Emily

Focus on technology & finance, while always keeping a kind heart.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Today we're announcing the completion of one of the largest engineering projects in the company's history:

We rebuilt the X Android app from scratch

It's faster, smoother and more reliable. But most of all: it will enable us to build new features at lightning speed.

[Emily @Emily02711]

@IronMan0753674 @storm1news

[Emily @Emily02711]

@Kramnos4241 @swd2 Agreed

[Emily @Emily02711]

@slimewadgoopin @ThatLineGuySky

[Alexandra Hildreth @alex___hildreth]

Sign outside Kiki’s tonight….this concludes the dimes square experiment

[Emily @Emily02711]

@Amy2745635jr 1969 Boss 429

[Pop Base @PopBase]

An executive producer of ‘Love Island USA’ Season 8 has died following an “unexpected medical emergency” in Fiji, where the show is currently being filmed.

ITV has stated that James Barker will be honored in Tuesday’s episode of the show.

(https://t.co/g1P9lTGC2c)

[Emily @Emily02711]

In 2025, I wrote 8 essays about music fandom, curation and discovery in the post-streaming era, now read by 3,600+ subscribers across the music business. What topics should I explore next? 👀

[Emily @Emily02711]

Have you or someone you know started using an iPod again? I want to interview you for my newsletter: https://t.co/Rl56StSbQG

[Emily @Emily02711]

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs. 

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

[Emily @Emily02711]

I am genuinely having so much fun posting on s*bst*ck notes and didn’t realize how much I’d missed tweeting circa 2013-2016 before it became a dumpster fire on here. Turns out "microblogging" is still the best format to find and chat with people with shared interests.

[Emily @Emily02711]

@substack wasn't built for musicians. So why are so many great ones using it?

@JeffTweedy, @NekoCase, @lauramarlinghq, @teganandsara, @MissMargoPrice, @perfumegenius & more are sharing stories, unreleased music & engaging directly with fans: https://t.co/oBUvJAEUf3

[Emily @Emily02711]

@raymondjacobson Yessss to incentivizing tastemakers! Just wrote something around this topic today https://t.co/d9rRlfhH1t

[Emily @Emily02711]

Algorithmic music recommendations are awesome tools when tuned by humans, for humans. I’ve discovered many songs from algo recs on Spotify or in my For You feed.

But music fans aren't just hunting for new tracks - we want meaning, context, and community.

[Emily @Emily02711]

Some of my favorites 💿🎧

[Emily @Emily02711]

But curators are at the mercy of the algorithm too, and face the same challenges artists do - getting discovered, building a reachable audience and earning a living.

[David Greenstein @dgreenstein1]

Missed this but cool to see @vaultdotfm mentioned in The LA Times the other day

Thank you @emwhitenoise ♥️

[Nate Rogers @Nate_Rgrs]

Stories about Spotify are tough to tell, so posting this one again. Spent years trying to profile Emily White, discreetly one of their star employees, who was once the source of a national debate about music ownership. Finally came together for @latimes:
https://t.co/hOWQySh8uM

[Emily @Emily02711]

@AbelowRob @Nate_Rgrs My origin story 😎

[Emily @Emily02711]

In which @Nate_Rgrs dubs me “physical media’s angel of death” 😇💀

[Nate Rogers @Nate_Rgrs]

The story of Emily White—who became a main character of the internet for a 2012 NPR essay about music ownership—stuck with me over the years, so I looked her up. It turns out she ended up at Spotify. And she couldn't talk for years—until now, for @latimes:
https://t.co/hOWQySh8uM