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Slack Status Updates on X/Twitter Are Now a Thing of the Past

There are enough incidents on X without the SlackStatus account.

Threads Will Not Amplify News on the Platform, Says Instagram’s Mosseri

Mosseri thinks it's better for the platform to be boring than inflammatory, and so do advertisers.

Musk Plans to Kill Link Headlines on Twitter

Twitter, or ‘X,’ would remove both the headline and text on article links as Musk tries to push 'journalists' to report exclusively on his app.

Twitter’s CEO Makes New Excuses for Musk’s Dumb ‘X’ Rebranding

In one of the few interviews she’s done since taking Twitter’s helm, Linda Yaccarino said Twitter will get video chat and payment options for some reason.

Threads Continues to Copy Twitter’s Worst Elements With New Rate Limits

Twitter also previously limited the number of posts users could see, but Musk’s previous implementation also broke the bird app.

Everything We Know About Threads, Instagram’s Twitter Killer App

Meta’s Threads app will gobble up your data and have limited options to start when it releases July 6.

TweetDeck Falters as Elon Musk Wrecks Twitter

After several updates, non-Twitter Blue users are limited to 1,000 tweets per day before their timelines are locked.

Twitter’s Adding Some Characters to the Timeline

'Notes' will allow users to post long form content on Twitter.

Twitter Reportedly Looking to Turn TweetDeck Into TweetDeck+

Under increased pressure from investors to break out of its sluggish growth, Twitter is reportedly getting serious about offering a subscription product in order to create a new revenue stream. Advertising will remain the social network’s bread and butter for the foreseeable future, but according to Bloomberg, we could get an update on subscription plans…

It’s Not Just You: Twitter and Tweetdeck Still Experiencing Technical Problems Around the World

Twitter and Tweetdeck started experiencing outages overnight and the problem is persisting into the morning hours of Wednesday, according to multiple reports from around the world. The social media giant has been struggling with outages in every corner of the globe for over seven hours and there’s no word when things will improve. Various users…

Why Doesn’t Instagram Allow Me to Manage Multiple Accounts Like Twitter Does?

The other day I wanted to post a photo to Gizmodo’s Instagram account. I had to log all the way out of my personal account, dig up the password for Gizmodo’s account, log back in as Gizmodo, and post the photo. It made me wonder: Why doesn’t Instagram make it as easy as Twitter to…

Cut Through the Noise on Twitter with TweetDeck’s Engagement Filter

With 500 million tweets sent into the ether every day, it can be difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff on Twitter. This is one of the areas where power-user-tool-of-choice TweetDeck can lend a hand. It includes an engagement filter to let you focus in on high-profile tweets and cut out the less important…

During today’s earning’s call, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo mentioned that Twitter is “thinking about” bringing ads to TweetDeck. So it may still be a while before we see start seeing ads shoved into our TweetDeck Twitter cascade—if ever. But either way, friends, pray for TweetDeck.

How Yesterday’s Huge TweetDeck Vulnerability Happened

If you use TweetDeck in any capacity, you’re probably aware of a nasty little bug that was running rampant around TweetDeck’s hallowed columns yesterday afternoon. But what, exactly, was causing all the retweeted trouble? Computerphile’s Tom Scott breaks it down. It all has to do with cross-site scripting, a vulnerability that allows hackers to inject…

You Should Log Out of TweetDeck Right Now (Update: All Clear)

If you use TweetDeck for Chrome you should log out now. Turns out it has an XSS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute code remotely on your computer just by tweeting it out. So far it appears to only affect the Chrome app We’re getting reports of issues in the Chrome app, in the webapp…

TweetDeck Tips and Tricks To Master All Things Twitter

One of our favorite Twitter clients is so good that Twitter itself bought it in 2011. With real-time scrolling, advanced filtering options, and a host of useful features, TweetDeck is the obvious choice for anyone who wants to take Twitter seriously. Here’s how to make sure you’re getting the most out of it. If you’ve…

How to Avoid True Detective Spoilers on Twitter

Scared to look at Twitter because you missed True Detective last night? No problem. If you use TweetDeck, you can mute the show to live a blissful, spoiler-free day. It’s simple!. On the far left-hand side of your TweetDeck client, click the Settings icon. Click that, then select the Settings tab, then select Mute. Under…

Tweetdeck Just Got a Little Bit Prettier

Tweetdeck’s got a gift for you today. No, unfortunately it’s not fixed notifications, but it’s still a step in the right direction. Meet the new, prettier tweet panel. It makes firing off 140-char screeds a little more pleasant. https://gizmodo.com/tweetdeck-just-got-worse-and-twitter-blames-google-932378381 Instead of the old, gross white box that would pop up in the middle of your…

TweetDeck Just Got Worse and Twitter Blames Google

If you’re a heavy TweetDeck user—we are bloggers, and thus, we are heavy TweetDeck users—you might’ve noticed that notifications got way crappier this week. It turns out, it’s not Twitter’s fault, it’s Google’s. Hmph. If you use TweetDeck’s Google Chrome extension, you would’ve noticed the change immediately when it switched over because it’s so much…

TweetDeck Redesign Walkthrough: Smooth, Smooth Navigation

This morning, Twitter pushed a redesigned TweetDeck, featuring a new expandable sidebar that makes navigating the app way easier Here’s a walkthrough of the entire suite, and as you can see, the new design brings new order to the uncivilized barrage of tweets we stare at every day. https://gizmodo.com/tweetdeck-redesign-post-goes-early-and-christinas-gon-511424542 Indeed, while we’ve always loved that…