Picture this. It’s 2009. You’ve just finished school and you’re headed to your friend’s house because they have their own computer in their room which their parents don’t see. You sign on to a new website everyone’s been talking about: a chat site unlike anything made before, where you can video chat with total strangers,…
Follow these steps to unsend an Instagram message. Have you ever accidentally send a message to somebody you didn’t mean to send a message to? Or perhaps you sent a message to someone and you now regret that decision. Well, if it was a text message, afraid we can’t help you there. Those are forever,…
Yet another company has announced it will be removing X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, from its products. And this is a big one. Sony has announced that it is terminating PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4’s X integrations this month. The removal of this feature will mean that PS4 and PS5 gamers will no…
Author Stephen King is once again heckling Elon Musk. This time it is over the Twitter name change to “X.” Stephen King is once again publicly calling out Elon Musk and how he’s running X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. What is King blasting Musk for this time? The “X” name itself. Tweet may…
Matthew Perry, known for his role as Chandler on TV’s mega hit ‘Friends’, died on Saturday, prompting fans online to reflect on the actor’s comedic and personal legacy. Actor Matthew Perry, a sitcom legend, died on Saturday, Oct. 28, at the age of 54. Perry was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his home,…
X’s traffic, revenue, and users are way down a year after Elon Musk’s take over. Has Musk let that sink in? It’s Oct. 27, 2023: Exactly one year after Elon Musk took over Twitter. Much has changed. For one, the platform isn’t even called Twitter anymore. Musk changed the name to “X.” Mashable’s Chris Taylor…
X’s video call feature has rolled out, but users can only make calls if they’re a paying subscriber. Ever get involved in an argument on X and say to yourself, “If only I could call this person up and engage with this troll through a video and audio format?” Well, you are in luck —…
Here’s how to join X’s Community Notes. Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking feature that allows users on X to provide context to others’ tweets, is clearly an important part of Elon Musk’s version of the platform formerly known as Twitter. The feature, once known as Birdwatch, was first launched years before Musk acquired the company.…
Teens and minors alarmingly accessible on Twitch can receive donations from strangers for streaming, according to new research. The popular gaming platform Twitch may be a “paradise” for bad actors set on manipulating teen streamers, according to new research that observed how youth users appeared on and engaged the platform. It can take as little…
Is TikTok a news source? A new study found that news accounts are rarely recommended on TikTok, even to news junkies. It has been nearly four years since I made my first TikTok, bright-eyed and sporting a bob on the third floor of the BBC’s New Broadcasting House back when I was a video journalist…