Doug Haslam joins host Shel Holtz for a conversation about TikTok and the role it could wind up playing in the social media space. Also in this week's episode: Has Facebook really lost 15 million users? A lot of people don't think it's true; Facebook's pivot to secure messaging is about more than just messaging. Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be WeChat for everywhere except China; Telegram picked up 3 million new users in 24 hours after Facebook's outage began; teenagers are using an old tool for private chat: Google Docs; Conde Nast has turned a vibrant Facebook Group into a new profit-focused vertical; brands on Instagram are cool just because they're on Instagram; YouTube's AI wasn't up to the task of removing video of the New Zealand terrorist's live stream; the investment in podcasting may not be a good thing for podcasters or their listeners; Firework is a new video-sharing app with a twist (literally, since  you can twist your phone around to change the video view); Digg has updated its chart showing what happens on the Internet every 60 seconds; Nutella is testing giving away free samples via Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant platforms; Tune is a new Chrome extension that lets you dial down the toxic comments you see; Twitter's revamped camera is its answer to Stories; Dan York reports on the horros of the live-streamed New Zealand terrorist attack and the challenges with moderating live sstreams, Twitter's upgraded camera, India and video, a bunch of WordPress news, and the web's 30th anniversary.
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