2024-12-10
A fascinating article about the global success of WhatsApp (except in China and the U.S.) only neither WeChat nor TikTok (and their new messenger service are mentioned. That's because India banned 500 Chinese apps for the past 5 years. — #PlatformNationalism — restofworld.org/2024/how-wha...
Rest of World
How WhatsApp evolved from a messaging app into a business messaging growth platform, aggressively luring big businesses to its suite of paid messaging products
Just a point for this article. India's installed base is given at 400 million. Last i saw it had crossed 600 and growing rapldly. It's the social glue here like iMessage in the ...
2022-10-10
To his credit he cites a number of experts. But one could easily assume by this framing that the “social” is only a ceasepool". Only a sociopath would defend these platforms. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
A look at the history of online content moderation, which has become a top culture war issue since the 2016 election and is the subject of multiple court cases
Online content moderation wasn't always a partisan issue. That began to change in 2016. — Early last year …
2020-05-05
To clarify, we're having two kinds of streaming wars. SVOD/OTT portals vying for showrunners, content, and subs. Social media platforms competing over streamers, gamer, and followers. PewDiePie signs exclusive livestreaming deal with YouTube https://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge
Variety
PewDiePie signs an exclusive livestreaming deal with YouTube, following similar deals between YouTube and other stars in recent months
PewDiePie signs exclusive … J. Fergus / Input : Google shows it never learns, signs PewDiePie to an exclusive YouTube deal Tweets: @karlbode : I've lost track of the journalists an...