The New Giants Of Anti-Social Media
The New Giants Of Anti-Social Media
Reddit as well as Twitter have been losing users in increasing numbers
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They have around 500 million users between them, but two of the biggest ‘social media’ companies on the internet seem intent on infuriating their own users.
Reddit has faced prolonged strike action for the past fortnight or so, with volunteer moderators and users protesting against huge price hikes to the company’s API which have today forced several popular Reddit apps to close.
Twitter, meanwhile, is barring people who aren’t logged into the service from seeing content posted on the social network and is blocking previews of tweets appearing in apps such as Slack or WhatsApp.
Two of social media’s biggest players have turned distinctly anti-social.