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Twitter sues four four Texas firm over data scraping
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Twitter sues four four Texas firm over data scraping

Twitter has sued four unnamed businesses in Texas for data scraping, according to a report from a local TV station. According to WFAA, an ABC-affiliated TV station, the four defendants’ IP addresses generated significantly more automatic sign-up requests than one person could reasonably send to another person, placing a heavy burden on Twitter’s systems. It […]

Meta's Twitter-like Threads hits 100m users in five days
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Meta’s Twitter-like Threads hits 100m users in five days

    More than 100 million users have downloaded the Threads app, which Instagram released as a Twitter rival, in less than five days. According to data tracking websites Monday, this seea Thread overtake CHATGBT’s records of the fastest growing users. While ChatGPT took two months and TikTok took nine months to gain 100 million […]

Elon Musk to change Twitter logo
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Twitter reverts to old TweetDeck version

Microblogging platform Twitter has restored its old version of TweetDeck after it was dumped for a new version. The official Twitter Support account posted on Monday, July 3 that “We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck,” with the disclaimer that after 30 days, only Twitter Blue subscribers will have access to the […]

Elon Musk sues law firm over Twitter buyout charges
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Elon Musk sues law firm over Twitter buyout charges

Twitter launched a lawsuit against the elite corporate law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz on Friday, accusing it of taking advantage of its client by charging Twitter $90 million in legal costs for “a few months” of services. The lawsuit wants to recover the money spent. “Fully aware that nobody with an economic interest […]

Meta to temporarily shut down Threads in Turkey
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Threads surpasses 50 million users

Threads, the highly anticipated “Twitter Killer” app from Meta, has amassed an astonishing 50 million users within a mere 24 hours of its launch. The text-based microblogging service, intricately tied to Meta’s popular photo and video-sharing platform, Instagram, has seen an unprecedented surge in registrations. While Meta’s leveraging of its massive user base of over […]

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app
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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app

Twitter has threatened to sue Meta for infringing on Twitter’s “intellectual property rights” with its new Threads app, which Mark Zuckerberg has openly referred to as a competitor. A lawyer for Twitter stated in a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which was originally published by the news outlet Semafor, that the firm “has serious concerns […]

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Threads: Twitter can never be duplicated – CEO

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has stated that while Twitter is “often imitated,” its community “can never be duplicated.” She made this statement after Mark Zuckerberg announced that 30 million users had joined the newly launched Threads app on just the first day.  He positioned the app as a “friendly” competitor to Twitter, which Elon Musk […]

Threads hits 30 million users
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Threads hits 30 million users

Meta’s newly launched Threads app garnered a staggering 30 million users on its very first day, according to Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief. Positioned as a “friendly” alternative to Twitter, Threads aims to attract disgruntled Twitter users following the platform’s acquisition by Elon Musk. Industry experts believe that Threads has the potential to entice users […]

Meta to unveil Twitter-like 'Threads' app
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Meta to unveil Twitter-like ‘Threads’ app

In response to Twitter’s recent limitations, Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, is gearing up to launch Threads, a microblogging app. The move is to provide an alternative platform for users seeking unrestricted communication. The announcement comes just days after the executive chair of Twitter, Elon Musk introduced a temporary cap on the number of […]

Twitter rival Mastodon traffic surges over Twitter restriction
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Twitter rival Mastodon traffic surges over Twitter restriction

Alex Omenye Mastodon, a German rival that takes pride in its decentralized, user-driven structure, has seen a rise in activity as a result of the unrest at Twitter caused by new restrictions on the number of postings users can view. “Looks like Mastodon’s active user has increased by a hundred thousand over the last day. […]

TweetDeck suffers as Musk enforces read limits
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TweetDeck suffers as Musk enforces read limits

Alex Omenye All TweetDeck users are currently reporting serious issues, including notifications and entire columns failing to load after Elon Musk reduced the number of tweets users can view in a day over the weekend. Gadget Africa reported that Musk stated that he made the decision in order to stop data scraping on the platform. […]