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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
A comparison of users' personal data collected by Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social, based on information from Apple's App Store — Here's what personal data is collected by Meta's Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.
More: Rolling Stone, The Eclectic Light Company, Computerworld, BetaNews, Gizmodo, Techaeris, Washington Post, SlashGear, CoinDesk, O'Grady's PowerPage, WebProNews, TechCrunch, and Digiday
LinkedIn: David W. Sime and Neil Thacker
Mastodon: @CelloMomOnCars@mastodon …, @McCullohMD@disabled.social, @austinkocher@mastodon.social, and @tchambers@indieweb.social
Twitter: @stellabelle, @ackocher, @crickettgrrrl, @follylollysews, and @madoldmoai
Forums: r/privacy, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
How a TikTok-like algorithm and pay-to-play scheme ruined Twitter's complex but functional community, causing the social network to suddenly lose its vitality — NOTE: I'd been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment …
More: The Guardian. Bluesky: @serrurier.bsky.social. Mastodon: @joeyh@octodon.social and @jpholbrook@mastodon.online
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Twitter's biggest struggle is its arcane follower-based system, contrasted with TikTok's algorithmic feed that lets even users with no followers reach millions — A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance — Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian …
Mastodon: @falschgold@mastodon.social and @ppatel@mstdn.social
Twitter: @noahpinion, @jeremylittau, @pt, @washingtonpost, @aghamilton29, and @natesilver538
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Less than two days after launch, Mark Zuckerberg says Threads signups reached 70M, which is “way beyond our expectations” — - Meta's new Twitter competitor Threads has exploded in growth in its first full day since its public debut Wednesday night, fueled by Instagram's already massive userbase.
More: The Wrap, The Verge, MarketWatch, International Business Times, The Economic Times, Android Police, Forbes, Associated Press, Thurrott, The Messenger, The Information, New York Post, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Pixel Envy, Neowin, The Apple Post, The Verge, Axios, KNSD-TV, Bloomberg, NPR, San Francisco Business Journal, Windows Central, Sammy Fans, Music Ally, and WebProNews
Bluesky: @nevillehobson.xyz and @epro.social
Twitter: @benedictevans, @ernestwilkins, @gncordova, @aishacounts, @dimensionmedia, @ttp_updates, @conorsen, @oneunderscore__, @jason_kint, @efeng, and @nikitabier
Threads: @zuck, @andymstone, @metamoskov, @metamoskov, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @zuck, and @nikitabier
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads will not “encourage” politics and “hard news” as such content brings scrutiny that isn't worth the “incremental engagement or revenue” — / Adam Mosseri ran Facebook's News Feed in 2016, and now he tells Alex Heath that politics …
More: Garbage Day, Deadline, Livemint, Techlusive, Yahoo Style, CNBC, Fortune, The Hill, Reuters, TechCrunch, PCMag, Forbes, MobileSyrup, SlashGear, TweakTown, Newser, GSMArena.com, Tom's Guide, Mashable, and IGN
Twitter: @josephpolitano, @kausmickey, @saksithcna, @ggreenwald, @rafat, @asteris, @adamsinger, @danprimack, @davidclinchnews, @om, @edzitron, @thestalwart, @selviano, @maxasteele, @loudmouthjulia, @parismarx, @jeffveillette, @tomwarren, and @martinsfp
Threads: @martinsfp, @mosseri, @sarahfrier, @julesterpak, @b_fung, @alexhcranz, @reporterzoe, @mosseri, @drewharwell, @mattnavarra, and @taylorlorenz
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
More: MarketWatch, Forbes, Reuters, New Yorker, The Hill, CNN, Cryptopolitan, The Guardian, Insider, TweakTown, Deadline, KitGuru, Coinpedia Fintech News, TechRadar, Cointelegraph, Watcher Guru, Tech Xplore, Bloomberg, and Livemint
Twitter: @ashleymayer, @wsjtech, and @seth1620
| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
More: International Business Times, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, The Drum, Crain's New York Business, Insider, PRWeek, Vox, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Observer, Los Angeles Times, and Financial Times
Twitter: @samifathi_, @shutterbugdoug, and @garettsloane
| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
How an AI-generated, error-filled Star Wars story created internal chaos at Gizmodo, an incident that speaks to a larger debate about the role of AI in the news — The error-filled story about Star Wars movies and TV shows demonstrates why artificial intelligence shouldn't be involved in news-gathering, reporters said
More: Variety, Boing Boing, Adweek, The Verge, and Search Engine Land
Mastodon: @drewharwell@mastodon.social. Twitter: @oneunderscore__, @jbenton, @malwarejake, @michaelroston, @sokane1, @toley88, @jayrosen_nyu, @ericgeller, @cydharrell, @scalzi, @bigmeaninternet, @libbycwatson, @scottnover, and @scott_tobias
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
X Corp. sues Wachtell to recover most of the $90M fee the law firm received from Twitter for defeating Elon Musk's bid to walk away from his $44B Twitter buyout — Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million fee it received from Twitter …
More: Ars Technica, Livemint, New York Times, Cryptopolitan, Financial Times, Australian Financial Review, Insider, Neowin, CNBC, The Information, The Verge, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @ravickan.bsky.social. Mastodon: @Celeste_pewter@mastodon … and @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org
Twitter: @elonmusk, @sindap, @scottnover, and @mshannahmurphy
Forums: r/facepalm and r/law
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Twitter lets users switch back to the previous version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access allowing some third-party apps to work again — Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along …
More: robertodoering / harpy on GitHub and Engadget
| Megan Tagami / Wall Street Journal: |
Some US schools are piloting campus surveillance robots that detect aggressive behavior in people, alert security, and more, amid growing gun violence concerns — When Lori Andrews attended her daughter's graduation at Santa Fe High School, she spotted a 5-foot-10, 400-pound robot roaming …
Twitter: @kylebrussell
| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
BotDefense, a project run by volunteer Reddit mods to remove spam bots on big subreddits like r/gaming and /r/aww, quits over the site's “antagonistic actions” — Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts. — The Reddit community is still reckoning …
More: PCMag, The Verge, PC Gamer, Polygon, 9to5Mac, and Livemint
Mastodon: @arstechnica@mastodon.social. Forums: r/technews, r/BotDefense, r/technology, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Reuters: |
Filing: Google says Indian antitrust body CCI's ruling on Android market abuse is wrongly backed by Amazon's arguments that Google hindered Fire OS development — - Google has challenged India decision on Android market abuse — India antitrust body wrongly backed Amazon arguments-Google
More: Neowin, Seeking Alpha, Telegraph India, Benzinga, Business Today, Times of India, and Inc42 Media
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitch plans to launch ephemeral stories in October and a Discovery Feed consisting of a personalized mix of streamers' clips this fall, both on its mobile app — The features will arrive this fall. — It's probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are.
More: Twitch Blog, Eurogamer.net, Neowin, Game Rant, The Verge, and Dexerto
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