9 Oct 2022

Hacking social media down to size 

From Mediawatch, 9:08 am on 9 October 2022

The world’s richest person put US$44 billion to make Twitter his personal property. Social media pioneer Evan Henshaw-Plath - who co-founded Twitter’s forerunner Odeo - is now here in New Zealand trying to break down the big social platforms. But if they are worth billions of dollars because they have billions of users - isn’t a bit late for that?

An Elon Musk tweet is displayed on a screen and the Twitter logo is displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo.

Photo: AFP