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App Review, Applications

Apple halts all advertising on X after Musk agrees with antisemitic post

November 17, 2023

Via: 9to5Mac

According to a new report from Axios, Apple is pausing all advertising on Twitter, the social media platform currently known as X. The move comes after a report on Thursday highlighted that ads from Apple and other companies were shown […]


App Review, Applications

X launches new $3/mo Basic and $16/mo Premium+ subscription tiers

October 27, 2023

Via: 9to5Mac

X (Twitter) has just launched its new lineup of subscription tiers. The $8 per month ‘Premium’ verified tier remains the default standard, but the new Basic tier comes in at $3 per month as a cheaper option. Basic does not […]


App Review, Applications

X Premium subscribers might be getting a new ‘Enhanced Discovery’ feature

October 16, 2023

Via: BGR

No, this feature isn’t going to enhance people discovering YOU. X has been hinting at new features for a while now and looking for ways to tie those features behind its Premium subscription tier in an effort to boost paid […]


App Review, Applications

Paris Hilton is getting a special deal to post on X

October 2, 2023

Via: The Verge

X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has made a special revenue sharing deal with Paris Hilton and her media company, 11:11. It even includes a custom hashtag for a word that Hilton has been trying to popularize since at […]


App Review, Applications

Twitter has officially changed to ‘X’ in the App Store

July 31, 2023

Via: BGR

Twitter is not only ‘X’ on its own website. It’s ‘X’ on the App Store as well. Up until today, while the logo for Twitter changed to ‘X’ on its website and its icon on the App Store and Google […]


App Review, Applications

Threads has lost half of its daily active users a week after launch

July 17, 2023

Via: BGR

Threads, Instagram’s new Twitter competitor, experienced a heck of a launch week, crossing over 100 million users and becoming the fastest-growing app ever. However, all good things must come to an end. Well, at least when it comes to hype […]


App Review, Applications

Instagram Threads: All you need to know about the new Twitter rival app

July 6, 2023

Via: Pocket Now

While the whole of the internet has been wondering about who will win a cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, their respective companies are now in an official battle. Today, Instagram launched a new social media app called […]


App Review, Applications

Twitter takes its algorithm ‘open-source,’ as Elon Musk promised

March 31, 2023

Via: The Verge

Twitter has released the code that chooses which tweets show up on your timeline to GitHub and has put out a blog post explaining the decision. It breaks down what the algorithm looks at when determining which tweets to feature […]


App Review, Applications

Jack Dorsey’s Twitter competitor ‘Bluesky’ now available on the App Store, but you still need an invite

February 28, 2023

Via: 9to5Mac

Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey left the company in May 2022 amid negotiations with Elon Musk. Since then, he has been working on Bluesky – a new decentralized social network that comes to compete with Twitter. This week, […]


News and Press

Elon Musk plans to step down as CEO of Twitter by the end of this year

February 15, 2023

Via: BGR

Elon Musk says that he plans to find someone else to run Twitter by the end of this year, but we all know how best-laid plans go! As reported by Bloomberg, the Tesla/SpaceX/Twitter CEO was virtually in attendance at the […]


App Review, Applications

Twitter delaying changes to its API after announcing many new limitations

February 14, 2023

Via: 9to5Mac

Earlier this month, Twitter announced a series of changes to its API that will directly impact how third-party platforms can access the social network. However, amid much controversy, Twitter is now delaying the changes to its API “for a few […]


App Review, Applications

Twitter redefines what makes a tweet with supersized 4,000-character limit

February 8, 2023

Via: 9to5Mac

Following up after launching Twitter Blue in three more countries this morning, the platform has made a big change to tweets this afternoon. The new max for Twitter Blue subscribers in the US has been supersized all the way up […]


News and Press

Twitter rolling out new #AppleMusic hashflag ahead of Super Bowl Halftime Show

February 6, 2023

Via: 9to5Mac

Apple announced last year that it will be the new sponsor of the Super Bowl Halftime Show, starting with Super Bowl 57 on February 12, 2023 with a performance by Rihanna. A few days ahead of the show, Twitter is […]


App Review, Applications

Twitter is officially discontinuing free access to its API and will instead roll out a paid tier

February 3, 2023

Via: PhoneArena

Tweeting from its developers’ account, Twitter has now revealed that, as of next Tuesday, February 9th, it will no longer provide developers with free access to its API. Soon, a new, more affordable “basic” tier will be available at a […]


App Review, Applications

Twitter for iPhone updated with ‘new’ features from four years ago

January 20, 2023

Via: 9to5Mac

Following the confirmation that developers can no longer create third-party Twitter clients, the social network’s official app received an update on Friday with new features. Actually, these features are not exactly new, but Twitter is bringing them back to its […]


App Review, Applications

Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and third-party clients

January 12, 2023

Via: 9to5Mac

The past several weeks since Elon Musk’s takeover have seen Twitter in turmoil as rapid changes hit the platform, and tonight it appears something is going on with the Twitter API as Tweetbot and many third-party Twitter clients are down. […]


App Review, Applications

Twitter forcing algorithm timeline in your face in latest iOS update

January 11, 2023

Via: 9to5Mac

It has been a long time since Twitter started showing users tweets based on suggestions rather than chronological order, which was heavily criticized at the time. But after many complaints, the platform let users choose whether they wanted to see […]


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Twitter restores suicide prevention feature after Elon Musk reportedly ordered its removal

December 27, 2022

Via: BGR

Twitter has restored its suicide prevention feature after it was reportedly removed under orders from current CEO and new owner Elon Musk. As reported by Reuters, the feature was removed from the social media platform, apparently under the direction of […]


App security, Applications

Former Twitter head of trust and safety argues that Apple and Google have the most sway on policy

November 18, 2022

Via: 9to5Mac

Yoel Roth briefly worked alongside Elon Musk as Twitter’s head of trust and safety. Roth resigned for reasons he explains in the New York Times today. In the piece, Roth argues that Apple and Google app stores ultimately govern what […]


News and Press

Why Elon Musk is so desperate for Twitter to make money

November 2, 2022

Via: The Verge

It’s been six days since Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, and the changes have been both furious and fast. He’s proposed cataclysmic layoffs — somewhere between 50 percent and 75 percent of the company’s staff, depending on which reports […]