Nothing Like a Social Media Outage to Cause Anxiety
How dependent are you on your social networks? You can quickly find the answer to that question during a social media outage!
How dependent are you on your social networks? You can quickly find the answer to that question during a social media outage!
In the week since the announcement of BlueSky open access, 1.3 million new users joined the social media platform and X alternative.
If you're generous with the pound sign on social media, using Threads hashtags might require you to embrace a strong sense of discipline.
The BlueSky logo is now a butterfly instead of...whatever the old logo was. It just began rolling out last week.
You may have spotted more instances of the watermelon emoji lately, particularly in posts about Palestine or the Israel-Hamas War.
Elon Musk was fact-checked on his own platform when he posted a claim about Microsoft Word inclusive language suggestions.
After Elon Musk renamed his social media platform 'X," the Associated Press Stylebook advised we explain it was 'formerly known as Twitter.'
I received a Facebook email that made me do a double-take because of how little information it actually provided.
If you've entered your email to get a BlueSky invite to join that network, expect to wait a long time. Mine took several months!
I'd never even heard of Pebble before learning it had decided to cease its operations. I wasn't the only one, which was its problem.
X, the app formerly known as Twitter, will make users pay to use the service. But would you actually pay for X?
When you share links on X, formally known as Twitter, it used to display 'Twitter Cards.' But as of last week, X headlines are gone.
All X users, formerly Twitter users, will soon have to pay to use the platform, its owner Elon Musk said during a live-streamed event.
Some see social media as a place for real conversation and debate. But if you're looking for genuine civil discourse, you'll be disappointed.
One of several critical features Threads users have been waiting for rolled out Thursday: There's now a web version of the platform.
For a while now, I've told you should make sure you own your own domain when you blog. Here's a recent example of why that's so important.
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