Influencers feel the pinch
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
How social media influencers are earning less in lockdown and rethinking what they do. Plus, is it realistic to expect technology to provide an answer to ending social distancing measures? And we get some tips on producing music at home. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
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| 0:49.5 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly essential guide to all the hottest news and trends from the technology world. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm Rory Katelyn Jones, and this week our contact tracing apps the best way to combat the coronavirus or just a technology pipe dream. |
| 1:05.1 | We assess the latest evidence. |
| 1:07.7 | Social media influencers tell us their income has evaporated during the virus crisis, |
| 1:13.3 | should we have any sympathy? And in our latest look at learning new tech skills, we find out |
| 1:19.2 | about making music at home. I'm joined this week by BBC Technology reporter Jane Wakefield |
| 1:25.3 | to guide us through all of those stories and more. Hi Jane. |
| 1:28.8 | Hello, Rory. How's your week being your lockdown like I am? I've been trying to get in the |
| 1:33.5 | garden as much as possible this week, in between working very hard, because it's been nice and sunny. |
| 1:38.9 | And I'm getting a lovely view of your kitchen from my loft. Here's a flavour of what's coming up. I've worked for a long |
| 1:46.1 | time to get my career to this point and I've worked hard so yeah I think definitely my anxiety |
| 1:53.4 | and things are through the roof at the moment to be honest. I'm seeing people experimenting, |
| 1:59.7 | playing music, connecting with other people, |
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