📰 #iXDailyBrief
STAT
⚡️ Think consumers are apathetic to data misuse? Think again. 56% of people say they would stop buying from a business that mishandles their data, and 79% of people say they would tell friends and family to boycott an organisation based on data misuse (Source: Veritas)
INSIGHT
📱 A majority of Americans use #Facebook and #YouTube, but young adults are especially heavy users of #Snapchat and #Instagram: prs.pctvix.co/2KPK3Is
OTHER NEWS
💵 #Revolut adds #Ripple and #BitcoinCash support: prs.pctvix.co/2GLXDKr
🐦 #Twitter looks to woo smaller, Facebook-frustrated publishers with new site: prs.pctvix.co/2KRewFY
😂 Federal judge rules that #Trump can't block Twitter users: t.me/iXNews/25922
🚙 #Apple reportedly partnering with Volkswagen to make self-driving employee shuttles: t.me/iXNews/25952
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STAT
⚡️ Think consumers are apathetic to data misuse? Think again. 56% of people say they would stop buying from a business that mishandles their data, and 79% of people say they would tell friends and family to boycott an organisation based on data misuse (Source: Veritas)
INSIGHT
📱 A majority of Americans use #Facebook and #YouTube, but young adults are especially heavy users of #Snapchat and #Instagram: prs.pctvix.co/2KPK3Is
OTHER NEWS
💵 #Revolut adds #Ripple and #BitcoinCash support: prs.pctvix.co/2GLXDKr
🐦 #Twitter looks to woo smaller, Facebook-frustrated publishers with new site: prs.pctvix.co/2KRewFY
😂 Federal judge rules that #Trump can't block Twitter users: t.me/iXNews/25922
🚙 #Apple reportedly partnering with Volkswagen to make self-driving employee shuttles: t.me/iXNews/25952
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Do you have a #Telegram channel? Check this out: prs.pctvix.co/2kkLaVq
Have a great Thursday!
Ben, @iXNews
📰 #iXDailyBrief
STAT
⚡️ Smartphones and tablets are expected to influence €620bn (£525bn) of retail sales in 2022 (Source: Forrester)
INSIGHT
🤔 Social Media: to Enhance or to Compensate? prs.pctvix.co/2MLI5L8
OTHER NEWS
🤪 Young people still love #Twitter — as screenshots on #Instagram: t.me/iXNews/27957
🕶 #Microsoft says it’s no longer planning #VR support on #Xbox: t.me/iXNews/27947
👻 Snap Maps update makes your Bitmoji’s world look a bit snazzier: t.me/iXNews/27938
💸 #FacebookGroups may soon charge monthly subscription fees for access: t.me/iXNews/27925
🚫 Twitter suspends accounts that posted #Trump advisor's phone number: prs.pctvix.co/2tgbOnr
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STAT
⚡️ Smartphones and tablets are expected to influence €620bn (£525bn) of retail sales in 2022 (Source: Forrester)
INSIGHT
🤔 Social Media: to Enhance or to Compensate? prs.pctvix.co/2MLI5L8
OTHER NEWS
🤪 Young people still love #Twitter — as screenshots on #Instagram: t.me/iXNews/27957
🕶 #Microsoft says it’s no longer planning #VR support on #Xbox: t.me/iXNews/27947
👻 Snap Maps update makes your Bitmoji’s world look a bit snazzier: t.me/iXNews/27938
💸 #FacebookGroups may soon charge monthly subscription fees for access: t.me/iXNews/27925
🚫 Twitter suspends accounts that posted #Trump advisor's phone number: prs.pctvix.co/2tgbOnr
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🙏 And thank you for the coffee, Anonymous!
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🐦 Twitter's Record-breaking Week
Back in 2016, Twitter switched categories, from "Social Networking" to "News" on the App Store and Google Play, hoping to boost its visibility. It did take it to the top of the chart in more than one occasion.
Fours years later, #Twitter is having a record-breaking week, according to two well-respected app store intelligence companies, Apptopia and SensorTower. Although their numbers are not precisely the same, they both show the same overall picture: flocks of new and returning Twitter users — almost 1 million new users in a day!
And why that is?
The world is amid civil unrest and protests for the death of #GeorgeFloyd and racial inequality. At the same time, #coronavirus has disrupted the life around the globe in its first wave and threatening with a second one. Twitter itself is in the news for standing up to Donald #Trump for sharing misleading information and/or promoting violence. While many people are outside protesting, many are stuck at home from the coronavirus threat. These all cause the need for immediacy in the news to be more than ever. And Twitter is serving that need.
Since the beginning of online social networking — web 2.0 phenomena before that — many of the "social" platforms have evolved to become more. Twitter has become a social news platform feeding the need for immediacy in the news; #Pinterest has become a social/visual search engine, etc.
These changes in the platforms, which many of us use daily, need to be reflected in the way we use them — personally or professionally — the same way it was considered in Twitter's change of categories.
#SocialMedia
©️ Image Credit: Apptopia via TechCrunch.
🦅 @perspectiveix
Back in 2016, Twitter switched categories, from "Social Networking" to "News" on the App Store and Google Play, hoping to boost its visibility. It did take it to the top of the chart in more than one occasion.
Fours years later, #Twitter is having a record-breaking week, according to two well-respected app store intelligence companies, Apptopia and SensorTower. Although their numbers are not precisely the same, they both show the same overall picture: flocks of new and returning Twitter users — almost 1 million new users in a day!
And why that is?
The world is amid civil unrest and protests for the death of #GeorgeFloyd and racial inequality. At the same time, #coronavirus has disrupted the life around the globe in its first wave and threatening with a second one. Twitter itself is in the news for standing up to Donald #Trump for sharing misleading information and/or promoting violence. While many people are outside protesting, many are stuck at home from the coronavirus threat. These all cause the need for immediacy in the news to be more than ever. And Twitter is serving that need.
Since the beginning of online social networking — web 2.0 phenomena before that — many of the "social" platforms have evolved to become more. Twitter has become a social news platform feeding the need for immediacy in the news; #Pinterest has become a social/visual search engine, etc.
These changes in the platforms, which many of us use daily, need to be reflected in the way we use them — personally or professionally — the same way it was considered in Twitter's change of categories.
#SocialMedia
©️ Image Credit: Apptopia via TechCrunch.
🦅 @perspectiveix
📡 The ex-influencer/president of the US
There are things in a week you cannot ignore — or avoid seeing — in the world, like Bernie Sanders at Biden’s inauguration, or Biden’s inauguration itself, or DJ Trump’s last song, of course [at least for now]!
In this week's newsletter, I talk about #Trump, #SocialMedia, and the #AttentionEconomy in the least political way possible.
Read it here: https://prs.pctvix.co/3c5w6ap
🦅 @perspectiveix
There are things in a week you cannot ignore — or avoid seeing — in the world, like Bernie Sanders at Biden’s inauguration, or Biden’s inauguration itself, or DJ Trump’s last song, of course [at least for now]!
In this week's newsletter, I talk about #Trump, #SocialMedia, and the #AttentionEconomy in the least political way possible.
Read it here: https://prs.pctvix.co/3c5w6ap
🦅 @perspectiveix