Social Networks

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The tipping point for Twitter will come when its need to be a public company surpasses what made it successful. Hello, new interface.

Posted on by Ted Bauer

Twitter turned eight last week, which prompted a rush of business/tech journalism on where it’s been and where it’s going. (This happened a few months back, when Facebook turned 10. Would third-grade human version of Twitter be friends with fifth-grade human… Continue Reading →

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Facebook turns 10 today, and 57 percent of all adults are using it. But the company has issues, to be sure.

Posted on by Ted Bauer

If Facebook were a person — wrap your head around that for a second — it would now be in fourth grade. It debuted on February 4, 2004, so, by simple math, it turns 10 today. Weird. I’ve written about… Continue Reading →

Your social world is basically structured like an onion, and the broad ability for changes and shifts isn’t really there

Posted on by Ted Bauer

Felix Reed-Tsochas of Oxford University (video of him speaking embedded above) and five other academics have a new paper out which uses longer-term observational research on how we develop, and shift, our social circles over time. There’s a good write-up in The… Continue Reading →