Elon Musk Trolls His Way Into the OpenAI Drama
Elon Musk needed fewer than 100 characters to add new chaos to the ongoing crisis swirling around OpenAI after the shock firing of CEO Sam Altman last week. In a post on X on Tuesday, Musk drew attention to an anonymous letter accusing Altman of various examples of underhanded behavior as CEO of OpenAI. The …
Ask HN: Small indie game studio Twitter account blocked from ads
All I did was announce we won a grant to make our first game in Arabic, and promoted that post. Go banned for “Unacceptable business practices such as deceptive or misleading or false claims”. To be clear it’s not associate with anything crypto either. Just a standard indie game studio making a game in Arabic, …
Twitter changes its official handle to @X
Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding. As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive, and its bio reads “This account is no longer active. Follow @x for updates.” The social media company’s other official handles have either let go of the “Twitter” moniker or substituted …
Opinion | Threads, Twitter, and the Future of Social Media
War is breaking out on social media, and it could radically change how the internet works and how we experience it. Last week, Meta rolled out Threads, a social media product similar to Twitter that quickly got over 100 million sign-ups. This is more than just a tech founder cage match — it is the …
Engagement on Instagram’s Threads Has Cratered
Image: rafapress (Shutterstock) Shortly after Meta’s new Twitter clone Threads hits 100 million users, analysts say that the app’s user engagement has precipitously dropped off. Nobody’s Really Watching Reels NBC News reports that data from Sensor Tower and Similarweb indicates that the newly released social media platform from Meta has seen a drop off in …
Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App as Twitter Threatens Meta
Two hours after pressing the launch button on Wednesday on Threads, Instagram’s new app for real-time, public conversations, Mark Zuckerberg posted that more than two million people had downloaded his latest creation. That was just the beginning. Another two hours later, five million people had downloaded Threads. By the time Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive …
India threatened to shut down Twitter, says ex-CEO Jack Dorsey; govt says ‘outright lie’
Twitter’s co-founder and former boss Jack Dorsey has reiterated that the platform received “many requests” from the Indian government to block accounts covering farmers’ protests and those critical of the government. He has also said that the platform was threatened with “a shut down” and conducting raids at its employees’ homes in the country. Minister …
Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots
One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor during a companywide meeting today that was watched by The Verge. You can see some of the screenshots above. The new standalone app will be based on Instagram and integrate with ActivityPub, the decentralized social media protocol. That will theoretically …
Daring Fireball: Among the Companies With the Worst Reputations in America: Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok
Axios: This survey is the result of a partnership between Axios and Harris Poll to gauge the reputation of the most visible brands in America, based on 20 years of Harris Poll research. I’m not as interested in the top of the list as the bottom. Here are the companies with the worst reputations, starting …
Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky is like Twitter without Musk – and that’s good enough for me
Bluesky Social might be the real antidote to what ails Twitter. It had been another caustic and demoralizing night on Twitter, a platform I once loved, but which has now devolved into a circus of sycophantic Elon Musk-adoring clowns, when I noticed a new DM from someone I didn’t really know, but who was offering …
