Did Elon Musk watch the same hearing that everyone else did? Late Wednesday night, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk tweeted “The Woke Stasi felt the heat today.” Musk’s followers knew what he was talking about, replying with a photo of former Twitter executives, whom Musk fired when he took over the company last year, standing…
If you’ve been on Twitter over the past week or so, you’ve likely seen extremely viral tweets that include random links to Twitter Spaces, the platform’s audio chat room feature. If you’ve clicked on any of those Twitter Spaces links, you’ll likely find a nonsensical Twitter Spaces chat scheduled for some time in the future…
TikTok is toying with a new feature that will let you reset your For You page if it starts getting dull. When you make an account on TikTok for the very first time, your For You page isn’t really For You because it doesn’t know you yet. So, the algorithm serves you a wide variety…
More big changes are afoot at Elon Musk’s Twitter. On Friday, Musk announced via his Twitter account that the company would begin sharing ad revenue with content creators on the platform as of today. He said creators will get paid for the ads that show up in the replies to their tweets. In a follow-up…
Say goodbye to some of your favorite Twitter apps, automated accounts, tools, and services. Twitter will now force everyone who makes the creative things that make the platform fun and enjoyable to pay up or go away. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) In the wee hours of the morning on…
If you’ve been waiting for a social media platform that merges articles, facts, and artificial intelligence all into one app, boy do I have good news for you. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the Instagram co-founders who left the company in 2018, are launching a new social media platform: Artifact. In an Instagram post, Krieger…
Did you use Twitter’s fairly new CoTweets feature? If not, it seems you’ve already missed your chance. And, if you did, say goodbye to it…today. Twitter is immediately shutting down CoTweets, an experimental feature which allowed two Twitter users to author and publish a tweet in tandem. In a blink-or-you’ll-miss-it pop-up announcement hidden away on…
Substack has launched a slew of new features again, this time introducing “private Substacks” in the mix. Like private accounts on Instagram, these newsletters will require readers to request to subscribe. Writers can then approve or decline the request, which will appear as emails in the host’s inbox. Once approved, the reader will be automatically…
People have been fighting to #FreeTheNipple on Instagram and Facebook for years. Now, Meta‘s Oversight Board – a group of academics, lawyers, and rights experts – have recommended that the company update its rules around adult nudity to “respect international human rights standards”. In a statement on Jan. 17, the board recommended an overhaul of…
Gas, the social app that allows people to share compliments to one another, has been acquired by Discord. Popularized by teens, Gas seems to be the antithesis of what YikYak used to be (and potentially still is since its return). Also veiled in anonymity, Gas is inherently designed for spreading the love, with polls and…