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Twitter further restricts free tier with option to limit replies to verified accounts

The digital town square, but with more pay-to-play curbs

Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 64

India demands social networks 'swiftly' remove all CSAM

X, YouTube, and Telegram told to make it happen, or feel the wrath of 'zero tolerance' regime

Legal09 Oct 2023 | 15

Musk in hot water with SEC for failure to comply with subpoena

What do you mean they aren't optional for billionaires?

Legal06 Oct 2023 | 47

X confuses the masses by removing all details from links

And in other news, lenders complain Musk needs to go

Offbeat05 Oct 2023 | 53

X Social Media sues Twitter 2.0 over alphabet soup branding

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Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 32

X Corp is now suing a sublessee for unpaid rent

Irony alert: Complaint cites defendant as claiming X 'did not even pay rent for such period'

Legal02 Oct 2023 | 25

Musk's first year as Twitter's Dear Leader is nigh

Opinion How's he done? tl;dr – not very well

Personal Tech02 Oct 2023 | 167

Musk, Yaccarino contradict each other on status of X's election integrity team

One says it's dead, the other says it's growing, and we all know how grumpy Elon gets when contradicted

Offbeat28 Sep 2023 | 47

Twitter, aka X, tops charts for misinformation, EU official says

In measure of fakery, Musk's social media biz has highest noise-to-signal ratio

Off-Prem26 Sep 2023 | 96

'Small monthly payment' only thing that stands between X and bot chaos, says Musk

Comment Yes, because automated accounts are really the problem here

Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 118

Ex-Twitter employees pull Musk back to money table over missing severance

Will Elon actually pay this bill?

Legal14 Sep 2023 | 26

X marks the spot where free speech clashes with Californian transparency

AB 587's true purpose is to eliminate speech the government finds objectionable, lawyers argue

Legal11 Sep 2023 | 26

The Anti Defamation League is Musk's latest excuse for Twitter's tanking ad revenue

There's something very familiar about all this

Personal Tech05 Sep 2023 | 116

X may train its AI models on your social media posts

AI In brief Plus: AI luminary Douglas Lenat passed away, and US newspaper chain halts publishing of AI-generated articles

AI + ML04 Sep 2023 | 20

Twitter says it may harvest biometric, employment data from its addicts

Not so much X gon' give it to you, you gonna give it to X

Personal Tech31 Aug 2023 | 74

Musk's latest X-periments: No more headlines, old posts vanish, block gets banned

If advertisers weren't happy before, this is sure to win them over

Personal Tech22 Aug 2023 | 80

Musk's X caught throttling outbound links to websites he doesn't like

Elon, curing the world of imposter syndrome one decision at a time

Personal Tech16 Aug 2023 | 62

X-rated auction sells last vestiges of pre-Musk Twitter

Oscars 2014 Ellen DeGeneres Selfie in oil, anyone?

Offbeat14 Aug 2023 | 23

Lawsuit: We've got the stats to prove Twitter ax fell unfairly on older, female engineers

Seven ex-tweeps bring the receipts, as the kids say

Personal Tech10 Aug 2023 | 76

X tries to win back advertisers with brand safety promises

Meanwhile, platform keeps paying creators a share of ad revenue, but without similar safety features

Personal Tech09 Aug 2023 | 26

We'd pay good money to see... oh dear, Elon Musk 'needs an MRI scan'

Opinion What does this mean for his cage fight against Zuck? YOU DECIDE

Offbeat07 Aug 2023 | 62

One weekend's TwitX chaos brings threats from Japan; indemnity promises for users; prominent account seizures

Plus: Musk in 'we will fund your legal bill' promise

Software07 Aug 2023 | 61

Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers

Updated Are we out of touch? No, it's the campaigners who are wrong

Personal Tech01 Aug 2023 | 106

Twitter's giant throbbing X erected 'without a permit'

Updated Neighbors say it's an eyesore, Musk's underlings won't let inspectors near it

Offbeat31 Jul 2023 | 75

Indonesia blocks Musk's X.com over its X-rated past

Asia In Brief ALSO: Japan's government to write docs with AI; 5G boom coming; India denies infosec issues

Legal31 Jul 2023 | 26

Musk's X tries to win advertisers back with discounts

Plus: Did Xwitter just suggest stripping people of gold checks? Don't threaten us with a good time

Personal Tech26 Jul 2023 | 83

What does Twitter's new logo really represent?

Logowatch It has a meaning in mathematics, and even more interested parties than you might expect

Personal Tech26 Jul 2023 | 167

Tokkers can Tok like Tweeters can Tweet – for now

Scavenging for disgruntled former Twitter users? Fellow vulture, we honor thee.

Applications25 Jul 2023 | 14

Twitter name and blue bird logo to be 'blowtorched' off company branding

X marks the rot: It's Elon's fave letter and way forward for the 'everything app'

Personal Tech24 Jul 2023 | 204

Twitter ad revenue has halved since Elon Musk took over

While Zuckerberg's Threads reels in users at record rates

Personal Tech17 Jul 2023 | 108

We will find you and we will sue you, Twitter tells 4 mystery alleged data-scrapers

Lawyers say unknown John Does are profiting at Musk's expense

Legal14 Jul 2023 | 90

Ex-Twitter employees owed half a billion in severance, says lawsuit

There are only 1,300 souls left from 7,500 before Musk, complaint claims

Applications13 Jul 2023 | 27

Musk sues law firm for overcharging Twitter when Twitter was suing Musk

X Corp boss invokes spirit of 'Cops arrest man for burning Burning Man man'

Legal10 Jul 2023 | 44

Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?

Register Kettle Our vultures ponder decentralization over convenience

Personal Tech07 Jul 2023 | 102

From cage fight to page fight: Twitter threatens to sue Meta after Threads app launch

Meta rolls eyes at claim it used former Twits to create rival

Personal Tech06 Jul 2023 | 87

Meta's data-hungry Threads skips over EU but lands in Britain

Plus: Facebook corp loses appeal on crossing data streams in Germany

Personal Tech05 Jul 2023 | 78

Former Twitter employees accuse it of holding up 891 arbitrations

Class action claims company refusing to pay mandated fees

Legal05 Jul 2023 | 27

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

Zuck's Instagram-adjacent Twitter clone to debut later this week

Personal Tech05 Jul 2023 | 117

Twitter rate-limits itself into a weekend of chaos

Hey Elon – here's an idea for your next poll: 'Should I step down as CTO of Twitter?'

Personal Tech03 Jul 2023 | 86

Mummy and Daddy Musk think Elon's cage fight against Zuck is a terrible idea

Bizarrely, there's been no suggestion that the bout won't happen

Offbeat29 Jun 2023 | 48

Mark Zuckerberg would kick Elon Musk's ass, experts say

Comment The two claim to be headed for a smackdown over copycat services

Bootnotes22 Jun 2023 | 70

'We hate what you’ve done with the place – especially the hate' Australia tells Twitter

Issues official 'please explain why your moderation is rubbish' notice backed by big fines

Legal22 Jun 2023 | 101

Elon Musk's Twitter moves were 'reaffirming' says Reddit boss amid API changes

Comment From 'we are not Elon' to 'Elon was right' in a matter of days

Bootnotes19 Jun 2023 | 161

Music bosses go after Twitter's unlicensed soundtrack to the tune of $250M

Just what the Muskified platform needs right now – another lawsuit

Legal15 Jun 2023 | 23

Posing as journalists, Pink Drainer pilfers $3.3M in crypto

First the interview, then the phishing attack

Cyber-crime12 Jun 2023 | 10

Stanford Internet Observatory raises alarm over 'serious failings with the child protection systems at Twitter'

Updated Researchers find 100,000 accounts spamming child abuse material

Software06 Jun 2023 | 21

Yaccarino takes wheel at Twitter early as advertising woes become public

Leaked documents show a 59% ad revenue decline last month – can a Yacc smack get Twitter back on track?

Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 37

Elon Musk hit with insider trading claims over his Dogecoin crypto-hype

Claim: Billionaire banked big bread boosting bizarro-bucks

Personal Tech02 Jun 2023 | 22

Twitter loses second head of Trust and Safety under Musk

And here we thought being lead moderator for Elon would be fun

Personal Tech02 Jun 2023 | 30

Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it

Is he out of touch? No, must be the employees, users, advertisers, regulators, creditors...

Personal Tech31 May 2023 | 72

EU tells Twitter 'you can run but you can't hide' from disinformation policy

Updated Avian platform pulled out of the voluntary Code of Practice last week

Networks30 May 2023 | 154

Twitter Spaces groans under weight of Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk's egos

It should really take more than half a million people to melt your servers

Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 31

SCOTUS rules Google and Twitter didn't contribute to terrorist attacks

And holds off on Section 230 for another time

Personal Tech19 May 2023 | 12

Ex-Twitter sextet sues Elon Musk for 'stiffing' them on severance

Seems someone really is living in la-la-la land, but who...

Personal Tech18 May 2023 | 42

Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted

Now the minister responsible has threatened regulation

Legal17 May 2023 | 59

Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO

Opinion Though we're not sure NBCUniversal ad exec Linda Yaccarino appreciates the description

Personal Tech12 May 2023 | 102