Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has promised that its new Twitter-like network, Threads, will identify accounts associated with governments. At a hearing on foreign meddling in Australia, Josh Machin, Meta’s head of public policy for the country, made the announcement. Meta, according to Machin, will “expeditiously” tag government-related accounts on Threads. He said that…
Meta’s newest microblogging platform, Threads, has had a profound influence on Twitter in little over two days, attracting over 100 million users. Matthew Sovereign, CEO of Cloudflare, claims that traffic congestion on Twitter has significantly lessened since the middle of 2023. According to rankings data from Cloudflare’s domain name system, Twitter’s traffic has been progressively…
Google has changed its privacy settings to accommodate data scraping for AI development. This change, effective as of July 2023, allows Google to train its AI models with “information that is publicly available online” or from “other public sources.” Social media, online forums, and other public spaces count as such places where people can freely…
Typically, social networking sites want you to spend all of your time there so they can learn more about your interests, use that knowledge to serve you with appropriate ads, and make money. Twitter, on the other hand, is the first social media site to restrict the number of posts you may access each day…
In September of last year, after considerable discussion, Twitter added an edit option for premium members. Twitter at the time allowed users to make up to five edits to their postings before they were published permanently. Social media expert Matt Navarra uncovered the company’s restriction of tweet modifications to one every hour. Twitter has increased…
Elon Musk responded to a user’s request for a Twitter video app for smart Televisions with the tweet “It’s coming” on June 2023. Only days after Musk and Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino announced the company’s goals to prioritize video, creative relationships, and commerce, these rumors were confirmed. There has been no announcement regarding the…
In a lawsuit filed against Twitter on June 15, 2023, music publishers are asking for $250,000,000 in damages. The lawsuit alleges that Twitter should pay damages to the music publishing industry due to Elon Musk’s use of the platform, which allegedly violated copyrights and cost the industry money. The NMPA, which represents 17 music publishers…