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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 00:49:35 UTC Casey Newton

I realize this won't be a popular opinion around here. But of all the Twitter clones so far, Threads has the most juice. I wrote about why ➡️ https://www.platformer.news/p/five-reasons-threads-could-still
In conversation Tuesday, 18-Jul-2023 00:49:35 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
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1. One, Threads proved decisively the demand for a new text-based conversation app. Until this month, it was unclear that tens of millions of people even wanted something Twitter-like in their lives. Twitter itself has been in a period of steep decline, and the various clones that have sprung up in its wake have stalled out in the low millions of users. That Threads attracted so many downloads in so short a period offers compelling evidence that lots of people have been waiting for a company to do public conversations the right way.
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2. Five reasons Threads could still go the distance
  
  from Casey Newton
  
  One week later, engagement is down — but the prize is still there for the taking
Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2023 01:49:16 UTC Casey Newton

Good for Microsoft https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-drops-twitter-from-advertising-platform
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1. Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform
  
  from Matt Binder
  
  Yet another big B2B service passes on paying for Twitter's new high-priced API.
Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 04:15:36 UTC Casey Newton
- Zoë Schiffer
NEW: Elon Musk fired a top engineer over his declining view counts.
Plus the reason the site went down yesterday, fears about an upcoming FTC audit, and more, and more.
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
From @zoeschiffer and me.
In conversation Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 04:15:36 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
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1. Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account, along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted, but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him. Musk did not take the news well. “You’re fired, you’re fired,” Musk told the engineer. (Platformer is withholding the engineer’s name in light of the harassment Musk has directed at former Twitter employees.)
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