Tumblr has recently been vocal about going all-in on Gen Z, but wooing a fresh new set of users to a 15-year-old platform has its hiccups. Endemic Tumblr creators have reported recent drops in engagement they think are due to an influx of young users from TikTok. As a platform, Tumblr thrives on reblogging, but…
Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, could really use a win right now. Downloads of the app are way down, two major tech executives recently left the company. Even Trump himself is refusing to use his own social network until things get better. And, earlier this week, it looked like that much-needed win for…
Nostalgia never truly goes out of style, but there is much to unpack in the latest collection from Mayfair Group, an ad agency turned viral Instagram brand that describes itself as “your internet hype team.” The company’s most recognizable product is a sweatshirt that says “Empathy,” which it sells alongside clothing emblazoned with sayings like…
No, Twitter’s newest feature isn’t officially called “Ghosting” — but it might as well be. The company announced Thursday that, after almost 10 months, it’s finally begun testing a new way for overwhelmed, annoyed, or just plain uninterested users to dip out of the notifications nightmare known as getting mentioned in a tweet and then…
Over the past few days, a video from former president Donald Trump’s most recent rally in Michigan went viral. The clip, which now has more than 2.5 million views just on Twitter, features a woman decked out in American flag gear sharing her thoughts about how the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump. (It…
You’ve likely heard of #BookTok, a rapidly growing corner of the TikTok algorithm ran by and for book lovers with the purpose of recommending their favorite reads, offering critique of popular novels, and essentially operating digital book clubs in the app’s comment section. BookTok has a ton of social power now, influencing book sales and…
Today, April 6, Pinterest is rolling out a new policy to eradicate climate change misinformation across both user generated content and ads. The new policy removes content that denies the existence or impacts of climate change, the human influence on climate change, or that climate change is backed by scientific consensus. It will also ban content…
Twitter is finally giving in. The social media giant announced Tuesday that, yes, it’s actually for real working on an edit button that it plans to start testing in the “coming months.” And no, it hastened to add, this move has nothing to do with Elon Musk. “yes, we’ve been working on an edit feature…
When Elon Musk tweets, the market listens. Twitter shares skyrocketed Monday as news broke that the Tesla CEO and Twitter obsessive had purchased a 9.2 percent stake in the social media company. At the end of the day’s trading, CNBC reported that Twitter stock was up 27 percent — bringing the value of Musk’s holding…
Just over a month after going live on the Apple App Store, two central tech figures working at Truth Social are saying “bye bye” to former president Donald Trump’s social media endeavor. According to a new report by Reuters, Truth Social’s “chiefs of technology and product development” Josh Adams and Billy Boozer have resigned from…