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Opinion
Evans: Social media platforms killed mainstream blogging in the early 2010s
“I feel like Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter between them sort of killed mainstream blogging. In the 2000 and the early teens.”
Benedict Evans Jan 3, 2021 ▶ 4:17 The history of doom-scrolling
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Evans: Tumblr bridged software tools and recommendation networks
“Tumblr is kind of, was sort of halfway between the two of those, because it was a tool, but there was also like a network and a recommendation system around it, because there was all the kind of the, what was it called? The, there was like a liking model.”
Benedict Evans Jan 3, 2021 ▶ 8:24 The history of doom-scrolling
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