Over the past 24 hours, numerous Twitter employees, including its head of trust and safety, have resigned from the company. These resignations all came shortly after owner Elon Musk blamed his employees for bringing Twitter’s own advertiser hate speech policies to bear on a prominent right-wing media company. The chaos over at Twitter began on…
For a bunch of people who supposedly hate social media, we sure do spend a lot of time on it. Just 33 percent of U.S. adults have “some or a lot” of trust in social media, according to a late 2022 report from the Pew Research Center, and people who spend time on social media…
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…