Elon Musk Forces Users to Show Their Shameful Blue Checks to The World
Elon Musk is removing the ability for X Premium users to hide their blue checkmarks, once a Twitter status symbol turned into a shameful receipt of payment for boosted posts,…
No, Google Isn’t Sunsetting Gmail
Photo: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket (Getty Images) Have you seen a claim on social media that Google is “sunsetting” Gmail this coming August? What appears to be a screenshot from an…
Sam Altman’s Weird Eyeball Scanning Crypto Tech Comes to Minecraft
Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency venture, is now integrating its verification services into popular apps such as Reddit, Discord, Shopify, Mercado Libre, Telegram, and Minecraft. The move is part of Altman’s…
Musk Yoinks NYTs Gold Checkmark While Threatening Us With Two Subscription Tiers
Image: Osugi (Shutterstock) In a continued effort to make a dying platform profitable, Elon Musk unveiled two subscription tiers for X, formerly known as Twitter. At the same time, Musk…
World’s Richest Man Wants $1 from New X Users
X, formerly called Twitter, launched its “Not a Bot” beta Tuesday, which charges new accounts a $1 annual fee to tweet and retweet. The initial test applies to new accounts…
Twitter Gives Verified Users Option to Hide Their Checkmark of Shame
Some verified accounts receive a gold checkmark denoting they’re an ‘official organization.’ Other users are simply noted as ‘verified’ whether they paid for the checkmark or not.Image: Donny Hery (Shutterstock)…
Musk says some impersonation Twitter accounts face permanent ban
New Twitter owner Elon Musk has laid out a strict new rule for any impersonation account that fails to explicitly state that it’s a parody.