How Much Does Facebook Have to Do With Twitter?

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Thinks over called that out. I did see that busby doesn't. Busby does pay to seed some of some of their posts, so i face wit ads and stuff like that. Ahma o ingram a wrote a revertin piece in in gigom about how differently the news is being experienced on twitter as opposed to facebook. And basicallyi the fact that, at least in his experience and the people the talked to and followed, a ferguson and what was happening there was all over twitter,. ah, but it was really nowhere to be found facebook. How much do the fact that facebook has a likhe button have to do with that?

In this week’s episode we spend a good bit of time revisiting the native ads discussion, then dive into the different ways that Twitter and Facebook have handled the news this week. From there we discuss Twitter’s timeline changes, the realities of venture capital, and whether or not our entire economic system will survive the automation revolution. Yes, it gets deep quickly!

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Derek Willis: New Republican Leader Finds New Friends, and Quick Cash – New York Times
Marco Arment: I’ll Never Fly Amazon Again – Marco.org
Ben Thompson: Twitter is Great for Unprofitable News – Stratechery (members-only)
Mathew Ingram: Twitter vs. Facebook as a news source – GigaOm
Matt Buchanan: The Twitter of Tomorrow – New Yorker
Humans Need Not Apply – YouTube