Nitter says it will continue despite X Corp’s cease-and-desist
Nitter says it will continue despite X Corp’s cease-and-desist

Two weeks after X Corp’s lawyers demanded it disappear, Nitter is coming back. The open-source project posted a two-line notice on Monday saying it will continue, following legal advice. It did not say what that advice was. The notice sits on nitter.ne…

Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo
Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo

On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next day he said the company was taking blow torches to the Twitter logo on the building. Three years on, both posts have cost him a trad…

Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.

Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in town

Coates said in a LinkedIn post that the company is not trying to recreate Twitter.

X Money can cut off your account over what you post
X Money can cut off your account over what you post

X Money went live on Monday. Buried in its support pages is a rule that no ordinary bank applies to a current account. “If your X account is suspended for violating Child Safety or Violent and Hateful Entities policies, you will lose Money access,” the…

X Money is finally here, and it’s much more than a digital wallet

X Money has officially launched in the US, bringing peer-to-peer payments, a Visa debit card, and high-yield savings accounts to eligible X Premium users.

X rebuilt its neglected Android app from scratch, and the bug reports are already rolling in
X rebuilt its neglected Android app from scratch, and the bug reports are already rolling in

Android users have long got the rougher version of X. After nearly a year of work, the company has stopped patching the old app and rebuilt it from scratch. The new version ships as a normal update through the Play Store, X said, so there is no separat…

X finally rebuilt its neglected Android app, and it only took a year

X has spent nearly a year rebuilding its Android app from scratch, promising smoother scrolling, faster loading, more reliable notifications, and a stronger foundation for upcoming features.

X is teaching its AI algorithm something social networks once understood

X is boosting posts among mutual followers after finding that relationship data was missing from its algorithm, exposing the gap between predicting engagement and creating conversations people actually want.

Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’

Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is “all in” on the unconventional social media platform.