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Is Elon Musk right to ditch the Twitter bird logo?
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Scoop: Inside Musk's plan for an "everything app" to replace Twitter
Musk has been talking a good game about wanting to build new things on top of the old Twitter.
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Why Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X
The billionaire’s bid to turn the social media platform into an everything app was a bold but foolhardy decision
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Opinion Why Elon Musk rebranded Twitter with our most mysterious letter
The modern letter X derives from the Semitic sign “samekh” and was the 15th letter in the original alphabetic sequence.
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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model
The AI debate splitting the tech world, explained.
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WaPo EXCLUSIVE: Move fast and beat Musk: The inside story of how Meta built Threads
A company in crisis went back to basics to deliver a viral hit. But can Adam Mosseri’s bare-bones Twitter clone reinvigorate an aging tech giant?
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Why TikTokers are drinking laundry detergent
The borax challenge is spreading to Facebook now, too.
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Elon Musk sues disinformation researchers, claiming they are driving away advertisers
The firm that owns Twitter, now called X, is suing an anti-hate organisation whose research criticised the platform.
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Why Twitter’s rebrand to X feels 'shocking' to users
So long Twitter, hello X. The change doesn't sit right with many of its devoted users, and there may be reasons why.
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Elon Musk Swipes Control of Another Twitter Account, This Time @Music
After seizing the @X account, Twitter has taken over the @music handle from an Ohio man who had been using it for over 16 years.
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Every start-up is an AI company now. Bubble fears are growing.
Silicon Valley has seen wave after wave of hype cycle over the past decades — with mixed success.
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TechScape: Why Elon Musk is taking trying to mute anti-hate-speech group
The company formerly known as Twitter alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate drove away advertisers – but CCDH and legal experts say otherwise
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Google and Universal negotiating deal over AI-generated music tool
A deal could see artists approve their voices and melodies for AI-generated songs in return for a cut of sales
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Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes
The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times, Facebook and other sites Musk commonly attacks, a Washington Post analysis found.
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We Don’t Need a New Twitter
It’s time to move beyond the flawed idea of a global conversation platform.
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Twitter's Rival Threads Is Already Unraveling
Threads’ failure to maintain its early momentum is indicative of both design flaws and larger network effects.
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Twitter, now X, to remove blocking feature
The blocking feature will be removed for users of X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk has announced, claiming the feature "makes no sense".
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Sleep streams: How Kai Cenat and others make money filming themselves sleep
Most people twitch in their sleep - but a few have found a way to turn that into profit.
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Meta’s Threads App to Launch Web Version as Rivalry With X Enters New Stage
A web version of the new text-first app is one of the features users have asked for and could help it compete with X after a decline in usage.
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