Threads is flopping because Facebook is brand-safe and deeply unsexy; Elon Musk ghosts Kenyan staff; AI bot Harriet Tubman; Gamer guys mad about women in soccer; Misogynoir sinks White House cyber security director; Don’t bring your phone to this island in Finland — NEWS ROUNDUP
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Laid-off Twitter Africa team ‘ghosted’ without severance or benefits: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/17/tech/ghana-twitter-layoffs-severance-intl-hnk/index.html
Meta rejected scores of women’s health ads. Democrats want answers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/17/meta-rejected-dozens-womens-health-ads-democrats-want-answers/
Threads Usage Drops By Half From Initial Surge: https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/threads-week/
Harriet Tubman research material: https://archives.nypl.org/scm/20868
Would you visit this phone free island? https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/finland-phone-mobile-free-island-b2361499.html
EA Sports FC 24 Fully Revealed: Release Date, Ultimate Team, and More: https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-sports-fc-24-fully-revealed-release-date-ultimate-team-and-more
Personal debts said to scuttle nomination of Biden’s acting cyber director, an unusual level of scrutiny: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/15/kemba-walden-nomination-cyber-director/
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| 0:00.0 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:17.4 | I am here, as always, with my producer, Mike. Mike, how you doing tonight? |
| 0:21.6 | I'm doing well, Bridget. |
| 0:22.6 | Thanks for having me back. |
| 0:23.6 | It is nice to see you, as always. |
| 0:25.6 | And here's what you may have missed this week on the internet. |
| 0:28.6 | So, are y'all still using threads? |
| 0:31.6 | If you are, there's a chance that you might actually be there alone. |
| 0:35.6 | Because after a surge in downloads, |
| 0:41.2 | while Twitter was crapping the bed like we told you about a few weeks ago, |
| 0:48.3 | threads his daily active user count dropped from 49 million to 23.6 million in the span of a week. |
| 0:52.2 | We're getting this information from similar web, which is a firm that tracks web traffic. |
| 0:54.6 | They're only reporting Android data, but it's pretty likely that this is the same across operating systems, and it still paints |
| 0:59.4 | a pretty qualitative picture. Here's what they found. On its very best day, July 7th, the same |
| 1:04.9 | day that Twitter was announcing rate limits and all of that nonsense, threads had more than |
| 1:09.6 | 49 million daily active users |
| 1:11.7 | on Android worldwide. That's about 45% of the usage of Twitter, which had more than |
| 1:16.9 | 109 million active Android users that day. But by Friday, July 14th, Threads was down to |
| 1:23.3 | 23.6 million active users, or about 22% of Twitter's audience. Usage in the United States, |
| 1:30.8 | which saw the most activity, peaked at about 21 minutes of engagement with the app on July 7th, |
| 1:35.9 | but by July 14th, that was down to a little over six minutes. So like, not really a lot of |
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