- Twitter/X strips headlines out of news links: “It’s something Elon wants”arstechnica.com Twitter/X strips headlines out of news links: “It’s something Elon wants”
Links on Musk-led platform now display article images without headlines.
- X Corp faces Dutch privacy class action over MoPub data tradingtechcrunch.com X Corp faces Dutch privacy class action over MoPub data trading | TechCrunch
Make way for another Dutch class action privacy damages lawsuit -- this one targeting the company formerly known as Twitter (now X Corp); and MoPub, the MoPub, the mobile ad platform Twitter used to own, is accused of "illegal trafficking" of millions of app users' personal data in a privacy class a...
- X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisionsarstechnica.com X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions
X decried law's "draconian financial penalties," up to $15K per violation per day.
- X, formerly Twitter, caught running unlabeled ads in users’ Following feedstechcrunch.com X, formerly Twitter, caught running unlabeled ads in users' Following feeds | TechCrunch
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has been caught running unlabeled ads in users' Following feeds, TechCrunch has learned and was able to confirm
- X (née Twitter) wants to collect your biometric data and employment historyarstechnica.com X (née Twitter) wants to collect your biometric data and employment history
X to collect more user data as Musk teases plan to offer video and audio calls.
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- X, formerly Twitter, is now letting paid users hide their likestechcrunch.com X, formerly Twitter, is now letting paid users hide their likes | TechCrunch
Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is now rolling out a feature for paid users to let them hide their likes.
- Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t IDwww.techdirt.com Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID
As you’ll surely recall, Elon’s first big brilliant idea upon taking over Twitter was to conflate two separate offerings that Twitter had: Twitter Blue, a premium upsell with extra features (some o…
- Get "Legacy Tweetdeck" back, regardless of subscription status [Chrome]
There is a newly developed Chrome Extension (not in the Chrome Store yet) at https://github.com/dimdenGD/OldTweetDeck which can be downloaded and activated in Chrome, which gives you back the original TweetDeck experience, without "X Pro" or subsription redirects.
This surely will be deactivated sometime in the future but I'm gonna use this while it lasts.
- Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Timewww.theatlantic.com Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time
The social network has never seen chaos quite like this.
- Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweetswww.reuters.com Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweets
Twitter will now require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that owner Elon Musk on Friday called a "temporary emergency measure".
- Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA Next to Neo-Nazi Propagandagizmodo.com Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, NBA Alongside Neo-Nazi Videos
Ads from household-name brands and nonprofits are appearing beside clips of a film blaming Jews for causing World War II.
- Musk on path to turn Twitter into the next MySpace or Yahoo, co-founder suggestsarstechnica.com Musk on path to turn Twitter into the next MySpace or Yahoo, co-founder suggests
Ev Williams: Generally, "the new thing does not come from the old thing."
Ev Williams: Generally, "the new thing does not come from the old thing."
- Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodonwww.moneycontrol.com Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon
P92 team wants to use data of all Instagram users regardless of their participation in the new platform being planned by Meta, according to sources