E31: Threads vs Twitter, Zuck vs Elon, and Silicon Valley’s Civil War with Mike Solana

Fan favorite Mike Solana, Editor in Chief of Pirate Wires, joins Erik, Dan, and Antonio this week to discuss Meta’s Threads, status, and the future of social media. We're proudly sponsored by Vanta. Get $1000 off Vanta with https://www.vanta.com/zen

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode preview

(01:20) Threads vs Twitter

(08:30) Who’s using Threads?

(14:40) Threads evolving into something else

(21:13) Threads’ growth

(23:30) Elon and Substack

(29:45) Ads on Twitter/Facebook

(33:45) Fragmentation

(36:05) Journalists

(37:10) Telepath

(38:00) Twitter since 2016

(39:00) What the next election will feel like online

(42:00) Future of social media

(45:00) Whose status was affected

(50:50) Distribution on Twitter vs Threads

(53:22) Politics on social media

(57:45) “Thetaverse”

(01:00:03) What  Elon should do now?

(01:04:34) How Zuckerberg’s image has changed

(01:07:20) Final predictions

LINKS:

Zuckerberg Wages War https://www.piratewires.com/p/pirate-wires-twitters-final-boss (https://www.piratewires.com/p/pirate-wires-twitters-final-boss)

How to Blow Up A Timeline by Eugene Wei https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/how-to-blow-up-a-timeline (https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/how-to-blow-up-a-timeline)

TWITTER:

@micsolana (Mike)

@MOZ_Podcast

@eriktorenberg (Erik)

@antoniogm (Antonio)

@dwr (Dan)

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