Right now, Twitter kind of feels like the end of Titanic where there aren’t enough lifeboats for everyone to escape. The proverbial lifeboat in this case is Bluesky Social, a new Twitter-like app with partial funding from former Twitter head Jack Dorsey. Bluesky is getting rave reviews from people who are using it, even though…
Reddit remains the internet’s best dumping ground for some of the funniest content out there. While Reddit has produced some great original material, users on the site equally love to pay tribute to amazing content on other sites. This happened when Redditor u/sporite went onto to the Ask Reddit subreddit to get a general idea…
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably seen people flocking to Bluesky, a social platform hailed as a promising alternative to the now-ailing bird app. It looks nearly identical to Twitter, was initially funded by Twitter, and calls itself a “social network for microblogging” which, huh, is funny because that’s exactly what Twitter is. Anyway! Before…
A centrist political pundit being ratioed the moment he arrives. Discourse that would have people who overuse the word “woke” frothing at the mouth. A CEO begging users to please not call posts on the platform “skeets.” Users continue to call said posts “skeets.” Oh, and @dril and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are there now too.…
Yet another Microsoft product is removing its Twitter integration shortly before the social media platform’s new high-priced API plans go into effect. This time it’s Xbox. Last week, Xbox gamers began to notice that they could no longer share video game clips to Twitter. The feature was previously built right into the console and allowed…
Are some of your tweets not quite getting the engagement you thought they would? Feel like you’re being shadowbanned on Twitter? Well, wonder no more. Twitter has officially rolled out its new label system which notifies users when a specific tweet’s reach is being limited. The company announced that tweets have begun being labeled on…
After this weekend’s Twitter Blue drama, debacle, guerilla marketing campaign – whatever you want to call it – Elon Musk shifted gears on Monday to promote Twitter’s other paid subscriptions feature called, well, Subscriptions. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) “Content creators may wish to enable subscriptions on this platform,” tweeted…
Twitter users have been taken for quite the ride over the past few days when it comes to the site’s verification system. On Thursday, Elon Musk removed the “legacy verified” blue checkmarks from users who received them prior to his acquisition. Then he started “gifting” Twitter Blue verified badges to specific celebrities who publicly said…
On Thursday, April 20, Elon Musk made a rare move: He delivered on a promise. Since acquiring Twitter in October of last year, Musk has been open about his disdain for Twitter’s old verification system. Musk has made it clear that “legacy verified” users would eventually lose their checkmarks. And, after missing the originally scheduled…
It’s 4/20. Elon Musk is removing the blue checkmarks from the around 420,000 “legacy verified” accounts that were granted the icon through Twitter’s now-defunct identity verification process. From this point forward, only users who pay $8 per month (or $11 per month on mobile devices) will have the blue checkmark badge affixed to their Twitter…