X will soon be changing the functionality behind the block button so that public posts will still be visible to users who block accounts. This is due to changes to X’s website spotted by independent app researcher Nima Owji. Elon Musk acknowledged these changes on Monday, saying that blocked accounts still can’t interact with the…
Threads, Meta Platforms’ newest social media product, has more than 175 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday, just before its one-year anniversary. A competitor to X, then known as Twitter, Threads debuted on app stores on July 5 of last year, just in time to steal users away from the dominant microblogging…
Elon Musk, the owner of xAI, announced on Tuesday that the business formerly known as Twitter will soon make the Grok chatbot available to additional paying members, in response to the company’s decision earlier in March to make its Grok big language model open source. Musk said in a post on X that Grok will…
Elon Musk stated during an X Spaces event on Monday that the first person to get a Neuralink brain chip implanted may operate a computer mouse with their thoughts. Musk claims that the unidentified patient, who had a Neuralink chip placed in their brain a few weeks ago, has totally recovered. In an interview on…
On Friday, Elon Musk’s social media platform X—previously known as Twitter—unveiled two new subscription tiers, one of which is Premium+, for those who are ready to pay to access the platform without advertisements. According to a post made by the company on the platform, the Premium+ plan, which costs roughly $16 a month, has all…
Audio and video calls are now available on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter. Elon Musk posted a screenshot of the new feature along with instructions on how to activate it in the settings. The post was titled “Early version of video and audio calling on X.” When activating the app, a number…
As there was no option for users to deactivate their Threads account without also deleting their Instagram account, Meta came under criticism after introducing its text-based social network Threads in July. By December, the company plans to launch a separate account deactivation for Threads. Michel Protti, Meta’s chief privacy officer for product, stated at TechCrunch…
Elon Musk, the owner of X, suggested today that the social network formerly known as Twitter might no longer be a cost-free service. On Monday, during a live-streamed interview with Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, Musk stated that the business was “moving to a small monthly payment” for the usage of the X system.…
According to the company’s privacy policy, the social media network X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin collecting the biometric and employment data of its members. According to X, the modifications have not yet been put into practise and will do so on September 29. The company’s recently updated privacy policy, which describes how it gathers…
Questions have been raised in response to Twitter’s name change. Do you still have the ability to tweet? Why isn’t Twitter Blue known to as X Blue? And most frequently: Elon, what on earth were you thinking? Thank goodness, the microblogging site has undergone more changes than just the questionable name. With a recent update,…