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A fake Twitter account claiming to be Nintendo of America, verified under the platform’s new $8 blue checkmark, showed an image of the company’s main mascot giving the middle finger.Screenshot: TwitterTwitter owner Elon Musk seems to be taking the Silicon Valley adage of “move fast and break things” to a new level of speed and destruction. The drama has been most apparent in the platform’s paid verification system that rolled out this past week and has already proved a massive headache for Twitter and an all out shit show…

Photo: Samantha Laurey (Getty Images)Headlines about the massive job losses at Twitter have focused on the big numbers—half of the 7,500-strong team left without a position, trying to find employment when their contracts run out on January 3, and in the meantime feeling unwanted at headquarters in San Francisco. (Unless, of course, you’re one of the folks Elon Musk has decided he fired in error, in which case, sorry, please come back, he’s sorry hefired you.)However, little detail has surfaced about where those cuts came.…

Image Source : FACEBOOK Facebook Multiple users from several parts of India reported problems with Meta-owned Facebook on Thursday, especially facing trouble with its 'Ads Manager'. DownDetector, an online website outage monitoring platform, showed that most of the outage reports were from Mumbai and Delhi. Several users took to the microblogging platform Twitter to…

Forget about Twitter Blue, Elon Musk’s introducing Twitter Gray.In addition to charging a monthly fee for users to keep their coveted blue verified checkmarks, Twitter will introduce a second, harder to see gray checkmark intended to distinguish government accounts, companies, major media outlets, and some public figures. The official gray badge, unlike its blue counterpart, will come free of charge, but not everyone who currently possesses a blue checkmark will qualify.Star Wars: Shatterpoint Announcement Trailer02:27The…

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Images)Alright folks, buckle up, your brain is about to hurt.Twitter is apparently backtracking from its “Official” Gray verification badge just hours after rolling it out. The sudden reversal comes on the heels of fervent backlash from users who said the free alternative to the traditional blue verified badge was confusing, redundant, and unnecessary. In a pair of weeks at Twitter marked by mass layoffs, cryptic messaging, personal vendettas, reverse firings, and amateur leadership, the…

Photo: David Odisho (Getty Images) One of the nearly 4,000 Twitter employees laid off in the company‘s tumultuous post-Elon Musk acquisition says the company illegally targeted him for trying to help fellow employees save documents prior to their abrupt removal from the company.Former Twitter engineer Emmanuel “Manu” Cornet reportedly filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday accusing them of retaliatory actions days after Musk took the helm as CEO. That firing, according to the complaint, came…

There are approximately one million pieces of Twitter news circulating this week. If you’re a user of the site, it could be hard to keep tabs on what’s happening behind the scenes amid Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover.One second, the company hints at 50% layoffs and the next, some of those same cut staff are suing. On Monday, Twitter’s newly installed CEO planned to start charging $20 for verification and on Tuesday, it’s $8,seemingly because of an online spat between the world’s richest man and horror author Stephen King.…

Screenshot: TumblrBelieve it or not, Tumblr has been around since 2007, just a year after Twitter first appeared on the scene. In place of tweets, there are short blog-style posts, but they can be text, images, audio, video, chats or quotations—it’s a more varied place than Twitter, and offers more flexibility while remaining simple to set up and use.The community features are well put together, with the options to follow, be followed, like, comment and repost all available, and your experience on the network is going to…

Illustration: Mastodon/Fediverse (CC-BY-2.0) // Stocktrek Images (AP)Six months ago, after the news broke that changes were coming to Twitter’s policies against disinformation and hate speech, I decided to give Mastodon a try. Unfortunately, I didn’t stick with the app long enough to develop a habit of using it. After returning to it once again this week, that’s something I’ve come to regret. In the few days since (mostly) ditchingTwitter, I’ve gained a new respect for the platform, which is decidedly less toxic and is…

Since 2018, Tumblr’s anti-adult-content community guidelines have stifled artists and sex workers on the platform. A new change will bring nudity back to the site, but not porn.Image: The Met Collection / GizmodoTumblr is, once again, baring it all. The platform is letting nudity (with some key exceptions) back on the feed. Community guidelines updated on Tuesday read that “Nudity and other kinds of adult material are generally welcome. We’re not here to judge your art, we just ask that you add a Community Label to your…