Category: Social Media
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Perspectives on a Twitter-Mastodon tweetup-tootup
A few weeks ago, a small handful of people got together in a coffee shop in Reading to enjoy some good coffee and talk about the state of social media and developments with social networks. The conversation was clearly focused…
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Mastodon is becoming experiential
When people obsess about numbers, it looks like either success or failure must be imminent. So it is at the moment with Mastodon, the much talked-about potential alternative to Twitter as the latter continues its path through turmoil towards an…
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Twitter’s chaos may help decentralized alternatives like Mastodon gain traction
It’s been an adventure observing the chaos that’s ensued following Elon Musk’s completion of his deal last month to purchase Twitter for $44 billion. It’s also been a nightmare for users large and small, and for advertisers large and small,…
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Turmoil engulfs a Twitter in transition
Even if you’re not a fan of Twitter and/or Elon Musk, you’d have been hard pressed to avoid news about both over the past week. Since closing the deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion (£39 billion) on October 27,…
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Lush shows it’s time for an anti social media policy
At the dawn of the social media age fifteen and more years ago, everything was about blogs. This was the time just before Facebook, before Twitter, even before YouTube, when blogs started to gain momentum from the early-to-mid 2000s when…