Avoiding the news, a threat to news future. Toxicity is a problem🔐 #WEEKLY ~ August 6th
Musk steals people's accounts at his convenience. Threads is no longer cool. China banned ChatGPT. Baldur's Gate 3 rolls Steam. AFP sues X. American Airlines sues Kiwi .
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Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads have stopped using it. "More people are coming back to us every day than I expected," Zuckerberg said. Threads may have lost far more than half of its active users. SimilarWeb reports that the daily number of active Threads users on the Android platform dropped from 49 million on July 7 to 23.6 million on July 14 and then to 12.6 million on July 23. (Ars Technica)
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs fell to 8M on July 31, down 82% from launch; daily average time spent fell to 2.9 minutes/day on August 1, down from 19 at launch (CNN Business)
A great and long read: Elon Musk's 25-year obsession with the letter X explains what he did with Twitter. Good especially if you don't know the history of PayPal and some of the other background. (Mashable)
A new Russian law mandates that internet platforms verify the identity of new users through state-approved systems before granting access from December 2023. (TorrentFreak)
A look at news avoidance, which is a real threat to the news business because, according to many once-loyal readers and viewers, some news topics have become relentlessly toxic. (Washington Post)