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…
Twitter’s continually escalating feud with Substack appears to be going strong as users found out this weekend that searches for the blogging site are being redirected to “newsletter” instead. This appears to be another attempt by the Elon Musk-owned social media site to keep users away from Substack, as the former appears to be going…
The Twitter versus Substack battle rages on, as the social media app continues to discourage promoting offsite Substack posts by marking all site links as “unsafe” for users. On April 7, Twitter appeared to add a warning to all external Substack links, the Verge reported, prompting users to steer clear of the platform and describing…
There’s enough happening at Twitter today for a whole season of an HBO drama. The relationship between Elon Musk and his lead Twitter Files writer has ended over Musk’s decision to block interactions on tweets that include links to Substack. As a result of Twitter’s actions against Substack today, writer Matt Taibbi has left Twitter…
It appears that Twitter may currently be feuding with the newsletter platform Substack. Substack writers began noticing that they were no longer able to embed tweets when creating a post on Substack yesterday. While this could’ve been just a technical issue, perhaps related to Twitter switching over to its new yet heavily-criticized API plans, it…
One of the main upcoming features touted by Twitter for users who subscribe to Twitter Blue has been the ability to see less advertising. When owner Elon Musk announced the $8 per month paid subscription service (or $11 per month on mobile) shortly after acquiring the company last year, he specifically said that subscribers get…
On April 1, Twitter owner Elon Musk was supposed to strip all legacy verified accounts of their blue checkmark badges. However, that didn’t happen. It’s unclear as to why Musk backtracked on this date. But, maybe this has something to do with it. Only 12,305 of roughly 420,000 legacy verified accounts have subscribed to a…
Immediately after Elon Musk sat down at his throne made of doge and began slashing through everything we liked about Twitter, people began looking for alternatives. Is Mastodon where we go? Is everyone moving to Hive Social? Will we simply be forced to participate in Instagram Notes? That’s about the time Substack, a newsletter platform,…
When Twitter announced it would no longer provide free API access, some disappointed third-party developers said that they would have to deactivate fun bots they had made in their spare time. When Twitter rolled out the pricing for its paid API tiers last week, many indie developers announced they would have to shut down apps…