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David M. Perry

@lollardfish
16 posts
2023-03-31
The thing is: if Twitter was a useful site gain paying subscribers, there might be an argument for everyone from the New York Times to me and my 475 person Patreon or to pay for verification. But it's not. It was pre Elon, but he broke it. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-31 View on X
New York Times

Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark

Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter's privacy and data practices.

The thing is: if Twitter was a useful site gain paying subscribers, there might be an argument for everyone from the New York Times to me and my 475 person Patreon or to pay for verification. But it's not. It was pre Elon, but he broke it. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-31 View on X
BuzzFeed News

The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for it, but Semafor and some other small outlets will

BuzzFeed isn't ponying up, but for other outlets, paying might make sense.  —  Pranav Dixit

2023-01-21
does this make them a publisher and not a platform? https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-21 View on X
Forbes

According to six employees and an internal doc, TikTok and ByteDance staff engage in “heating”, or inflating video view counts, to court influencers and brands

TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in “heating,” a manual push that ensures specific videos …

2023-01-09
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and TikTok. All complicit. All could make different choices. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-01-09 View on X
Washington Post

How Telegram, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter were used to boost election fraud claims in Brazil before riots hit Congress and government buildings

Researchers detected a surge in agressive rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday's rioting

But here's how Musk helped, since we are on here and some folks are saying “gee firing all those people didn't hurt Twitter for me ...” https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-09 View on X
Washington Post

How Telegram, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter were used to boost election fraud claims in Brazil before riots hit Congress and government buildings

Researchers detected a surge in agressive rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday's rioting

2021-10-29
THE #METAVERSE IN SNOW CRASH WAS PART OF AN EXTREME DYSTOPIA FUELED BY UNREGULATED CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF ALL BASIC GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS ON A FOR-PROFIT BASIS!
2021-10-29 View on X
About Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products

We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it's the next chapter for our company too.  —  In recent decades, technology has given people the power to connect...

2021-05-09
I see a lot of skepticism, but as a freelancer putting together an income through a lot of small revenue streams, I am wildly in favor of this and want to be added to the program ASAP. https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-09 View on X
Wired

Using PayPal for Twitter's Tip Jar could reveal tipper's address to the recipient and possibly recipient's email to the tipper; Twitter says it will add a label

Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.

2021-05-08
I see a lot of skepticism, but as a freelancer putting together an income through a lot of small revenue streams, I am wildly in favor of this and want to be added to the program ASAP. https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-08 View on X
Wired

Using PayPal for Twitter's Tip Jar could reveal tipper's address to the recipient and possibly recipient's email to the tipper; Twitter says it will add a label

Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.

I see a lot of skepticism, but as a freelancer putting together an income through a lot of small revenue streams, I am wildly in favor of this and want to be added to the program ASAP. https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-08 View on X
Twitter

Twitter introduces Tip Jar, allowing everyone using Twitter in English to send tips, and a limited group, including journalists and experts, to accept tips

here's how to use it Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer : Twitter Tip Jar may expose PayPal address, sparks privacy concerns Prasham Parikh / Android Police : Twitter's new Tip Jar makes...

2021-05-07
I see a lot of skepticism, but as a freelancer putting together an income through a lot of small revenue streams, I am wildly in favor of this and want to be added to the program ASAP. https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-07 View on X
Twitter

Twitter introduces Tip Jar, allowing everyone using Twitter in English to send tips, and a limited group, including journalists and experts, to accept tips

We $ee you - sharing your PayPal link after your Tweet goes viral, adding your $Cashtag to your profile so people can support your work …

2021-01-30
One of my reaction other than fury is that many of us used writer pages this way and then Facebook changed the system so that if you didn't pay to promote a post only like 10% of your audience saw it. https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-30 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Facebook is developing newsletter tools for journalists and writers, including tools to help build followers, curate email lists, and offer paid subs

Mike Isaac / New York Times :

2020-12-15
As I said the other day, the forthcoming vaccination rollout will make pre-existing inequalities even more visible (as has every other aspect of this pandemic). https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-15 View on X
New York Times

COVID-19 health pass apps could help reopen businesses by showing if users are vaccinated but could also unfairly exclude people from travel and offices

2020-11-17
This is excellent and answered many of my questions. I do wonder if I had swapped from patreon to substack (I was not offered an advance) in 2018 when I was invited if I'd be able to write full time now. https://twitter.com/...
2020-11-17 View on X
Columbia Journalism Review

Profile of Substack, whose founders insist it is a platform, not a media company, and say there is less need for moderation as readers opt in to newsletters

Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one? Tweets: @benthompson , @cliomiso , @asymmetricinfo , @can , @bdomenech , @maxwe...

2020-10-15
I reluctantly let my 11 year old download it. It's her first social media (other than sharing google docs to illicitly chat with friends at school despite the firewall). https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-15 View on X
New York Times

How “Among Us”, an online social deduction game from 2018, took off among people of all ages during social distancing; one Discord server has 98,000+ fans

YouTubers, influencers and streamers popularized the multiplayer game.  Then their fans started playing too.

2019-12-26
Our choices are trust or panopticon. There is no third choice. I wrote about this for @TheAtlantic in 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2019-12-26 View on X
Washington Post

Many schools in the US, including Syracuse U., track students' phones to monitor class attendance, as some worry it desensitizes students to 24/7 surveillance

When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin's Introduction to Information Technologies class …

2019-12-25
Our choices are trust or panopticon. There is no third choice. I wrote about this for @TheAtlantic in 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2019-12-25 View on X
Washington Post

Many schools in the US, including Syracuse U., track students' phones to monitor class attendance, as some worry it desensitizes students to 24/7 surveillance

When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin's Introduction to Information Technologies class … Tweets: @drewharwell , @adamd_hill , @privacyattorney , @g_solar...