Current thoughts on social media
Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
It's now been a year since The Muskover, what does my use of social media look like now, both as a reader and a writer?
Posting on Bluesky, and other thoughts on social media
Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
I've also put together my general thoughts on the state of social media, and how I'm using it, now that it's two years since The Muskover. With the recent uptick in tech activity on Bluesky, I've decided that I will start posting there in addition to my current locations.
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Deal Dive: The future of social media is vertical
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 7, 2023
While many startups are looking to be the next Twitter, those targeting specific communities may find a better outcome.
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Google’s new tools help discussion forums and social media platforms rank higher in search results
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Google today introduced new tools for website owners, including those running social media sites and discussion forums, who want to better elevate their content in Google’s search results.
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Social Media Engagement in Early 2025
Martin Fowler
APRIL 3, 2025
A few years ago, whenever I published a new article here, I would just announce it on Twitter, but since the Muskover its importance has declined, and now I post updates to several services. To compare engagement on these services, I've looked at reposts, likes, and replies to two dozen of my recent posts.
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How startups can produce social content that actually resonates
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2023
Social media can be a great tool for startups to gain visibility and garner a following among investors and customers, but coming up with a winning strategy may seem like a daunting task. Social media can be a hard place for startups operating with lean teams and resources.
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Why cloud is integral to Japan Rugby Football Union’s media strategy
CIO
MARCH 20, 2025
As head of the JRFUs media business division, Yutaka Muroguchi has contracts with all three organizations, and is in charge of video management and broadcasting rights. The media plays a big role to make rugby more accessible, and the trigger to formulate a media strategy was the launch of League One in 2022.
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Stealth startup Favs raises ~$1M for its close-friends-only social network
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Over the years, social media has moved further and further away from its original value proposition of being a network where you could keep up with close friends and family in a private space. A new social network, Favs, emerging from […]
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Elon Musk’s X Corp. faces trademark lawsuit from social media ad agency
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 2, 2023
When Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X this summer, there were concerns that the new company could face trademark lawsuits as there were nearly 900 active U.S.
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Voiijer’s new app offers a social community for nature-lovers and explorers
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Social media often disconnects people from the real world, keeping people inside scrolling feeds on their phones.
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RTRO launches an algorithm-free social app for friends, creators and brands
TechCrunch
MAY 1, 2023
Ahead of Meta’s launch of a text-based social network , female-founded social networking startup RTRO is launching its app this week with the goal of connecting brands, creators and their fans and followers in a more positive environment focused on human connections and communities, not algorithm-driven content.
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Alexis Ohanian says he’s a ‘techno optimist,’ despite social media’s impact on society
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 31, 2023
The entrepreneur and founder of venture fund Seven Seven Six, speaking at an event at the University of Virginia, espoused a fairly negative view of the current social media landscape and the creator economy — an environment where he says, everyone has “been so trained […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.
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Revel raises $7.8M to become the Instagram and Robinhood of NFT platforms
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform.
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Jagat, a location-based social network that focuses on real-life connections, surpasses 10M users
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Jagat, a social network that is designed to get you out more with your friends instead of mindlessly scrolling on your phone, has surpassed 10 million users globally. The location-based social network, which launched earlier this year in March, wants to help people focus on real-life connections and make friends.
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Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Top Talent in a Competitive Market
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
The Power of Social Media in Candidate Engagement Unsurprisingly, social media platforms have become indispensable tools for candidate engagement. Social media also facilitates two-way communication, allowing for real-time interactions that can enhance the candidate experience.
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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih
CIO
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Shih has clearly been considering the move to Meta for some time — and is no stranger to the company’s social media platform, Facebook. That experience led her to create Hearsay Systems, a software developer combining social networks, CRM, and AI to help sales staff at financial services companies.
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Do you need another app to discover beautiful places when you travel?
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
But Backdrop is not unlike other global social media platforms that allow users to take ephemeral photos, flex their lifestyle on disappearing stories or discover millions of personalized short videos. Social media and travel. There’s currently no go-to platform to find attractive places just for the sake of it.
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Mastodon founder touts Threads’ federation, saying it makes his X rival ‘a far more attractive option’
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko lauds Threads’ entry into the decentralized social media space, saying the move will make Mastodon — the open source Twitter/X rival — “a far more attractive option.”
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India seeks to regulate deepfakes amid ethical concerns
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
India is drafting rules to detect and limit the spread of deepfake content and other harmful AI media, a senior lawmaker said Thursday, following reports of proliferation of such content on social media platforms in recent weeks. All rights reserved.
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10 most used gen AI tools in the enterprise
CIO
APRIL 17, 2025
Meta AI Meta AI is Metas multimodal AI virtual assistant for the companys messaging and social media applications, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Potential business uses include product ideation, app mockups, logo design, creating images and videos for social media posts, and educational materials.
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Video creation and editing platform InVideo raises $15 million
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 27, 2020
The startup offers a freemium web-based editing tool that allows users to create videos that are fit to be published on popular social media platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube). Once the video has processed, users see a one-click option to publish it on their social media platforms.)
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Daily Crunch: Microsoft dumps Yammer and makes Viva Engage its preferred enterprise social platform
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
10 years of fintech failures: 5 innovations that didn’t live up to the hype Image Credits: Jeffrey Coolidge (opens in a new window) / Getty Images The tech industry (and the media that covers it) thrives on hype cycles. Kirsten has more.
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Elon Musk’s X suffered yet another global outage
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered an outage globally earlier Thursday that lasted for more than an hour. The error, the cause of which remains unknown, prevented users from viewing tweets, according to their complaints. X Pro, formerly known as TweetDeck, also faced the outage.
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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025
CIO
MARCH 14, 2025
A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. Human intelligence is the only mechanism that can evolve as fast as sophisticated cyber threats and social engineering attacks.
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Uber branches out into AI data labeling
CIO
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Scaled Solutions grew out of the company’s own needs for data annotation, testing, and localization, and is now ready to offer those services to enterprises in retail, automotive and autonomous vehicles, social media, consumer apps, generative AI, manufacturing, and customer support.
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X is launching two new subscription tiers, including a ‘Premium+’ ad-free plan
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The social media giant is adding a new Premium+ tier that costs $16 per month and offers the “largest reply boost” and removes ads from the For You and Following feeds. X, formerly known as Twitter, is introducing two new tiers for its subscription offering in order to bring in additional revenue.
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German teens went crazy for this ‘compliments’ app, and now VCs are backing its next phase
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2023
Equally, teens are going through a stage in life where almost every social interaction seems to carry portent of some kind of other. a new startup has appeared with the idea that yet another app is going to help this dumpster fire of social interactions, but let’s hear them out before jumping to conclusions. Just ask Snapchat.
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Something’s up with Spotify Wrapped and Burlington, VT
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
It’s that time of year again where half of your social media feed is clogged with graphics from Spotify’s annual, personalized roundup, and the other half is people whining that they don’t care about your Spotify Wrapped. Happy Spotify Wrapped Day!
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When voice deepfakes come calling
CIO
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Social engineering attacks Deepfakes significantly enhance the effectiveness of social engineering by making it much harder to distinguish bad actors from legitimate customers. Once this is achieved, the threat actor calls using their own voice to social engineer the agent. All you need is a short recording of the persons voice.
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Judgment Day is coming… for AI
CIO
APRIL 14, 2025
Clearly, what CoPilot did was capture and curate several media lists, which it ranked high on authority. But it applied one set of criteria peaceful resistance for social change and synthesized this short list.The point is: the AI was simply citing (and taking a very narrow view of) human judgment because it lacked its own.
Meta faces $600M competition damages claim in Spain as media owners pursue privacy breach lawsuit
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Meta is facing a major legal challenge and damages claim in Spain that argues the adtech giant’s years of failing to have a valid legal basis for processing people’s data for ads under European Union data protection rules also constitutes a competition breach for which they should be compensated financially.
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Telegram CEO says app will continue to host ‘war-related content’ after coming under fire for Hamas videos
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 13, 2023
As social platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Meta and TikTok face off with regulators and the theater of public opinion for how they are handling incendiary and graphic content, disinformation, writing and other media related to Hamas and Israel, Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, has controversially come out to defend how his messaging app […] (..)
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On TikTok, videos promoting steroids are exploding — and at times targeting teens
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
In a new report, a social media watchdog group details how steroid content is exploding in some TikTok communities, promoting potentially dangerous and often illegal substances while propagating unattainable body image ideals to boys and young men.
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Twitter ‘acqui-hires’ the team from subscription news app, Brief
TechCrunch
JULY 27, 2021
The startup from former Google engineers launched last year to offer a subscription-based news summary app that aimed to tackle many of the problems with today’s news cycle, including information overload, burnout, media bias and algorithms that promoted engagement over news accuracy. Twitter declined to share deal terms.
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Google and Twitter veteran maps out a Twitter alternative
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Twitter’s new CEO and owner Elon Musk is rattling the cage at his social network and ruffling a lot of feathers both inside and outside of the company. His second company, the native advertising startup Namo Media , he sold to Twitter itself. ” Sign up here if you want to take a gander, too.
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Global AI regulations: Beyond the U.S. and Europe
CIO
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The identified scenarios where AI is used include judicial, news, medical, biometric recognition, autonomous driving, social credit, social bots and where AI is used by state organizations. the world’s leading tech media, data, and marketing services company. This allows for more rapid and targeted legislation when needed.
Reddit might once again be flirting with an IPO
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Social media giant Reddit is once again reportedly testing the IPO waters. Bloomberg reported on Monday that Reddit “is holding talks with potential investors for an initial public offering.”
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Quora’s Poe introduces an AI chatbot creator economy
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 31, 2023
When you think of the term “creator” you generally think of someone making content for social media platforms like TikTok, YouTube or Instagram.
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Music marketing startup Breakr raises more capital, pays $3.5M to creators
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 19, 2023
We last wrote about Breakr — a platform that connects record labels, artists and brands with social media influencers to run mass campaigns in a programmatic way — when it closed a $4.2 million round in 2021. In the past two years, Breakr has onboarded over 30,000 influencers and managed more than $3.5
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Waymo expands in San Francisco while Cruise feels the heat
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Waymo riders can now access the service across the vast majority of SF, Waymo announced on Monday on social media site X. Alphabet subsidiary Waymo is expanding its service area in San Francisco despite protests against robotaxis, while rival Cruise grapples with crashes and other incidents.
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Ousted Flexport CEO Dave Clark strikes back
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 2, 2023
” Clark made the comments Monday in a lengthy post on social media site X following a report from CNBC that […] Dave Clark, the former Amazon executive who was ousted as CEO of Flexport just a year into the job, fired back at its founder and board, calling recent reporting on the logistics company “deeply concerning.”
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Tesla Cybertruck deliveries set for Nov. 30
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 18, 2023
CEO Elon Musk posted on social media Wednesday that the Cybertruck delivery event, which traditionally means a few select customers get to take possession of their vehicles, will be held November 30 at company’s Austin gigafactory. Tesla has finally set a date for the first deliveries of the Cybertruck.
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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors
CIO
MARCH 4, 2025
But it was financial services, media, manufacturing, industrials, and engineering that saw the biggest surges in China-linked intrusions last year 200-300% growth rates compared to 2023. Overall, the number of intrusions and new Chinese cyber espionage groups grew across the board.
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X (formerly Twitter) makes X Pro (formerly TweetDeck) a subscriber-only product
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2023
Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, has made X Pro — which was previously known as TweetDeck — a subscriber-only product. Like a lot of Musk promised timelines, the social network got delayed in implementing the new rule by a few days. welp tweetdeck finally went bye-bye for me and this popped up and lmao no.
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