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Twitter’s rebrand to X could worsen its legal and financial problems
Twitter's rebrand to X could pose significant legal and financial challenges to the company, which has struggled financially since Elon Musk's takeover.
Twitter CEO teases banking and payment plans in memo about X rebrand
Twitter’s rebrand to X is officially underway, and CEO Linda Yaccarino has offered some new clues about what it may mean for the company.
TikTok adds text posts to compete with Instagram Stories
TikTok absolutely dominates the short-form video space, but now it’s looking into short-form text posts. The social media giant just announced the ability to compose text posts to allow users to “share their stories, poems, lyrics and other written content, giving them another way to express themselves.”
Twitter begins its transition to 'X' after changing its iconic bird logo
The company announced the rebrand with a logo projection on its San Francisco offices.
Elon Musk is rebranding Twitter to ‘X’ and killing the bird logo
Elon Musk’s rebrand of Twitter seems to be underway.
Twitter is limiting the number of DMs unverified users can send
Twitter has again made its platform a little less usable for people who choose not to pay for a Blue subscription.
Twitter is working on new publishing tools for long-form articles
Twitter CEO Elon Musk confirmed that Twitter Notes is now Twitter Articles. He says that it will be a place to post long-form content, noting "You could publish a book if you want."
Threads users are already spending less time in the app
Meta’s Threads app is coming back down to Earth after a blockbuster first week that saw the app become the fastest growing of all time.
Meta’s Threads sent another app named Threads to the top of the App Store charts
Threads, a Slack alternative that has been around since 2019, saw more than 880,000 downloads on iOS between July 6th and July 12th, thanks to the release of Meta's Threads.
Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue has dropped by 50 percent
In the early hours of Saturday morning, Musk tweeted Twitter was suffering from an ongoing negative cash flow issue due to an approximately 50 percent drop in advertising revenue and heavy debt burden.
Twitter sues four unknown entities for 'unlawful data scraping'
Elon Musk blamed scraping by these unknown entities for Twitter's decision to put a cap on how many tweets a user can see per day
Twitter finally begins paying some of its creators
Twitter’s ad-revenue sharing program for creators has officially launched — and it’s reportedly already begun paying eligible Blue subscribers. Elon Musk announced the initiative in February, but with scant details about how it would work, nobody knew quite what to expect. However, some high-profile users report today they’ve received notifications about incoming deposits — including one user claiming he’s set to receive over $24,000. The rewards are based on ads in replies to eligible users’ content.
Twitter is trying to fix the verified DM spam problem it created
witter says it’s making a change to cut down on the amount of spammy messages in users’ inboxes.
One week in, Threads has become Twitter’s biggest threat
While it’s too soon to know if Threads’ early success will translate in the long term, it has succeeded in utterly dominating Twitter in its first week.
Twitter says it limited the reach of over 700,000 tweets that violated its policy
Twitter has published an update on how its "Freedom of Speech Not Reach" moderation approach is working, and according to the company, it has seen some encouraging results.
Meta's Threads races to 100 million users in under a week
Meta made it super easy for people to sign up to its new app Threads through Instagram. That helped the Twitter competitor reach more than 100 million sign ups in just a couple of days.
The old, good version of TweetDeck is back
Overnight, some Twitter users noticed that the old TweetDeck was back and working again.
Meta restores Instagram and Threads account that tracked Elon Musk's private jet
Elonjet is now posting the whereabouts of Elon Musk's private jet on Threads, Meta's new Twitter rival.
All the questions we still have about Threads, Meta’s Twitter killer
There are still some major questions about Threads and how Meta intends to run it.
Engadget Podcast: Diving into Threads and Twitter's latest mess
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.