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Perpetually Online – DTNS 4583

A show about life on the internet. That includes social media, memes, viral videos, and everything in between. In this episode we discuss X, the company formerly known as Twitter, as well as its many competitors. Plus we touch briefly on the “Attenzione Pickpocket” lady and the Pinkydoll trend on TikTok.

Starring Nicole Lee and Karissa Bell

Follow Karissa Bell on X (Twitter)
Follow Nicole Lee on X (Twitter), BlueSky and Mastodon

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Show Notes
Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter to X
https://www.engadget.com/elon-musk-is-rebranding-twitter-to-x-and-killing-the-bird-logo-165944573.html

Twitter’s rebrand to X could worsen its legal and financial problems
https://www.engadget.com/twitters-rebrand-to-x-could-worsen-its-legal-and-financial-problems-233914973.html

Twitter becomes X
https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-becomes-x

“The everything app”: why Elon Musk wants X to be the WeChat of the west
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/29/elon-musk-wechat-twitter-rebranding-everything-app-for-west

Is decentralization the future of social media?
https://www.engadget.com/is-decentralization-the-future-of-social-media-194554192.html

Inside Twitter rival’s Bluesky first major crisis
https://fortune.com/2023/07/31/inside-bluesky-moderation-crisis-investor-pushback-user-backlash-ceo-apology/

Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23806093/mastodon-csam-study-decentralized-network

Threads adds chronological feed
https://www.engadget.com/threads-adds-a-chronological-feed-as-twitter-burns-to-the-ground-152817251.html

“Attenzione pickpocket” vigilante found to have far-right links
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/04/italys-attenzione-pickpocket-social-media-monica-poli-found-to-have-far-right-links

A woman on TikTok started talking like a robot for money. Then came the imitators
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/07/25/npc-streaming-trend-robots-orig-js-sc.cnn

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