Drew Benvie @drewb

Founder & CEO of @Battenhall, commentator on social media, @TEDx speaker, this year's Campaign Mag CEO of the year. Wrote the page on social media on @wikipedia battenhall.com Worcester and London Joined January 2007

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Drew Benvie @drewb

2 weeks ago

Decided to start writing my Substack again. Thoughts on the year ahead in social media… open.substack.com/pub/drewbenvie…

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Drew Benvie @drewb

2 months ago

UK Bitchat is wild. A slap involves trout. @jack I look forward to groups which users are asking for

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Drew Benvie @drewb

2 months ago

Since AI agents got released my inbox spam levels have gone off the charts. Also, numerous ones citing that ‘Julie’ told them I might need their help on xyz and do I want to schedule a chat. I have no idea who Julie is. Who is this Julie all you AI agent spammers speak of

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Drew Benvie @drewb

2 months ago

Very cool developments to essentially create an offline internet, wiry Bitchat and Bitle carving the path

Mark Soares @markkasaurus

2 months ago

Very cool developments to essentially create an offline internet, wiry Bitchat and Bitle carving the path

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Drew Benvie @drewb

2 months ago

Imagine a world where power cuts are frequent, where data is down, or too expensive, and yet everyone has a phone. Creating a way for people to communicate is just part of what @jack has done with Bitchat. But offline instant access to information, money, news, imagine that.

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Drew Benvie @drewb

2 months ago

Bitchat is FAST. Using it in London, stood next to one of the people online and messages appear instantly on your app and within a split second for others. Compare that with social media where it’s always a few seconds. @jack has figured out how to make social media instant again

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Drew Benvie @drewb

2 months ago

Loving Bitchat so far. Feels like OG Twitter meets WhatsApp meets Reddit. Dorsey’s new experiment leans into social media culture: it works offline, disappearing content, anonymous users, no tracking, panic mode, etc etc. Good or bad idea? I look forward to finding out!

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Mira Murati @miramurati

3 months ago

Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're…

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Drew Benvie @drewb

3 months ago

You know what Gen Z is fanatical about - checking the UV. Another app built over a weekend by @jack. LOVE the simplicity of it am already hooked. It's hard to find in the UK app store and I expect other countries, so here's a link. apps.apple.com/us/app/sun-day…

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Drew Benvie @drewb

3 months ago

Musk asks his followers if he should set up a new political party. What are we about to see

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3 months ago

Chatted to the BBC earlier about whether Twitter can reinvent itself with new product chief @nikitabier at the helm bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Drew Benvie @drewb

3 months ago

I do wonder if there's the potential for @nikitabier to make positive changes to X and rekindle some of the old Twitter brilliance that maybe just maybe is still in here somewhere.