Twitter Is on a Collision Course With Europe
[ad_1] From the outside, it might not look like much has changed in the repurposed 1970s office block that serves as Twitter’s European headquarters. But inside, the mood has soured.…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers
[ad_1] At the end of August, Sean Murphy was trying to book a flight between Nairobi, Kenya, and Entebbe, Uganda, with Kenya Airways. “The information on the booking page was…
What You Should Know About Switching to Mastodon
[ad_1] Amid all the Twitter hubbub, the lesser known social site Mastodon has seen a surge of new users. Mastodon is a loosely connected network of individually run servers, which…
Twitter Users Have Caused a Mastodon Meltdown
[ad_1] Rochko says he was too busy this week working on Mastodon to comment about the overloaded servers, and how the massive amount of new users had affected the network.…
After Twitter Staff Cuts, Survivors Face ‘Radio Silence’
[ad_1] “Saturday was the cleanup,” he says. Much of the day was spent working on removing departed colleagues’ access and trying to get things as stable as possible in case…
Elon Musk Wants Comedy on Twitter, but He Can’t Take a Joke
[ad_1] Of all the things that can get lost on the internet, one’s sense of humor may be the hardest to retrieve. Intention, tone, nuance—these things don’t always come across…
Elon Musk’s Reckless Plan to Make Sex Pay on Twitter
[ad_1] Twitter doesn’t restrict adult content because it doesn’t have guidelines for adult content. At all. At the time of writing this article, there are no policies limiting adult content…
Twitter’s Ex-Election Chief Is Worried About the US Midterms
[ad_1] The staff shortages worry those monitoring the elections too. “I spoke to Elon Musk,” Jessica González, co-CEO of US media advocacy group Free Press, said at a press conference…
How to ‘Quiet Quit’ Elon Musk’s Twitter
[ad_1] And for the love of God, don’t blindly take voting advice from Elon Musk. Take a Walk on the Decentralized Side Twitter may be much smaller than other social…
Elon Musk Has Put Twitter’s Free Speech in Danger
[ad_1] Before becoming Twitter’s CEO, owner, and “Chief Twit,” Elon Musk had often lobbed criticism at the platform for its approach to content moderation, even going so far as to…
How to Find Your Twitter Friends on Mastodon
[ad_1] Now you can scroll through tweets from people you follow who have mentioned Mastodon, most of whom will also include a link to their page. Click the “Latest” tab…
Elon Musk’s Need for Speed Puts Twitter in Peril
[ad_1] Hi, everyone. Life is good because the Phillies are in the World Series! (Disclosure: I’m from Philadelphia.) Uh-oh, they just got no-hit. Booooo! The Plain View In May 1998,…
Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team
[ad_1] As more and more problems with AI have surfaced, including biases around race, gender, and age, many tech companies have installed “ethical AI” teams ostensibly dedicated to identifying and…
Worms, the Internet, and the End of Reality
[ad_1] The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Heidi Klum stretches out on the…
Twitter Is Changing Fast. Here’s What Could Happen Next
[ad_1] Michael Calore: Lauren, have you taken the step of setting up a wellness timer on your phone that limits the amount of time you’re allowed to spend in the…
The Blue Check Rapture Will Render Verification Meaningless
[ad_1] Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has been chaotic since its slapdash inception, so it’s only fitting that his first change will scramble the platform’s social hierarchy. Last weekend, as Musk’s…
Twitter Had a Plan to Fix Social Media. Will Elon Musk Follow It?
[ad_1] Musk’s chief concern will be whether he can align his philosophical affection for decentralization with the need to turn Twitter into a profitable business. He has previously expressed a…
Twitter Writes Twitter’s Requiem | WIRED
[ad_1] Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is complete. After riding into the company’s headquarters on a terrible “sink” pun earlier this week, the Tesla founder officially took the reins, closing…
Musk’s Twitter Will Not Be the Town Square the World Needs
[ad_1] Consumers have sensed this and are already moving toward a digital social environment of smaller and more governable spaces. You can see this in the rise of Discord, Slack,…
If Musk Starts Firing Twitter’s Security Team, Run
[ad_1] Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion after the least sexy will-they-won’t-they saga of all time. And while Musk attempted to reassure advertisers yesterday that “Twitter obviously cannot…
Twitter Users Flock to Other Platforms as the Elon Musk Era Begins
[ad_1] A week before Elon Musk closed his $44 billion Twitter deal, Cassie LaBelle, a writer who is part of a transgender community on Twitter, started a Discord server. “I…
Elon Musk Now Owns Twitter
[ad_1] After months spent trying to undo the deal he initiated, Tesla founder Elon Musk will pay $44 billion to take ownership of Twitter, honoring an agreement made in April.…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be Chaos
[ad_1] After months spent trying to undo the deal he initiated, Tesla founder Elon Musk now owns Twitter. Musk has reportedly wasted no time making big changes. Yesterday, The Washington…
Why Elon Musk Wouldn’t Face Twitter in Court
[ad_1] After months spent trying to escape the deal he signed to acquire Twitter, Elon Musk now says he intends to complete the purchase after all. In a letter to…
Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
[ad_1] Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system, he and his team continuously update their machine learning…