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Tue. 05/04 – How Many People Still Pay For AOL?

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Technology, News, Tech News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Twitter opens up Space more broadly, and buys the startup Scroll. So, what is the larger endgame here with their subscription play? Apple benefits from the turmoil in Google’s AI team. A breakdown of day one of the Apple/Epic Games trial. And how many people still pay a monthly subscription to AOL? Sponsors: Masterworks.io, promocode: ride Cybereason.com Links: Twitter expands Spaces to anyone with 600+ followers, details plans for tickets, reminders and more (Tech Crunch) Twitter is buying Scroll, the subscription service that removes ads from news sites (The Verge) Twitter makes all of its money from ads. It’s trying to change that. (Recode) Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings (Reuters) Ford backed Argo sees new sensor as key for self driving cars (Bloomberg) Apple and Epic go head-to-head in fiery opening remarks of highly-anticipated trial (9to5 Mac) About 1.5 million people still pay for AOL — but now they get tech support and identity theft services instead of dial-up internet (CNBC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, May 4th 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:09.0

Twitter opens up spaces more broadly and buys the startup scroll so what is the larger end game here

0:15.8

with their whole subscription play Apple benefits from the turmoil in Google's

0:19.8

AI team a breakdown of day one of the Apple Epic Games trial, and how many people still

0:26.0

pay a monthly subscription to AOL?

0:28.5

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Twitter has opened up space. Tech.

0:37.0

Twitter has opened up spaces, its live audio feature, to anyone with more than 600 followers.

0:40.0

Also, we can now schedule spaces ahead of time and you can sign up to get notifications when they

0:46.0

happen, which we will make use of as soon as we can.

0:49.9

And Twitter has fleshed out more of its plans for things like ticketed spaces, co-hosting,

0:55.1

accessibility, and more, quoting Tech Crunch.

0:58.8

Twitter says it decided on the 600 person follower figure as being the minimum to gain access to Twitter

1:04.4

spaces based on its earlier testing. Accounts with 600 or more followers tend to have

1:08.9

a quote good experience hosting live conversations because they have a larger

1:13.5

existing audience who can tune in. However, Twitter says it's still planning to

1:17.4

bring spaces to all users in the future. Twitter spaces will soon support

1:21.5

multiple co-host

1:23.0

and creators will be able to better market and even charge

1:26.0

for access to their live events on Twitter Spaces.

1:28.6

One feature, arriving in the next few weeks,

1:30.7

will allow users to schedule and set reminders about spaces they don't want to miss.

1:34.8

This can also help creators who are marketing their event in advance,

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