On April 1, Twitter owner Elon Musk was supposed to strip all legacy verified accounts of their blue checkmark badges. However, that didn’t happen. It’s unclear as to why Musk backtracked on this date. But, maybe this has something to do with it. Only 12,305 of roughly 420,000 legacy verified accounts have subscribed to a…
Immediately after Elon Musk sat down at his throne made of doge and began slashing through everything we liked about Twitter, people began looking for alternatives. Is Mastodon where we go? Is everyone moving to Hive Social? Will we simply be forced to participate in Instagram Notes? That’s about the time Substack, a newsletter platform,…
When Twitter announced it would no longer provide free API access, some disappointed third-party developers said that they would have to deactivate fun bots they had made in their spare time. When Twitter rolled out the pricing for its paid API tiers last week, many indie developers announced they would have to shut down apps…
Controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are being moved to house arrest, following a ruling by a Romanian judge on Friday. The brothers had been detained in a Romanian jail for the last three months following their arrests on suspicion of human trafficking and organized crime. The two won their appeal…
UPDATE: Apr. 1, 2023, 10:00 a.m. CDT This article has been updated to add more tweets of celebrities that have publicly stated they will not be paying for Twitter Blue. By the time you’re reading this, Twitter may or may not have already removed the blue checkmarks from its legacy verified users. Elon Musk announced…
Twitter has just released – as promised by owner Elon Musk – the source code for its recommendation algorithm, and there’s already been a very interesting discovery in the code. After pouring through the code, multiple people found at least one really interesting portion of the code that shows Twitter is specifically tracking metrics for…
The 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has officially been “INDICATED.” Well, at least that’s what he said in a rant on his social media platform, Truth Social. What Trump really means is that he’s been “indicted.” On Thursday, March 30, 2023 a New York grand jury voted to indict the former…
Twitter has officially announced its brand new API plans for developers. And looking over the details, it’s clear Elon Musk sees indie developers as acceptable losses in Twitter’s latest cash grab. Unfortunately but not unexpectedly, a slew of indie developers have already announced they’d have to shut down their Twitter-based apps due to the new…
If Elon Musk was expecting many verified Twitter users to pay to keep their checkmarks, the reality is bound to be disappointing, new data has revealed. On April 1, Twitter is set to strip away the legacy verification checkmarks from the platform in favor of the paid checkmarks associated with Twitter Blue subscriptions. Then starting…
Since Elon Musk rolled out the ability for any Twitter user to pay $8 to receive a verified badge, the blue checkmark that comes with a Twitter Blue subscription has become a mark of shame in the eyes of many. Twitter Blue subscribers have been trolled since the subscription plan’s launch, with memes like the…