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Bluesky Social just took a big open-source step forward
The hot new social network from Twitter's founders has open-sourced its client software. Here's why that matters.
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Deleted Twitter messages are reappearing for some users
Another day, another strange Twitter problem.
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I tried Bluesky Social and it's basically a far friendlier Twitter (for now)
Here's how you can try the latest -- and maybe greatest -- Twitter alternative contender, too.
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Elon Seems To Think The Cruelest Thing He Can Do To People… Is To Pretend They Want To Associate With Him
Let’s start this post out by noting that a key reason Elon Musk said he was getting rid of the legacy Twitter verification system was that it was arbitrary and unfair and created a “lords and peasa…
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Twitter is adding verified check marks to the accounts of dead celebrities, making them look like paid Twitter Blue subscribers
Kobe Bryant, Anthony Bourdain, and Chadwick Boseman were among the celebrities the app says bought a subscription and verified their phone number.
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Twitter advertisers told: Come back, but don't make demands
Elon Musk took to the stage at an advertising conference yesterday to try to reassure attendees that Twitter was a safe place to serve ads, while also warning the biz won't bow to pressure from advertisers who want to dictate its behavior.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX and Tesla get far more government money than NPR
This week’s Twitter kerfuffle is all about public funding. Elon Musk decided to label National Public Radio’s account first as “government-influenced media,” which it previously applied to state-operated media outlets that shade into propaganda. Later, the label was changed to “government-funded media.” NPR, which maintains that its editorial content is independent and has a history of running stories critical of the US government, decided to leave the platform rather than accept either new label.
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Twitter APIs Are Going Very Wrong
Twitter's most serious new annoyance is its new API pricing structure. It's both irritating developers and driving some of them out of business.
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Elon Musk claims the US government had ‘full access’ to private Twitter DMs
Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed in an interview that the U.S. government has “full access” to users’ private direct messages, saying knowing that information blew his mind.
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NPR to quit Twitter after being labelled ‘state-affiliated media’
Radio network ‘officially de-emphasizing Twitter across the organization’ after platform refused to remove ‘inaccurate’ label
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Elon Musk Buys Thousands of GPUs for Twitter's Generative AI Project
Twitter is reportedly building a ChatGPT rival.
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Now That Elon Musk Is Labeling NPR And The BBC As ‘Government Funded,’ Shouldn’t He Do The Same For Tesla, SpaceX, And Twitter?
Never a dull moment in Elonland. Last week, as you’ll recall, he decided that NPR should be labeled as “state-affiliated media” even though NPR was literally Twitter’s prime example of what kinds o…
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What's What with Open Source Twitter
Twitter has finally — sort of, kind of — open sourced part of its code. Here's what's in there, and what's not.
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Twitter Ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, 2 Others Sue Elon Musk Over Legal Bills
Three top Twitter executives who were sacked by Elon Musk last year when he took over the social media company filed suit, seeking to be reimbursed for costs of litigation, investigations and congressional inquiries related to their former jobs.
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Several more companies are suing Twitter, claiming it owes them around $230,000 in unpaid bills and they don't know if they'll ever be paid
Several more companies are suing Twitter, alleging that it has failed to pay some of its bills. In the proposed class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, the companies accused Twitter of not paying around $230,000 in bills.
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FTC To Elon Musk: How ‘Bout You Comply With Our Demands, Rather Than Trying To Charm Lina Khan?
As you’ll recall, it became apparent pretty much immediately after Elon Musk took over Twitter that he had zero idea that the company was under an FTC consent decree that had just been renewed mont…
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New York Times says it won't pay for Twitter verified check mark
The New York Times will not pay a monthly fee to get verified check mark status on Twitter, a spokesperson for the newspaper said hours after it lost the verified badge on the social media platform.
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The 8 Best Twitter Alternatives in 2023
There are more alternatives to Twitter in 2022 than ever before, including Amino, Post, Plurk, and Mastodon. Share your thoughts and connect with others with these Twitter alternatives.
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Twitter moves free users to the spam folder and makes a risky bet on its future
Less than 0.12% of current Twitter users are paid subscribers. Elon Musk is determined to change that.
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Twitter is secretly boosting 35 VIP users including Lebron James, AOC, catturd2, and Ben Shapiro: report
Twitter engineers have ensured that tweets by people like Elon Musk and 34 others will automatically be more visible than others, Platformer says.
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