Twitter is in decline and less stable under Elon Musk, echoing LiveJournal and Tumblr falling apart under new ownership that didn't understand their communities
Gita Jackson / The Verge : Tweets: @chrismessina , @speedriver_ , and @delunaelizabeth . Thanks: @ants000 Tweets: Chris Messina / @chrismessina : “Twitter is in a period of decline. The site still fu...
Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum
Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick / iMore : Is Twitter ...
Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia
complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : NE...
Twitter releases its Circle feature out of beta on iOS, Android, and the web, letting users tweet to smaller, selected groups of up to 150 people
here's how it works Karissa Bell / Engadget : Twitter Circle is launching for your hottest takes and most unpopular opinions Timi Cantisano / XDA Developers : Twitter Circle launches globally for Andr...
Twitter tests a status feature for tweets, letting users add a label from a pre-determined list, in the US and Australia
Facebook is trying to be TikTok, but now, Twitter is bringing us back a little bit of Facebook (or LiveJournal, or Myspace). Some users are reporting …
Sources: emergency meetings continue inside Facebook amid WSJ exposé, as some research staff decry Facebook's public response in group chats
Read in app Isaiah Poritz / OpenSecrets.org : Facebook maintained big lobbying expenses ahead of Senate hearing on teen social media use Robin Raskin / Techonomy : Instagram for Kids: Doomed from the ...
Sources: the FBI is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hack
don't have sensitive conversations in Twitter DMs. Move that stuff to Signal. You don't know who'll be in charge of Twitter five, ten, or twenty years from now. Remember the example of LiveJournal. ht...
Twitter says a “conversation participants” compose screen tool is coming in 2020, letting users limit who can reply, and conversation threading will improve
although, isn't that the point of private accounts? For political/public figure persons, entities, networks, or corporations it's certainly the wrong way forward. https://twitter.com/... @chelseacirru...
A look at the history of LiveJournal, the early blogging platform that boasted 10M+ accounts at its height but faltered after questionable business decisions
George RR Martin's platform switch reminds us of an early blogging giant greatly changed. — Last April, famed writer …
Twitter delays API change that may disable push notifications and auto-refreshing timelines on third-party clients like Tweetbot, promises 90 days change notice
but they may not be able to offer full functionality in the future once the change goes through. http://www.theverge.com/... John Sheehan / @johnsheehan : If @TwitterDev breaks TweetBot, I'm gone. #Br...