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Twitter alternative Bluesky is now open to the public
You can finally stop begging the ‘cool kids’ for invites. By Andrew Paul | Published Feb 6, 2024 2:00 PM EST The social media alternative harkens back to a pre-Musk Twitter. Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images SHARE Bluesky is finally open to anyone still desperate to fill the social media void left by Twitter’s collapse
The Download: Twitter killers, and how China regulates AI
Plus: sharing deepfake pornography could become a federal crime This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Twitter killers: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 For the better part of 17 years, the roiling, rolling, fractious, sometimes funny, sometimes horrifying, never-ever-ending global conversation
End the Twitter Gulag
Politics Uncertainty about standards itself serves a censoring function. Just over a year into Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter (now X), the social media platform’s approach to regulating speech is no less arbitrary than it was when Musk assumed control in October 2022. There have, however, been real victories for free speech and for
Twitter reacts to Junior dos Santos vs. Fabricio Werdum
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X (Twitter) CEO Linda Yaccarino tries to explain away the poorly-executed rebrand
Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X in July 2023. It has faced major complications ever since. In the midst of people online commenting on the rebrand’s poor timing, planning and execution, Twitter’s recently-appointed CEO, Linda Yaccarino, did an interview with CNBC. “We need to remind ourselves that Elon has been talking about X, the everything
Twitter Got Fined $US350,000 for Delaying a Search of Trump’s Account in the Jan. 6 Prosecution
The special counsel investigating Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election tried, failed, and ultimately succeeded in accessing the former president’s Twitter account, documents published Wednesday show. According to the courts, Twitter was late in producing all the information investigators wanted on Trump’s pre-Jan. 6 activities because it objected to not being able to
Nigerian content producers and social media personalities are now beginning to receive their initial earnings from X, which was previously referred to as Twitter, via its ad revenue-sharing initiative. Although the disbursements had already commenced for X users in the United States at the beginning of the previous month, X made a declaration that this
Twitter is now X for Android, tweets are called ‘posts’
X branding came to Twitter for Android earlier this week, and another update rolling out on Friday afternoon changes the app name, while “tweet” seemingly becomes “post.” Starting on the beta channel with version 10.1.0-beta.1, the app name is now “X” — “X Beta” in this case — as we were expecting. As such, X
X (Twitter) makes ad revenue sharing program available globally
Any X Blue subsciber that meets the criteria can get ad payouts Jul 28, 20233:47 PM EDT 0 comments Roughly two weeks after Twitter X started sharing ad revenue with creators, the program is expanding. Earlier in July, several Twitter users posted screenshots of the amount of money they were set to get from Twitter
Twitter puts strict cap on how many tweets users can read each day
Twitter has begun aggressively limiting how many tweets users can view per day. On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk said the company would restrict unverified accounts to reading 600 posts per day and new accounts to only 300 tweets daily. Meanwhile, Twitter will allow verified accounts to read 6,000 posts each day. For most people, that