Social Media Platforms The battle for groups

Toby Beresford Social Media Platforms Bulletins The battle for groups

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So Slack is top of this current scorecard. The index is very much a work in progress so we shouldn't draw too much from it, however we can identify one trend -

the social media industry is very interested in groups

Comms software for groups is quite separate from comms for individuals where social media began.

For one there tends to be some sort of organisation that runs the group and moderates membership and content.

That's perhaps why Slack, clearly the hands down winner in the business chat client space, is so influential among other social media platforms - everyone wants to get a piece of groups.

Thinking About This Week

  • LinkedIn announced new features for its Groups product - as it chases Slack's lunch. (I've now lost the link to the video with the project manager for this but it's just interesting to know they're evolving the product).
  • Reddit unveiled a new look - there's life in this news curation community yet.
  • India threatens its own Great Indian Firewall to match China's. (and Uganda's if you count their social media tax) and so threatens the fragmentation of the internet. I like the global internet, as a committed internationalist it makes sense to me to organise and connect, but nationalists, it seems, beg to differ.
  • Twitter is courting journalists with new features as it doubles down on its strength among media professionals. 

 

That's all for the week.

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Toby 

 

 

 

Rank Platform Index
1. profile image Slack 88
2. profile image SoundCloud 80
3. profile image Tumblr 80
4. profile image Flipboard 78
5. profile image Vimeo 73
6. profile image Medium 72
7. profile image Product Hunt 67
8. profile image StockTwits 59
9. profile image YouTube 58
10. profile image Twitter 58
11. profile image Facebook 55
12. profile image LinkedIn 51
13. profile image Crunchbase 49
14. profile image Pinterest 48
15. profile image Patreon 45
16. profile image TripAdvisor 44
17. profile image Periscope 43
18. profile image Reddit 43
19. profile image GitHub 42
20. profile image Behance 40
21. profile image Path 40
22. profile image WordPress.com 40
23. profile image Flickr 38
24. profile image Skype 38
25. profile image Snapchat 36
26. profile image Quora 35
27. profile image Tinder 34
28. profile image AngelList 32
29. profile image WhatsApp Inc. 30
30. profile image Meetup 29
31. profile image Matador 28
32. profile image Goodreads 27
33. profile image Zoosk 26
34. profile image Myspace 26
35. profile image Disqus 26
36. profile image Viber 23
37. profile image Strava 23
38. profile image Mixcloud 22
39. profile image Ning 22
40. profile image Scribd 19
41. profile image VK 19
42. profile image Yammer 18
43. profile image Telegram Messenger 18
44. profile image Foursquare Swarm 17
45. profile image Scoop.it 16
46. profile image Udemy 16
47. profile image Shapr 14
48. profile image ASKfm 14
49. profile image Tagged 13
50. profile image Life Of Dad 13
51. profile image Nextdoor 13
52. profile image Match 13
53. profile image Eharmony 13
54. profile image Gab.ai 12
55. profile image Hi5 11
56. profile image GooglePlus 10
57. profile image XING_de 10
58. profile image Signal 10
59. profile image Mail.Ru Group 9
60. profile image Ello 9
61. profile image Anchor 9
62. profile image HealthUnlocked 8
63. profile image Stack Exchange 7
64. profile image Viadeo 7
65. profile image Amino 6
66. profile image VIKTRE 3
67. profile image Blender Network 3
68. profile image Weibo 2
69. profile image Jammcard 2
70. profile image ChatFOSS 1
71. profile image Qzone Qq 1
72. profile image Wikia, Inc. 0