ICYMI: The Free Trial Period of Social Media Is Over

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachelle is joined by Alex Kantrowitz, the writer behind the Big Technology newsletter and podcast. The two discuss the recent changes to Twitter Blue and how paying for Twitter might be a joke, it won’t be for other platforms like Instagram and TikTok. As paid verification models become de rigueur in a bid to woo content creators, what will that mean for the average social media user? Is this all just a giant protection racket? Or is it platforms catering to the people who actually create content for them? This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Rachelle Hampton and Daisy Rosario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me when
0:22.9	you're left for dead you want answers we will liars new series watch now only on prime video
0:31.1	let's talk about twitter there's a lot of news about twitter i am so confused so i have a blue
0:36.5	tith right and then i only in the week, I think I had a great tip.
0:40.5	Could you explain what's going on with that?
0:42.5	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I.
0:46.2	In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:50.0	And hello, my lovely listeners.
0:52.4	Welcome back to the ICYM-I-Vverse. back to the I see YMIverse.
0:56.4	It's kind of like the metaverse, except instead of you, you know, buying anything or like
1:02.1	creating an avatar or really doing anything you would do in the metaverse, you just get to
1:06.5	listen to me talk about all the things I'm interested in.
1:09.1	So fun.
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