2024-01-08
Humans need human connection, not robots serving up more of the same slop. I have Release Radar a rare try earlier and it was bland af and contain Ryan Adams FFS.
Bloomberg
Music industry insiders reflect on the waning influence of popular, human-curated Spotify playlists, as the company shifts towards AI-driven personalization
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg : Threads: @__philipclark , @seaninsound , @ashleycarman , @ashleycarman , and @lazyboyloops Threads: @__philipclark : 5.5 years ago YouTube Music hired ...
2023-08-01
Given Apple quietly took down Kanye playlists and removed Parler around the time Kanye wanted to buy it. And Elon just let Kanye back on Twitter. It seems a bit inconsistent from Apple.
TechCrunch
Twitter is now “X” in the App Store, seemingly via an exception to Apple's rule that requires app names to have two or more characters
Twitter's “X” becomes first one-letter iPhone app Wes Davis / The Verge : Twitter gets special permission to be ‘X’ in the iOS App Store Roshan Abraham / VICE : ‘Blaze Your Glory!’...
Given Apple quietly took down Kanye playlists and removed Parler around the time Kanye wanted to buy it. And Elon just let Kanye back on Twitter. It seems a bit inconsistent from Apple.
New York Times
Twitter/X files a lawsuit against Center for Countering Digital Hate, accusing the nonprofit and its backers of “actively working to prevent free expression”
The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter's parent company …
2021-05-17
I'd rather pay £5 per month for premium ad-free Twitter, which includes full scale user verification. 💡 ID could be as simple as the 1p PayPal transfer to link you to your bank Let the unverified tweet but let us filter out anonymous trolls who make this place a hellscape https://twitter.com/...
9to5Mac
Researcher: Twitter is working on Twitter Blue, a $2.99/month subscription offering with “Collections” to organize favorite tweets and an “undo tweet” function
here's what it is Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1550: the lifesaving tracing app, the antivax superspreaders, ransomware gangs go dark, Twitter plans subscriptions, a...
2021-04-22
This is good news but... Would also be amazing if they could help you collect harassment so it's easier to send to the police. Especially when abusers often use a range of mediums at once and delete their messages making evidence harder to collect. @GlitchUK_ https://twitter.com/...
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