“Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world,” Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted last November, shortly after acquiring the company. “That’s our mission.” Earlier this month, Musk reiterated that Twitter is “hell bent on being the least untrue source of information.” However, according to European Commissioner Thierry Breton,…
Too little, too late. Or really, still too much and also too late. That’s the sentiment among startup founders and indie developers when it comes to Twitter‘s newly announced API plans meant for startups. On Thursday, Twitter announced a new paid API subscription tier called Twitter API Pro that the company claims is meant for…
YouTube viewers are used to YouTube Stories expiring after seven days. Next month though, YouTube Stories will be going away for good. On June 26, YouTube will officially sunset its YouTube Stories feature. Beginning on that Monday, users will no longer be able to create YouTube Stories. Any story created before that date will expire…
Ever since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, it’s become clear that he’s obsessed with metrics. In December of last year, he had Twitter add public “view count” metrics to tweets. Public “bookmark counts” were added to tweets in March. But now, it appears that Twitter is removing one of its most important metrics: Video…
Have you ever wondered what subscription services your friends pay for? No, we’re not talking mainstream streaming platforms like Disney+ or mundane online cloud services like Google One. What if you knew the weird things your friends are paying for? Well, Twitter just made a version of that possible on its platform. Twitter has a…
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Tuesday declaring what many families already know to be true: Social media use may cause harm to children and adolescents. Murthy’s 19-page advisory outlines the ways in which social media can expose children to violence, sexual and hate-based content, disordered eating, bullying, and predatory and self-harming…
How does one turn $400 million into a cool $50 million in just 3 short years? By acquiring GIPHY, the GIF search engine! Because that’s exactly what happened to Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta. On Tuesday, the stock photo company Shutterstock announced that it was buying GIPHY from Meta for $53 million in cash. …
Another new bug is apparently plaguing Twitter. And this time the problem is a pretty big one from a privacy standpoint. Twitter users are reporting that once-deleted tweets have since returned to their profile. The issue affects not only regular tweets, but replies and retweets as well. The Verge’s James Vincent reported on Monday that…
Right-wing YouTuber Steven Crowder is – once again – just a single strike away from permanently losing his channel and it’s more than 5.6 million subscribers. What did Crowder do this time? He let Alex Jones, who is permanently banned from YouTube, guest host his show. “We issued a strike to the StevenCrowder and CrowderBits…
After attempts to turn Twitter into a full-fledged subscription platform have failed, Twitter owner Elon Musk has his sights set on turning the microblogging platform into a full-fledged video service. Twitter users have long been able to upload short, minutes-long videos. But, since Musk came along and acquired Twitter, longform has become a priority on…