Has Twitter Meta its match?

Make Me Smart

Marketplace

News, Business

4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Meta is debuting Threads, its riff on Twitter, to rival the legacy social media platform. We’ll get into where the app might sit in today’s social media landscape and question why Meta would want a piece of Twitter’s notoriously unprofitable pie. And, how the U.S. workforce is changing as boomers retire. Plus, feral cats with 9-to-5s.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Meta Unveils ‘Threads’ App to Take on Twitter” from The New York Times

- “Meta readies Threads, a new Twitter challenger” from Marketplace

- “How the graying of America is reshaping the workforce and economy” from The Washington Post

- “These feral cats have jobs” from Marketplace

- “Mars helicopter calls home after long communications blackout” Spaceflight Now

- “Why new gravitational ripples are blowing the minds of scientists worldwide” BBC Science Focus

We’re shaking things up on “Make Me Smart”! If you’ve got an idea for an episode, segment or game, let us know. You can reach us at 508-U-B-SMART or email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Rimechres, host of This is Un Comfortable, a podcast from Marketplace.
0:05.3	This season, we explore how secrets can shape our financial lives.
0:09.7	We've got stories about the creative lengths people go to pay off student debt,
0:14.0	what it's like to become addicted to financial submission,
0:17.3	and how easy it can be to get stuck in a vicious cycle.
0:20.5	We take a look at how secrets take a toll on our lives,
0:23.6	and what price some are willing to pay for the truth.
0:26.8	Listen to This is Uncomfortable, wherever you get your podcasts.
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1:02.9	Hello, I'm Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.
1:07.3	It is July 5th. Hope you had a good fourth of July celebration if you celebrated.
1:12.8	Kai is out today, but joining me is Marketplaces at 11. Welcome back.
1:18.0	Hey, it's good to be back, Kimberly.
1:20.8	Good times. Did you do anything fun for the fourth?
1:23.6	We mostly just tried to soothe our dog from the fireworks extravaganza.
1:29.4	That was happening. Yeah. I've become like a huge curmudgeon.
1:35.2	Every time there's fireworks, I'm just like, do we have to? Do we have to do this?
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