The social web is changing: Twitter set up limits, Reddit alienated its users, TikTok could get banned, and Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform
An era of the internet is ending, and we're watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep … Bluesky: @peterabraham.bsky.social . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @Annemarie...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
A look at the decline of MySpace, which flailed around for over a year as it was overtaken by Facebook, and parallels with Meta as TikTok surges
Read to the end for the anti-NFT anthem — I want to open today's email with an apology!! I wrote about the map-based Wordle game Worldle on Monday and I …
A look at the decline of MySpace, which flailed around for over a year as it was overtaken by Facebook, and parallels with Meta as TikTok surges
Read to the end for the anti-NFT anthem — I want to open today's email with an apology!! I wrote about the map-based Wordle game Worldle on Monday and I …
Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees
and burying the findings Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform's ability to harm, ‘toxic’ impact Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : Facebook's Beloved Growth Team Ha...
A look at Speakr, a social media influencer management platform that some influencers say has failed to pay them, with trouble starting in late 2017
After rising to MySpace fame in the mid-aughts, the singer-songwriter Kaila Yu amassed a following of nearly half a million fans on Facebook and 70,000 on Twitter and Instagram. Tweets: @taylorlorenz ...
US cyber-security firm Recorded Future claims to have doxxed Tessa88, the hacker who sold MySpace and Dropbox databases in 2016, as a 29-year-old Russian
Recorded Future claims Tessa88's identity is a 29-year-old Russian named Maksim Vladimirovich Donakov.
Analysis: video services operated by third parties on MySpace and GateHouse Media subdomains generated millions of fraudulent ad views
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @harrymccracken and @sarahsluis See also Mediagazer Tweets: Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : Even without the fraudulent part, this sounds soul-sucking. http:/...
Hacker behind LinkedIn's 117M e-mail database claims to have 360M Myspace user emails with passwords
MySpace was hacked. LeakedSource has obtained … AJ Dellinger / The Daily Dot : MySpace may have been hacked and never told its users about it Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Hacker Tries To Sell 427 Million ...