The End of Big Social (Connection Problem S09E05)
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Tag: Twitter
Twitter Reset
As part of revisiting my information diet, and prompted by this Twitter thread with Scott Jenson and Anil Dash, I embarked on a clean-up I had been putting off…
Facebook, Twitter, Google are a new type of media platform, and new rules apply
When Congress questioned representatives of Facebook, Google and Twitter, it became official: We need to finally find an answer to a debate that’s been bubbling for months (if…
Twitter, why u so US centric?
For my new company Brightfuture [NAME PENDING], I tried to register a Twitter account. Much to my surprise, @brightfuture didn’t seem actively used. No avatar, two tweets (one…
Whose tweets are these anyway? (What happens when election campaign tweets get deleted?)
Today, there was a bit of a flurry of tweets after the official Twitter account by SPD candidate for chancelor, Peer Steinbrück, sent this tweet: … and then…
Recollecting my Instagrams & other social data
So, Instragram announced updates to their Terms of Services. Nothing unusual about it, really, only that the updates seem to be aimed at monetizing by allowing advertisers to…
4% of my Twitter is fictional
On Twitter I follow some 2.000 accounts. Or rather, about 2.000 people can, in theory, send me direct messages. Because it seems pretty much impossible to me to…