Twitter isn’t the only social media platform setting fire to it’s third-party app ecosystem in an attempt to monetize its API. Christian Selig, the developer of the popular Reddit client Apollo, announced on Wednesday that he may soon have to shut down the app because of Reddit’s new API pricing structure. In a post on…

With AI images now going viral across Twitter, the social media platform has decided to update its crowdsourced “fact checking” feature to directly deal with not just the tweet that includes the media, but the media itself. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) Twitter is now rolling out “Notes on Media”…

Ever since Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion last year, it’s been a widely agreed upon stance that he greatly overpaid for the social media platform. However, the amount in which he overpaid seems to be widening post-acquisition. According to Fidelity, Twitter is now worth around 33 percent what the billionaire originally paid for…

Troy Smocks, who was sentenced to 14 months in prison following threats he posted on now-offline conservative platform Parler, is suing Parler for $370 million. Parler banned Smocks after calling for violence in the wake of the insurrection on January 6, 2021. “Over the next 24 hours, I would say lets [sic] get our personal…

“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…