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Twitter alternatives like Mastadon see downloads plunge
Emerging rivals include Mastadon, Hive Social, Counter Social, Post.News, Spoutible, and Jack Dorse…
Kali Hays
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Meta's Twitter rival 'Threads' crosses 2 million sign-ups in 2 hours
Meta's Twitter rival, Threads, is now available for download on Android and iOS in 100 countries, a…
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Meta's new Twitter rival, a 'text-based conversation app' called Threads, is available to pre-download in the US
Instagram's new Twitter-like app, called Threads, is now available for pre-order in the US App Stor…
Sydney Bradley,Amanda Perelli
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Jack Dorsey encouraged the student who tracks Elon Musk's jet to keep posting on Bluesky after his Twitter ban
Jack Sweeney joined Jack Dorsey's latest social media venture Bluesky in April and set up his track…
Sam Tabahriti
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I'm a media reporter who loves Threads. Here are 3 reasons I think it'll become more popular next year.
I've found Threads to be a very positive community, and think it's useful as a place to make new co…
Shriya Bhattacharya
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Facebook cofounder calls on Elon Musk to resign after Tesla CEO calls antisemitic tweet 'the actual truth'
Elon Musk said a post that accused Jewish groups of "hatred against whites" was the "actual truth."
Grace Kay,Natalie Musumeci
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Twitter suspends multiple journalists who have been covering, criticizing Elon Musk
The deluge of suspensions comes one day after Twitter suspended an account that automatically poste…
Erin Snodgrass
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Hive Social's 24-year old founder said it was 'unsurprising' that Elon Musk acknowledged the existence of her small but growing social media app vying to lure Twitter users
Hive Social has shot to the top of Apple's App Store, joining a group of apps vying to replace Twit…
Samantha Delouya
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How one pioneering platform is working to detoxify social media
Mastodon, a 'decentralized' social-media platform, is working to detoxify social media.
Jordan Parker Erb
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Elon Musk says Twitter will limit the number of posts users can see a day to limit 'extreme levels' of data scraping by AI companies
Elon Musk said Twitter had to take "drastic and immediate action" to deal with what he called aggre…
Jyoti Mann
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Mark Zuckerberg just launched the Twitter killer Threads app and wants to get '1 billion+ people on it'
"Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will," Meta CEO Mark…
Huileng Tan,Kai Xiang Teo
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Instagram's new Twitter rival 'Threads' appears to be showing up on the European Google Play app store
Instagram's new app, "Threads," can be found on Google Play's app store. Is it a glitch? Or is the …
Sydney Bradley,Marta Biino
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Instagram's Threads had a splashy arrival, but creators say it's missing key features and the answer to a big question: Are we supposed to call them posts or threads?
From an explore page to a creator fund, creators broke down the features they want from Instagram's…
Amanda Perelli,Sydney Bradley
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Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri admits it was 'hugely contentious' to launch Threads as a standalone app. He calls it a 'high-risk' bet.
Instagram had a 'hugely contentious' internal debate on whether to make Threads part of its feed or…
Aaron Mok
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Twitter now supports themed icons in latest Android 13 update
With the new update, it will change the Twitter icon's colour to match the users' wallpaper an…
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Germany heavily criticizes Elon Musk's Twitter for suspending journalists, saying the free press 'must not be switched on and off at will'
Twitter suspended the accounts of multiple journalists who reported on Elon Musk, leading to backla…
Beatrice Nolan
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Facebook employees react to being laid off
After Facebook laid off thousands of workers, some are turning to LinkedIn or Twitter to share thei…
Jordan Parker Erb
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Twitter deliberately suspended Tweetbot and other third-party apps, forcing people to use the platform's official app, report says
A senior engineer at Twitter said suspensions of third party app were "intentional," The Informatio…
Kate Duffy
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The only thing Elon Musk understands about Twitter is how to kill it
Musk declared that Twitter is a "collective cybernetic super-intelligence." Which reveals how littl…
Adam Rogers
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A data scientist says Jack Dorsey told her Twitter was defenseless against a takeover by Elon Musk and the company should never have gone public
Jack Dorsey said Twitter had "no choice" in who bought it because anyone could, per a data scientis…