Is Twitter a Good Idea? Is It a Bummer?

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i feel like there's going to be a lot of complaints, especially e people can hear what we've been talking about. But i think what, what is really important understand about this is, twitter could have come to being without all that stuff. I mean, you couldn't have had some one saying, i want ta, like, no one thought up twitter. An thought it was stupidwhe it was the class example of a company being stupid, right? Ah, and i guess it's,. it's a bummer if if it goes, i mean, hopefully it works out and they make a few small changes, and their engagement numbers work and they'r the adsarts,

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!

Links

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Clay Shirky: Last Call – Medium
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Hamilton Nolan: Time Inc. Rates Writers on How “Beneficial” They Are to Advertisers – Gawker
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