UPDATE: Jun. 30, 2023, 6:15 p.m. EDT Elon Musk now claims this is a “temporary emergency measure.” Read the update and our original report below: Go to Twitter without logging in to your account. Just go anywhere on the site. Try opening your favorite tweet or viewing your favorite creator’s profile in a web browser…

It’s just a “temporary emergency measure.” That’s what Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Friday after the platform’s users noticed that tweets and profiles were inaccessible via web browsers on both desktop and mobile devices unless they were logged in to an account. The change basically blocked all Twitter content from unregistered visitors and was…

Twitter’s new API may now cost tens of thousands of dollars per month, but the service being provided to its customers appears to be worse than ever. That’s the general sentiment among developers who are still part of the once-robust third-party Twitter app ecosystem. According to developers paying Twitter, since the switch over to Elon…

The last year has seen a record-breaking increase of online hate and harassment for many Americans, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). More than half of American adults and teens have experienced online harassment. The ADL’s annual “Online Hate and Harassment: The American Experience” report adds a national perspective to claims…

IRL, a social app meant to connect young people and discover events, seemed to have everything going for it. The company was able to overcome the challenges of running an event discovery app during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when everyone was stuck inside. With a killer domain name in IRL.com and a…

Telegram is launching its own version of Stories, the ephemeral mixed media format made popular by Snapchat and copied by every social media app under the sun. The chat app’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov shared the news in his Telegram channel on Monday. “For years, our users have been asking us to implement Stories…

Another day, another Twitter apocalypse. This time Elon Musk’s company is purging some of the most popular automated accounts from its platform. Little by little over the past few weeks, API access was suspended for a huge cluster of Twitter’s most beloved bots. The suspensions were revealed when Twitter accounts that normally post automated pictures…

Popular subreddits are continuing to protest Reddit’s upcoming API changes via the medium of comedian John Oliver, and things are only getting stranger. On Wednesday, following another community vote, Reddit’s 30 million-strong community r/pics — which has allowed only images of Oliver to be posted of late — made another tweak to its new rules:…

It’s been over a week and a half since the 48-hour Reddit “Blackout” began, and some of the platform’s biggest subreddits continue to protest the company’s plans to charge exorbitant rates to third-party developers for API access. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman downplayed the protests early last week, claiming it was a vocal minority of users…

Making your online content and social media profiles accessible to the majority of people stumbling across your posts is an intentional practice. From Instagram and Twitter photo descriptions to captioning audio on your TikTok videos, users should be aware of these accessibility considerations. And it’s an important way to make sure your accounts are navigable…