Tag: Twitter

• Let Twitter Devolve Into Porn

  December 16, 2023

  OF ALL THE threats posed by Twitter (now called X) since it fell under sketchy new management last year, one of them doubles as a promise. Twitter/X will devolve into… more ›

• Jack Dorsey’s Square, Inc. is buying a majority stake in Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal

  March 4, 2021

  Square, Inc., the financial services company founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is acquiring a majority stake in Tidal, the high-fidelity audio and video streaming service led by Jay-Z. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313108/square-inc-tidal-majority-stake-jack-dorsey-jay-z more ›

• Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes

  August 9, 2020

  It’s been four years since the 2016 election laid bare the powerful role that social media companies have come to play in shaping political discourse and beliefs in America.Since then,… more ›

• Facebook Discovers Fakes That Show Evolution of Disinformation

  December 22, 2019

  Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an “eerie, tech-enabled future of disinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/business/facebook-ai-generated-profiles.html more ›

• Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Georgia, Vietnam and the US

  December 22, 2019

  Today, we removed two unconnected networks of accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in foreign and government interference — which is coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a government or… more ›

• Platforms and Publishers: The End of an Era

  November 26, 2019

  This report is part of an ongoing, multi-year study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School into the relationship between large-scale technology companies and journalism. This… more ›

• And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet

  September 9, 2019

  For years, Ev Williams was saddled with doubts. As a co-founder of Blogger and Twitter and, more recently, as the chief executive of the digital publishing platform Medium, Mr. Williams… more ›

• The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”

  July 24, 2019

  The button that ruined the internet — and how to fix it. Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter’s retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet more ›

• Bad remedies

  November 1, 2017

  Bad remedies “That Facebook, Twitter, and Google — which, by the way, holds just as much if not more power than Facebook, but without the attendant media scrutiny — have… more ›

• Cheap Bots, Done Quick!

  January 12, 2017

  Cheap Bots, Done Quick! » This site will help you make a Twitterbot! They’re easy to make and free to run. To use it, create a Twitter account for your… more ›