Elon Musk Wants to Make X’s Likes Private to Hide Your Favorite ‘Edgy’ Content
X Premium users have been able to hide the posts they’ve liked for months now, but the feature may soon become the default for everyone. A director of engineering at…
The Greatest App of All Time Day 8: Twitter vs. Read It Later
It’s day 8 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and one of the most controversial apps of our time has entered the…
Twitter Hasn’t Been ‘Enshittified.’ It Always Sucked.
Twitter is officially dead. Since Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of it late last year, people have been saying it’s dead or dying or will die. Musk ended the argument…
Social Media Users Don’t Want to BeReal Anymore, Report Finds
BeReal’s active users appear to be exiting the platform in droves, with the number of active users dropping by 18% since it peaked in November of last year. The app…
Want to See How Bad Twitter’s Bot Problem Is? Ask for Crypto Help.
Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the…
Twitter ‘Nickel and Dimed’ Feds for Trump’s Personal Data
Newly unsealed court filings following a federal indictment accusing Donald Trump of trying to overturn the 2020 elections show the lengths Twitter lawyers went to try and notify the former…
Twitter Got Fined $350,000 for Delaying a Search of Trump’s Account in the Jan. 6 Prosecution
The special counsel investigating Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election tried, failed, and ultimately succeeded in accessing the former president’s Twitter account, documents published Wednesday show. According to…
Instagram’s Threads Adds Some New Features, Still Falls Short of Being a True Twitter Clone
Threads is getting some new feature updates, inching it a little closer to the Twitter clone that was promised. The updated features will include a followers list, the option to…
Bluesky Sees “Record” Web Traffic After Elon’s Latest Dumb Twitter Decision
Elon Musk apparently took a break from training for his upcoming battle royale with Mark Zuckerberg to do a new, incredibly unpopular thing to Twitter this weekend. In a bout…
Where the Hell Is Instagram’s Twitter Clone?
Image: BigTunaOnline (Shutterstock) After reports teasing a launch date of June for its Twitter rival, Instagram has let us down as we venture into July. However, there may be hope…