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 , @...
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 , ...
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 ...
How Instagram influencers portray themselves as self-made wealthy traders to build up affiliate marketing schemes, often targeting teens
Symeon Brown / The Guardian : Tweets: @randfish , @anabmap , @mattzarb , and @rationalhill Tweets: Rand Fishkin / @randfish : Just like in the early days of SEO, the viral stories about “influencer m...
An in-depth look at recent challenges to Google's search reputation, from fake news sites in results, to disturbing answers from Google Home
The past few months have been bad for Google's search reputation. Long considered the “gold standard” in search, Google has seen its search results questioned as never before. Tweets: @randfish . Tha...