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Worldwide application spending came to $65 billion in the principal half of 2022, up just somewhat from the $64.4 billion during a similar period in 2021, as hypergrowth powered by the pandemic has dialed back. However, generally, the application economy is proceeding to develop, having delivered a record number of downloads and purchaser spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores joined in 2021, as per the most recent year-end reports. Worldwide spending across iOS and Google Play last year was $133 billion, and customers downloaded 143.6 billion applications.
This Week in Applications offers a method for staying aware of this quick industry in one spot with the most recent from the universe of applications, including news, refreshes, startup fundings, consolidations and acquisitions, and considerably more.
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Where to even begin? This week Twitter became one of the most chaotic, most disastrous social networks in history — and arguably, also the most interesting, in a sort of rubbernecking kind of way. There was something new taking place either on the platform directly or within the company itself at nearly every minute.
Twitter’s twist could have been that paid elevation like this wouldn’t necessarily be about getting the attention of top creators, per se, but would gain subscribers entry into everyone’s Verified tab or at least bumped to the top of the “All” notifications tab. Or, a secondary filter on the Verified tab could allow people to toggle on or off the visibility of “official” accounts, addressing complaints that the Verified tab is now no longer useful when checkmarks are for sale.
