Meta’s Twitter rival Threads to launch on Thursday
As Twitter becomes evermore challenging to use following changes at the weekend limiting how many tweets a user can read in a day, as well as news on Monday that…
You’ll soon have to pay to use TweetDeck
Twitter has said that from early August, only verified users will be able to use TweetDeck. The web-based dashboard offers Twitter power users a range of features, including the ability…
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…
You Can’t Access Pornhub in Mississippi or Virginia Anymore
Pornhub has officially pulled out of two more states, namely Mississippi and Virginia. As much as the latter state is “for lovers,” PornHub says it’s protesting the states’ recently-enacted age…
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…
Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI
Google updated its privacy policy over the weekend, explicitly saying the company reserves the right to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools. If Google…
TweetDeck Falters as Elon Musk Wrecks Twitter
Image: Rokas Tenys (Shutterstock) The hits don’t stop coming for Twitter users. This weekend, the platform’s owner Elon Musk claimed he’s imposing a limit to the number of tweets an…
Apple Put the First Episode of Silo Free on… Twitter
Image: Apple TV Twitter: it’s a bad place. But even among all the awfulness you can find little gems of goodness and light—gems like the first episode of Silo, which…
The Flash Movie’s Miserable Box Office Keeps Getting Worse
Image: Warner Bros. There’s very little the Flash can’t outrun, but it seems audience interest is one of those things. The Flash movie, which opened to a significantly less-than-expected box…
Hacker sent to jail for huge 2020 Twitter breach
A British man who took part in a high-profile Twitter hack in 2020 was handed a five-year jail term by a New York federal court on Friday. Joseph O’Connor, 24,…