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Drew Benvie

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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

Worcester and London
Joined January 2007
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Drew Benvie
1 year
Chuffed! Thanks @Provoke_News & @battenhall 💥🎊.
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Battenhall
1 year
Big news! Our CEO and founder @drewb has been named Agency Innovator of the Year at the EMEA In2 Sabres 2024! 🏆 Huge congratulations to Drew for this prestigious award from @provoke_news 👏. #In2SABREs #agencylife
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Drew Benvie
22 days
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
23 days
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
23 days
Very cool developments to essentially create an offline internet, wiry Bitchat and Bitle carving the path.
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Mark Soares
24 days
Took a bit of effort but Bitle v.01 is operational; Bitle is a self powered, standalone ESP32-based mesh relay node for @jack's bitchat, a decentralized messaging protocol; it can operate indefinitely on solar, or ~25-50 days on the battery; the case is weatherproof and meant to
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Drew Benvie
23 days
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
23 days
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
23 days
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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Drew Benvie
1 month
RT @miramurati: Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building mult….
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Drew Benvie
1 month
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.
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‎A simple app to track you daily vitamin D intake from the sun.
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Drew Benvie
1 month
There are concerns about whether Bitchat being offline and encrypted will promote inappropriate user behaviour, but the proof will be in the pudding. Safeguards will emerge quickly, and either way, I think this kind of rapid innovation is great for the social media landscape.
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Drew Benvie
1 month
With looming social media bans for teens in countries worldwide, ‘Rooms’ in messaging apps are increasingly being used as an alternative, and this is a key feature of Bitchat.
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Drew Benvie
1 month
Bitchat will cater for the demand from social media users who are increasingly seeking out private and dark social, especially popular with younger users, coupled with the desire to spend time offline, off grid, and to bypass costly data packages.
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Drew Benvie
1 month
And just like that, @jack launches Bitchat. Offline and private chat apps will be a huge influence on the social media landscape in the year ahead, as the buzz lJack Dorsey’s latest weekend project Bitchat illustrates. Here’s how it looks, courtesy of @jack:
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Drew Benvie
2 months
Musk asks his followers if he should set up a new political party. What are we about to see
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Drew Benvie
2 months
Chatted to the BBC earlier about whether Twitter can reinvent itself with new product chief @nikitabier at the helm
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Drew Benvie
2 months
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.
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Drew Benvie
2 months
Hoping this flight to Dublin isn’t too full. Birmingham awaits and the rain has started in New York. Bye JFK 👋🏼
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Drew Benvie
2 months
Musk’s robot in the NY showroom looks like the controller is taking a tea break
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Drew Benvie
2 months
Pier 57 is my new favourite lane in New York (and the bits around it where I’ve been spending much of this week)
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Drew Benvie
2 months
It’s 5am, big day ahead so two coffees it is. Can’t ever remember it being as hot as this in New York ☀️🥵
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Drew Benvie
2 months
YouTube to the rescue. Also, what a turnaround on the scores
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