Twitter has gone through some drastic changes over the past week. Elon Musk renamed the whole platform “X” and got rid of the iconic blue bird logo, just to name a few of the biggest examples. And Musk had at least one more radical idea for his platform this week: switch X to dark mode…
Elon Musk’s Twitter is now X. The rebrand, which was made official on Monday, has made headlines all week. Along with the destruction of the globally recognized Twitter brand and its iconic blue bird logo, the rebranding has also had an extremely messy rollout. For example, large swaths of the website are still branded as…
On Wednesday morning, prominent right-wing online personalities were rallying behind a fellow influencer after their account on X, formerly known as Twitter, was suddenly suspended. The account belonged to Dom Lucre, described by BBC reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh as a “right-wing conspiracy theorist and QAnon follower” who is “one of the biggest conspiracy accounts on Twitter,”…
Over a weekend, Elon Musk announced he was “bidding adieu” to the entire Twitter brand and calling the platform “X.” Within days, the company rolled out logo changes across the site and even took down the physical Twitter logo from its corporate headquarters in San Francisco. However, as Mashable previously pointed out, the whole rebrand…
After decades of looking for something to do with his X.com domain name, Elon Musk has finally found it. Twitter, a globally recognized brand that brought the word “tweet” into the mainstream lexicon around the world, is apparently no more. Twitter is now X. Musk had previously talked about using Twitter to create his ultimate…
TikTok will now look a little more familiar to Twitter users, on the heels of Twitter’s baffling rebrand to “X.” As Twitter — sorry, X — continues its slow downward spiral into internet garbage, TikTok announced a new text-based format for posts. On Monday, the social media company announced text as a new post option…
Twitter – now known as X – is going through some turmoil at the moment…to say the least. Ever since the new “Chief Twit” took over, many advertisers and popular users have fled from the app, seeking greener pastures. With the competition at its weakest, many Twitter alternatives have stepped up to take the popular…
Reddit is serious about ending the blackout API protests that have kneecapped the platform since last month. Most subreddits have since reopened amid threats from the company to remove protesting communities’ mods. But, some have continued to stay private, locking visitors out and blocking users from posting. And Reddit is making good on those threats.…
Throw on your pink sunglasses and take cover because the Barbenheimer countdown has officially reached zero. With Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer finally opening today (July 21), the continued plea to save cinema (Tom Cruise, we’re looking at you) appears to be on the verge of success, turning casual film followers into pink…
Reddit has been on the receiving end of massive online protests from its own users over the past few weeks, with swaths of the platform being completely unusable by visitors at times. So, the company has seemingly decided that now would be the perfect time to once again roll out r/Place, a big blank canvas…