Free speech on social media is hard... just ask Facebook
So he did it. Elon Musk's $44bn deal to acquire Twitter and take it private has been accepted by Twitter's board, giving Musk carte blanche — if the deal goes through — to reshape Twitter and achieve ...
BeReal: Stripped back social media apps are getting popular.
The last thing you probably feel like you need right now is another social media app to spend your time scrolling on. Which is exactly why the recent rise of app BeReal is so interesting. **#unfilter...
Twitter: Musk makes his move
So Elon went and did it. After buying a 9% slice of Twitter, Elon Musk decided he wanted the whole pie , offering $54.20 a share for Twitter yesterday... for a total price tag of $43bn. In a letter p...
Streaming saturation: How many streaming services are too many?
Streaming saturation Streaming promised a golden age of consuming media, and on some level it has delivered. But as competition has intensified, the days when you could find everything you wanted to ...
The Elon effect: Musk has bought a big chunk of Twitter
This week Elon Musk announced that he'd acquired a 9% stake in social media site Twitter , earning him not only a seat on the company's board, but also the title of the company's largest shareholder, ...
BuzzFeed: Listicles vs. news, one is more profitable than the other
Once a digital media darling, BuzzFeed has had a rough start to life as a public company since its merger with a blank-check company at the end of last year, with its shares down more than 40%. News ...
Truth streaming
TRUTH Social might grab the headlines and buzz for a while ( early reports suggest signing up was a bit buggy) but for the Trump Media & Technology Group, it's not where they see the biggest financial...
You can't handle the TRUTH
This week former president Donald Trump launched his latest venture - a social media platform, TRUTH Social, to take on big tech. TRUTH Social users will be able to post "Truths" on the "Truth Feed", ...
Streaming wars: Disney takes another step towards Netflix
Advantage, Disney The other good news for Disney was in its streaming biz. Disney took a solid step towards catching Netflix, announcing 12 million new subscribers to Disney+, almost double what analy...
Metaworse: Facebook falters
By now you've probably seen that the artist-formerly-known-as-Facebook has had a rough week, notching up the biggest one-day loss of value in the stock market's history. Metaworse Meta's 2021 revenue ...
Tick tock: Time spent on TikTok is going up and up
When it was first getting popular social media app TikTok was good at getting your attention for 5 or 10 minutes with its addictive viral videos, but initially at least, users weren't sticking around ...
Reddit: The platform's going public and r/wallstreetbets is bigger than ever
Social media platform reddit has officially filed to go public , more than 16 years since the company was founded. In many ways, modern day reddit looks a lot like the internet forums of the early 200...
Spotify: How the streaming platform makes, and spends, its money
If you've been on social media this week, you'll have undoubtedly come across Spotify Wrapped — the annual summary, and judgement, of who listened to what music on the streaming platform. The event ha...
GIF not loading: Facebook's acquisition of Giphy just got blocked
Speaking of Facebook, this week the company was told it wasn't allowed to rule the world of GIFs. The UK's competition regulator (CMA) announced yesterday that Facebook (technically, Meta) will have t...
Twitter: Jack Dorsey is stepping down from his second term as CEO of Twitter
This week Jack Dorsey resigned from his role as CEO of Twitter, marking the end of his second spell running the social media company (the first ended in 2008). Dorsey will hand the reins to Parag Agra...
Clubhouse: Downloads are slowing again for the buzzy audio app
Earlier this year Clubhouse, which lets users join impromptu audio conversations, had a lot to celebrate. The app was about to hit the one-year anniversary of its launch, downloads were soaring and it...
Disney's slowdown: Streaming growth just ain't what it used to be
There are't many better times to launch a family-friendly streaming service than 4 months before everyone gets locked inside — and it showed for Disney. After launching in November 2019, Disney+ went ...
MetaFace: Roblox is going to be competing with Facebook in the future
This week Facebook announced that it's looking to change its name to better reflect its future ambition to build the "metaverse" — a virtual space where people could play games, interact, socialize an...
Facebook's day off: Facebook is having quite a week
Facebook has had quite a week. On Monday the company's 3 major platforms, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, all went down for 6+ hours. Then a whistleblower, Frances Haugen, testified in front of a Se...
TikTok: The Chinese social media app just hit one billion users
TikTok has officially entered the big leagues of the world of social media, announcing this week that the company has hit one billion monthly active users . Tick Tock With its initial release in Sep...