It was another eventful weekend for X, with the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump driving a surge in activity on the platform. However, as always, it’s important to scrutinize the specifics. A New Record in Usage? Today, X owner Elon Musk claimed that the platform reached a new “record high” in usage. According …
Twitter has conducted new research into the effectiveness of its warning prompts on potentially offensive tweet replies, which it first rolled out in 2020, then re-launched last year, as a means to add a level of friction, and consideration, into the tweet process. Twitter’s warning prompts use automated detection to pick up any likely offensive terms within tweet replies, …
A new feature rolling out to Twitter will let users opt-in to notifications about tweets containing specific search terms. Called ‘Search Subscribe,’ this addition to Twitter is being prepped for a future version of the mobile app. It looks like a feature taken straight from TweetDeck. Considering the last remaining TweetDeck app will be shuttered …
