New Twitter owner Elon Musk has signalled a potential interest in reviving Vine, the social video app Twitter gave up on six years ago. In the last few hours the self styled “Chief Twit”) has tweeted a yes/no poll to his 112.4 million followers — pithily positing: “Bring back Vine?”.

Whenever and however the Twitter era comes to an end, its impact on Canadian politics will have been great — if not entirely good.

Culture secretary Michelle Donelan to amend bill that, after Molly Russell case, will place duty of care on social media firms

Dallas resident Shannon Wolf clicked on a Facebook ad for Kay Jewelers that offered a steep discount and quickly took advantage of it.

When it comes to reading news stories on social media, new psychology findings suggest that people pay more attention to negative comments than positive ones. This evidence comes from an eye-tracking study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior. News posts shared on social media often attract emotionally-charged comments.

A space exploration enthusiast on Twitter recently asked the web audience to come up with a name for an upcoming mission to Uranus, likely aware of the internet’s fascination with amusingly-named projects.

The campaign impersonated media outlets and activists but had "little or no engagement", Meta says.

Over 100 pages of documents show how the space agency handles social media and discussions about Ukraine.

Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that today is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others. The news was revealed in response to a Twitter user’s complaint about Mastodon’s complexities. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg — whose company acquired Tumblr from Verizon in 2019 — suggested the user “come to Tumblr” as the site would soon “add activitypub for interconnect.”

Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that’s today powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others.

The best alternatives to Twitter include some sites you may have never heard about and one or two you have. Let's discuss

Apple's Phil Schiller, responsible for Apple events and the App Store, has deactivated his Twitter account following recent developments on the platform. Schiller often used his account to promote new Apple products, services, software, and initiatives and interact with customers. As noted on Twitter by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, however, Schiller's account no longer exists. The account had over 200,000 followers and was created in November 2008 according to a web archive of the account dated November 4.

Before Donald Trump was permanently banned from Twitter in early 2021, his mantra seemed clear: occupy as much of the Internet as possible by tweeting about everything, all the time. Whatever the topic, the important thing was to tweet about Donald Trump. The former president of the United States couldn’t help but give his opinion, create slang or simply hammer home his vision of society.

Musk added that he hoped to complete an organizational restructuring this week.

Check your phone. Are there any unanswered texts, snaps or direct messages that you’re ignoring? Should you reply? Or should you ghost the person who sent them? Ghosting happens when someone cuts off all online communication with someone else, and without an explanation. Instead, like a ghost, they just vanish. The phenomenon is common on social media and dating sites, but with the isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic – forcing more people together online – it happens now more than ever.

A growing body of research suggests human behavior on social media is strikingly similar to collective behavior in nature.

Twitter is going to Hell in a handbasket. Wait no — that’s a dumpster. Oh look, it’s full of money. Aaannnnd it’s on fire. Apparently, things at the birdsite aren’t going so great. Actually, the so-called “microphone of the masses” is in pretty bad shape. Bad enough that genius-billionaire investor Elon Musk is reportedly telling his staff (more of whom he says he intends to lay off) that bankruptcy is now on the table.

Instances of racial slurs have soared on Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the influential platform, despite assurances from the platform that it had reduced hateful activity, a digital civil rights group reported Thursday.

Escaping the platform's addictive grasp means first overhauling our relationship to our devices.