🚨Special Thursday edition of Social Power Hour today to talk Elon, Twitter and what the heck happens now Sarah Frier Dana Hull 👩🏻‍💻 is on BLUESKY @danahull Max Chafkin Hope you can join and bring questions! x.com/i/spaces/1YqKD…

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Experimenting with Snap AR’s City Landmarker feature blew my mind 🤯 Pointing your phone at any street and it knowing where you are & the depth of every building around is crazy This is a huge step in developing outdoor environment-aware AR experiences

Meta looks to sweeten the deal for Reels creators socialmediatoday.com/news/meta-upda…

A forward-looking column showing how the Depp-Heard trial serves as a dark preview of an emerging media environment — led by engagement-chasing creators who see themselves as breaking news authorities and who audiences rely on to shape narratives online washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Our daily summer season starts today! Summit Express 10a-5p Alpine Slide 11a-5p 📸: DJ Hamm @donorthmn @exploreminnesota @ Lutsen Mountains instagram.com/p/CeWEQ84rQDr/…

Glad to see Radioshack's social strategy to shill their cryptocurrency is working...🙄

Alessandro Paluzzi This is what a Twitter CoTweet request looks like

A social media manager wrote a really smart thread analyzing RadioShack’s Twitter brand voice. Now RadioShack has made a video in response trying to get him fired. Crypto bro shitposting and harassment has no place in this industry.

Elon Musk doesn't want to buy Twitter anymore (but already agreed to buy it) Twitter says it's going to court. Hello Friday news dump: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A social media manager using the corporate account to criticize their employer used to be a nightmare scenario. Now it’s a marketing tactic. My deep dive on how irony & self-deprecation are flipping the script on social advertising for ADWEEK adweek.com/media/once-a-l…

They go hard. inputmag.com/culture/twitte…

Facebook data used by police to bring abortion-related charges in Nebraska, validating concerns over technology's role in enforcing restrictions on reproductive health. We're pitching a panel at #SXSW2023 on this very topic. Please vote, send questions! panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/127276

Vote for Bloomberg's Tech panel to be included at #SXSW2023!!! The inimitable Davey Alba is slated to host, gonna be dope

At a time when it's becoming more expensive to acquire customers, savvy viral marketing is more important than ever. (I also just geek out about this stuff.) 10 of my favorite examples of brilliant viral marketing:

“Content moderation” was once industry jargon. Now it’s a front line in the culture war and the subject of multiple potential Supreme Court cases. Here’s my attempt to trace the story of how that happened, from 1996 to today, in 3,000 words. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

🚨We did an analysis of Elon Musk’s big content moderation bet — the crowdsourced Community Notes system — during the war in Gaza, and found that it was slow and allowed repeat offenders to go viral still. Important piece by Davey Alba, ಠ_ಠ, Leon Yin Eric Fan

NEW: We analyzed hundreds of posts with misinformation about the Israel-Gaza conflict carrying Community Notes. We found that X has transformed from a flawed but policy-driven system to a free-for-all where falsehoods are prominently served up to users bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…