Twitter Begins to Recover After Mobile App Goes Down
Reports of outages began to flood DownDetector around 2 p.m. today. Image: T. Schneider (Shutterstock) It’s not you, it’s the bird. Twitter users reported outages on the Twitter iOS app…
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube All Appear to Suffer Outages at the Same Time
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Did someone actually break the internet? It sorta seems like it. Users of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, some of the web’s biggest platforms, reported…
Meta Is Spending More Than $1 Billion per Month on the Metaverse
Meta has released its final quarterly and full year financial results for 2022, and the results are…mixed for the company formerly known as Facebook. Meta’s revenue slightly exceeded analyst’s expectations,…
Facebook Is Bringing Back Trump
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Donald Trump is coming back to Facebook and Instagram. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, made the announcement late Wednesday, a little more than two years after…
Instagram’s Quiet Mode Lets Users Politely Tell Their Followers to Shut the Hell Up
Instagram launched a new “Quiet Mode” this week to help users spend less time on the company’s totally, absolutely not addictive platform.Though any user can use the new features, Meta’s…
Twitter Reportedly Considering Putting Popular Usernames Up for Auction
Elon Musk needs to find ways to have Twitter make more money to justify his $44 billion purchase of the platform.Photo: Press Association (AP) Twitter CEO Elon Musk is desperate…
Why Elon’s Twitter Subscriptions Are Missing the Point
Image: Sergei Elagin (Shutterstock) Controversy sells. For a long time, there has been no place where this is more true than on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Controversy…