Peak social media: Trouble at Twitter
FT Tech Tonic
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Elaine Moore, Deputy Editor of the FT's Lex column based here in San Francisco. In this season of the podcast we're asking, is the golden era of social media coming to an end? Most of us have a social media account but there are signs of trouble at some of the biggest companies. Privacy changes are making it harder to make money. Younger users call Instagram cringe-worthy and say Facebook's for boomers. TikTok has been threatened with bans, while new apps like Clubhouse fall out of fashion as quickly as they arrive. And then there's Twitter. When Elon Musk took over, his supporters hoped the billionaire entrepreneur might revive the company. But now he appears to despise
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