Facebook and Twitter face uncertain road ahead

referring to Here's how to delete all of your old, embarrassing Facebook and Twitter posts. And if you want to keep those old posts for personal viewing, you can download your Facebook and Twitter archives to your hard drive before deleting them. Facebook: Hide or delete old postsLimiting your Facebook audience Facebook lets you change the visibility of old posts. Unfortunately, Facebook makes it hard to delete lots of old posts at once—you can only erase them one by one. Twitter: Delete old tweets with web apps Twitter, like Facebook, doesn't give you an option to delete old posts in big batches.

Facebook and Twitter face uncertain road ahead

For months, Facebook and Twitter investors shrugged off concerns about election meddling, regulatory scrutiny and an industry-wide privacy awakening. Facebook (FB)'s stock soared to all-time highs despite the onslaught of bad press that followed the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Shares of Facebook and Twitter plunged 20% or more within hours of the two companies posting earnings results. "Twitter and Facebook have had to change their business models to some extent," Daniel Ives, an analyst with GBH Insights, told CNNMoney. Facebook now has 2.23 billion monthly users while Twitter has 335 million.

The ghost of MySpace haunting Facebook and Twitter

as declared in ☰Post Partisan | OpinionThe ghost of MySpace haunting Facebook and TwitterFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on April 11 in Washington. That model is something that economists call "network effects," which are basically what they sound like. Industries where network effects are strong tend toward monopoly, which is why pundits spend so much time fretting about Facebook's market power. Think of a product that doesn't have much in the way of network effects — say, a 2018 Nissan Rogue. Facebook and Twitter are not at death's door, but their eventual demise just got a little bit likelier.

Tech Companies Like Facebook and Twitter Are Drawing Lines. It'll Be Messy.

From its earliest days, Silicon Valley has been animated by near-absolutist understanding of free speech. Other than exceptions for fraud, pornography or specific threats, the prevailing view among many tech platforms has been to allow pretty much anyone to post pretty much anything. These sensibilities are even enshrined in American law, which gives companies broad immunity from prosecution for what their users post. Last week, Facebook announced a new plan to remove misinformation that it determines might lead to imminent harm. Online services — not just Facebook but also Google, Twitter, Reddit and even those far removed from news and politics, like Spotify — are rethinking their relationship with the offline world.

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