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While the headlines are filled with Twitter rebranding itself to X, and Threads getting big updates, Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky is also making important changes on its platform. Yesterday, July 27, the company announced a major change to its feed, changing it from a straightforward ‘popular posts get featured' system to more of an algorithmic play where users will get a more recommendation-based feed to see new posts that they might actually be interested in. This change will also rename the ‘What's Hot' feed to…

Image Source : BLUESKY Bluesky swaps 'What's Hot' with dynamic 'Discover' feed for enhanced user experience Bluesky, backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has recently announced a major update to its platform, replacing the existing 'What's Hot' feed with a more dynamic 'Discover' feed. The company aims to enhance the user experience by providing a customized feed…

Elon Musk may want to send “tweet” back to the birds, but the ubiquitous term for posting on the site he now calls X is here to stay — at least for now.For one, the word is still plastered all over the site formerly known as Twitter. Write a post, you still need to press a blue button that says “tweet” to publish it. To repost it, you still tap “retweet.” But it's more than that. With “tweets,” Twitter accomplished in just a few years something few companies have done in a lifetime: It became a verb and implanted itself…

Elon Musk-owned Twitter has replaced the blue bird logo with an X. The new logo has received mixed reactions from users and experts. The Carl Pei-owned tech startup Nothing has also reacted to the social media platform’s ‘X’ logo. The company also took to Twitter to react to the logo by sharing a meme on the platform. Twitter’s logo looks similar to the one used by the phone maker for its Nothing X app. This app is important for people who own Nothing’s audio devices like the Ear (2) and the Ear Stick. Users need this app…

Last month, an interview with Twitter cofounder and former CEO, Jack Dorsey, was posted online, where he claimed that the Indian government threatened the microblogging platform that it will shut down its offices in India and carry out raids if they did not block accounts that were critical of the government during the farmers' protest. On Friday, July 21, the Central government accepted sending a notice to Twitter, warning it of ‘significant consequences' after the social media company failed to block 167 of the 3,750…

Amidst the ongoing turmoil in Manipur, a shocking video surfaced on social media platforms where two women were forcefully stripped and paraded naked by a mob. The government has now asked Twitter, and other social media platforms to take down that video as the matter is under investigation, ANI reported. The Manipur video sparked outrage and condemnation on social media platforms and there were calls for decisive action to be taken against the wrongdoers. Bollywood actors like Akshay Kumar, Richa Chadha, Urmila…

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky is facing ongoing challenges with its moderation efforts as users express their intention to leave the platform in protest due to its failure to identify and flag offensive slurs used in account usernames. A number of users, particularly those from Black communities, are disappointed with Blue Sky's lack of an apology for allowing racial slurs to bypass their moderation tools, despite such slurs being in violation of the platform's community guidelines. Users brought attention…

Meta Platforms chief Mark Zuckerberg's new social media app, Threads, has become a fierce competitor to Elon Musk owned Twitter. It has already raced past the 150 million downloads number. Like Twitter, people can share text, links, and interact with others on the Threads app. Now, it has been revealed that Twitter co-founder and former chief Jack Dorsey has opened an account on Threads. Soon after that, Dorsey received a 'follow' request from Zuckerberg. However, Dorsey took a dig at the Meta chief instead!Dorsey shared…

Photo: Alex Gukalov (Shutterstock)A couple in Morrison, Colorado recently used ChatGPT to officiate their wedding and craft numerous speeches. The couple, who were reportedly in a rush to complete the ceremony before Deyton Truitt, the husband, deployed for the Army. ChatGPT was reportedly used to plan just about every part of the wedding, from the welcoming to the closing remarks. The couple did opt to write their own vows and had to have one of their parents sign the wedding license since AI systems aren’t recognized as…

Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users can see in a day was the latest in a series of decisions that has spurred millions of users to sign up with alternative microblogging platforms since Elon Musk acquired Twitter last year.In addition to a surge in numbers on Mastodon, the acquisition and subsequent changesboosted small existing platforms like Hive Social and has spawned brand new upstarts like Spoutible and Spill.Most recently, the microblogging platform backed by Twitter founder Jack…