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This is a great advert for TinyLetter, would love to know if they approached Wired to get this published and how that process went down.
by tommoor 11y ago
This is a great advert for TinyLetter, would love to know if they approached Wired to get this published and how that process went down.
- Animats 11y agoThat's got to be a "sponsored story". At the bottom of the page, there are links to more "Sponsored Stories - Powered by Outbrain". What is happening, and happened years ago, is that many people stopped using Facebook messaging and went back to email. It's easier to get messages via email on smartphones than to run Facebook's app.
- noamyoungerm 11y agoThese are two separate concepts. The sponsored stories by outbrain are just your regular old "lose 100 pounds per second" blogspam. There is another, more benign phenomenon, where a company's PR department writes an article about the company, sends it off to a reporter, and says "Hey, we think you might be interested in publishing this (plus, we already did all the writing for you)" and then the newspaper edits it and publishes it as a regular article. They see it as a sort of win-win situation. Reporters get an article to publish without any work, and companies get free / cheap PR.
- morgante 11y agoMaybe in your social circles that's true, but everyone I know has started to rely on Messenger for almost all their non-professional communication. It's simultaneously killing both email and SMS.
- Tomte 11y agoHere it's WhatsApp. Just about everyone is using it. Many people are using FB Messenger or Threema or whatnot, but WhatsApp is reigning supreme.
- andybak 11y agoMessenger == Facebook Messenger? Please specify for those of us that don't use it. There's been several apps known as 'Messenger' over the years.
- morgante 11y ago> Messenger == Facebook Messenger? Yes. At least among my social circle, it's become the go-to messaging platform.