Twitters

Elon Musk's war of words with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues to rage on following the launch of the new Twitter rival called Threads. Both Musk and Zuckerberg have been exchanging blows on their respective microblogging platforms with threats of lawsuits, cryptic posts, and even the possibility of a cage match. In this latest feud, Musk called the Meta CEO a “cuck” on Sunday, in response to a screenshot of Zuckerberg's reply to a post by the American fast food chain Wendy's on Threads.The official Threads handle of…

While Twitter encountered many self-inflicted wounds this week, users jumped to Blue Sky and Mastodon. Then Meta decided it was a fine time to drop its Twitter copycat, Threads. In this episode, Cherlynn and Devindra chat with Engadget’s Karissa Bell about where all of these services are headed. Will Threads be the clear winner, thanks to Instagram’s social graph? Or will the future lie with fully decentralized platforms like Mastodon? Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or…

Meta's long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it's called Threads. The new social media app launches at a time when alternatives, like Bluesky, Mastodon, and Spill, are vying for users who are dissatisfied with Elon Musk's handling of Twitter's user experience, with its newly introduced rate limits and an uptick in hate speech.Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, so the company’s attempt to recreate an online experience similar to Twitter is likely to attract plenty of normies, lurkers, and nomadic…

The app, billed as the text version of Meta's photo-sharing platform Instagram, became available Wednesday night to users in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan. Despite some early glitches, 30 million people had signed up before noon on Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Threads. New arrivals to the platform include celebrities like Oprah, pop star Shakira and chef Gordon Ramsay — as well as corporate accounts from Taco Bell,…

Ever since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, the platform has gradually descended into dismay with Musk’s erratic changes. However, the platform’s recent decision to limit the number of tweets a user can see in a day could very well be the final nail in the coffin as many users have started to flock towards alternatives like BlueSky, which has had to temporarily halt signups in order to address performance issues. In a recent statement, the company stated, “We will temporarily pause Bluesky sign-ups while our team resolves…

Over the last few days, Twitter not only stopped showing tweets unless you're logged in, but also started capping the number of tweets users can ready each ("rate limiting") — ostensibly due to "data scraping," according to Elon Musk. Those actions are starting to have an impact elsewhere across Twitter's ecosystem, with many users reporting that Tweetdeck (a power-user version of Twitter) no longer works. In addition, Google Search is reportedly showing up to 50 percent fewer Twitter URLs due to the logged-in…

The company formerly known as Twitter is suing its Boulder landlord for alleged wrongful eviction and breach of an agreement under which the social media company said it is owed $5.8 million for improvements to the office space. X Corp., the successor to Twitter, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Boulder County District Court against Lot 2 SBO, the owner of the office space and a limited liability company related to Chicago’s The John Buck Company.  The property owner sued the social media company in May, claiming the company…

Image Source : AP Elon Musk HighlightsPlatform is now limiting verified users to reading 10,000 posts a day, unverified users to 1000. Temporary measures to discourage 'extreme levels' of data scraping. Earlier, Musk announced that Twitter would require users to have accounts before viewing tweets. Twitter limit: Thousands of people logged complaints about problems…

On early Friday afternoon, internet users noticing that Twitter was no longer allowing people to view tweets if they weren’t signed into the service. At the time, it was hard to tell if the change was the result of a technical error or an intentional decision by the company’s leadership. Later in the day, however, Elon Musk addressed the issue. Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience. What should we do to…

Last year, Twitter sued India over orders to block content within the country, saying the government had applied its 2021 IT laws "arbitrarily and disproportionately." Now, India's Karnataka High Court has dismissed the plea, with a judge saying Twitter had failed to explain why it delayed complying with the new laws in the first place, TechCrunch has reported. The court also imposed a 5 million rupee ($61,000 fine) on the Elon Musk-owned firm.  "Your client (Twitter) was given notices and your client did not comply.…