How to use Twitter without falling into a black hole of anxiety

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Twitter is a stressful place these days. You can get the news faster than ever before by relentlessly refreshing your Twitter timeline, which can be both a blessing and a curse. We all probably know someone who is stressing themselves out right now by anxiously scrolling Twitter all…

Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform

Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform. And this time it’s one of the biggest companies in the tech industry. Microsoft is going to drop Twitter from its Microsoft Advertising plan next week, according to the company. “Starting on April 25, 2023, Smart Campaigns with Multi-platform will no longer support Twitter,” Microsoft…

National Weather Service accounts were not granted API exemptions by Twitter

On Friday and throughout the weekend, multiple National Weather Service (NWS) accounts announced that Twitter had removed their API access, which would disrupt crucial potentially life-saving automated emergency updates. The move came as Twitter prepares to transition its currently free API service to a paid subscription model starting at an exorbitant $42,000 per month for…

Facebook likely owes you money. How to see if you’re eligible.

Were you using Facebook sometime between the dates of May 24, 2007 and December 22, 2022? If so, there’s a good chance the company, now known as Facebook’s parent company Meta, owes you money! And who would turn down free money, right? So, here’s what’s going on and how you can find out if you’re…

Elon Musk just shut down automation for important public safety accounts

Since acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk maintained that one of his major objectives was to eliminate the bots. Last night, Twitter did just that. One problem, though: The bots blocked are the good ones. Numerous public service Twitter accounts have lost their ability to automatically post breaking news and events. Twitter has been removing API access,…

What is Lemon8, and is it safe?

As lawmakers across the country try their best to legislate TikTok out of the US, its parent company, China-based ByteDance, has been undeterred and has set its focus on a new app for Gen-Z named Lemon8. The app is surging in the US right now, and as of the time of this writing has over…