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By Martin Baccardax Meta Platforms (META) – Get Free Report said Monday it will begin offering subscription-based, ad-free version of its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms to European users following pressure from bloc regulators. Meta said users in the European Union, the European Economic Area and Switzerland would be offered the option of paying between €9.99 per month and €12.99 per month for web or mobile access to its two biggest social media platforms linked to a specific account. Meta added that the fees for iOS and Android versions of the subscription” take into account th…

By Ian Krietzberg A bipartisan coalition of 42 U.S. attorneys general is suing Facebook and Instagram parent Meta (META) – Get Free Report, alleging that the company has engaged in a “scheme” to exploit and manipulate young users by knowingly pushing addictive, psychologically damaging features across its social media services. The core of the suit comes down to the allegation that, in order to maximize profit, Meta engaged in manipulative efforts to increase user engagement on its platforms. This fiscal incentive, according to the lawsuit, has resulted in detrimental impacts on young users’ “…

By Patricia Battle Last year in October, Elon Musk made a power move with his $44 billion acquisition of social media platform Twitter. He went on to make major modifications to the company such as laying off thousands of its original staff, charging its users to obtain the prestigious blue check mark on their profiles, firing much of the team responsible for monitoring misinformation, reinstating banned user accounts and burying the name Twitter, only to rename the platform X. The company has since touted its success after Musk’s acquisition. A month after he took over last year, Musk tweeted…

By Veronika Bondarenko While airlines have strict codes about air crew’s dress codes and behavior while on duty, pilots and flight attendants can also run into trouble with what they post on their social media accounts. After a surprise attack from fundamentalist group Hamas left more than 1,000 people in Israel dead and pushed the country’s Cabinet to declare a state of war and launch a counterattack in the territory of Gaza, Canada’s flagship airline suspended a pilot who posted support for Palestinians and told Israel to “burn in hell.” Related: United Pilot Suspended After Showing Up to Wo…

By Ian Krietzberg Meta (META) – Get Free Report, the parent conglomerate behind popular social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, said in 2021 that algorithmic personalization is “the not-so-secret sauce” that makes its platforms more meaningful to its users. Unique news feeds, loaded with content each user wants to see, complete with ads each user will find interesting, is better, the social media giant argued, for everyone involved, from potential customers to the small businesses that rely on digital marketing to stay afloat. A few months later, data scientist Frances Haugen became the…

By Todd Campbell Meta Platforms (META) – Get Free Report, formerly known as Facebook, is a technology titan. It’s one of the biggest companies on the planet. Its Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp social media and messaging apps boast over two billion daily users. The company has enjoyed tremendous success since CEO Mark Zuckerberg founded it in 2004. However, it’s dealt with its fair share of controversy, too, including user privacy and censorship concerns. More recently, Meta Platforms has come under fire for taking a hard-line approach to remote work. On October 3, Facebook’s management made…

By Tony Owusu There has been a cascading effect on bond markets ever since the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled that it is willing to keep interest rates higher for longer in order to battle stubborn inflation. The 10-year bond yield has jumped to a 16-year high in the U.S., and since the U.S. bond market is the world leader bond yields in Germany and Japan have also hit levels not seen in a decade. Related: The 20 Best Bond Funds to Buy Now These developments have spooked some of the bulls back in the U.S. and Jim Cramer, a leader of the bulls says there is nothing to fear from the global rise i…

By Martin Baccardax Meta Platforms (META) – Get Free Report shares edged higher in pre-market trading following multiple media reports that the social media giant it considering adding an ad-free paywall to its two biggest platforms in Europe. The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta, which was fined €390 million ($409 million) last year by officials in Ireland over its targeted ad policies, is considering whether to offer a free version of its Facebook and Instagram platforms with personalized ads, or a paid version that its ad-free. The Journal report suggested Meta could charge as much as…

By Ian Krietzberg The billionaire investor Bill Ackman’s firm, Pershing Square, received special regulatory approval Sept. 29 for a new investment vessel whose purpose is to invest in private companies in order to take them public. A few days later, he told The Wall Street Journal that he would “absolutely” consider such a transaction with Elon Musk’s X, the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter. Ackman, who has around 800,000 followers on the platform, made a $10 million investment in Twitter through the Pershing Square Foundation when Musk acquired the platform last year. Related: …

By Tony Owusu Elon Musk and House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have a long history of sniping at each other on social media, and that feud was reignited this week after the Tesla (TSLA) – Get Free Report CEO took a shot at Ocasio’s intelligence. The terms “boy math” and “girl math” have been trending on social media for the past week as users make fun of the perceived incongruencies in the way the opposite sex lives their lives. Related: One of Elon Musk’s unusual Tesla projects makes big strides “Boy math is spending $100 on FanDuel and winning $0,” is an example of one of the not-too…

By Laura Rodini Mark Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur, computer programmer, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, a social media and networking platform that launched in February 2004 and has amassed more than 3 billion users—that’s nearly half the world’s population. In October 2021, Facebook was rebranded as Meta Platforms Inc. (META) – Get Free Report in a move the company described as its“next chapter.” Its goal was to bring the 3D digital reality known as the metaverse to life in order to “help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses.” With amar…

By Todd Campbell Meta Platforms (META) – Get Free Report, formerly known as Facebook, is one of the largest technology companies in the world. The company’s Facebook and Instagram social media apps boast over two billion daily users, and WhatsApp, a leading global messaging app, has over 2.7 billion users. The social media company has ridden a wave of success since CEO Mark Zuckerberg founded it in 2004. However, it’s also faced its fair share of controversy, including concerns about users’ privacy and censorship of user accounts. On August 17, Meta Platforms made another arguably controversia…

By Tony Owusu After over a decade of being onboard with the platform Twitter founder Jack Dorsey announced a big social media move this week. Dorsey is leaving Instagram after more than 12 years on the platform. DON’T MISS: Tesla’s new luxury rival unveils its first electric vehicle “Deleted my Instagram account after 12 years. Was one of the first 10 accounts I believe, and one of the first angel investors. Who will they give the @jack handle too?,” Dorsey wondered aloud on X, formerly known as Twitter. Dorsey stuck with IG even after it was acquired by rival Facebook (at the time, Meta now) …

By Ian Krietzberg Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla (TSLA) – Get Free Report, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink and the Boring Company, and the owner and product lead of X (Twitter), seems to always have something of a hectic week. It’s hard to not be busy when operating that sheer quantity of businesses. More Elon Musk News: Elon Musk’s Tesla Is Making a Big Move With Pepsi The past week was no exception. X’s new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, shared several interesting insights in her first-ever interview as the company’s chief executive. Tesla, meanwhile, noted some changes in its C-suite, and both Neura…

By Ian Krietzberg Twitter has been more than a little chaotic since Elon Musk’s messy acquisition of the platform last year. For one thing, it is no longer called Twitter — Musk nixed the bluebird, christening these early stages of his budding everything app simply “X.” For another, even as Musk promises to pay the legal bills of people fired for posting on Twitter, and even as Musk works to expand his new ad-revenue sharing program with creators, the platform is struggling. DON’T MISS: Twitter to X: The Complete Timeline of Elon Musk’s Twitter Purchase Musk said July 15 that Twitter is “still…

By Ian Krietzberg Elon Musk’s many other companies were almost completely overshadowed this week by the latest goings-on at Twitter, which is now called X. The name of the famous microblogging platform, as well as its classic blue bird logo, have been replaced with “X” and a simple black-and-white iteration of the letter that now serves as the platform’s logo. Musk said months ago that, in part, he purchased Twitter to accelerate his dreams of realizing an ‘everything’ app. Rather than attempt to build a new social network from the ground up, Musk bought Twitter and gradually began to expand t…

By Ian Krietzberg It’s difficult to believe that, as of the time of writing, Twitter has been under Elon Musk’s thumb for less than a year. The billionaire has rolled out update after update to the beloved microblogging platform, doggedly pushing on as, step by step, he began to plant the seeds that he hoped would blossom into his vision of an everything app. Musk has said repeatedly that he shelled out that oft-ridiculed $44 billion necessary to acquire Twitter for two reasons. The first of these stems from his passionate desire to protect free speech within the digital town square of Twitter…

By Ian Krietzberg It’s been nine months since billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter for that record $44 billion. In the time since his acquisition, Musk has rushed to bring a host of new changes to Twitter, rolling out subscriptions, revenue sharing and longer-form video support, among other things. Now, he’s finally — and officially — killed the beloved Bird App. Twitter’s name and logo have been replaced by the simple letter pulled up from a 19-year-old Musk’s fervent dreams: X. DON’T MISS: Here’s What Happened the Last Time Elon Musk Tried to Make X a Thing Musk’s latest Twitter change h…

By Ian Krietzberg Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion last year he has been intent on bringing some sweeping changes to the platform. Musk moved quickly after taking over to get rid of the blue check system, replacing it with a multi-colored model and putting those blue checks up for sale at $8 per month. Musk cut a huge chunk of Twitter’s staff, specifically slimming down content moderation teams, and increased prior limits on longer videos. Most recently, Twitter imposed rate limits on its users; un-subscribed users have a much lower limit than their subscribed peers. And dealin…

By Sarah Jean Callahan Elon Musk acquired Twitter in a controversial transaction that cost him $44 billion. He later merged the social media company into an entity called X Corp. Musk is not shy about the changes he wants to make at the company. He’s also now looking for anyone, literally anyone, to come up with a new logo, calling out for new designs for X logos on his Twitter account. “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow,” Musk tweeted. Musk announced that the branded light blue bird would be bidding good-bye. The Twitter blue bird is one of the m…

By Ian Krietzberg Twitter has an advertising problem. The social media platform is still dealing with a negative cash flow and significant debt due, according to Elon Musk, to a 50% drop in advertising revenue. Recent data from Emburse found that even as ad spend on Twitter fell, it rose on other, more “Gen-Z-oriented” platforms. Companies — including Ben & Jerry’s \– are interested in advertising on platforms with high value and “low tumult,” according to Emburse. And since Musk acquired the platform and loosened up content moderation, gutting the teams previously responsible for that task,…

By Ian Krietzberg When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he launched the Bird App into a sort of puberty. Twitter has been growing and changing in a whole host of ways since, largely as part of Musk’s overall effort to turn the platform into an everything app in the vein of China’s WeChat. Musk rolled out Twitter Blue, a monthly subscription service whose users get to pay to receive the once-coveted blue check mark that used to be free. He also added support for longer video viewing and longer tweets, and recently launched an ad-revenue sharing program for Twitter’s creators. Among these updates, h…

By Tony Owusu As society becomes more bifurcated along political lines, it’s almost inevitable that social media will follow the same route. But ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the microblogging platform has seen an increase in the presence of right wing political figures as left wing posters have fled to multiple alternative apps. DON’T MISS: Elon Musk Has a Powerful Message For Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads The emergence of Threads, a new product from Meta Platforms (META) – Get Free Report, has had some early success by billing itself as an almost carbon copy of Twitter, but with more c…

By Ian Krietzberg Cathie Wood has been a fan of Elon Musk for a while, now. In May, Wood said that Tesla is the “biggest AI play out there,” and remains convinced that Tesla is positioned to dominate the nonexistent autonomous taxi business, one she thinks could be worth $10 trillion by 2030. But when it comes to one of Musk’s other companies — Twitter — Wood is a little less gung-ho. DON’T MISS: Elon Musk Warns Twitter Is in Trouble Wood’s Ark Invest Venture Fund has written down its Twitter stake by 47% since Musk took over last year, according to the Wall Street Journal. “We take fair val…

By Ian Krietzberg In light of recent competition from Threads, rate limits, pending lawsuits, advertising losses and a new ad revenue-sharing program with creators, Twitter has seemingly doubled down on chaos in recent weeks. And it is precisely that chaos, specifically as it relates to Elon Musk’s other company Tesla, that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has a problem with. DON’T MISS: Senator Elizabeth Warren Reveals Chaos Behind the Scenes as Bed, Bath & Beyond Crumbles Warren, who has previously gone after banks, cryptocurrency and Bed, Bath & Beyond, sent a letter to the U.S. Securities and …

By Ian Krietzberg Twitter has undergone a series of significant changes since Elon Musk bought it last year. One of the biggest of these, though, has nothing to do with updates to the user experience and more to do with the community on the platform. Twitter — because of its laissez-faire approach to content moderation — has become a bit of a haven for right-wing, white-nationalist content. And advertisers, according to Vox, are too concerned with brand safety to continue running ads on the platform. DON’T MISS: Mark Cuban Calls Out Elon Musk on Twitter After a Snide Political Tweet A majori…

By Ian Krietzberg Despite sending out a block payment of around $5 million to certain creators as part of Twitter’s new ad-revenue sharing program, Elon Musk’s platform is dealing with money problems. The social media app’s revenue has fallen since Musk took over, and ad spending on Twitter has fallen by more than 50% in the past year. DON’T MISS: Elon Musk Had a Monumental Week Musk himself just admitted to the ongoing fiscal challenges the platform is facing. “We’re still negative cash flow, due to ~50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load,” the billionaire tweeted July 15. “Need…

By Danni Button It’s been a very eventful week for the folks working at Twitter. The launch of Meta’s Threads app rollout has given Elon Musk’s social media platform a run for its money. But Musk’s latest move is incentivizing content creators to stick with the bird app by paying them a portion of the site’s ad revenue. For content creators, this is clearly a boon. Musk tweeted on July 13 that payouts would even occur retroactively starting from the day he first announced the plan in February. Major accounts began posting screenshots of their payouts — and some are pretty substantial. So what…

By Rob Lenihan Nothing good lasts forever–even for Mark Zuckerberg. The Meta Platforms (META) – Get Free Report CEO saw Threads, his so-called “Twitter Killer'” social media site, soar to dizzying heights in its recent debut. DON’T MISS: PGA Tour Players Are Vulnerable Again After Massive Change To Golf Deal The a new Instagram feature reported a record 100 million sign-ups in five days and reviving up talk of the demise Twitter, which belong’s to Zuckerberg’s arch rival Elon Musk. Ark Invest — which has long supported Tesla CEO Elon Musk — said in aJuly 10 note that Threads “could become a…

By Ian Krietzberg Twitter rolled out an ad-sharing program for its content creators Thursday, sending out a block payment of around $5 million. Creators quickly began to receive notification of their payouts, which were cumulative since February, with some taking home tens of thousands of dollars. Though this move — especially in light of the threat posed by Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads — has a lot of content creators excited about remaining on Twitter, it’s not exactly easy to gain eligibility for the program. Creators must be subscribed to Twitter Blue — which costs $8 per month — and must …

By Jeffrey Quiggle When Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta (META) – Get Free Report announced its new social media app, Threads, it may have been holding something back. Monetizing apps that have big numbers of users has been a challenge. Profiting from the microblogging business, which has taken wild turns the past year, continues to be the trick. DON’T MISS: Big Changes Are Coming to Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads — Here’s Why That’s Good News On July 5, Threads made its debut to a very quick rise in social media interest. On the first day, it boasted 30 million users. By July 11, it had surpassed 100 milli…

By Ian Krietzberg In the week since Mark Zuckerberg launched his Twitter competitor Threads, the tech billionaire has noted record user growth, saying July 10 that the new app surpassed 100 million sign-ups over the weekend. And Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter and CEO of a growing number of companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, has spent the past week taking shots at Zuckerberg and his new platform in an attempt to discredit Meta’s CEO and highlight the differences between their two apps. DON’T MISS: The Long and Bitter War Between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Musk, who has accused Zuckerber…

By Ian Krietzberg Twitter finally rolled out an ad-sharing update to its content creators July 13, making good on a promise Elon Musk first made to his users in February. Faced for the first time with a real Twitter competitor in the form of Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads — which surpassed 100 million users less than a week after its launch \– Elon Musk has been striving to highlight the advantages of Twitter over Threads, namely saying that it is a more balanced platform than the “false happiness” of Meta’s platforms. DON’T MISS: Elon Musk Defends Twitter Rate Limits “Revenue payout to content c…

By Ian Krietzberg When Elon Musk took over Twitter last year, he immediately began to cut back the company’s staff. Before Musk’s acquisition, the company had a workforce of around 8,000, a staff Musk quickly trimmed down to around 1,500. “I wouldn’t say it was uncaring,” he said in a BBC interview in April. “If the whole ship sinks, then nobody’s got a job.” DON’T MISS: Senator Elizabeth Warren Reveals Chaos Behind the Scenes as Bed, Bath & Beyond Crumbles But according to a new lawsuit filed by a former Twitter HR head Wednesday, Musk’s newly leaned-down company did not pay out the proper se…

By Ian Krietzberg Elon Musk rolled out a series of rate limits across Twitter in the first few days of July, initially limiting verified users to reading 6,000 posts per day and non-verified users to only 600. These numbers were later raised to 10,000 and 1,000, respectively. At the time, Musk said the reasoning behind these and other limitations, which cut down Twitter’s web presence, was to “address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.” DON’T MISS: Non-Verified Twitter Users Are About to Lose Access to a Very Popular Feature And X Corp., the company previously known as Twit…

By Ian Krietzberg Ever since Meta launched Threads \– which exceeded 100 million users less than a week after its launch\– traffic on Twitter has begun to slow down. The first two days of Threads’ launch on July 6 and 7 saw Twitter traffic down 5%, according to Similarweb. Traffic to the bird app was down 11% year-over-year for the same days. But Twitter’s problems seem to go beyond simple traffic declines. Advertisers, according to new data from Emburse, are ditching Twitter in favor of more “Gen-Z-oriented” platforms. DON’T MISS: The Long and Bitter War Between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerber…

By Ian Krietzberg Since Mark Zuckerberg launched his Twitter rival Threads last week, it has been referred to as the “Twitter Killer.” The new platform has become the fastest-growing app in history, gaining more than 100 million users less than a week after launching. And it seems like Threads’ existence might be taking a chunk out of Twitter’s traffic; Twitter’s traffic was down 11% from last year on the first two days of Threads’ launch. DON’T MISS: Threads App: Here’s Everything We Know About Meta’s New Twitter Competitor Nick Grous, Ark’s Associate Portfolio Manager, thinks that there is a…

By Ian Krietzberg Elon Musk runs Tesla (TSLA) – Get Free Report, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company. The world’s richest man is also the owner of Twitter, a platform he acquired last year for $44 billion. Now, he can add another company to that lengthy list: xAI. The new AI startup officially went live with a website and Twitter page on July 12. DON’T MISS: Elon Musk Weighs In On ‘100 Is The New 60’ Human Lifespan Claim “Today we announce the formation of xAI. The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” the company’s website reads. Musk confirmed the launch with a …

By Ian Krietzberg In the days since its launch, Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter challenger Threads has positioned itself as a real competitor to Elon Musk’s Twitter. It has become the fastest-growing app in history, boasting more than 100 million users just five days after its launch. Amid Threads’ strong start, some, like Cloudfare CEO Matthew Prince, have noted that Twitter’s traffic has begun to take a bit of a dive, suggesting that users might be beginning to migrate away from the platform. Musk — and Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino — disagree. DON’T MISS: The Long and Bitter War Between Elo…

By Ian Krietzberg Since Mark Zuckerberg launched Threads last week, Elon Musk has spent at least some of his time on Twitter criticizingZuckerberg and his new app, challenging him to more (immature) contests and touting the value of Twitter’s platform as it compares to Threads. Zuckerberg has likewise been active on his new platform, highlighting the differences between the two, mainly that Threads is designed to be a “friendly” place, free of the vitriol that has become so common on Twitter. DON’T MISS: The Long and Bitter War Between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg “The goal is to keep it frie…

By Daniel Kline When Elon Musk bought Twitter last October, a number of companies were unsure how to respond. The new owner, in what he said was the interest of promoting free speech, dropped many of the safeguards the social media site had used. Twitter was never a safe place — its sheer size makes fully policing it nearly impossible — but the Tesla (TSLA) – Get Free Report CEO had no interest in even trying. Musk may not have wanted chaos, but he certainly was okay with making hate speech more acceptable and embracing the bullying nature that social-media posts can fall into when there are…

By Tony Owusu Threads and Twitter are supposedly locked in a deathmatch for domination of the short-form blogging social media landscape. But at least one marketing executive believes there is enough room for both platforms to thrive. DON’T MISS: Meta Stock Higher As ‘Twitter Killer’ App Threads Sees Huge Signup Surge Threads from Meta Platforms (META) – Get Free Report launched this week to much fanfare. On its two days of operations the platform has seen as many as 70 million signups. “There should be a public conversations app with one billion-plus people on it,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sa…

By Ian Krietzberg Mark Zuckerberg launched Meta’s (META) – Get Free Report response to Twitter Thursday, a text-based platform called Threads that garnered more than 30 million users as of Thursday morning. For context, it took Twitter 780 days to reach its first 10 million users, a milestone that took Facebook 852 days to reach. Even with the success of the social media giant’s latest release, the company’s launch day was riddled with drama as Elon Musk’s Twitter filed a cease-and-desist letter against Meta, claiming the company poached former Twitter employees in order to create a Twitter “c…

By Ian Krietzberg Mark Zuckerberg launched Meta’s (META) – Get Free Report response to Twitter Thursday, a text-based platform called Threads that garnered more than 30 million users as of Thursday morning. For context, it took Twitter 780 days to reach its first 10 million users, a milestone that took Facebook 852 days to reach. Even with the success of the social media giant’s latest release, the company’s launch day was riddled with drama as Elon Musk’s Twitter filed a cease-and-desist letter against Meta, claiming the company poached former Twitter employees in order to create a Twitter “c…

By Ian Krietzberg Mark Zuckerberg launched Meta’s (META) – Get Free Report response to Twitter Thursday, a text-based platform called Threads that garnered more than 30 million users as of Thursday morning. For context, it took Twitter 780 days to reach its first 10 million users, a milestone that took Facebook 852 days to reach. Even with the success of the social media giant’s latest release, the company’s launch day was riddled with drama as Elon Musk’s Twitter filed a cease-and-desist letter against Meta, claiming the company poached former Twitter employees in order to create a Twitter “c…

By Ian Krietzberg Meta launched its highly-anticipated Twitter rival Threads Thursday, gaining more than 30 million users on its currently ad-free platform as of Thursday morning, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But amid praise of the potential “Twitter Killer” has come criticism, with many accusing the platform of simply copying and pasting Twitter’s layout. DON’T MISS: Linda Yaccarino Defends Twitter as Mark Zuckerberg’s Challenger Enters the Ring That sentiment is one that X Corp., the company formerly known as Twitter, seems to agree with. According to documents obtained by Semafor, Twit…

By Ian Krietzberg Meta launched its highly-anticipated Twitter alternative Threads July 6, attracting 10 million sign-ups in its first seven hours. The launch of the app, which is connected to Instagram, has amped up the rivalry between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk, a rivalry that will be fought out in virtual sign-ups before it reaches the Colosseum. Twitter — which had around 556 million active monthly users as of January 2023, according to Statista \– recently launched a series of temporary limitations that the company said are meant to prevent data scraping from A…

By Rob Lenihan There must be some way out here. Yes, that’s what the Joker said to the Thief in Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” but now it seems that many Twitter users have similar feelings. DON’T MISS: Netflix Higher as Goldman Sachs Boosts Rating, Price Target Into Q2 Earnings “so is everyone quitting twitter now??” one commenter recently asked. Well, we wouldn’t say everybody, but interest in defecting from the microblogging site has reportedly soared after Elon Musk announced temporary daily limits to the number of posts each user can view. “To address extreme levels of data scrap…

By Ian Krietzberg Though the war between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg might soon break into physical violence, with Musk challenging the Meta CEO in June to a cage match, the conflict between the two billionaires is heating up in a different way. (META) – Get Free Report, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will be launching its Twitter competitor, called Threads, July 6. The rollout comes just days after Musk announced a series of limitations — including a temporary daily restriction on tweet views — to Twitter, done in an apparent effort to reduce spam and data-scraping. …

By Brian O’Connell This Thursday is Threads Day for Meta, which plans on launching the Twitter competitor at a time when the Elon Musk-led company has its plate full. Meta announced its Thread release on Instagram as a “text-based conversation” network that takes on Twitter, leading some social media trackers to wonder if Jeff Zuckerberg can knock out Musk before their reported cage match – or vice-versa. DON’T MISS: Mark Zuckerberg Makes a Bold Move Instagram has an Apple Store slot for Threads ready to go on July 6, according to the Verge. There’s also news of a Threads app already popping u…

By Ian Krietzberg Elon Musk has been rolling out radical changes to Twitter since he acquired the platform last year. But his push toward paying users took a bit of a turn over the weekend when the billionaire announced temporary daily limits to the number of posts each user can view. Musk said that the limits — 6,000 posts a day for verified accounts and 600 for unverified accounts — are being applied to address data scraping from AI companies. These numbers were later lifted to 10,000 and 1,000 respectively. DON’T MISS: Elon Musk Makes Surprising Twitter Change The changes to the platform,…

By Ian Krietzberg It’s been nearly two months since Tucker Carlson, upon being ousted from Fox News, pivoted to Twitter where he has since uploaded seven episodes of his new show, “Tucker on Twitter.” In the beginning, it looked like Carlson was flying high without Fox News. His initial announcement received nearly 137 million views since being posted, a number that seems far beyond his March average viewership on Fox, which amounted to a little more than 3 million people. DON’T MISS: Tucker Carlson’s Twitter Ratings Seem Like Good News — But There’s One Major Catch Carlson’s first episode, a…

By Ian Krietzberg Since Elon Musk bought Twitter last year, he has been devoted to two things: freedom of speech and expansion. He’s talked about both ad nauseum, and throughout his tenure as the CEO and owner of the platform, Twitter has rolled out a host of updates. Notably, Musk seems intent on competing with such longer-form social platforms as YouTube, recently allowing users to upload videos up to two hours in length. In tandem with these longer video allowances has come the launch of several shows exclusive to Twitter, namely ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson with his show “Tucker on Twit…

By Danni Button It’s been exactly nine months since Elon Musk purchased the social media platform Twitter. The billionaire often insists the site has improved since he took the helm, despite revenue loss from plummeting ad sales. Musk’s efforts to monetize the site with the infamous blue checkmark have mostly been met with cynicism. Now, some users are speculating that a mysterious new crackdown is Musk’s next big monetization scheme. More than 60,000 Twitter users were tweeting on June 27 about mass account restrictions. Many users reported a “violation of spam policy” that they couldn’t reca…