The big noise in social media
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Facebook and Reddit follow Clubhouse into social audio. Does the idea have lasting appeal? Plus, home-made jet suit builder Richard Browning on what’s next for his creation. And why England’s former Children’s Commissioner is taking legal action against TikTok. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC Online tech editor Leo Kelion. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Stock photo of a woman listening to audio on headphones, Credit: Getty Images).
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| 0:37.9 | From the BBC World Service. He said he was hecker. So many millions of dollars. |
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| 0:51.9 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly guide to all the hottest news and trends in the technology business. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm Rory Ketland-Jones, and this week, an audio chatroom service that only started last year has been valued at $4 billion. |
| 1:05.6 | Facebook, Twitter and Reddit are already copying it. |
| 1:08.5 | We'll ask whether audio is the hot new thing in social media. |
| 1:12.7 | We also meet the man who demonstrated a personal jetpack a few years ago |
| 1:16.9 | and find out whether it's really taken off. |
| 1:20.1 | And we'll hear why the video sharing service TikTok is being sued on behalf of millions of children. |
| 1:26.6 | With me today is the BBC's online tech desk editor, |
| 1:29.8 | the indefatigable Leo Kellyan. Had a quiet week, Leo? |
| 1:33.8 | Busy. By the time this is broadcast, actually, I'm going to have left the BBC. So I'm not |
| 1:38.9 | sure in what capacity I'm taking part outgoing tech desk editor or newly independent third party |
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