Twitter or the difficult economic model of social networks Bought by Elon Musk for 44 billion dollars, the platform, like others, bet on free access to its subscribers. But she struggles to make her audience profitable. If it's free, you're the product. This motto, particularly suited to digital industries, is even more relevant in the social media sector. Facebook (1.9 billion daily active users), TikTok (more than a billion), Snapchat (332 [...] Read more
Twitter, Meta, Amazon, FTX, Snapchat: five tech giants in turmoil
Published on Nov 24, 2022
Twitter, Meta, Amazon, FTX, Snapchat: five tech giants in turmoil The problem: its virtual platform Horizon Worlds only brought together 200,000 users after eighteen years of non-stop hiring, Mark Zuckerberg announced the layoff of 13% of the company's workforce. It must be said that the avatars proposed do not yet have legs… the end of the pandemic has slowed activityEven the third largest private employer on the planet, the global e-commerce [...] Read more
Facebook wants to know less about you, and that's great
Published on Nov 20, 2022
Facebook wants to know less about you, and that's great It will soon be 19 years since the launch of Facebook. Almost two decades in which social networks have gone from being something minority and still incipient, to becoming one of the main means of communication and information for millions and millions of people throughout the world. Some years in which we have seen how the perception of them changed, the success of many, the collapse of [...] Read more
Elon Musk says Twitter's free lunch costs the company $400 per meal
Published on Nov 20, 2022
Elon Musk says Twitter's free lunch costs the company $400 per meal because hardly anyone comes into the office Elon Musk said Sunday that free lunches for employees at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters cost more than $400 a meal because "almost no one" is in the office. According to records, the office's average occupancy rate over the past 12 months has been less than 10 percent, peaking at just 25 percent. Musk tweeted Sunday after the New [...] Read more
Messenger is finally introducing a practical chat feature
Published on Nov 20, 2022
Reason for joy for WhatsApp users: Messenger is finally introducing a practical chat feature WhatsApp gets a new update: In the future, you will be able to start a chat with your own cell phone number on the messenger via the contact list. Find out the details here. With WhatsApp for Android Beta 2.22.24.11, WhatsApp now gives beta testers the option of opening the chat with their own phone number directly in the contact list. You can now send a [...] Read more
Ubisoft partners with Riot for chat control
Published on Nov 20, 2022
Ubisoft partners with Riot for chat control Ubisoft and Riot Games have started a collaboration to create better technology to combat toxic behavior in games. Toxic behavior is a common problem in video games. There are always hostilities, especially via chat and voice chat. Although they affect everyone in games, they are particularly aimed at women and minorities. That doesn't exactly make everyone in the gaming community feel comfortable. [...] Read more
Meta, Amazon, Uber, Twitter… Tech laid off 120,000 employees in 2022
Published on Nov 19, 2022
Meta, Amazon, Uber, Twitter… Tech laid off 120,000 employees in 2022 We are witnessing a real bloodletting. Since the start of the year, 828 tech companies have laid off more than 120,000 people, according to the Layoffs.fyi site, which aggregates data from the American press. Its counter has been packed with the new wave of social plans announced in recent days at Meta, Amazon and Twitter. After hiring a lot during the pandemic – a flourishing [...] Read more
