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As a social network Twitter has more…

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“As a social network, Twitter has more in common with Reddit than it does with the peers to which it’s more frequently compared — Facebook and Snapchat.”

“While those services are closed networks that host conversations between people who have accepted each other’s invitations to connect, Twitter has endeavored to be an open platform for free speech — one in which the community itself does the policing.”

https://backchannel.com/haters-gonna-hate-but-they-better-stop-doing-it-on-twitter-or-they-will-kill-it-4ed2b67ba8cd

One final thought… I’m actually a fan…

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“…One final thought… I’m actually a fan of using algorithms to prioritize items in a queue. I just read an interesting post by a Twitter VC firm saying how great that was going to be for Twitter. But I think we all know the obvious truth which is that this is a revenue model. This algorithm isn’t about showing users the most relevant content. It’s about showing them the most relevant content PLUS any content that has been “boosted.” We stopped using Facebook for this very reason. We had thousands of followers but Facebook only showed our posts to a few hundred. If we wanted all of our followers to see a post we had to pay.”

http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/141859434694/instagram-unlevels-the-playing-field

Mainly Facebook happened Constructing social networks by…

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“…Mainly, Facebook happened. Constructing social networks by blogging takes work. You have to read, respond, post. You have to stay on top of the topics sweeping through what used to be called the “blogosphere.” Facebook is much better at building social networks for people. And you don’t have to spend serious time writing essays. Twitter lowered the character count further.”


“…In fact, blogs now often are where the most interesting ideas are surfaced, argued, and appropriated into a discipline’s discourse. Unlike the output in scholarly journals and magazines, in these webs of blogs we get to see ideas emerging from conversation among people sharing what in the old days we’d take as early drafts. These webs allow participation by people regardless of credentials, enabling voices to rise to their own level of credibility. “

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/08/30/why-blogging-still-matters/JkzFdTxoySZZwsyrFw7yMI/story.html

If the price of giving everyone internet access is total domination by Facebook, it’s not worth it

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John Naughton in The Guardian:

Some years ago, I had a conversation with a senior minister in which he revealed that he thought the web was the internet.

While I was still reeling from the shock of finding a powerful figure labouring under such a staggering misconception, I ran into Sir Tim Berners-Lee at a Royal Society symposium.

Over coffee, I told him about my conversation with the minister.

“It’s actually much worse than that,” he said, ruefully.

“Hundreds of millions of people now think that Facebook is the internet.”

The social media phase of the Internet ended – messaging is the new social media

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Fred Wilson asked What Just Happened in 2014 and shared ten insights.

Here are the first two:

1/ the social media phase of the Internet ended. this may have happened a few years ago actually but i felt it strongly this year. entrepreneurs and developers still build social applications. we still use them. but there isn’t much innovation here anymore. the big platforms are mature. their place is secure.

2/ messaging is the new social media. this may be part of what is going on in 1/. families use whatsapp groups instead of facebook. kids use snapchat instead of instagram. facebook’s acquisition of whatsapp in february of this year was the transaction that defined this trend.

This morning, Martin Weigert looks back and explains How everybody was wrong about the future of Social Networking.

This is just anecdotal but I know people who have completely abandoned Facebook and use now a combination of Instagram and WhatsApp (or other messengers) to satisfy their social networking needs. I do not rule out that this becomes a widespread phenomenon.

That will resonate with any number of diehard BBM addicts I know.