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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.
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app
Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over the new Threads app. Twitter accused Meta of poaching employees and "systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
Meta’s Threads app is here to challenge Twitter
Threads, Meta’s text-based app to challenge Twitter, is now official. The app has launched on the web and in app stores in more than 100 countries.
Twitter quietly backtracks on requiring users to log in to see tweets
Several days after Twitter stopped showing tweets to logged-out users, that basic functionality seems to be returning.
Meta Threads briefly went live earlier than planned
It launches in the US and UK on July 6th.
Meta's Twitter rival Threads won't initially launch in the EU
Meta's rival to Twitter called Threads, an Instagram app is set to launch tomorrow in the US and UK, but it may not come to the rest of Europe anytime soon.
Twitter says it couldn't tell people about rate limiting in advance
Twitter has been even more of a mess than usual the last few days, in part because it limited the number of tweets each users could read each day. The move came as a surprise to many, but the company said it was unable to give folks a heads up.
Meta's Instagram-linked Twitter rival 'Threads' could arrive on July 6th
A listing for the app called Threads has popped up in the iOS App Store with an estimated release date of July 6th.
Twitter launches 'new' Tweetdeck as the old version breaks down
The feature will also be exclusive to Twitter Blue in 30 days.
Twitter's apps are breaking following Elon Musk's decision to cap tweet rates
Twitter's 'rate limiting' and login requirements may be affecting its power-user app Tweetdeck.
Twitter puts strict cap on how many tweets users can read each day
Twitter has begun aggressively limiting how many tweets users can view per day.
Elon Musk claims Twitter’s new login requirement is a ‘temporary’ response to data scrapers
On Friday, Musk claimed Twitter's new login requirement was a "temporary emergency measure."
Twitter isn't showing tweets unless you're logged in
It seems Twitter is no longer letting people who aren't signed in see any tweets. It's unclear whether this was an intentional decision by Twitter or another technical error.
Twitter's lawsuit over censorship in India has been dismissed
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.'
Apple has posted the entire first episode of ‘Silo’ on Twitter
Apple is borrowing a marketing tactic from Twitter pirates. The company made the unusual move of uploading the entire first episode of its series Silo to the social platform, allowing anyone there to watch the opening installment for free. The gambit follows Twitter’s move to allow longer video uploads for subscribers. The free episode may be worth checking out: Engadget found the Apple TV+ original series to be “simply transcendent sci-fi TV.”
Twitter hacker and crypto scammer sentenced to five years in prison
In May, Joseph James O'Conner plead guilty to a host of cyber crimes, including carrying out a SIM-swapping attack that targeted a TikTok account with millions of followers.
Twitter has supposedly started paying its Google Cloud bill again
Twitter has resumed paying its Google Cloud contract after newly appointed CEO Linda Yaccarino reportedly stepped in to patch up the relationship between the two companies.
Music publishers are suing Twitter for $250 million over 'massive' copyright infringement
A group of more than a dozen music publishers is suing Twitter for $250 million over allegations of “massive” copyright infringement on the platform.
Twitter is getting evicted from its Colorado office over unpaid rent
A judge just evicted the company from its Boulder, Colorado office after three months of unpaid rent, totaling over $75,000, as originally reported by TechCrunch. This all started after the landlord took the company to court, according to the Denver Business Journal. The judge sided with the landlord and has given Twitter 49 days to vacate, so the end of July.