Farewell, Periscope | by Periscope | Dec, 2020 | Medium
Today, we’re sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021. First off, we want to be transparent about why we’re making this…
Twitter is partnering with Snap to bring tweets into Snapchat with a native integration that both companies hope will push users away from screenshots and toward more interactive embeds. Twitter users who are also logged into the Snapchat app on their phone will be able to access the functionality by tapping share on a particular […]
Back in 2014, Clyp started out as a simple platform to upload audio files - kind of like the Imgur of audio. Then slowly over the years, thanks in part to feedback from many of you, we added more features and worked to create the best place for creators to share audio on the web.
Of the accounts that follow me on Twitter, half are spambots. About 15% are companies or organizations whose social media interns found me on a list somewhere, and another 15% are something in between: not definitely bots, but not exactly [...]
How to Prevent Social Media’s Editorial Role From Becoming Censorship of Speech — The Information
While you can quibble with the details, the social platforms did the right thing in initially limiting the distribution of last week’s New York Post article on Hunter Biden. As others have noted, in the wake of the 2016 election, platforms like Facebook and Twitter were forced to make certain ...
Letter of Recommendation: The random button on Reddit - On Posting
There's a button at the top of the Reddit homepage called "Random." When pressed, the algorithm will serve you up one of the 138,000 subreddits bobbing around the website's depths. We've all found our own languid methods to pass the time during the mounting months of quarantine, and this has been mine. Days and nights, passively logged on, pressing that button over and over again, greeting a new subcommittee of brilliant obsessives and weirdos. Reddit, by its nature, is home to both vast ultra-generalized superboards, (like the self-explanatory r/WorldNews or r/Politics,) and the microscopi...