Get the need-to-know highlights from the social media industry that happened the week of October 9-13. Meta Creator Compensation for AI Chatbots Meta is investing heavily in creators, with a whopping $5 million deal for a top creator’s contribution to AI chatbots. Explore Meta’s creator programs to potentially monetize your contributions. AI Celeb Backlash Meta's […]
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Meta’s Threads app has struggled to gain market share from its larger rival, X, despite a promising launch that quickly garnered 100 million signups. But, how the platforms combat misinformation about the conflict between Israel and Hamas could become a tipping point in boosting Threads’s traction. Twitter has a chance to benefit Threads Getty Images […]
SAN ANSELMO CALIFORNIA – JULY 05. In this illustration photo, the Threads Logo is shown on a … [+]Cell phone in San Anselmo on the 5th of July 2023. Meta, which owns Instagram, will release Threads July 6 as a possible rival to Twitter – the young social media app created by Tesla CEO Elon […]
Twitter Threatens Lawsuit Over Meta’s ‘Copycat’ Threads App, Report Says [unable to retrieve full-text content] Semafor, Thursday, reported that Twitter’s attorney Meta accused, in a lawsuit, of misusing “trade secret and intellectual property of Twitter” to build its Threads rival app. The company claimed to have attracted millions to sign up for Threads.
This is interesting timing, considering the current restrictions on viewing tweets. Yesterday, with no warning, Meta’s new Twitter-esque message board app – which is apparently going to be called ‘Threads’ – appeared in the Google Play Store in some regions. I personally don’t understand how ‘Threads’ is the name that it’s going with, given that […]
Sometimes, progress can boomerang. Gen Z is bringing back bootleg jeans and “vintage” butterfly hair clips (please don’t let low-rise jeans come back). SNES emulators were a hit thirty years after the initial launch. And now, Meta has brought back a traditional one-way radio style of advertising in the form of broadcast channels. In this […]
Meta has released the latest version of its Widely Viewed Content Reportwhich aims to dispel the notion that Facebook’s algorithms favor divisive, argumentative, political content, with the actual data showing that what the majority of Facebook users actually see in their feeds is far more mundane. It’s been an interesting experiment for Meta – earlier […]
Facebook can it make the switch from friend feeds to viralityfeeds? getty Will Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s fight with another company over the future of media cost him his own? Perhaps, just maybe. If his reaction to the latest Facebook changes are any indication. “Yesterday, I clicked to ‘see less’ 44 Facebook posts [including] all […]
As Meta continues to spruik its metaverse shift, VR is clearly a key focus element, and with Sales of Meta’s VR headsets on the riseit could well become the next big platform for digital connection. And that future could be nearer than you might think, with The Verge reporting that users of Horizon Worlds, Meta’s […]
Meta is continuing to rebuild its New Product Experimentation (NPE) team, which has previously worked on various experimental apps, with the closure of another NPE project. Dating app ‘Ignited‘, the allows users to video chat with potential matches for 4 minutes to better decide their suitability before proceeding, is the newest NPE app out there […]
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