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Resolving to delete the app, the intern remarked that the algorithm seems to downrank news and favor reactionary politics — and it’s hard to argue with that. But old habits die hard.
On July 23, 2023, Musk announced X's launch, which would replace Twitter, which started when the X.com domain (formerly associated with PayPal) began redirecting to Twitter; [3] the logo was changed from the bird to the X the next day, [37] and the platform's official main and associated accounts also began using the letter X within their handles. [38]
This summer, in a surprise release, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta unveiled its text-based Twitter rival Threads.The app exploded onto the scene just as Twitter was blundering. Musk had imposed a poorly ...
Twitter is struggling to keep its most active users - who are vital to the business - engaged, underscoring a challenge faced by the Tesla Inc chief executive as he approaches a deadline to close ...
App.net has been called "an ad-free, subscription-based, Twitter clone". [163] [164] The source code for App.net will be made available through its GitHub account. [165] 2017: January 18: Acquisition: Twitter announces it has sold Fabric, Twitter's developer platform, to Google. [166] [167] [168] 2017: January 20: Vine: Twitter launches an ...
In 2016, Twitter announced the creation of the Twitter Trust & Safety Council to help "ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter". The council's inaugural members included 50 organizations and individuals. [8] The announcement of Twitter's "Trust & Safety Council" was met with objection from parts of its userbase.
Twitter’s rebrand to X has so far fallen flat in mainstream culture, said Neumeier, because the name “gets lost in sentences” and “looks like a misprint.”
In January 2025, the banning of TikTok in the US caused many US users to look for a TikTok alternative, [32] which led to a significant increase in Xiaohongshu downloads. It was the most-downloaded free app in the App Store on 14 January and #TikTokRefugee became a trending topic, referring to former TikTok users as "refugees".