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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I've also put together my general thoughts on the state of social media, and how I'm using it, now that it's two years since The Muskover. With the recent uptick in tech activity on Bluesky, I've decided that I will start posting there in addition to my current locations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X this summer, there were concerns that the new company could face trademark lawsuits as there were nearly 900 active U.S.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

For Colsubsidio , a non-profit provider of a wide array of social services in Colombia, the recent pandemic underscored the need to respond quickly to a major crisis to diminish the harm felt by communities with limited resources.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Lex, the app inspired by vintage lesbian personals, just raised $5.6 million in seed funding and elevated co-founder Jennifer Lewis from COO to CEO. As a result, founding CEO Kel Rakowski steps into a new role — chief creative officer, while former Hinge product boss Michelle Parsons joins as chief product officer. “We’re proud to […]

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Maka, an African fashion and beauty e-commerce platform, has raised a $2.65 million pre-seed round led by Pan-African venture capital firms 4DX Ventures and Janngo Capital. Other investors include Palm Drive Capital, angel investor Jonathan Shipman, founder of EVP and Twitch founding member, and executives from delivery platform Wolt.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. (As

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Decentralized social networking may be the future, but in the meantime, there are a lot of Twitter alternatives to keep up with. A new app called Yup aims to help by offering a single place to read feeds, follow friends across services and cross-post to a range of social apps, including Twitter/X itself, as well […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Decentralized social network and Twitter rival Bluesky is finally letting users look at posts on its platform without logging in. People still need an invite to create an account and start posting but can read posts through a link. This move will also let publishers link to or embed Bluesky posts in blogs. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko lauds Threads’ entry into the decentralized social media space, saying the move will make Mastodon — the open source Twitter/X rival — “a far more attractive option.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Social network Bluesky once again benefited from Elon Musk's missteps with X, the network formerly known as Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Decentralized social network Bluesky is rolling out a new in-app video and music player for links, along with a new “hide post” feature. The new additions bring Bluesky’s user experience closer to X (Twitter). The new video and music player works with YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Twitch embeds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Meta may have abandoned its efforts around live shopping on Facebook and Instagram, but the social networking company still believes in its apps’ potential as a shopping platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumer interest in open source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

X, formerly known as Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging that a new California law requiring social networks to declare certain moderation practices is a violation of the company’s Constitutional right to free speech. AB 587 was signed into law a year ago.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Grok began rolling out late this afternoon to X Premium Plus subscribers in the U.S., “Premium Plus” being X’s plan that costs $16 per month for ad-free access to the social network. Longtime […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

India is drafting rules to detect and limit the spread of deepfake content and other harmful AI media, a senior lawmaker said Thursday, following reports of proliferation of such content on social media platforms in recent weeks. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Elon Musk has been detailing his vision for X’s, formerly Twitter’s, transformation into an “everything app,” including payments, creator tools, shopping and more, since acquiring the social network over a year ago. Now, the company is committing to a time frame.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plug-in that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others. As a result, it launched version 1.0.0

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

At the peak of pandemic lockdowns, the invite-only social audio app soared with 10x month to month growth, then faded from public discourse almost as quickly as a16z investors opened their wallets. Remember Clubhouse? Now, Clubhouse is throwing a hail mary to try to become relevant again.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered an outage globally earlier Thursday that lasted for more than an hour. The error, the cause of which remains unknown, prevented users from viewing tweets, according to their complaints. X Pro, formerly known as TweetDeck, also faced the outage.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Today, the social consumer startup is releasing its second app called Capture. Once again, this new app will be dissected by social app enthusiasts and other companies working in this […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Less than three weeks ago, French startup Amo released ID. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The social media giant is adding a new Premium+ tier that costs $16 per month and offers the “largest reply boost” and removes ads from the For You and Following feeds. X, formerly known as Twitter, is introducing two new tiers for its subscription offering in order to bring in additional revenue.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office, Mr. Cooper said the hackers stole customer names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, as well as customer Social Security numbers and bank account numbers. Mr. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

A group of family members related to children and teens who overdosed on fentanyl sued Snapchat maker Snap last year, accusing the social media company of facilitating illicit drug deals involving fentanyl, a […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Federal Trade Commission has banned the data broker X-Mode Social from sharing or selling users’ sensitive location data, the federal regulator said Tuesday. The first of its kind settlement prohibits X-Mode, now known as Outlogic, from sharing and selling users’ sensitive information to others.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Earlier this month, at the Slush tech conference in Helsinki, this editor had the opportunity to sit down with Sanna Marin, the popular former prime minister of Finland who became known internationally for socializing with friends, but whose accomplishments in office are far more significant, including successfully pushing Finland to join NATO to better (..)

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2023

While flashy new AI apps and rival social networks were grabbing headlines, sometimes the most useful innovations fly under the radar. As 2023 draws to a close, we reflect on some of our favorite apps that made everyday life a little easier this year. The apps on our best-of list may not have arrived in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Features include faster access to their Social Security check, 3% earnings on balances and no monthly fees or minimums. To help older adults adjust, Charlie will let customers withdraw t heir Social Security benefit up to four weeks early. But once they retire, they go into “deaccumulation mode.” That can be scary and challenging.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, yet we’re still seeing the reverberations of that deal on other social platforms, including the new ones that have cropped up since.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meta’s social network Threads got a major update Thursday as the company started rolling out tags (without the hash symbol) on the platform. Users will be able to tag only one topic per post to avoid tag spam. The company began testing the tag feature in Australia last month, and it is now rolling out […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Strava is taking one big step closer to becoming a true social network, as the fitness-tracking platform introduces in-app messaging to let users send private one-to-one and group messages.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It’s that time of year again where half of your social media feed is clogged with graphics from Spotify’s annual, personalized roundup, and the other half is people whining that they don’t care about your Spotify Wrapped. Happy Spotify Wrapped Day!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This week, WordPress.com owner Matt Mullenweg confirmed his company would be shifting the majority of Tumblr’s workforce to other areas at parent company Automattic in light of the social blogging site’s continued financial woes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Social media giant Reddit is once again reportedly testing the IPO waters. Bloomberg reported on Monday that Reddit “is holding talks with potential investors for an initial public offering.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Meta has received another formal request for information (RFI) from European Union regulators seeking more details of its response to child safety concerns on Instagram — including what it’s doing to tackle risks related to the sharing of self-generated child sexual abuse material (SG-CSAM) on the social network.

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