Tag: Twitter
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Bluesky’s Boom: Are We Watching the Next Big Shift?
Bluesky has hit a milestone that feels genuinely exciting — over 20 million users on the social network and growing fast. That’s a dramatic leap from just 7 million three months ago. As an early adopter who joined Bluesky’s private…
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Finally, the Unravelling of X
In the wake of Elon Musk’s public spat with Keir Starmer in recent weeks, which saw the X owner spread falsehoods and insults about the UK riots that took place from late July into the first week of August, a…
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The hate speech problem on X: a test of conscience for users and brands
I’ve often wondered what event would happen, or what tipping point would be reached, for people to abandon ship on X formerly known as Twitter. Since being acquired by Elon Musk in October 2022, the social network’s decline that has…
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The Pebble phoenix and the X effect
If there’s one thing that’s certain in the tumult of social networks today, it is that nothing is certain. Things change, often in unexpected ways, and change fast. The latest illustration of how fast is Pebble. Two weeks ago, the…
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Calling Time on X
Something has changed recently with regard to X, the social network that used to be Twitter until Elon Musk arbitrarily rebranded it to X last July. Since Musk’s acquisition of Twitter closed in October 2022, the social network has endured…