Twitter Episodes

Twitter news and rumors, including new product developments and Twitter Blue.
Jan. 26, 2021

Tue. 01/26 – Twitter Acquires Revue

Twitter acquires a Substack competitor. It’s also iterating product in terms of… check’s notes: content moderation? The black hats are targeting the white hats in infosec. Interesting executive shuffle at Apple. A $2500 smar…
Nov. 25, 2020

Wed. 11/25 – The Blue Checkmarks Are Returning To Twitter

Twitter is revving the little blue checkmark engine back up, but it will work slightly differently than before. Stripe is either already impossibly big, or not nearly as big as it should be, depending on your point of view. …
July 17, 2020

Fri. 07/17 – Is A 21-Year-Old British Hacker Behind The Great Twitter Hijacking?

Brian Krebs has a theory of who specifically he thinks was behind the Twitter hijack, but other people have theories too. Netflix kicks off tech earnings season, but also makes a pretty interesting executive move. And of cou…
July 16, 2020

Thu. 07/16 – The Great Twitter Hijack of 2020

I run down the whole mess of the great twitter hijacking from last night. Facebook is rolling out more labels for politicians. Facebook might also be positioning itself for a TikTok diaspora. Amazon now lets influencers run …
June 18, 2020

Thu. 06/18 – Audio Comes To Tweets

Apple has rejected a Facebook app five times, so back to that debate again. Twitter lets you add audio to tweets. Door Dash raises a round. Surprise! Reliance Jio raises another monster round. And stick around for the last s…
May 28, 2020

Thu. 05/28 – The Most Consequential Tweets For Silicon Valley of All Time?

Is the Trump administration finally willing to go to war with big tech? Another Apple startup acquisition, but also why Fraggle Rock might indicate a strategy shift for Apple TV+. Remember 4k TV’s? And the microcredit app th…
March 9, 2020

Mon. 03/09 - @Jack Lives To Fight Another Day

Another day of markets in turmoil, another Robinhood outage. Jack Dorsey lives to fight another day. Apple is repairing some iPad Airs for free, and might bring 64 MP cameras to the iPhone 12. Gaming out the reality of a ARM…
March 4, 2020

Wed. 03/04 - Are Fleets On Fleek?

You already know Tweets, but let me introduce you to Fleets. Robinhood explains its outages. Google assistant can now read you webpages out loud. Netlify is an interesting raise. And why getting a big-named VC in your seed r…
Jan. 17, 2020

Fri. 01/17 - Jack Dorsey Asked Elon Musk How To Fix Twitter

No ads in WhatsApp… for now. We have all the details on the Peacock streaming service. The other streaming wars are taking their toll on Twitch. Jack Dorsey asked Elon Musk how to fix Twitter. And, of course, the weekend lon…
Jan. 15, 2020

Wed. 01/15 - @Jack On An Edit Button: ‘We’ll probably never do it’

More juicy details about the Galaxy S20 lineup, Google Smart Lock lets you do 2FA on your iPhone, proof that no-code development is the new hotness, why do the Feds even need Apple to unlock those iPhones, and Jack Dorsey sa…
Jan. 9, 2020

Thu. 01/09- The Phantom Title (Explained at the End of the 01/10 Episode)

Twitter will allow you to limit who can reply to your tweets, iPhone sales in China seem to have rebounded, the Chinese version of TikTok is why TikTok can distance itself from China, AI is going to pick which movies get mad…
Dec. 11, 2019

Wed. 12/11 - @Jack Wants to Decentralize Social Media

A bold new proposal to decentralize social media from Jack Dorsey, YouTube bans “malicious insults,” you can only clean your Pro Display XDR with a special cloth, Silicon Valley is no longer everyone’s favorite place to work…
Nov. 8, 2019

Fri. 11/08 - Twitter Is Weirdly Awake All Of The Sudden

Disney Plus will be on Amazon’s Fire TV when it launches next week, Andreessen Horowitz launches a completely free crypto school, Twitter seems to have woken up all of the sudden, T-Mobile really wants that merger with Sprin…
Nov. 7, 2019

Thu. 11/07 - Alleged Spies Inside Twitter

Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia, those weird text messages a whole bunch of people received overnight, the most powerful desktop CPUs in the world, Ghost Locomotion wants to turn existing cars into aut…
Oct. 31, 2019

Thu. 10/31 - Twitter Takes A Stand (And Subtweets Facebook)

Twitter says it will ban ALL political advertising, Cognizant says it is getting out of the content moderation business, Facebook earnings are good, Apple earnings are good… and evolving, and can the Chinese monitor SMS mess…