Twitter is changing CEOs once again; what if the company changed its business model from ads to subscriptions?
👊💰 We need a revolution in social media business models
Deepti Doshi on the business incentives underlying social media
Has Substack’s subscription model really “maxed out?”
Scott Carney and Taylor Lorenz posted on Substack about downward subscriber trends they’re seeing. Carney pins it on subscription fatigue and feeling like “The only way to grow is to pillage the paid subscribers from other creators.” Lorenz questions Substack’s direction, saying “more and more like this app is becoming another social media feed.” When we recently wrote about writers who are leaving Substack, they mentioned control, pricing, and the social feature creep among their reasons for choosing competitors like Ghost and Behiiv. [Link: Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax | https://www.theverge.com/tech/927294/substack-tax-ghost-beehiiv | The Verge]
Reddit: can anyone clean up the mess behind 'the front page of the internet'?
The social news site is almost as famous for its never-ending supply of creepy subforums as it is for memes, pictures and assorted lols. Can its new CEO change that? And should she?
The Future of Twitter: Q&A with Jack Dorsey
An in-depth conversation on 10 years of tweeting, the importance of live media, and “the puddle.”
How Elon Musk Is Changing the Twitter Experience (Published 2023)
Nearly six months after buying Twitter, Mr. Musk has made tweaks that have altered what people see on the platform and how they interact with it.
Ello and Consumer-Friendly Business Models
Vox introduced Ello this way: A brand-new social networking startup — Ello — has gone viral. At one point on Thursday, the site was acquiring 31,000 new users an hour — many of whom flocked to ther…
Here's my plan to save Twitter: let's buy it | Nathan Schneider
Corporate sharks are circling around the platform we love. But there is another way: shared ownership, where the community takes control
revolution.social with @rabble
As Buyers Circle, Could Twitter Be Better Off As A Nonprofit?
Disney, Google and others are said to be considering buying Twitter. It's got baggage — lackluster ad sales, abusive trolling — but also millions of users. What if Twitter focused on a public mission?
Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best
Substack Notes just dropped. Can the startup survive this foray into social media?
How to Opt Out of Social Media Controlled by Big Tech
It might seem like there are simply no other choices for social media beyond those controlled by big tech companies, but that’s not true at all. In fact, we’re in a golden era of options being built
Our Social Media is Broken. Is Decentralization the Fix? | Internet Archive Blogs
When Jack Dorsey, founder of the very centralized social media platform, Twitter, posted this message about decentralized social media, our DWeb community took note:
Opinion | Twitter Has an Old Media Problem. Here’s a Solution. (Published 2016)
The company has become an indispensable news source for millions but as a business, it needs a white knight to swoop in.
Bluesky & Open Social Media Tech
Business Model Innovation - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics