Before Elon Musk acquired Twitter in late 2022, the social media platform had a robust developer ecosystem filled with third-party companies integrating it into their own products. Musk’s Twitter, now known as X, is a vastly different environment for developers. Case in point: As of...
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June 12, 2024 albert
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What we wouldn’t give to see those DMs: The special counsel looking into former president Donald Trump obtained a search warrant to search through the billionaire reality TV star’s Twitter account. The prosecutors obtained the warrant as a part of their investigation into Trump’s alleged...
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August 9, 2023 albert
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Twitter has launched yet another new feature in order to promote its fledgling paid subscription program, Twitter Blue. And in doing so, Twitter has changed the settings of every user with open DMs, blocking non-Twitter Blue subscribers from messaging them. Twitter turned your DMs into...
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July 16, 2023 albert
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Elon Musk’s Twitter is increasingly becoming unusable for users who aren’t paying for the company’s $ 8 per month Twitter Blue subscription. On Monday, the soon-to-be former CEO said that an update “coming this week” will limit the ability to send direct messages to people...
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June 13, 2023 albert
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Ever since Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $ 44 billion last year, it’s been a widely agreed upon stance that he greatly overpaid for the social media platform. However, the amount in which he overpaid seems to be widening post-acquisition. According to Fidelity, Twitter is...
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May 31, 2023 albert
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Different isn’t always better. That’s arguably the case with one of the latest developments on Elon Musk’s Twitter. The official Twitter account for National Public Radio (or NPR) controversially got a “U.S. state-affiliated media” label on its profile last week, which was quietly changed to...
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April 9, 2023 albert
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There are few things in this life that we can consistently count on. Maggie Nelson’s writing will always move us, my mom’s pancake recipe will always slap, and Meta will always try to take users from other platforms by morphing their own. On Wednesday, just...
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December 8, 2022 albert
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Remember when you were in grade school and found out you had a new teacher? Imagine Twitter as that class, and Elon Musk as the teacher now that a whole bunch of Twitter users are testing the boundaries of what’s allowed on the app under...
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October 29, 2022 albert
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G4 TV is no more…once again. Just one year after relaunching the video game-centric cable TV channel, G4 TV, Comcast has decided to pull the plug. In a memo first obtained by Deadline, the CEO of Comcast’s sports and entertainment division, Spectator, Dave Scott, explained...
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October 18, 2022 albert
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The internet is chock-full of so many bizarre conspiracy theories that it’s not always easy to keep track, just like it’s not always easy to separate actual conspiracies from parody ones. Birds Aren’t Real, a “movement” that’s picked up enough steam to prompt a recent...
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January 6, 2022 albert
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