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…
“Who’s ready for some truth!” Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on March 30. “LFG!!!” The Donald Trump I’m referring to who just recently posted on Truth Social is Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of former president Donald Trump. The truth is that Trump, 45th president and founder of the alternative conservative social network,…
Take a quick moment to do this check-in: Look at your Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok follows and ask yourself if any activists made the cut. How many of those accounts address ableism? Are they people who have a disability themselves? How many of those are people of color? Regardless of your answers, it’s probably time…
Take a quick moment to do this check-in: Look at your Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok follows and ask yourself if any activists made the cut. How many of those accounts address ableism? Are they people who have a disability themselves? How many of those are people of color? Regardless of your answers, it’s probably time…
Julius Pringle is living a lie. The mustache-sporting mascot for the popular Kellogg’s-owned brand of dehydrated processed potato crisps has gone through numerous redesigns over the years, most recently losing his stylized flop of hair, but throughout it all his name has remained a constant: Julius Pringle, or, if a Kellogg’s copywriter was feeling particularly…
Instagram just threw you a bone. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Tuesday that, after almost six disjointed years, Instagram users can once again view their feeds in chronological order. The company unveiled two new feed options, Favorites and Following, tacitly acknowledging that its algorithm-fueled home timeline isn’t cutting it for some users.…
Ever miss a really important email? We’ve all been there. The team over at the messaging platform Telegram probably knows exactly how bad that feels too. Now it’s banned in Brazil, and missed emails are the culprit. According to Reuters, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued an order Friday for Telegram to be…
On March 9, Russian forces struck a maternity and children’s hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, leaving three dead at the scene and over a dozen injured. Many were horrified by the photos and videos of the aftermath. One photo, in particular, of an injured pregnant woman being carried out on a stretcher captured the sheer brutality…
Twitter just thought better of it. The social media company most associated with the reverse-chronological feed announced Monday that it would pause recently touted plans to let users quickly swipe between Latest and Home timelines. Seemingly at issue was not the ability to easily change between the two layouts, but rather the company’s frustrating decision…