Casey Newton

Casey Newton @CaseyNewton

@alexeheath Fwiw when I tweeted it this post did have exactly one 👏🏻 — PolitiTweet.org

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@anulman Wow thank you for this — PolitiTweet.org

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UPDATE: in an internal post, Ev has announced that I do not count. https://t.co/d37tf9fvkO — PolitiTweet.org

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@felixsalmon I believe so yes — PolitiTweet.org

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@AndyBeard @platformer yeah media is a very hard business! — PolitiTweet.org

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@katzish thank you my friend! i have this awesome mentor in washington dc … i think you would love her actually — PolitiTweet.org

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@bennyfactor @platformer eventually i hope we will move to a universal basic income system that allocates every American at least $1,000 a month for journalism subscriptions — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NoahShachtman: the juiciest thing you'll read all night: @CaseyNewton on the (latest) clusterfuck at medium https://t.co/QjAKVDDPtD — PolitiTweet.org

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@bennyfactor @platformer yup, it’s a huge unsolved problem in the industry. that said whichever other 1-person pubs you are subscribed to are too expensive lol — PolitiTweet.org

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@caseyjohnston 😭 💖 💖 💖 — PolitiTweet.org

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@bluechoochoo omg thank you Andréa!! — PolitiTweet.org

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@willium oooh 😍 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ryanlawler this is ………. an excellent question lol — PolitiTweet.org

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@sarthakgh literally, sadly — PolitiTweet.org

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@hunterwalk @platformer have you considered publishing cuckold love stories? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Choire: It’s easy to think of Medium as a failed series of journalism companies, and that’s true, but it’s also a failed series of tech… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bluechoochoo they redesigned the app last year in an effort to create just such a feed, but it has not proved successful, I’m told — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @platformer 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 — PolitiTweet.org

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Thanks for following along. And if you want to support more independent journalism like this, I invite you to subscribe to @platformer 💪🏻 https://t.co/7BNnnSL7K5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Ultimately, staffers I spoke with wished Williams would take responsibility for his stop-start flirtations with journalism, and acknowledge where he himself had fallen short. https://t.co/p9FxYEcpEx — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s notoriously difficult to earn a profit from journalism. But the billionaire Williams started to give up barely a year in. Random user-generated posts turned into hits by Google were a more reliable source of revenue. And so it was time to downsize. Again. https://t.co/gxS7C86Xuf — PolitiTweet.org

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The thing is, Medium isn’t a bad business. It has more than 700,000 paid subscriptions, I’m told, putting it on track for more than $35 million in revenue. That’s pretty healthy for a media company. It’s just not a great tech business. Especially if you co-founded Twitter. https://t.co/vyYBrlymJ9 — PolitiTweet.org

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The story starts in a strange place: with President Joe Biden’s official Medium account being served porn recommendations. Highbrow mixed with lowbrow; unpredictable algorithms at work. Medium in a nutshell. https://t.co/QstUt4BxYn — PolitiTweet.org

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And here it is: my best effort to understand what happened after Medium invested millions in its latest embrace of original journalism, only to begin pulling back when Ev Williams didn’t like what he saw. https://t.co/5BrgHxJHjX — PolitiTweet.org

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@aunder if not, i recommend a trackpad — PolitiTweet.org

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The mess at Medium. 14 current and former staffers on what went wrong. 5PM PT @platformer. Free to all. Get it in your inbox here: https://t.co/fGpUjv2MB8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@floresgardens @kathygriffin @karaswisher As always! — PolitiTweet.org

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@kathygriffin i feel like if i explained it you would slap me and ask me to please shut up. it’s that tedious — PolitiTweet.org

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@TAIKORA thank you so much — PolitiTweet.org

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Have been chatting with lots of current and former Medium folks tonight. If you have anything to add, please DM me — would love to know more. 👂 — PolitiTweet.org