For some of us it’s already Bluesky(s) ahead, but as that is still in private beta, Twitter continues to try and woo users by introducing new features while working to boost monetization of the platform. Its latest offering is to allow media publishers to charge per article for those who …
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After giving one of the last interviews Tucker Carlson would air before his unceremonious firing by Fox News, and a surprise sit-down with a BBC reporter, Elon Musk graced the studio of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher to further discuss his recent ups and downs as head of Twitter. …
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Imagine a distant future in which humans compete for passenger seats on a spaceship headed away from this dying Earth to a more habitable planet. That’s more or less the current scene on Twitter — a slowly collapsing social network — as people scramble for access to Bluesky, a decentralized …
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It’s another day, and there’s another bizarre glitch in the Twitterverse. This time it involves paid Twitter Blue badges suddenly proliferating on accounts that reportedly have at least one million followers, except the account holders have not enrolled in the subscription service. In fact, some of the account holders are …
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For months, Twitter CEO Elon Musk repeatedly delayed phasing out blue verification checkmarks for users not subscribed to the site’s $8 subscription tier. It became a meme for Musk’s fumbling takeover of the social media site. “Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20,” he tweeted earlier this month. …
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Elon Musk has had a busy few days. This weekend, he ordered the “w” in the the sign on Twitter‘s San Francisco headquarters painted over, so that it read “Titter.” Then, on Monday, he changed his Twitter display name to “Harry Bōlz” before tweeting, “Impersonating others is wrong!” He later …
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Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, one of the biggest stars on YouTube, is not happy with what some fans and creators are saying about his longtime friend Chris Tyson, who recently revealed that they’re receiving hormone therapy as they explore their gender identity. On Thursday, Donaldson articulated his displeasure at the …
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In his first major interview since buying Twitter — and then gutting about 80 percent of its staff — Elon Musk told the BBC that running the social media company has been “quite a stressful situation… not an easy one,” and “quite painful.” Nevertheless, the tech billionaire stood strong on …
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There’s some bad blood in the Taylor Swift community. According to a new report from social media tracking firm Graphika, the largest harassment in Swift fandom spaces is happening between radical Gaylor and Anti-Gaylor accounts online — and changing fandom interactions for the worse. #Gaylor is a long-running fan theory …
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NPR will no longer use Twitter, accusing the platform of “taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent,” in a decision announced Wednesday, April 12. The move makes NPR the first major news outlet to stop publishing new content on Twitter; the rule …
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