Nitter and XCancel are dead (again) after X’s latest legal actions
The privacy-friendly services for viewing X posts without an account have gone dark again after X’s escalated legal action.
Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now
A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.
Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in town
Coates said in a LinkedIn post that the company is not trying to recreate Twitter.
Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’
Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is “all in” on the unconventional social media platform.
Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5M SEC settlement
The saga of Musk’s tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now X) has come to an end.
X makes it more expensive to post links through its API
Posting links on X through its API is now 1,900% more costly
EFF is the latest organization to leave X
The EFF follows the departure of various news organizations and others who no longer find X a viable source of traffic.
X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat
X Chat brings back Voice Notes to DMs and group chats after removing the option during the upgrade.
X is rolling out automatic translation and photo editing powered by Grok
New automatic translations and photo editing on X are powered by the company’s flagship AI model.
It’s been 20 years since the first tweet
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “just setting up my twittr”.