Since acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk maintained that one of his major objectives was to eliminate the bots. Last night, Twitter did just that. One problem, though: The bots blocked are the good ones. Numerous public service Twitter accounts have lost their ability to automatically post breaking news and events. Twitter has been removing API access,…
Since acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk maintained that one of his major objectives was to eliminate the bots. Last night, Twitter did just that. One problem, though: The bots blocked are the good ones. Numerous public service Twitter accounts have lost their ability to automatically post breaking news and events. Twitter has been removing API access,…
As lawmakers across the country try their best to legislate TikTok out of the US, its parent company, China-based ByteDance, has been undeterred and has set its focus on a new app for Gen-Z named Lemon8. The app is surging in the US right now, and as of the time of this writing has over…
The Twitter Files are over. At least, that’s what Elon Musk expressed following his falling out with the project’s head writer Matt Taibbi. “At a certain point, I think we need to move on from the Twitter Files,” Musk said in a Twitter Space audio chat earlier this week. “I think there’s a few things…
Parler has been acquired. Parler has also just been shut down. On Friday, the digital media company Starboard announced that it had acquired Parler, the conservative social media platform. According to Starboard, the deal went through on Good Friday and it bought Parler for an undisclosed amount. Following Starboard’s announcement on Friday, the company immediately…
Over the past few weeks, countless indie developers have announced that they would have to shut down their Twitter-based apps due to the new exorbitant pricing that Twitter began rolling out for its API. However, it’s not just small-time developers making the decision to pass on paying $42,000 per month to Twitter. Just this week,…
“Starting today, Twitter will share ad revenue with creators for ads that appear in their reply threads,” Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted over two months ago. That still hasn’t happened and Twitter remains one of the few big social media platforms that doesn’t provide an ad-share revenue model for its content creators. However, on Thursday,…
Love a TikTok so much that you want to keep it on your phone and treasure it forever? You can do that with the save video function. “Save video” allows you to save your favorite TikToks to your phone’s photo library. Downloading TikTok videos allows you to have access to a TikTok even if the…
Long before OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the internet by storm, Elon Musk was a regular AI critic. But last month the owner of Twitter went as far as to sign an open letter calling for a pause on further AI training due to potential dangers with artificial intelligence. But, while Musk has called for an AI…
Different isn’t always better. That’s arguably the case with one of the latest developments on Elon Musk’s Twitter. The official Twitter account for National Public Radio (or NPR) controversially got a “U.S. state-affiliated media” label on its profile last week, which was quietly changed to “government-funded media” over the weekend, per Gizmodo. The original label…