Column: A few sick days made it clear — Twitter is dying, and so is social media as we know it
1 year, 4 months ago

Column: A few sick days made it clear — Twitter is dying, and so is social media as we know it

LA Times  

The state of the social media feed in 2023? The alternatives weren’t much better — Threads, Meta’s competing product, launched by Mark Zuckerberg to much fanfare just weeks ago, felt vaguely cheery but ultimately vacant. I’ve been logging onto Twitter at the start of every working day since, oh, 2011; it’s easy to let muscle memory take over and keep refreshing the feed regardless of what’s befallen the place. The place seemed noisy and vibrant, but also all but impenetrable to a lay-user showing up occasionally and without much of a community — it’s the place where Twitter power users and online activists have felt most at home, and that’s great, but I kind of stared blankly for a few minutes, and after no new posts loaded for a minute or two, gave up the ghost. The science fiction writer Cory Doctorow has argued that this is not only likely but necessary — that the accumulated weight of years of bad policy decisions and the platforms’ evolution into overstuffed monopolies leaves little alternative but to let them burn, as we would a wildfire that may appear cataclysmic but is in fact needed to clear out the forest floor.

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Fandom rules social media's cultural landscape in 2024
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Fandom rules social media's cultural landscape in 2024

NPR  

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Social Media Swallowed Gen Z. This Film Shows Exactly How
54 years, 11 months ago

Social Media Swallowed Gen Z. This Film Shows Exactly How

Wired  

Twenty years ago, MySpace and Facebook ushered in an inspired age of social media. In June, the US surgeon general, Vivek H. Murthy, called for a warning label on platforms that have played a part in the mental health crisis among young people, of which “social media has emerged as an important contributor.” Social Studies, the new FX docuseries from …

Gen Z – is your digital ‘legacy’ really worth dying for?
2 months, 1 week ago

Gen Z – is your digital ‘legacy’ really worth dying for?

The Independent  

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Bacchanalia: Two years on, does Richard Caring’s restaurant still live up to the hype?
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Bacchanalia: Two years on, does Richard Caring’s restaurant still live up to the hype?

The Independent  

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Social media is more 'chaotic' and 'fragmented' than ever, so what's the future of how we live online?
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Social media is more 'chaotic' and 'fragmented' than ever, so what's the future of how we live online?

ABC  

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The one simple change that will improve your media diet in 2024
10 months, 2 weeks ago

The one simple change that will improve your media diet in 2024

BBC  

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The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal
1 year ago

The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal

Associated Press  

We lost Twitter and got X. Here’s a look back at some of the biggest stories in social media in 2023 — and what to watch for next year: GOODBYE TWITTER A little more than a year ago, Elon Musk walked into Twitter ’s San Francisco headquarters, fired its CEO and other top executives and began transforming the social media …

Social Media Day 2023: History, Significance, Quotes, and How To Celebrate
1 year, 5 months ago

Social Media Day 2023: History, Significance, Quotes, and How To Celebrate

News 18  

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The New Social Network That Is Finally Threatening Elon Musk’s Twitter
1 year, 7 months ago

The New Social Network That Is Finally Threatening Elon Musk’s Twitter

Slate  

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J&K’s National Conference employs social media to reinvent itself
1 year, 8 months ago

J&K’s National Conference employs social media to reinvent itself

The Hindu  

Over the past month, the National Conference, a political party founded in 1932 and led by the Abdullah family, has been reiterating its heritage on social media, hoping to regain political ground lost through the separatist movement and the Centre’s ‘Naya Kashmir’ push. They have introduced self-produced news bulletins, uploaded on social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, to …

Take note, Elon Musk: Netflix’s Beef is the perfect metaphor for social media
1 year, 8 months ago

Take note, Elon Musk: Netflix’s Beef is the perfect metaphor for social media

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. This notion – of a perennially escalating conflict between …

We Were All Supposed To Leave The Twitter Dumpster Fire. Why Are We Still Here?
1 year, 9 months ago

We Were All Supposed To Leave The Twitter Dumpster Fire. Why Are We Still Here?

Huff Post  

I’m not sure when Twitter ― founded in 2006 as a fledgling microblogging network in competition with the MySpace juggernaut and the then-growing Facebook ― had its watershed moment and moved toward becoming the behemoth it is today. Twitter, along with a quarantine that bored people senseless, was the catalyst behind the unprecedented global response to George Floyd’s murder; arguably, …

Can alternative apps revolutionise social media and fix its problems?
1 year, 11 months ago

Can alternative apps revolutionise social media and fix its problems?

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 03, 2023 14:39 IST Quitting or reducing social media use could be a great New Year’s resolution. This business model is the main driver of the most well-known social media problems: the deteriorating impact on mental health and its addictive potential, data privacy issues, the spread of misinformation, and the formation of echo chambers, where users are …

From Twitter chaos to TikTok bans to the metaverse, social media had a rocky 2022
2 years ago

From Twitter chaos to TikTok bans to the metaverse, social media had a rocky 2022

NPR  

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Twitter chaos too much? There are plenty of other options
2 years ago

Twitter chaos too much? There are plenty of other options

Associated Press  

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We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion
2 years ago

We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion

Wired  

When I opened Twitter one day a couple of weeks ago, the first piece of “news” I read was that Sam Bankman-Fried killed Jeffrey Epstein. Among the users I follow, the mood on the app ever since has resembled the giddiness of 2 am in a dorm room just after the last joint has been smoked, when it’s not clear …

RIP Twitter, 2006-2022: Dead at the hands of Elon Musk
2 years, 1 month ago

RIP Twitter, 2006-2022: Dead at the hands of Elon Musk

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. I didn’t know anything about Twitter, …

Column: Elon Musk’s Twitter and the con of online media
2 years, 1 month ago

Column: Elon Musk’s Twitter and the con of online media

LA Times  

Elon Musk is coming to a realization those who work in traditional media reached years ago: Content is never free. Musk’s pay-to-verify proposal reflects the realization of something those of us in legacy media have known forever — content is never free. Entertainment & Arts Column: Elon Musk is not social media’s biggest problem Many are horrified at the notion …

Social media can inflame your emotions — and it's a byproduct of its design
2 years, 3 months ago

Social media can inflame your emotions — and it's a byproduct of its design

NPR  

Social media can inflame your emotions — and it's a byproduct of its design ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: If you feel like checking social media leaves you feeling angrier and more outraged, that's not your imagination. SHAPIRO: That's Max Fisher reading from "The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story Of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds And Our World." SHAPIRO: In light …

What happened when Twitter cracked down on extremists
2 years, 4 months ago

What happened when Twitter cracked down on extremists

Raw Story  

Since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, an entire ecosystem of right-wing social media platforms has come into existence — from Gab to Parler to the former president’s own Truth Social. Pyrra, which launched in early 2022 with $1.3 million in funding, monitors more than 20 alternative social media sites and online forums, scanning some 100 million messages per week. Chang, …

Social Media Day 2022: Wishes, History, significance, quirky quotes and posts, HD Images
2 years, 5 months ago

Social Media Day 2022: Wishes, History, significance, quirky quotes and posts, HD Images

India TV News  

Social media has become an important part of our lives. June 30 is celebrated as World Social Media Day every year. World Social Media Day: History and Significance World Social Media day was first celebrated by Mashable on 30 June 2010 to put an accentuation on the effect of online media and its job in worldwide communication. Social Media Day …

If social media has scarred my generation, what will the metaverse do?
2 years, 10 months ago

If social media has scarred my generation, what will the metaverse do?

The Independent  

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Fox News, Facebook made a crisis. Mainstream media won't help
3 years ago

Fox News, Facebook made a crisis. Mainstream media won't help

LA Times  

This time last year, there was a cruel joke in circulation: The most spiteful year in recent memory would reset itself at midnight on Dec. 31, and we’d be forced to relive 2020 from the beginning. Fox News, social media juggernaut Facebook and a constellation of hard-right outlets reveled in the fear of uncertain times, sowing doubt among their followers …

Facebook's terrible 2021: Will a year of scandal be the catalyst for regulation?
3 years ago

Facebook's terrible 2021: Will a year of scandal be the catalyst for regulation?

ABC  

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Anti-vaccine misinformation: The company has been unable to deliver on its promise to crack down on anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation The company has been unable to deliver on its promise to crack down on anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation News media bargaining code: The decision to temporarily block Australian …

The great social media misinformation quiz
3 years, 2 months ago

The great social media misinformation quiz

ABC  

As social media platforms have become more intertwined with our lives, so too has the misinformation that comes with them. Minimal information, maximum effect: "A lot of people are just reading headlines and they're not even looking into what the source is … But they can be a fake international news website." Frivolous but dangerous: "A lot of misinformation can …

These books will guide you through the intricacies of social media
3 years, 7 months ago

These books will guide you through the intricacies of social media

The Hindu  

The more we dig into social media, the more there is to understand in terms of community guidelines, what is ‘in’ or ‘out’, what is a violation of our privacy, and more. ‘Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing’ by Chris Bail Chris Bail sees social media as a prism that “distorts our identities, empowers …

Social media becomes COVID-19 helpline
3 years, 8 months ago

Social media becomes COVID-19 helpline

The Hindu  

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Trump Is No Longer Tweeting, But Online Disinformation Isn't Going Away
3 years, 9 months ago

Trump Is No Longer Tweeting, But Online Disinformation Isn't Going Away

NPR  

Trump Is No Longer Tweeting, But Online Disinformation Isn't Going Away Enlarge this image toggle caption Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Darren Linvill thought he was prepared for 2020 and the firehose of false information that would come flooding down on the United States during an election year in which the country was …

The popular social media trends of 2020
3 years, 11 months ago

The popular social media trends of 2020

The Hindu  

Social media has always been the place to vent and rant, but 2020 took it to a whole new level – unsurprising, given all that we have been through this year. Here is a selection of five trends from this year, in no particular order, which either caused drama or encouraged debates on social media. The IT Ministry had said …

how social media fared in 2020
3 years, 11 months ago

how social media fared in 2020

The Hindu  

The year 2020 was crucial for Facebook and Twitter, testing the social networks' abilities to curb hate speech and misinformation. Actions in India Facebook was summoned by the joint parliamentary committee in September to discuss how the company allegedly failed to regulate the content favouring the country’s ruling Hindu nationalist party. Several users including author Salman Rushdie and Congress leader …

Twitter Asked People to Roast 2020 and Funny Folks of the Internet Did Not Disappoint
4 years, 2 months ago

Twitter Asked People to Roast 2020 and Funny Folks of the Internet Did Not Disappoint

News 18  

With just a couple of days left of what was a whirlwind of a year, 2020 seems to be not really on anybody’s good books. except there was always something new and it was bad— nesrin danan December 22, 2020 Ever came across that one annoying person who wouldn’t shut up even after you plug on earphones? if you watched …

We Watched 'The Social Dilemma' and Went Right Back to Our Phones. Here's Why
4 years, 2 months ago

We Watched 'The Social Dilemma' and Went Right Back to Our Phones. Here's Why

News 18  

Remember in early September when The Social Dilemma released on Netflix? Remember how scared and angry we were when we realised that social media sites are taking advantage of us, selling our data promoting fake news and polarising the world towards an impending disaster? It is very true that people find it very hard to keep a check on their …

Facebook controversy: From US to Sri Lanka, social media company has faced heat over controversial political posts, ads
4 years, 4 months ago

Facebook controversy: From US to Sri Lanka, social media company has faced heat over controversial political posts, ads

Firstpost  

Facebook’s handling of controversial political posts and A Wall Street Journal report that a top Facebook official turned a blind eye to hate speech by a BJP leader and three other “Hindu nationalist individuals and groups” to avoid damaging the social media platform’s business prospects, has predictably caused a furore in India. Be it India, United States, Sri Lanka or …

Social media is killing democracy
4 years, 6 months ago

Social media is killing democracy

Hindustan Times  

Last week, Uddhav Thackeray was forced to deny reports that Mumbai would be re-imposing a lockdown on June 15. But over the last few months, there has been an important escalation in the ability of social media — not just WhatsApp but Facebook too — to set the agenda. Covering news costs money; so, many channels have settled for a …

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