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Converse, Connect & Value
Required reading for anyone looking to harness social media as a tool to connect your product with customers.
Conversations spark the success of products and ideas, helping them garner new fans and break into different markets.
— The Social Media Skinny by Steven Pressfield
My three year old son knows no limits. He’s trying to eat his jelly using a Mikado stick. 😂
You know what I love to see in @dayoneapp? Being able to merge entries.
Still no split-view in Twitter for Mac. Do you have to read the new Moments feature, upload a GIF and start a poll to unlock it?
Managed to switch my email address to a new one with a different domain and still receive the email for the old one. @FastmailFM is great!
I have a particularly bad habit of opening apps, leaving them to run and then wondering why I have so many apps open. I only ever need these apps open for a minutes at a time.
This morning I installed Marco Arment’s Quitter app to help alleviate the issue of apps being left open. On my Quitter list is Twitter, Mail and Slack.
We’ll see how it goes.
“A solid post” says my editor. I have to be doing something right with this writing lark!
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Update: Some links in this post pointed to pages that no longer exist and have been removed.
The Feed is Dying
The feed is dying. The reverse-chronological social media feed — the way you’ve read Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and blogs (which is to say, the internet) at various points over the last decade, updates organized according to the time they were posted, refreshed at the top of the screen — no longer really makes sense. The unfiltered informational cascade that defined the internet of the 2010s is going the way of the front-page-style web portal: It’s an outdated way of processing online information. The way we consume social media is being transformed and tinkered with as Silicon Valley tries to wring as much engagement, attention, and money out of it as possible. The feed is dying, and we feel shocked by its death — but we shouldn’t.
The Feed is Dying by Select All
RSS is the winner in all this. A chronological feed that you have complete control over.
It’s sad to see so social media feeds switching to curated feeds that promote content we might be interested in.
I can’t help but wonder though that if all these social media feeds were a paid for subscription service to begin with, would we even need customised social feeds?