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Social Media Meltdowns: The Rise and Fall of MySpace, the Teetering of TikTok, and the Twitter Apocalypse

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Welcome to the "Social Media Schadenfreude" episode, in which Shane and Duncan delve into the misfortunes of the fortunate.

First up: MySpace, the has-been of the social networking world. Next: TikTok, the latest all-singing/all-dancing/all-spying flavor of the month. And last but not least, the endless stream of drama and chaos that is Twitter, from its beginnings as a 240-character bullhorn to its current incarnation as the pet project of a billionaire in freefall.

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In this episode:  

  • Primitive Social Media
  • Samuel Finley Breese Morse
  • Morse Code
  • Telegraph Chat Culture 
  • The Rise of the Internet 
  • BBS
  • CompuServe
  • CB Simulator
  • CBIG and the Rise of Online Dating
  • America Online
  • AOL's Disastrous Merger with Time Warner
  • Classmates.com: The Proto Facebook
  • Sixdegrees.com: The Proto MySpace
  • Friendster: Proto MySpace #2
  • MySpace: The First Juggernaut
  • Tom Anderson, Everyone's Friend
  • Lord Flathead
  • The Top 8
  • News Corp. Acquisition
  • Specific Media and the Justin Timberlake era of MySpace
  • The Ascendence of Zuckerberg 
  • Odeo Spawns TWTTR
  • The Founders: Noah Glass, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, & Jack Dorsey
  • Backstabbing and Drama at Early Twitter
  • Twitter's Big Break: SXSW
  • The Myth of Musk
  • The Elon Era at Twitter
  • Crashes and Burnings
  • Trashfires Galore
  • Is There a Rock Bottom?
  • ByteDance Spawns Douyin
  • Douyin Spawns International TikToks 
  • Trump v. TikTok
  • Government v. TikTok
  • TikTok is Shady AF
  • The All-Powerful Algorithm
  • "Toxic" Content
  • The Current State of the Socials

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