ICYMI - The Free Trial Period of Social Media Is Over
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Adobe Express is the quick and easy Create Anything app. |
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| 0:08.0 | making it simple to create everything I need to promote my business. |
| 0:11.0 | From Instagram and TikTok posts to logos and flyers, |
| 0:15.0 | all in just a few clicks. |
| 0:17.0 | Build your brand with Adobe Express. |
| 0:20.0 | Search for Adobe Express to find out more and get the app for free. |
| 0:23.9 | Adobe Express, the quick and easy create anything app. |
| 0:31.1 | Let's talk about Twitter. |
| 0:32.5 | There's a lot of news about Twitter. |
| 0:34.4 | I am so confused. |
| 0:35.6 | So I have a Bluetooth, right? |
| 0:37.3 | And then only in the week, |
| 0:39.3 | I think I had a great tip. Could you explain what's going on with that? |
| 0:42.7 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton and you're listening to I see Y YMI. In case you missed it, Slate's podcast |
| 0:48.4 | about internet culture. And hello, my lovely listeners. Welcome back to the IC-C-Y-M-I-Vverse. |
| 0:56.6 | It's kind of like the Metaverse, except instead of you, you know, buying anything or, like, |
| 1:02.4 | creating an avatar or really doing anything you would do in the Metaverse, you just get to |
| 1:06.7 | listen to me talk about all the things I'm interested in. |
| 1:09.3 | So fun. |
| 1:10.5 | So much like the |
| 1:11.4 | Metaverse. |
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