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Fuller: Twitter Layoffs Were Correct Because Straightforward Tech Does Not Need 10,000
“I think that was the right move. I totally align with you. I'm like, how do you need. 10,000 people. You had 10,000 people to spare, to run a fairly, you know, what started as a fairly straightforward technology.”
Cross-Platform Social Analytics Fail for Asian Creators Compared to North America
“If you told me that we're working with a North American content creator who has statistics on, let's say Twitch on Twitter and YouTube. I think, yeah, that's should be collated because all of those three platforms can be directly linked together to look at cer…”
Slack Promoted Praise While Ignoring 50,000 Complaints Online
“Slack was promoting this like Twitter wall of praise that they had, but what they didn't promote was that there was a website where there were over 50,000 comments about why people hated Slack.”
Omeed Tabiei: 18-Year-Old YC Founders Faced Backlash Over Open-Source Violations
“There were these founders that had been admitted to Y Combinator. It was like these two 18 year old kids. And essentially they had forked some technology, some AI wrapper essentially, and they didn't read the source licensing for the code. And essentially they…”
Agobin: Website SEO and YouTube compound value unlike transient social platforms
“So there's certain things and it's like SEO on your website and YouTube. Are the two biggest things that pop out as kind of this evergreen content. And if you think about it as profit per minute, every minute you put into doing amazing YouTube content or amazi…”
Wong: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm in Taiwan Pushes Pornography Within Four Clicks
“If you look up Twitter in Taiwan and you start this kind of a, you just go down that rabbit hole, you'll get to porn in about three or four clicks in the recommendations.”
Frasier: Major audio players struggle with Twitter engagement, making video essential
“If you look at some of the larger audio kind of Players in this space. They all suck at like audio engagement on Twitter and all these. Rarely do you see, you know, really taking off video is the best way to go.”
Frasier: Posting social media links no longer drives podcast subscriptions
“Gone are the days where you can post a link on Twitter and say, hey, go subscribe to my podcast. Most people who subscribe to our podcast discovered us on the platform that they were on.”
Frasier: Social algorithms penalize accounts and posts that include outbound links
“Anytime you're encouraging people to leave the algorithms for social media will start to punish your account. This is something people don't talk about. So YouTube, for instance, when you create a YouTube video in the description, the first thing that you say …”
Parrish: No-code handling Twitter-scale traffic is likely a decade away
“Certain things can't be done in no code and it might be a decade before they can be done in no code. So that might be some of the really heavy traffic loads that you would have a social network, like Twitter, Facebook”
Jordan: Boycotting Twitter Due to State of the Platform
“I used to be on Twitter. I'm currently boy, boycotting it because of the state of Twitter”
Schneider: 50 to 100 data vendors sell Twitter sentiment data
“There are literally, you know, 50 to a hundred that I know of data providers that just sell sentiment based on, on Twitter data.”
Grazer: Jack Dorsey founded a blockchain patent pool to curb monopolies
“So for example, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, who's also CEO of Square, has recently founded a new patent pool in blockchain, and he's encouraging others to put blockchain patents in, in order to keep large companies from monopolizing the space.”
Grazer: Companies like Twitter and Tesla pledged purely defensive patent enforcement
“Some companies have decided on their own that they will only enforce their patents if someone attacks them first. So Twitter has pledged this Elon Musk in a famous blog post with the title, all our patents are belong to you playing off of the famous meme, all …”