevek , @randfish , and @u...
Chrome's overzealous approach to flagging downloads of newly created software as potential malware is stifling online distribution of indie and free software
Google has an undeniable monopoly on search, and a near-monopoly on web browsing software via Chrome and its forks. Tweets: @danaditomaso , @randomoracle , @byuu_san , @perpetualmaniac , @glenngabe , ...
Sources: Amazon changed its search algorithm last year to boost items that were more profitable for it, overriding internal dissent from lawyers and engineers
Jeff Bezos opened his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders like this: Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : WSJ: Amazon changed search results to boost profits despite internal dissent Victoria Song / Gizmodo : ...
Investigation finds 151 tech companies, including GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon, offering hosting, DNS, or CDN services to sites spreading hate speech
Aaron Sankin / Gizmodo : Tweets: @fightextremism , @randfish , @nickmartin , @nickmartin , @russpitts , and @asankin . Thanks: @jstrauss Tweets: CEP / @fightextremism : Social media has received the ...