Musk Says Twitter Will Purge Inactive Accounts
It’s time to say goodbye to inactive Twitter accounts, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday, in yet another apparent attempt to bring users back to the platform.…
Texas Massacre Images Posted on Twitter Spark Outrage
Twitter is on the receiving end of both criticism and controversy for not properly moderating images of the Allen, Texas massacre that have surfaced online. Gruesome images showing the victim’s…
22 Unhinged (but Fake) App Features
Image: Soren Iverson At the tail end of 2022, screenshots of bizarre app features started going viral on Twitter. They rested just on the line between plausible and absurd. Google…
The FTC Is Trying to Ban Meta From Using Kids’ Data
The Federal Trade Commission proposed a “blanket prohibition” that would ban Meta from monetizing children’s data Wednesday. The FTC says Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—failed to comply with an…
Twitter Says Actually It Won’t Make Public Services Pay to Post
Another one of Elon Musk’s great ideas has led to widespread criticism and a corresponding whiplash policy reversal. Twitter has said it will once again allow governments and publicly funded…
Social Media Scatters Your Brain, and Then You Buy Stuff You Don’t Need
Image: 1st footage (Shutterstock) Instagram is Testing Adding Songs to Your Profile Off English Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be…
The NYC Subway Will Stop Tweeting Because Twitter ‘Isn’t Reliable’
Twitter became less useful on Thursday after New York City’s transit operator said it would stop tweeting about service outages because “the reliability of the platform can no longer be…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Has Been More Compliant with Government Requests, Not Less
After castigating OG Twitter for its cooperation with government content requests, it turns out that Elon Musk’s version of the platform hasn’t been doing much better since he took over…
Twitter Cuts Search Bar Access for Unregistered Users
Image: Leon Neal (Getty Images) Twitter is eliminating its search feature for anyone not logged into an account. The change means that any person attempting to access the site’s search…
‘Our Free Will Is Being Taken’: Montana TikTokers Caught in Legal Limbo After State’s Unprecedented Ban
When Spencre McGowan, an herbalist and a cookbook writer in Butte, Montana, started posting on TikTok to help pull herself out of a “depressive funk” in 2021, she could have…