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Europe confirms first clutch of DSA grievances on Elon Musk’s X

July 13, 2024

The platform formerly known as Twitter has earned the dubious honor of being the first very large online platform (VLOP) to face a preliminary finding of breaching the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the bloc’s governance and content moderation rulebook. Penalties for confirmed breaches of the regime can reach up to 6% of global […]

X is building a ‘dislike’ button for downvoting replies

July 12, 2024

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, is continuing to develop a downvoting feature that will be used to improve how replies are ranked. Although the company has not yet officially announced its plans, more recent findings indicate the downvote feature may actually resemble a “dislike” button instead of a Reddit-style downvote icon. Code references found in […]

Elon Musk does not owe ex-Twitter staffers $500 million in severance, court rules

July 11, 2024

Elon Musk faces several lawsuits for firing more than 6,000 Twitter employees, including then-CEO Parag Agrawal, following Musk’s 2022 takeover of the social media platform. On Tuesday, Musk defeated one of those lawsuits, as a federal judge ruled X Corp. doesn’t owe the ex-employees any more severance. The lawsuit, filed by Twitter’s former head of […]

X plans to more deeply integrate Grok’s AI, app researcher finds

July 6, 2024

Elon Musk’s X is exploring more ways to integrate xAI’s Grok into the social networking app. According to a series of recent discoveries, X is developing new features like the ability to ask Grok about X accounts, use Grok by highlighting text in the app and access Grok’s chatbot through a pop-up on the side […]

A year later, what Threads could learn from other social networks

July 4, 2024

Threads, Meta’s alternative to Twitter, just celebrated its first birthday. After launching on July 5 last year, the social network has reached 175 million monthly active users — that’s a notable achievement. But, after a year, Threads is trying to find its own voice by not being as newsy as Twitter/X and also not being […]

Noplace, a mashup of Twitter and MySpace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store

July 3, 2024

Noplace had already gone viral ahead of its public launch because of its feature that allows users to express themselves by customizing the colors of their profile.

Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new ‘byline’ feature

July 3, 2024

The new bylines go beyond the typical @username references that often accompany link posts from news publications and those pointing to other written content, like a WordPress blog or Substack

X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn’t want to emulate Reddit

July 2, 2024

code references found in the X iOS app indicate that the company could be considering adding downvotes for replies only to improve how they’re ranked.

TechCrunch Minute: X still can’t handle its bot problem

June 28, 2024

X still has a verified bot problem. Also, grass is green. We knew it would be a bad idea to let anyone pay for a verified checkmark on the platform formerly known as Twitter, but it’s still shocking how much discord the feature has caused. Last summer, X admitted it had a problem with users […]

X still has a Verified bot problem — this time they came for TechCrunch writers

June 23, 2024

Really, X should have learned its lesson by now.