📡 The 💃🤡🕺War
Hello and welcome to this week’s Pulse — the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix. I’m your host, Ben, and I’d like to thank you for being here.
So a slow social media week turned out to be one of the most controversial ones with Twitter Hack. There’s a timeline of the news about it at the end of today’s Pulse, but here’s NY Time’s report on the incident.
But Twitter is not alone in the super hot water of the news… There’s TikTok’s right there with Twitter with a potential ban in the US. The implications are huge, hence this week’s insight…
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🧠 INSIGHTS
TikTok may get banned in the US - Credit: visuals on Unsplash
Over the last week, as the idea of banning TikTok in the U.S. has shifted from a fringe idea to a seeming inevitability (thanks in no small part to India’s decision to do just that), those opposed to the idea and those in support seem to be talking past each other. The reasons for this disconnect go beyond the usual divisions in tech, culture, and national security: what makes TikTok so unique is that it is the culmination of two trends: one about humans and the Internet, and the other about China and ideology.
Read more on Stratechery.
📊 STATISTICS
How Do Millennials Differ From Older Generations in Their Family Lives?
Today’s family units are very different to those of previous years. Only 3 in 10 Millennials now live with a spouse and a child, compared to 40% of Gen-Xers and 46% of Boomers when they were the same age, finds a new a report from Pew Research Center using data from the US Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. The report, which examines the nature of family life among 23-to-38-year-olds, finds some distinct differences between this much-discussed age-group and older generations.
Read more on MarketingCharts.
Verto Analytics Behavioral COVID-19 Tracker
During the COVID-19 crisis, PCs have shown a greater increase in use than mobile devices in both business- and leisure-oriented services.
By tracking total mobile and PC time spent, by category, it is clear that PC is the winner against mobile in not only gaining, but also retaining online usage.
Read more on VertoAnalytics.
📱 TOOLS & APPS
fyp.rip: own a copy of all your TikToks
coz tiktok might disappear overnight…
super useful.
🔍 SPOTTED
Twitter is working on the hashflag like animations [link]
LinkedIn is working on creating and sending a video meeting over messaging [link]
Facebook added a share to Twitter button [link]
Snapchat is rolling out profile pages for brands [link]
🎧 AUDIO STIMULATION
Uber and dating: marginal utility and opportunity cost — Planet Money
First lesson: Economics is not about money. It’s a lens of great power and beauty. In this episode, we meet our teachers and learn the first four fundamental concepts of economic thinking, and watch them applied to things like dating and hailing a cab.
Planet Money Summer School is an economics education for your ears! It’s all the economics you meant to learn, but didn’t get around to. Every Wednesday.
it’s super fun to listen to.
🐦 TWEETS of the WEEK
Truth enables, conditioning forbids.
Hacking Elon’s Twitter account and using it for a crypto scam rather than a stock-trading scam shows a complete lack of imagination.
That is a good explanation!😅
#100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie #JavaScript #Python https://t.co/s1jJjPdk3g
😂 FUN STUFF
i don’t like my skill-set anymore 🙄 — Credit: Lola Astanova
[ internalisation ] - more piano...
Listen on Spotify: Enjoy reading/working with some non-distracting background tunes.
🗞 NEWS
More on Twitter hack, new Emojis, and US Army on Twitch [link]
Twitter hack, Instagram, and TikTok [link]
Verified Twitter hijacked, wireless charging, and Gmail’s new look [link]
Huawei banned again, but growing; WhatsApp outage, and Tesla’s new tax cut [link]
Robots, Trump, and Charity [link]
TikTok ban, security cameras, and Linux changing terminology [link]
That's all for this week...
i’m out.