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X plans to more deeply integrate Grok’s AI, app researcher finds

Elon Musk’s X is exploring more ways to integrate xAI’s Grok into the social networking app. According to a series of recent discoveries, X is developing new features like the ability to ask Grok about X accounts, use Grok by highlighting text in the app and access Grok’s chatbot through a pop-up on the side

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A year later, what Threads could learn from other social networks

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

Threads, Meta’s alternative to Twitter, just celebrated its first birthday. After launching on July 5 last year, the social network has reached 175 million monthly active users — that’s a notable achievement. But, after a year, Threads is trying to find its own voice by not being as newsy as Twitter/X and also not being

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Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new ‘byline’ feature

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

Mastodon, the open-source, decentralized alternative to X (formerly Twitter), is rolling out a new feature that’s meant to make the app more appealing for those who use it to keep up with news and information from writers and journalists. Starting Tuesday, the company is adding clickable author bylines on link posts that can direct Mastodon

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X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn’t want to emulate Reddit

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

X, formerly Twitter, could be bringing back a downvote feature for posts — something it had previously tested back in 2021, ahead of Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social network. At the time of the original experiment, Twitter had tested both upvoting and downvoting buttons, similar to how users can vote on the social forums

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X still has a Verified bot problem — this time they came for TechCrunch writers

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

This week while scrolling on X, formerly Twitter, I noticed that I had reposted a series of TechCrunch articles. Except, wait, no, I hadn’t. But someone else using my name had. I clicked on the profile, and there was another Rebecca Bellan, using the same default and header photos as my actual profile: me onstage

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Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple’s ChatGPT integrations

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Elon Musk is threatening to ban iPhones from all his companies over the newly announced OpenAI integrations Apple announced at WWDC 2024 on Monday. In a series of posts on X, the Telsa, SpaceX and xAI exec wrote that “if Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level,” Apple devices would be banned from his businesses

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A complete timeline of what Twitter has become

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

Welcome to Elon Musk’s X. The social network formerly known as Twitter where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. Or do they? The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Musk

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X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content

Social / Sasandara Dilmina

The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other. X (formerly Twitter) has long had many active NSFW communities, and though the social network unofficially allowed people to post adult content, its rules have never

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