If you’ve been waiting for a social media platform that merges articles, facts, and artificial intelligence all into one app, boy do I have good news for you. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the Instagram co-founders who left the company in 2018, are launching a new social media platform: Artifact. In an Instagram post, Krieger…
Did you use Twitter’s fairly new CoTweets feature? If not, it seems you’ve already missed your chance. And, if you did, say goodbye to it…today. Twitter is immediately shutting down CoTweets, an experimental feature which allowed two Twitter users to author and publish a tweet in tandem. In a blink-or-you’ll-miss-it pop-up announcement hidden away on…
Substack has launched a slew of new features again, this time introducing “private Substacks” in the mix. Like private accounts on Instagram, these newsletters will require readers to request to subscribe. Writers can then approve or decline the request, which will appear as emails in the host’s inbox. Once approved, the reader will be automatically…
People have been fighting to #FreeTheNipple on Instagram and Facebook for years. Now, Meta‘s Oversight Board – a group of academics, lawyers, and rights experts – have recommended that the company update its rules around adult nudity to “respect international human rights standards”. In a statement on Jan. 17, the board recommended an overhaul of…
Gas, the social app that allows people to share compliments to one another, has been acquired by Discord. Popularized by teens, Gas seems to be the antithesis of what YikYak used to be (and potentially still is since its return). Also veiled in anonymity, Gas is inherently designed for spreading the love, with polls and…
Happy New Year! It’s now 2023, and with the new year comes the chance to start over fresh. Maybe it’s time for a new, social media-less you? It’s probably easy to say “goodbye” to Facebook. Most of your friends left long ago. However, Facebook is just one part of Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking giant, Meta.…
Ex-kickboxer and online influencer Andrew Tate was detained in Romania in connection to an alleged human trafficking case, Reuters reported Friday. Tate will be detained for 24 hours, alongside his brother Tristan and two other suspects from Romania. The arrests come after a Romanian anti-organised-crime unit raided Tate’s properties, where they found six women who…
It appears that a Twitter alternative has officially broken out from the pack. According to an update from Mastodon, the decentralized, open-source Twitter alternative has been gaining traction fast ever since Twitter was taken over by its new owner, Elon Musk. “Mastodon has recently exploded in popularity, jumping from approx. 300K monthly active users to…
Twitter has suspended several prominent journalists who report on the tech and media industries late on Thursday, without explanation. The journalists affected at the time of writing include Mashable reporter Matt Binder, as well as the New York Times‘ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, the Washington Post‘s Drew Harwell, prominent commentator and former anchor Keith…
Twitter’s founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey is reflecting on how things turned out with the social media platform he was integral in creating, which now belongs to Elon Musk. In both a tweet thread and newsletter post (on Twitter’s now-defunct Revue newsletter platform), Dorsey addressed the Twitter Files, the internal company documents being reported…