Threads, Data Or Not, Giving Brands Somewhere To Go Other Than Twitter by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 6, 2023 Threads — Meta’s newly launched Twitter clone — opened its doors with a ready-made user base after deciding to migrate people to Threads from Instagram. At launch, the platform is available on iOS and Android in 100 … Continue reading Threads, Data Or Not, Giving Brands Somewhere To Go Other Than Twitter
Meta’s Threads app is here to challenge Twitter Karissa Bell @karissabe Threads, Meta’s text-based app to challenge Twitter, is now official. Mark Zuckerberg announced the new service one day ahead of the July 6th launch date that appeared in app stores earlier this week. Meta has begun rolling out the new service around … Continue reading Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app
By Michael Grothaus July 06, 2023 While it’s too early to call Threads—Meta’s new microblogging platform—a bona fide “Twitter killer,” Mark Zuckerberg’s answer to Elon Musk’s flailing social network is off to a good start. Zuckerberg took to the new platform to announce that within the first four hours of its launch, five million … Continue reading 10 million users joined Meta’s Threads in just 7 hours. It took Twitter 780 days to do that
Meta’s Instagram-linked Twitter rival ‘Threads’ could arrive on July 6th Mariella Moon @mariella_moon We’ve known for quite a while that Meta has been building a Twitter competitor, but now we have a more solid idea of when it will become available. A listing for the app called Threads has popped up in … Continue reading Meta’s Threads app is here to challenge Twitter
Confusion Continues Over Elon Musk’s Tweet Limits on Twitter Deanna Ritchie / Jul 4, 2023 In an effort to combat the extraordinary amount of data scraping that occurs on the website, Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, has lately imposed restrictions on the number of posts that users are permitted to read in a single day. … Continue reading Confusion Continues Over Elon Musk’s Tweet Limits on Twitter
By Michael Grothaus July 04, 2023 Twitter’s no good, very bad week just got worse. While Elon Musk was busy placing limits on the number of tweets users can now view each day, Instagram owner Meta was quietly preparing an imminent launch of its new Twitter competitor called Threads. Here’s what you need to … Continue reading What is Threads? Instagram’s Twitter alternative to launch July 6
AI Data Scraping Prompts Musk To Put Limits On Twitter Reads by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 2, 2023 Twitter owner Elon Musk has placed limits on the number of posts that users could read in a temporary move that targets “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation” by other companies. In tweets during the … Continue reading AI Data Scraping Prompts Musk To Put Limits On Twitter Reads
Twitter 2.0? Former CEO Launches App That’s Almost Identical to Twitter John Boitnott / Jun 28, 2023 Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, has launched a new social media app called Bluesky. Although it bears a striking resemblance to Twitter in terms of its profiles, timelines, and colors, Bluesky sets itself … Continue reading Twitter 2.0? Former CEO Launches App That’s Almost Identical to Twitter
By Kelvin Chan—Associated Press June 23, 2023 Twitter needs to do more work to fall in line with the European Union’s tough new digital rulebook, a top EU official said after overseeing a “stress test” of the company’s systems in Silicon Valley. European Commissioner Thierry Breton said late Thursday that he noted the “strong commitment of … Continue reading Elon Musk’s Twitter has work to do if it wants to comply with the EU’s tough new digital rules
Twitter has reportedly refused to pay its Google Cloud contract Igor Bonifacic @igorbonifacic More platform instability could be in Twitter’s near future. In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search … Continue reading Twitter has supposedly started paying its Google Cloud bill again
