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Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears
The amount of time Reddit reports that users spend with its service hasn’t significantly budged either. In September 2021, the…
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The GitHub Black Market That Helps Coders Cheat the Popularity Contest
The index is a good predictor of whether a company will raise a round, says Konstantin Vinogradov, a general partner…
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Hey Zuck, Get Those Robots out of My Social Feed
When I bring up these concerns to Meta’s VP of generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, post-keynote, he accuses me of having…
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X Challenger Pebble Thinks AI-Generated Posts Can Help Lure Users Away From Elon Musk
Newcomers to Pebble will find that its AI-generated suggestions include posts to introduce yourself on the service or welcome recent…
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This Is the Era of Zombie Twitter
The bird is dead, but zombie Twitter is not. Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, the platform has survived rate-limiting, massive…
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Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different…
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Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
Days after Meta launched its new app, Threads, this month, a software engineer at the company named Ben Savage introduced…
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6 Threads App Settings Worth Trying Out
Threads, Meta’s new Twitter competitor, still has that new-app smell as millions of users figure out what to post on…
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How Threads Could Kill Twitter
And, after months of chaos at Twitter, many people are looking for something different—but are yet to commit to one…
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Reddit Is Already on the Rebound
Social media researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, got a rude awakening early last month.…
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