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Articles tagged Twitter (623)

Joshua BentonOctober 10, 2023

Elon Musk took the headlines away from Twitter — but you can bring them back with this one weird trick

This browser extension can help you undo one piece of the misinformation-related damage Musk has done to the newsiest of social platforms.

Sophie CulpepperOctober 5, 2023

News story or meme? After Elon Musk aXes headlines, it’s hard to tell

If you had to come up with a single move designed to deal a blow to whatever traffic is left and make sharing news more of a hassle, you couldn’t do much better than eliminating headlines from posts.

Joshua BentonJuly 31, 2023

Elon Musk can change what he calls Twitter — but can he change what everyone else calls it?

It now says “X” on the website (you know, the one that’s still at, um, twitter.com). But to the news media and much of the outside world, the name of the old bird platform is still Twitter.

Joshua BentonJuly 24, 2023

If other media companies thought about brand equity the way Elon Musk thinks about Twitter’s (er, X’s)

In the spirit of Tronc, Elon Musk has decided to throw away more than a decade of brand equity by changing the name of Twitter to…the letter X. Imagine if more media executives followed his lead.

Please enjoy this video of news outlets as glass jars rolling down the stairs

Jasmine Mithani, The 19thMay 15, 2023

“The world’s largest Black group chat”: Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter

A number of efforts are underway to document not just the content created on the platform but how Black women used it for communication and community — along with the abuse they received.

Laura Hazard OwenMay 2, 2023

Behold: News outlets’ first skeets

“We might have lost our blue checkmark on Twitter, but we’re already verified on Bluesky!”

Joshua BentonMay 1, 2023

Micropayments. Elon Musk thinks he’s got a “major win-win” for news publishers with…micropayments.

After all, who would news companies rather trust their revenue to than the guy who calls them a “relentless hatestream”?

Laura Hazard OwenApril 13, 2023

NPR may be “going silent” on Twitter, but it’s keeping its 17.6 million followers on ice

“Going silent,” “turning away,” but not leaving-leaving (yet).

Twitter appears highly bothered by Substack’s existence

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