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Publishing platform Medium is opening up its debut Mastodon instance, me.dm, to its members, the company announced today. Last month, Medium first teased its plans around the Fediverse — the group of interconnected servers powering a range of open source, decentralized applications, including the Twitter alternative Mastodon and others. It said it wanted to make access to […]

Medium launches a ‘premium’ Mastodon instance as a membership perk by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter says it has resolved issues with images and links on its platform. Earlier today, many users were unable to view links and images on the social network due to “an internal change.” According to reports on third-party web monitoring service Downdetector, the issues began at around 11:50 a.m. ET. “Some parts of Twitter may […]

Twitter fixes broken links and images caused by ‘internal change’ by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter is the first of the major social media companies to allow cannabis companies to advertise.

Tweet, tweet, pass: Twitter unlocks a budding growth opportunity for cannabis startups by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch
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Amongst a ton of product changes to make Twitter a more attractive platform, Elon Musk has mentioned multiple times his desire to make direct messages better and more secure. So much so that he wants DMs to “superset Signal” — the encrypted messaging app. Over the weekend, Musk said that the end-to-end encrypted DM feature […]

Elon Musk says Twitter is ‘aiming’ to roll out encrypted DMs this month by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to data.ai’s “State of […]

This Week in Apps: Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky, social apps’ teen protections, Twitter clients get help by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter’s paid plan Twitter Blue is now available to more than 20 new countries in Europe. These countries include Netherlands, Poland, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta, and Cyprus. This expansion makes the social network’s subscription service available in more than […]

Twitter Blue expands to more than 20 countries by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter last month officially banned third-party clients, putting a sudden end to popular apps, including Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and others. Now, in an unusual turn of events, two developers this week have updated their shuttered apps with new functionality: They’re asking their subscribers to decline to receive a refund by clicking a new “I don’t need […]

Tweetbot and Twitterrific ask customers to decline refunds in rare App Store exception by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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01/03/2023 6.15 PM IST: Twitter has seemingly fixed the issue and the timeline is now loading for most people. Until now, The company hasn’t posted anything about what caused the glitch. Usually, the best way to know if a service is down is to look on Twitter. But this time, we can’t really do anything […]

Twitter timeline is broken for multiple users (Updated) by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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Bluesky, the Twitter alternative backed by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, has hit the App Store and more testers are gaining access. Though the app is still only available as an invite-only beta, its App Store arrival signals that a public launch could be nearing. We haven’t heard much from Bluesky since October 2022, […]

Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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After several rounds of layoffs, Twitter’s staff is down from about 7,500 employees to less than 2,000 — and one of the numerous cuts across the company eliminated the platform’s entire accessibility team last year. In an open letter to Elon Musk, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) called on the new Twitter owner to bring the […]

Senator Markey calls on Elon Musk to reinstate Twitter’s accessibility team by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
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