Over the past few weeks, countless indie developers have announced that they would have to shut down their Twitter-based apps due to the new exorbitant pricing that Twitter began rolling out for its API. However, it’s not just small-time developers making the decision to pass on paying $42,000 per month to Twitter. Just this week,…
“Starting today, Twitter will share ad revenue with creators for ads that appear in their reply threads,” Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted over two months ago. That still hasn’t happened and Twitter remains one of the few big social media platforms that doesn’t provide an ad-share revenue model for its content creators. However, on Thursday,…
Love a TikTok so much that you want to keep it on your phone and treasure it forever? You can do that with the save video function. “Save video” allows you to save your favorite TikToks to your phone’s photo library. Downloading TikTok videos allows you to have access to a TikTok even if the…
Long before OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the internet by storm, Elon Musk was a regular AI critic. But last month the owner of Twitter went as far as to sign an open letter calling for a pause on further AI training due to potential dangers with artificial intelligence. But, while Musk has called for an AI…
Different isn’t always better. That’s arguably the case with one of the latest developments on Elon Musk’s Twitter. The official Twitter account for National Public Radio (or NPR) controversially got a “U.S. state-affiliated media” label on its profile last week, which was quietly changed to “government-funded media” over the weekend, per Gizmodo. The original label…
Twitter’s continually escalating feud with Substack appears to be going strong as users found out this weekend that searches for the blogging site are being redirected to “newsletter” instead. This appears to be another attempt by the Elon Musk-owned social media site to keep users away from Substack, as the former appears to be going…
The Twitter versus Substack battle rages on, as the social media app continues to discourage promoting offsite Substack posts by marking all site links as “unsafe” for users. On April 7, Twitter appeared to add a warning to all external Substack links, the Verge reported, prompting users to steer clear of the platform and describing…
There’s enough happening at Twitter today for a whole season of an HBO drama. The relationship between Elon Musk and his lead Twitter Files writer has ended over Musk’s decision to block interactions on tweets that include links to Substack. As a result of Twitter’s actions against Substack today, writer Matt Taibbi has left Twitter…
It appears that Twitter may currently be feuding with the newsletter platform Substack. Substack writers began noticing that they were no longer able to embed tweets when creating a post on Substack yesterday. While this could’ve been just a technical issue, perhaps related to Twitter switching over to its new yet heavily-criticized API plans, it…
One of the main upcoming features touted by Twitter for users who subscribe to Twitter Blue has been the ability to see less advertising. When owner Elon Musk announced the $8 per month paid subscription service (or $11 per month on mobile) shortly after acquiring the company last year, he specifically said that subscribers get…