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Former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey has alleged that he Indian government made several requests of Twitter, relating to the farmers’ protests, and journalists critical of the Centre. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology denied these comments on Twitter, calling them an...

I’ve been working with the Mastodon project on developer relations, and started out by updating the list of known API libraries. I’d love to know what the developer community wants and needs and how I can best support them....

On Wednesday, in reply to someone on Twitter complaining about being blocked, Elon said that “blocking public posts makes no sense” and saying that “it needs to be deprecated in favor of a stronger form of mute.”

Ev Williams: Generally, "the new thing does not come from the old thing."

currently I'm following some Lemmy comms on mastodon and my problem is that each comment showed up independently in my feed....

“Bye, bye birdie,” Jourova tweeted on Saturday. “Twitter has chosen a hard way to comply with our digital laws,” she added.

Using Twitter is still a necessary evil for many of us, me included. But given the pace of alternatives suddenly emerging, those days are numbered. I fully expect Twitter to be obsolete by the end of the year, a $44-billion boondoggle that’ll resemble little more than a glorified Parler or Gab. Yet another ‘unscheduled rapid...

I wrote a blog post titled 'The day I decided to build my own “Twitter”' and I still stand behind it. Yet I returned to Twitter. What gives?

The trio claimed that they had effectively “broken the internet” because of mass interest in the event, but in reality that was not the case. The audience that assembled was not even close to epic proportions. At its peak, some six-hundred thousand listeners were awaiting DeSantis’ remarks during the initial Twitter Spaces...

This concerns some Twitter users because, as Time reported, "No single government in history has ever been able to exert such extensive control over what is being said, read, and shared by so many people across the world in real time." In response to Twitter's seeming abandonment of prior free speech defenses, one nonpartisan...

The decision once again puts Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s controversial free speech policies into the spotlight. This time, critics say, he is ceding to demands from Turkey’s right-wing leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Much of Turkey’s media is under government control, and critics accuse Ergodan of cracking down on...

Following numerous complaints from users concerned that the Circles feature of Twitter was broken, the company has conceded that tweets that were supposed to be visible to only a select number of people were in fact accessible by anyone.

Out of about 150,000 early subscribers to Twitter Blue, just around 68,157 have stuck around and maintained a paid subscription as of April 30. Subscriptions are $8 per month – $11 on mobile.

Both Lemon8 and Bluesky are imitations of apps that are already popular. Lemon8 is TikTok's new competitor to Instagram. And Bluesky is the new competitor to Twitter, endorsed by one of Twitter's original founders Jack Dorsey. It's funny to call these apps competitors when they are more correctly just replicas with only very...

Musk, who has been scuffling with the media since acquiring the platform last year, asked if NPR was going to start tweeting again.

Ever wondered why some links you add to a Mastodon post generate a nice preview card (image + description) and other’s don’t? Or why a SoundCloud link produces an embedded audio player but Spotify doesn’t? This article goes deep into why that occurs....

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If you are looking for the ElonJet account here it is, you can also follow it from your instance by searching...