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Last night, the person in charge of the official San Francisco BART Twitter account lost it. In 57 tweets, the account espoused truth and honesty, and pretty much admitted what everyone in the Bay Area already knows: the crumbling institution kinda sucks. Now, running social media accounts for well-known public entities, be they people, organizations,…
Note from Robin: This saga appeared in my secure dropbox late last month, along with a plea to post it on Facebook today in exactly the format you see here. I gather I’m not the only one to have received those instructions. I can’t vouch for the authenticity of the story, but I thought it…
When it comes to ad-supported services, pundits everywhere are fond of the adage “If you’re not the customer you’re the product”. It’s interesting, though, how quickly that adage is forgotten when it comes to evaluating the viability of said services. Twitter is a perfect example. In response to my piece How Facebook Squashed Twitter I…
Once upon a time, there was nothing like Flickr. If you were a person who cared about taking, editing, and sharing photos, it was the best and most robust community of like-minded people on the Internet. Now that’s not true. Far from it. For the photo-nerd crowd, 500px and SmugMug are just two of the…
The New Media is Made of Memes After months watching Snapchat’s irresistible Discover stories, I am everything but informed Gif by Ellen Porteus A year ago, Snapchat, the world’s fastest growing social network, told advertisers, media companies, and writers like me everything we wanted to hear. With the debut of its new media hub Discover,…
A while back, we ran an analysis on our posts to Facebook and concluded that the platform was largely time independent in terms of whether a post succeeded. A post at 4 AM on Saturday should be just as likely to find an audience as one at 10 AM on Tuesday. Despite a solid statistical…
The Long Slow Death of Twitter March 9th, 2016 prev Archives First World Problem Archive The Brads Archive Blog Posts Start of StatCounter Code End of StatCounter Code Source: The Long Slow Death of Twitter
Well, at least they’re trying Today is the day of the Twitter tantrum known as #TheTriggering, a contrived hashtag in which the Internet’s biggest jerks have decided to post crap that is slightly more jerky than the crap they usually post. I’ve been poking around in the hashtag for a couple of hours and I have to say it’s…
Meerkat—the live video-streaming app that was the buzz of SXSW last year—is admitting defeat against rival Periscope. Recode reported yesterday (March 4) that the startup is changing direction to become a video social network where “everyone is always live.” “It was a fucking hard decision to say, ‘It’s not going to work, thank you everyone…
My open Instant Articles feed Friday, February 26, 2016 by Dave Winer I believe this is the first public and live Instant Articles feed. http://scripting.com/fb/rss.xml As you can see it’s also RSS 2.0, something I’m quite proud of. When I was developing my Instant Articles feed, I desperately needed a working example to follow. It…