71: What does Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover mean for social audio feature Spaces?

#ElonMusk #Twitter #SocialAudio

This week Madalyn and Suze talk about the Twitter topic on everyone’s lips - Elon Musk’s takeover. They discuss whether Elon’s focus is likely to be video and what that might mean for audio on the platform. There’s also talk about the new soundboard over on Clubhouse and job cuts that have seen half the Amazon Amp team leave the building.

Links mentioned during the show...

Elon Musk’s thread about plans for Twitter…
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587498907336118274

… and audio
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587500060853424129

Paid video for Twitter? Washington Post article
https://archive.ph/2022.11.02-041515/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/01/elon-musk-twitter-paywalled-video/

Morgan’s Spaces stats thread
https://twitter.com/morqon/status/1587490188774850563

Spaces Dashboard October stats
https://twitter.com/spacesdashboard/status/1587840375892447235

Twitter Spaces soundboard feedback
https://twitter.com/TwitterSpaces/status/1585738971157757953

Emoji soundboard feature for Clubhouse
https://twitter.com/audiomentor/status/1587604530195484672

Reverse engineering thread around sfx going live on Clubhouse
https://twitter.com/alex193a/status/1587735487816650758

More Clubhouse soundboard thoughts
https://twitter.com/__sina77__/status/1587736849522507777
https://twitter.com/__sina77__/status/1587737318743490567
https://twitter.com/__sina77__/status/1587737785049485312

Token-gated Houses in beta on Clubhouse
https://twitter.com/jmilinovich/status/1587132755489398784

Amazon cuts staff working on social audio app Amp
https://twitter.com/BigTentSocial/status/1587754650522075141

“Why audio will never capture the hearts of social media users” Protocol article
https://twitter.com/BigTentSocial/status/1587737646830428161

AllThingsAudio Twitter Moment https://twitter.com/i/events/1587864537348423681

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Last week we spoke about more Spaces features appearing on desktop. Check out that episode here https://www.spreaker.com/episode/51708345

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