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🍎AirPods as a Company This is crazy! If #AirPods were a standalone company, they would be one of the biggest tech companies in the world (bigger than #Spotify, #Twitter, #Shopify, and #Snap combined!). Read more here. 🦅@perspectiveix 📰 Tech News Every Day: @iXDaily

🐦Twitter at 15 – No Match for Facebook at the Same Age "Just setting up my twttr" – those were the words that #JackDorsey, founder and CEO of #Twitter, tweeted on March 21, 2006, fifteen years ago — yesterday. Twitter, with its simplicity and unique 140-character limit (which has since been doubled), hit a nerve and quickly gained a following among the tech- and media-savvy. In 2011, Twitter passed the 100-million user milestone and in late 2013 the company went public to huge fanfare. Read more on Statista. 🦅@perspectiveix

🥣Weetabix UK on Twitter Yesterday, #Weetabix, a British cereal brand, pulled a pretty 🤢 marketing stunt on #Twitter, and after over 24 hours, it's still being retweeted and replied to. Regardless of how you feel about beans on cereal, this is how creativity can create success on #SocialMedia. I'll post some of my favourite replies from brands and organisations to the tweet, but you can read them all here. https://prs.pctvix.co/3tItju7 Big thanks to PikasoMe for the screenshots. 🦅@PerspectiveIX

​​🗞News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020 As #SocialMedia companies struggle to deal with misleading information on their platforms about the #USElection, the #COVID19 pandemic and more, a large portion of Americans continue to rely on these sites for news. About half of US adults (53%) say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Among 11 social media sites asked about as a regular source of news, #Facebook sits at the top, with about a third (36%) of Americans getting news there regularly. #YouTube comes next, with 23% of US adults regularly getting news there. #Twitter serves as a regular news source for 15% of US adults. Other social media sites are less likely to be regular news sources. About one-in-ten Americans or fewer report regularly getting news on #Instagram (11%), #Reddit (6%), #Snapchat (4%), #LinkedIn (4%), #TikTok (3%), #WhatsApp (3%), #Tumblr (1%) and #Twitch (1%). These lower percentages for news use are in some cases related to the fact that fewer Americans report using them at all, compared with the shares who use Facebook and YouTube. Read more on Pew Research Center. 🦅@perspectiveix

🐦Who dis? A few hours after #Twitter permanently banned #Trump's personal account 🔗 🦅@perspectiveix

​​🐦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

Telegram's blockchain is dead, social networks are launching new features, and PS5 release is... Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 11 👉#Telegram shuts down its cryptocurrency operation — no more TON or Gram (link) 👉#Twitter makes it easier to see quote retweets on #iOS (link) 👉#Twitter says staff can continue working from home even after the pandemic passes (link) 👉#PlayStation 5 still on track for holiday 2020 release (link) 👉#Instagram adds bulk comment deletion & control for who can mention or tag you on iOS; also testing comment pinning (link) 👉#Google tests iMessage-like emoji reactions for RCS Messages (link) 👉#LinkedIn adds polls and live video-based events tools (link) 👉 Programmer hacked the #India's mandatory contact tracing app so that he always appear safe (link) 📰@iXDaily by @PerspectiveIX 💌Weekly Newsletter.

Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines—Day 5 👉#Apple will host a virtual #WWDC this year — starts on 22 June (link) 👉#Twitter tests a warning message that tells users to rethink offensive replies (link) 👉#Twitter rolls out changes to threaded conversations following tests in its prototype app, #twttr (link) 👉#Airbnb cuts 1,900 jobs, around 25% of its global workforce (link) 👉#Bitcoin is set for ‘Halving’ this month (link) 👉 Leaked videos show #Lenovo’s first gaming #smartphone (link) 👉#Android 11’s public beta to launch with 3 June via live stream (link) 👉#Google’s #Stadia controller will finally work wirelessly with computers starting this week (link) 👉#Microsoft launches #SurfaceBook 3 (link) and #SurfaceHeadphones 2 (link) 👉#Microsoft offers $100,000 to hack its custom Linux OS (link) 👉#Uber lays off 14% of its workforce in COVID-19-related cost-cutting (link) 👉#Pinterest Q1: revenue of $272M, vs. $270M est., up 35% YoY; user base grew to 367M MAUs, up 26% YoY (link) 👉#EA Q4: revenues of $1.39B, beating expectations of $1.19B, up 12% YoY (link) #️⃣#EarningsCalls 📰@iXDaily by @PerspectiveIX 💌Weekly Newsletter.

📰 Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines—Day 1 👉#Intel unveils 10th-gen desktop CPUs, including 5.3GHz flagship (link) 👉#Zoom admits it doesn't have 300M DAUs, quietly correcting the claim in its original blog post to 300M “daily Zoom meeting participants (link) 👉#Telegram postpones the launch of its TON blockchain for a second time, pushing the go-live date to April 2021, and offers to return $1.2B to investors (link) 👉 Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for its second fund dedicated to #cryptocurrency and #blockchain investments and holdings (link) 👉#Apple Q2: $58.3B revenue, up 1% YoY; $44.9B from products, $13.35B from services; net income of $11.25B (link) 👉#Amazon Q1: $75.5B revenue, up 26% YoY; net income of $2.5B, down from $3.6B in Q1 2019; $10.2B from AWS revenue, up from $7.7B YoY (link) 👉#Twitter Q1: sales up 3% YoY to $808M; net loss of $8M due to COVID-19; mDAUs hit a record 166M, up 24% YoY (link) #️⃣#EarningsCalls 📰@iXDaily via @PerspectiveIX 💌Weekly Newsletter.

📱TikTok is the 3rd Favourite Social Platform Among US Teens When it comes to which #SocialMedia platforms resonate most with US teens, the battle between #Snapchat and #Instagram continues. But the latest report on #teens from Piper Sandler shows that a new player – #TikTok – has made its way onto the scene and is quickly becoming a favourite with teens. Snapchat has remained the favourite among teens since 2016. However, Instagram, which is currently the favourite social platform for almost one-third (31%) of the 5,200 US teens surveyed. #Facebook#Twitter 🦅@perspectiveix via MarketingCharts. 👻add me on snapchat and also 📺watch the best of TikTok on Instagram!

❤️Ranking of Brand Intimacy During the Coronavirus Pandemic #Spotify, the audio streaming app with 73 million users in North America, was ranked No. 1 in a study of #brand intimacy as apps strengthened their emotional bonds with consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic. #Pinterest and #AppleMusic came in second and third place. 🗳Related Poll. #Facebook#Instagram#Pandora#Snapchat#Twitter#Airbnb#Uber 🦅@perspectiveix via Pulse.

📊How Tech Companies Impact Society The Verge Tech Survey 2020 Americans believe that #Google, #Amazon, #Apple, #Microsoft, #Netflix, and #YouTube have an overall positive effect on society. They’re more likely to think that #Twitter, #Slack, #Instagram, and #Facebook have an overall negative effect. 𝕭𝖊𝖓 🦅@PerspectiveIX via the Verge.