by Beth Holmes | Aug 11, 2023 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Rebranding Twitter as X is never going to catch on, despite Elon Musk’s recent and half-hearted efforts. Elon Musk has some kind of obsession with the letter X. He owns SpaceX, and there’s a Tesla Model X. He even named his son X Æ A-12 (pronounced either...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 10, 2023 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Threads is a new rival to Twitter, about to be debuted by Facebook’s parent company Meta. The new listing for the Threads app, which appeared recently on Apple’s App Store, bills it as a “text-based conversation app” linked to Instagram. “Threads is where...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 18, 2023 | Companies, News, Social Media
NPR has announced that it will no longer be posting content on Twitter after the social media platform labeled NPR’s main account as “state-affiliated media,” a label meant to identify likely propaganda. NPR said in a statement on Wednesday that it “will no...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 13, 2023 | Companies, Social Media
Gold checkmarks are Twitter’s newest verification distinction, and they’ll cost $12k a year to any business that wants one. Twitter established their blue checkmarks in 2009, as a quick way for readers to know if the twitter handle they were using belonged...
by Beth Holmes | Nov 7, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media
The Twitter board of directors have all been fired as Elon Musk takes control, after nearly a year of will-he-won’t-he from the erratic billionaire. Musk took over Twitter as its new owner this week, after his $44 billion purchase was pushed through against his...
