Twitter+: Related Stories and Resources
The Related Stories and Resources page is where you can find additional material related to the essay Twitter+ by Terence C. Gannon. You can also listen to the original essay on your favourite podcasting platform where it appeared as part of the Not There Yet podcast narrated by the author. Items below appear in reverse chronological order based on the date of original publication.
Facebook and Twitter Stocks Dive as Unilever Halts Advertising CNN, June 26, 2020 by Brian Fung. The thing — the one thing —that may get Twitter (and others like them) to think about a new paradigm for their services will be when advertisers walk away. Unilever— a huge social advertiser — just did.
Big Tech must be regulated now, Bill Gates say CNN, June 25, 2019 by Clare Duffy. In Twitter+ the argument is made for Twitter to carve off a subscription-based service which embraces ‘‘radical accountability” and no promoted tweets. Some will undoubtedly say that’s an untenable proposition. One alternative, of course, has the potential to be far more draconian as described in this article which quotes no less than Bill Gates.
