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Twitter traffic is down around 25% on average.
commsroom.co
Twitter loses global traffic following anti-data scraping measures
Twitter has incurred a significant loss of traffic globally after it limited the number of tweets accounts could view in a day. According to data provided […]
commsroom.co
And then there's this:
www.theguardian.com
Twitter faces legal challenge after failing to remove reported hate tweets
HateAid in Germany alerted the social media giant to antisemitic and racist tweets, which were not taken down
Twitter faces a landmark legal challenge after the social media giant failed to remove a series of hate-filled tweets reported by users in what could be a turning point in establishing new standards of scrutiny regarding online antisemitism.
The California-based company, owned since last year by Elon Musk, was alerted to six antisemitic or otherwise racist tweets in January this year by researchers at HateAid, a German organisation that campaigns for human rights in the digital space, and the European Union of Jewish Students EUJS but did not remove them from its platform despite the tweets apparently clearly contravening its own moderation policy.
Four of the tweets denied the Holocaust in explicit terms, one said “blacks should be gassed and sent with space x to Mars”, while a sixth compared Covid vaccination programmes to mass extermination in Nazi death camps. All were reported in January but Twitter ruled that three of the tweets did not violate its guidelines and failed to respond to the other reports, the legal action claims.
Yep. Typical Elon Musk.
Instagram Threads hits 100 million users
Instagram’s Threads app has reached 100 million users, making it easily the fastest growing app ever.
www.independent.co.uk
Elon claims he's not concerned about Threads.
Then he blocks all Threads links on Twitter.
techcrunch.com
A child. A spoiled rotten child.
Then he blocks all Threads links on Twitter.
Twitter blocks links to rival Threads, while CEO downplays reports of traffic decline
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is pushing back at reports that Twitter traffic is tanking as a result of the launch of Instagram Threads.
techcrunch.com
A child. A spoiled rotten child.
Just the name "Threads" re-traumatizes viewers of unbelievably grim postapocalyptic BBC drama aired 40 years ago
When Meta's new Twitter clone was announced as "Threads," I wondered why they named it after an obscure but harrowing TV movie about global thermonuclear war and its aftermath. This…
boingboing.net
Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers
Threads is a social media app for some and a nightmarish BBC movie from 1984 for others.
www.bbc.com
It's actually the same thing I thought when the name was first mentioned.
It's called Threads because that's what they are by definition in programming.Just the name "Threads" re-traumatizes viewers of unbelievably grim postapocalyptic BBC drama aired 40 years ago
When Meta's new Twitter clone was announced as "Threads," I wondered why they named it after an obscure but harrowing TV movie about global thermonuclear war and its aftermath. This…
Threads: The BBC drama which affected a generation of viewers
Threads is a social media app for some and a nightmarish BBC movie from 1984 for others.
It's actually the same thing I thought when the name was first mentioned.
Thread: a thread is placeholder information associated with a single use of a program that can handle multiple concurrent users.
I know what a thread is in programming. It wasn't a commonly used definition 40 years ago when the movie was made. So there's a generation where Threads is synonomous to a movie. The only reason my head goes both ways is the programming I did in the late 90's/2000's and also using the term in forum discussions.
en.wikipedia.org
Thread (computing) - Wikipedia