Elon Musk’s X is still banned in Brazil, even after the country withdrew $3.3 million from both X’s and SpaceX-affiliated Starlink’s bank accounts in order to pay off fines. These fines are a result of Musk’s non-compliance with Brazil’s Supreme Court, as the X owner feuds with Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes over…
Bluesky has launched the one major feature that was missing from the platform, keeping it from being a total replacement for Elon Musk’s X for social media users. On Wednesday, Bluesky announced that it has finally added native video to the site. Bluesky users can now upload videos directly to the platform to embed in…
Elon Musk’s X is still banned in Brazil. In addition, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has said that any user who attempts to access the former Twitter via VPN faces thousands of dollars per day in fines. So, Brazilian posters need a new place to, well, post. And it appears many Brazilian X…
A guy — we’ll call him David but that’s not his real name — just sent me a picture of his cat with a couple of small kittens by its side over Instagram DMs. “My cat gave birth a couple of weeks ago and had kittens,” he tells me in a reply to one of…
Elon Musk really wants X to compete with YouTube. Musk personally intervened to encourage MrBeast, YouTube’s biggest star, to start posting full videos on the platform formerly known as Twitter. Earlier this year, X CEO Linda Yaccarino claimed that X was becoming a “video first” platform. Now, X is taking another step in its moving…
Brazil just gave Elon Musk’s X the boot. On Friday, Brazil’s top court ordered that Musk’s social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, be banned in the country. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk’s X is the ‘home of social media piracy,’ sports leagues say The move comes after Musk has feuded with Brazilian Supreme Court…
Bluesky is finally about to add video. The decentralised social media platform flagged the coming update on Friday in a post. Bluesky first announced it would be adding video in May, along with DMs. Now might be a good time to announce that our next major app update will have video. 👀 More details soon!…
Instagram is letting you add text directly on top of your photo posts, just like you can in Reels. So, if you want to blast the words direct order “Live Laugh Love” forever across your latest travel pics on your grid, your followers can’t do a thing to stop you. Announced by the company in…
If you’ve scrolled through TikTok recently, you might have noticed that it’s not just viral dances, get-ready-with-mes and story-time videos on your For You Page right now. In fact, I rarely scroll through eight or nine TikToks before I come across a live video where I’m being directly sold to. “Caroline! 11 items! I’m gonna…
Kamala Harris is officially on Twitch. The vice president and Democratic presidential nominee now has her own streaming channel on the platform, as the campaign moves to reach more younger voters. The account, with the handle kamalaharris, streamed Harris’ speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on Thursday night, with featured clips already…