FTC bans ‘ask me anything’ app for teen use

Anonymous messaging apps like NGL: ask me anything are attractive to curious teens eager to share unfiltered opinions or hear candid confessions from their peers. But a new order from the Federal Trade Commission highlights how such apps can be weaponized against teen users through bullying, harassment, and deception. Often marketed as free, the apps…

Top 10 Digital Marketing Trends For 2024 via @sejournal, @gregjarboe

It’s been a year of considerable disruptions in digital marketing so far. Right now, the industry is dealing with the integration of generative AI and the impact this is going to have on user behaviour and how people search. Alongside the relentless updates that Google keeps throwing at us. SEO is changing and the industry…

X / Twitter’s user base has stopped growing under Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s X is stuck. X, formerly known as Twitter, has stagnated when it comes to user growth ever since Musk acquired the company. According to a new report from the Financial Times, X has around 251 global daily active users as of the second quarter of 2024. This represents just a 1.6 percent increase…

AI Prompting for Writing: How to Get High-Quality Output

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Elon Musk’s X: Flawed Grok AI chatbot to become more deeply integrated

X, formerly known as Twitter, is looking to integrate its flawed AI chatbot even more deeply into the platform. App researcher Nima Owji has recently uncovered code written within the X website that shows the company’s upcoming plans for its AI chatbot Grok. While the features haven’t publicly launched yet, Owji’s discovery gives users a…

Forget Everything You Know About Social Media: Embracing Chaos

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Coming redesign of Elon Musk’s X will get rid of… a lot

Another big change that no one asked for is coming to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. X is planning to redesign how content shows up in users’ feeds by removing interaction and engagement buttons from posts. This means that the repost (aka retweet), like, and reply buttons would no longer appear on each…