Daring Fireball

Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab back in April:
I used Claude to help me scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18large publishers’ X accounts and track the engagement (likes +comments + retweets) on each. Six of those publishers havepaywalls: Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, The NewYork Times, The Wall Street...

Nate Silver, back in April, under the headline “Social Media Is Turning Into a Freak Show”, where by “social media” he mostly discusses Twitter/X:
But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently cameacross a bubble chart depicting the Twitter accounts thathad received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It wasdepressing: most of the top accounts were extremely low-qualityand highly...

Yours truly, last August:
I can’t see why Apple would want to get involved with a companylike this though. Gurman’s report makes it sound like his sourcesare inside Apple, but man, this “Apple + Perplexity” thing feelsmore like something Perplexity would be seeding than one thatApple...

Ed Morrissey, writing for Hot Air, thinks Scott Pelley got what he deserved and Bari Weiss is doing a good job running CBS News:
And Pelley forgot the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes therules. Instead, Pelley convinced himself of his own virtue andtorched his own position — and if Bilton’s letter is accurate, inas mean-spirited and conceited a manner as possible. Pelley...