"Social Media" by benchen71

[Anita]

Crossed the moat after a bit of wading. (Three wrong guesses, would have been only two if we'd trusted an idea...)

[benchen71]

A successful solver update before the nudges:

Tyrpmom
Hector
Qmark
schmidzy
K7
Anita and Steve
Alex R

[benchen71]

Nudges, in order of increasing blatancy:

1. The entries whose clues begin with "Social media site" and end in "?" are in focus.

2. These sites/apps sound like real-world sites/apps.

3. What changed to make these made-up sites?

4. When you think you might have an answer (but it doesn't look quite right), you just might need to employ the same mechanism one more time.

[caroline]

I'm so lost. I read the hints like ...
#1, duh
#2, duh
#3, duh
#4 - wait, what?

[benchen71]

OK, so we have two more solvers joining us:

ellequin
edestlin

which brings us to 27. And now, on to the answer reveal...

[benchen71]

Here's the solution to "Social Media":

Most of my metas involve a single step in order to obtain the answer. This was an attempt at a 2-stage meta, in which you have to utilise the same mechanic twice.

It was so much fun coming up with the clues for the pseudo-social media sites, especially INSTAGRIM, PIKPOK and ZEDDIT. And, of course, once you get the first step, TWATTER itself is a gentle mocking of TWITTER, for those of us familiar with the British English insult "twat".

We'll be moving into literary territory with tomorrow's MOAT. I for one am looking forward to it!

[KayW]

Doh! I got to TWATTER/TWITTER on day I. LOL both of which I tried submitting - more than once. But despite remedial nudges, I never made that final leap to I.

[woozy]

It was so much fun coming up with the clues for the pseudo-social media sites, especially INSTAGRIM, PIKPOK and ZEDDIT. And, of course, once you get the first step, TWATTER itself is a gentle mocking of TWITTER, for those of us familiar with the British English insult "twat".

Um.... are you aware of the American usage (which may be the same as the British usage but with narrower social acceptance)?

[whimsy]

Doh! I got to TWATTER/TWITTER on day I. LOL both of which I tried submitting - more than once. But despite remedial nudges, I never made that final leap to I.

Exactly!
And I vaguely thought of Me (Me Me) as the appropriate type of answer (but with no mechanism) and still didn't consider I!!

[benchen71]

It was so much fun coming up with the clues for the pseudo-social media sites, especially INSTAGRIM, PIKPOK and ZEDDIT. And, of course, once you get the first step, TWATTER itself is a gentle mocking of TWITTER, for those of us familiar with the British English insult "twat".

Um.... are you aware of the American usage (which may be the same as the British usage but with narrower social acceptance)?

Nope! Totally, blissfully, unaware. Hope I didn't upset anyone inadvertently.

[markhr]

I found it kind of amusing. I think that term is used more casually in Britain than in the US.
But I do appreciate the international perspective here.

I got to the final step, and considered ME or SELF as a possible answer, but not "I". Oh well.