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Sharing the why, how, & memes behind tomorrowโ€™s tech trends. Venture Partner @SignalFire , ex-Editor @TechCrunch , pitchcrafter.

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Pre-seed startup revenue projections be like
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Itโ€™s never too late for better product design
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This is what radiation LOOKS like. Uranium emitting alpha particles through cooled vapor
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Portrait Of A Biebs As A Young Man, by Winter at the Oakland Art Walk. cc @john @justinbieber http://t.co/GJ4JYhLxRh
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you gotta admit this all makes Zuckerberg's steady hands on 18 years of unilateral power look commendable.
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This is what global warming looks like
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No! Yahoo is going to delete all of Yahoo Answers. That's like burning down the internet's goofy Library Of Alexandria. We'd lose antiquities like this:
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A GameStop sea shanty. The Internet remains undefeated.
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When people ask why I work from home so much
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Someone build a quarantine gamification app where you rack up points for minimizing movement of your GPS dot
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@STweetycat @DanAmira INFINITE BROTHERS
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The WSJ's "Facebook Files" is the biggest scoop in the company's history. Internal documents prove: -Facebook knew its algorithm incentivized outrage -Instagram knew it hurt teen girls -Facebook has been shielding VIPs from moderation Here are the shocking revelations... ๐Ÿงต
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Big news: Facebook has been paying teens & adults $20/month to give it root access to all data transmitted by their phone. Here's what my investigation found... 1/
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@iamTannenbaum @ArtDecider Therapy for Kevin is going to cost a lot more than that. His bloodlust was insatiable
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Instagram, seriously, you canโ€™t show the first 10 out of 15 seconds of a Reel in feed, then make me switch to Reels to see the end, but instead start from the beginning. I shanโ€™t abide by your time thievery
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I heard the Uber and WeWork TV shows referred to as the "SoftBank Cinematic Universe" ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
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Everyone: Social networks are too addictive. Meanwhile, Netflix: our goal is to destroy your relationships
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Quibi is shutting down -- a $1.75B crash due to 4 problems I listed upon launch: -Stodgy Hollywood directors instead of mobile-native creators -No screenshots = No memes -Slow content + weak discovery = no attention -No social or 2nd-screen features
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Quibi is the anti-TikTok (that's a bad thing) | TechCrunch

It takes either audacious self-confidence or reckless hubris to build a completely asocial video app in 2020. You can decide which best describes Quibi,

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Personal news: It's TC to VC for me! I'm leaving TechCrunch to join SignalFire as a principal investor & head of content. I'm also launching my newsletter where I'm writing now: A "toast", to the future!
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How Pluto felt today http://t.co/QJYo1ukPs1
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Facebook has allowed so many worst-case scenarios to come true thereโ€™s too many to count, but Iโ€™m going to try *deep breath*
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Early startup employees often work nearly as many hours as founders for 1/100th of the equity...that founders can destroy with 1 dirty fundraise.
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Myk - ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‰ - Here To Help
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Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.
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Life is hard enough, so the @Shots app just added a tab of funny links to brighten your day. Here's our video review
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Bieber-backed Shots goes beyond selfies with links and comedy | TechCrunch

Life is hard enough for teens, so Shots sidestepped bullies with a selfie sharing app that doesn't allow commenting. Now the 6.6 million monthly active

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Samuel Morse received a letter his wife was sick. He rode six days on horseback only to find she was already dead & buried. He spent the next 45 years inventing the telegraph ๐Ÿฅบ
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After 8 years at TechCrunch Iโ€™m going on sabbatical to marry this amazing woman! The next 2 months for me, no news is good news๐Ÿคซ
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Design for purpose, not convention. Here are some more examples
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I love how tech giants think calling some massive betrayal of user trust โ€œan errorโ€ makes it all better. Google had a secret mic in Nest Secure. Wtf.
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I got kicked in the face the other day. The assailant was very tiny, and we canโ€™t wait to meet her.
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TechCrunch just turned 16. Over my 8 years writing there, I squandered ~50 million page views by failing to build โ€œaudience portabilityโ€. My #1 advice to journalists is to negotiate having your personal email list signup link in all your articles. Subscribers are your pension.
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The best startup naming advice I've ever heard: 1. If you read it, you can pronounce it 2. If you hear it, you can spell it. 3. You'll quickly become the top Google result Vowels are back in vogue.
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Amazonโ€™s tips for meetings and writing: 1. Know your objective 2. Good grammar 3. Be concise 4. Include experts 5. Debate & change 6. Show decision-prep work 7. Advocate for customer 8. Donโ€™t go rogue 9. Reschedule if unprepared 10. Think big 11. Regather if stuck 12. Be specific
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Writing Docs at Amazon
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Instagram's Kevin Systrom becoming TikTok's CEO and crushing Reels would be the ultimate revenge for Zuckerberg stripping his autonomy. So spicy!
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Social media royalty @justinbieber , @rudymancuso , & Shots' @john team up for a silly video series starring puppets
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More Than A Selfie App, Shots Produces Original Videos With Puppets (And Bieber) | TechCrunch

Shots has been pigeonholed since birth. First it was dismissed as just a startup funded by Justin Bieber. Then it was laughed at for being an app just for

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Precisely the happiest moment of my life.
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Some tech billionaire, please buy out the local ISP(s) where FCC chairman Ajit Pai lives and give him 14.4k dial-up speeds for killing net neutrality
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Twitterโ€™s abuse problems could be largely solved with one change: phone number verification required to reply to people who donโ€™t follow you. 1/
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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the US didn't anticipate TikTok "could afford to invest billions & billions & billions of dollars in user acquisition" Yet Snapchat, Instagram, & YouTube happily slurped down TikTok's ad dollars that were literally buying away their users.๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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Y'all laughed at my launch story for Bieber's selfie app @Shots 18mo ago, but now WSJ is all over it raising $8.5M http://t.co/DQwCQkcN8E
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Hereโ€™s what Mark Zuckerberg said on Clubhouse about AR, VR, and Remote Work โ€œWe should be teleporting, not transporting ourselvesโ€
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I spent an hour today googling where to buy prints of my favorite paintings so all my retargeted ads will be beautiful.
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So many startup founder stories now start with โ€œI played video games and then wanted to make my ownโ€ that zero screen time parenting seems questionable
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Facebook's algorithm change incentivized hateful content, so political parties & news outlets made their posts angrier, driving polarization. Some shifted to make 80% of their posts negative, Fb's research found. But execs refused to change back bc it would hurt usage & revenue
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Social networks and what they make you feel: Facebook: Inadequate Twitter: Angry Instagram: Ugly Pinterest: Materialistic Snapchat: Old
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*the kid in the back who did zero homework and was relying on the final to change his grade*: ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜
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Henry had to solve a Rubikโ€™s Cube in under 30-seconds so the class wouldnโ€™t have to take its final-exam. Henry flexedโ€ฆ
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Develop a ritual for ending your work-from-home day. Something nice, easy, that tells you youโ€™re done. Otherwise youโ€™ll feel guilty every night
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Googleโ€™s CEO desperately not trying not to laugh and say โ€œtheyโ€™re spamโ€ when congressman asks why Republican emails go to junk folders
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Vine's replacement is called v2, with 6.5 second looping videos, better moderation, Teams for collaborating, with a Summer 2018 launch plan. Get all the details here
Here's how Vine replacement v2 will work | TechCrunch

First, don't call it "Vine Two". Details are starting to emerge about v2, the forthcoming video app built to replace Vine by its former co-founder Dom Hofmann. TechCrunch has learned that v2 has...

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Here's another masterpiece @jtsexkik made out of Yahoo Answers. If you want to geek out about meme history with me, join my newsletter at
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Facebook's rebrand to Meta is smart since it's an easy modifier for any product name: Meta Apps, Meta Business, Meta Avatar.
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๐Ÿ˜‚ @Instacart brought us 1 brussel sprout instead of 1 pound. So thankful for startups
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Some perso-fessional news: 2 years after leaving TechCrunch to be a VC at SignalFire, theyโ€™ve promoted me to venture partner! I absolutely love helping founders (and this little one) find their voice
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Starting my new job as a VC at @SignalFire today. Any advice? Both right & very wrong answers accepted.
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Great job everyone. Tech became such a self-parody that there was nothing left for HBO
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โ€˜Silicon Valleyโ€™ to End With Season 6 on HBO

The upcoming sixth season of "Silicon Valley" will be the HBO comedy's last,ย Variety has learned.

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I spent 10 years reporting on Facebook at TechCrunch, but these Files finally prove it knew it was harmful, but hid the info from the public and refused safeguards that would hurt its profits. Safely enabling communication at scale is hard, but society deserves better
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@everyone if youโ€™re excited to reply โ€œbut Facebook caused problems!โ€ you misread this tweet. Of course there were huge mistakes that still need to be answered for. But he was consistent and never treated the utilities the world relies on like his toys.
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Safety costs are strangling Airbnb, just like Facebook. Turns out the margins in tech aren't so sweet if you have to pay for the consequences
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WSJ News Exclusive | Airbnb Swings to a Loss as Costs Climb Ahead of IPO

Airbnb racked up a $322 million net loss for the first nine months of 2019, raising questions about the valuation and timing of its much-anticipated public-markets debut.

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So Facebook banned Trump only after: -He lost popularity with some mainstream users who might have left with him -His power to retaliate with the law decreased -His big ad campaigns ended It feels opportunistic, not moralistic
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Selfie innovation: Simulating a front-facing camera flash on iPhone by blinking the screen white for a split second to illuminate your mug
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Apple actually banned Facebook's iOS Research program last night before Fb announced it was shutting down the program without mentioning it was forced to
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Apple bans Facebook's Research app that paid users for data | TechCrunch

In the wake of TechCrunch's investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook's Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down.

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[Thread] I wrote about the 13 reasons this bike has a cult, breaking down Peloton's product genius. 1. Conspicuous Self-Actualization...
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How Peloton made sweat addictive enough to IPO | TechCrunch

It makes lazy people like me work out. That's the genius of the Peloton bicycle. All you have to do is Velcro on the shoes and you're trapped. You've

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Update! Facebook is shutting down its iOS Research app after we exposed its policy problems and sparked criticism from all of you. Thanks for spreading the word!
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A bug caused the Instagram tap-to-advance feed rollout, and now it's being removed. We got answers from Insta here:
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Instagram accidentally rolled out tap-to-advance feed, removes it | TechCrunch

Instagram confirms that a bug this morning mistakenly rolled out a massive change to its feed that replaced the traditional scrolling with horizontal

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Weโ€™re at the hospital after a healthy delivery of our second daughter! Pics coming, but while watching her sleep, I wanted to share some surprising reflections on the ways parenting rebuilt our neurochemistry. You kind of expect having a child will release immense doses ofโ€ฆ
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Jews like my ancestors only survived the Holocaust because bystanders protected them, even at their own risk I'm calling on all allies to our Asian American & Pacific Islander neighbors. If you see an assault or harassment in progress, step up. Step in! Silence is unacceptable
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Instagram told the public and congress that its impact on teen well-being was "quite small" or there was no consensus Internally, research showed that โ€œ32% of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse"
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History lesson: Why did the creator economy suddenly blow up? Because the social giants refused to help creators monetize...since none of their competitors did either. Until... ๐Ÿงต1/
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Amazon & Facebook want the government thinking about China & TikTok, not anti-trust. Thatโ€™s it. Thatโ€™s the strategy
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Instagram's own research found: - 13% of British users and 6% of American users traced the desire to kill themselves to Instagram -14% of boys in the U.S. said Instagram made them feel worse -40% of users said Instagram made them feel unattractive and poor
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Mary Meeker's 294-slide Internet Trends report is too dense for most to read so I dissected it. Here are the critical takeaways. First, U.S. adults now spend 5.9 hours per day online. We're addicted. Period. 1/
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Quibiโ€™s failure proves my thesis that itโ€™s content density, not production budget, that wins on mobile. My newsletter here reveals why itโ€™s all about oohs, ahhs, & hahas per second
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Content density: Why TikToks trounce Stories

Constine's Newsletter #11: The formula to 15 seconds of fame

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Big pivot for Shots. Hoping to grow more addictive and make everyone a creator by letting people share funny links
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Bieber-backed Shots goes beyond selfies with links and comedy | TechCrunch

Life is hard enough for teens, so Shots sidestepped bullies with a selfie sharing app that doesn't allow commenting. Now the 6.6 million monthly active

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@estherschindler Whoa. Can this dude tell us how to fix the problems our phones caused?
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
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Breaking: Facebook is shutting down its Research VPN on iOS in the wake of TechCrunchโ€™s report that it paid people to use the app that collects their data
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
5 years
Facebook threatened Research app users with legal action for publicly discussing the VPN, Iโ€™ve learned, yet it claims there was โ€œnothing secret about itโ€. ๐Ÿคจ
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
5 years
Facebook is so desperate to know what teens want & find the next WhatsApp that it's paying to decrypt their phone data & risking Apple's wrath. Here's my full report: 9/
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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them | TechCrunch

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a "Facebook Research" VPN that lets the company suck in all of

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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
7 years
Hilarious new @LelePons video sees Snapchat & Instagram duke it out face-filter to face-filter
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Lele Pons (@lelepons) โ€ข Instagram video
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
3 years
Facebook changed its algorithm in 2018, promote friends & family content to "improve well-being" In actuality, it was an attempt to stop a multi-year decline in Likes and Sharing
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
4 years
A joke became a cultural moment, a parody of exclusivity culture, and an $110K fundraiser for racial justice. Thatโ€™s ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ‘
@itiseyemoutheye
it is what it is
@itiseyemoutheye
4 years
this is what it is
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
5 years
Powerful scoop by @zackwhittaker on apps screen recording you triggers Apple banning that
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
3 years
Facebook's 'XCheck' system protects 5.8 million VIPs from having their policy-violating content removed XCheck's purpose? To prevent โ€œPR fires". Special treatment caused posts that violated Fb's rules to be viewed 16.4 billion times in 2020, including posts by Trump
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
7 years
New winner for scariest tweet ever
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
7 years
The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
3 years
10 elements of a minimum viable startup pitch: Problem Solution Biz model Origin Team Customer acquisition Traction Competition Big vision Fundraise (& the โค๏ธto endure โˆž NOโ€™s)
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
5 years
Facebook's share price should take a hit from Sign In With Apple. Love the "we give apps a fake email address for you" feature
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
4 years
Quarantine is dismantling acquaintanceship. Sending love to fellow extroverts who prioritized a wide tribe over a few true friends and now feel the walls grow taller by the day.
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
5 years
THREAD: After writing hundreds of articles about about apps this year, hereโ€™s my wishlist of feature launches like Twitter DM search & Uber โ€œQuiet Rideโ€. First up, Instagram... 1/
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
10 years
Vine of @MikeTyson 's greatest hits to help you lay a smack down on your Friday
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
1 year
Twitter, which is struggling to reassure advertisers it's safe, will host Tucker Carlson's show, renowned for getting dropped by all blue-chip advertisers because it promotes white supremacy. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”
@DylanByers
Dylan Byers
@DylanByers
1 year
๐Ÿšจ NEWS: Tucker Carlson will relaunch his show *on Twitter* with help from former Fox News staff. He will forgo at least $25 million owed to him by Fox Corp. in order to break non-compete clause. @PuckNews
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
4 years
Oracle buying TikTok without its AI despite having zero experience in social = -A moderation time bomb -A broken app with no recommendation algorithm -Chinaโ€™s current best case scenario
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
3 years
Iโ€™ll save you the โ€œour seed investment just came out of stealthโ€ jokes, but please meet Kennedy Sage Constine.
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
3 years
We need a Creator Middle Class, but not everyone has to be a star Thereโ€™s honor in being on a creatorโ€™s production staff, making stuff people love. For every Mr Beast, thereโ€™ll be dozens of: -Videographers -Data scientists -Merch designers -Ecommerce aces The trades of tomorrow
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
5 years
The amazing photographer who took this pic is @GrantDenham . Between poor forest management, climate change, and neglect of power lines in wooded areas, thereโ€™s a lot we need to change.
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
3 years
When soccer star Neymar posted non-consensual intimate imagery (revenge porn) of a woman who accused him of sexual assault, XCheck delayed its removal. That caused the video to be viewed by 56 million people, reposted 6000 times, and it lead to bullying of the accuser.
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
6 years
Robinhood lets you trade cryptos with no extra fee, compared to the 1.5% to 4% you pay on Coinbase. This is going to be POPULAR
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Robinhood adds zero-fee cryptocurrency trading and tracking | TechCrunch

No-commission stock trading app Robinhood will let you buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum without any added transaction fees starting in February, compared

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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
11 months
Meet Peter Deng, OpenAI's new VP of consumer Product Management. He's a legend who's led product at Instagram, Messenger, Oculus, & Airtable. But why we're lucky he's overseeing ChatGPT is he's a loving, hands-on father of 4. Kind dad energy is exactly what we need guiding AI.
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Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
5 years
And now, the feature absolutely no one was asking for...LinkedIn Stories!
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LinkedIn launches its own Snapchat Stories. Here's why it shouldn't have | TechCrunch

The social media singularity continues with the arrival of Snapchat Stories-style slideshows on LinkedIn as the app grasps for relevance with a younger

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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
5 years
Now we're waiting to hear if Apple will revoke Facebook's internal use-only enterprise certificate for sidestepping the App Store to distribute a policy-violating app to non-employees. This could heat up Zuck vs Cook tensions 8/
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
6 years
Facebook admits it deleted Fb messages sent by Zuckerberg & other execs from non-employees' inboxes with no disclosure. Seems like a breach of trust to me.
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
3 years
9 years on Twitter: 80K 9 months on Clubhouse: 500K Blown away by this opportunity to talk to you all. โ˜บ๏ธโ˜บ๏ธโ˜บ๏ธ Invest time in new social apps and youโ€™ll grow together.
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
3 years
Zoom did us dirty. There no way to specify if a call is audio or video so everyone defaults to exhausting video chats. We deserve an audio-only invite button/URL. Make phone calls phone calls again.
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@JoshConstine
Josh Constine ๐Ÿ“ถ๐Ÿ”ฅ
@JoshConstine
4 years
HQ Trivia serves as a lesson that apps must evolve & founders can't rest upon finding momentary success
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HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through | TechCrunch

HQ Trivia is dead. Today the company laid off its full staff of 25 and will cease operation of its trivia, sports and word guessing games, a source close

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