X Taking Last Step to Drop Twitter Brand for Good
If you've secretly been hoping X owner Elon Musk would change his mind and resurrect the Twitter brand, you won't...
If you've secretly been hoping X owner Elon Musk would change his mind and resurrect the Twitter brand, you won't...
There's a new chapter in the saga over X checkmarks as owner Elon Musk has decided to begin restoring them to certain accounts.
AP Style recently updated its guidance on referring to Elon Musk's social media platform X with a disclaimer that it was formerly Twitter.
In the week since the announcement of BlueSky open access, 1.3 million new users joined the social media platform and X alternative.
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.'
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.
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.
When you refer to that certain social platform these days, are you calling it Twitter or X? AP Style recently tackled that topic.
The latest development in the verification badge saga involves a new option that allows subscribers to hide X checkmarks.
Have you considered blogging on X but wished the character limit would allow long-form posts? A fix may be in the works.
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