Whether we like it or not, we’re in an age where social media applications are releasing premium features and locking them behind a paywall. Things we once used to take for granted now want a slice of our hard-earned money. Well, Twitter Blue is now in the Philippines to compete with the other available subscription […]
Elon Musk must be laughing at Mark Zuckerberg right now, as the Chairman of Meta announced that it will start rolling out Meta Verified, a service that’s somehow similar to Twitter Blue. Being more expensive than Twitter Blue at $12/month (or around Php 700) for web and $15/month (or around Php 900) for mobil, Meta Verified […]
In a nutshell: Despite Elon Musk restoring suspended Twitter accounts of journalists, there’s much to worry about using Twitter under his control. Twitter remains to be in a mess ever since Elon Musk took over. His stance on Twitter Blue is proven to be prone to abuse, and reinstating controversial accounts like Donald Trump is enough for […]
With all the chaos that’s happening with Twitter, its current users are looking for possible alternative where they can share their thoughts freely without the need to pay for monthly subscriptions. In a rather unexpected move, Meta-owned platform Instagram MIGHT be a possible Twitter alternative, as it announced several new features coming to the platform […]
It seems that Twitter has been making headlines in recent times. Early this year, the social media app has confirmed that an Application Programming Interface (API) vulnerability caused the data leak of over 5.4 million Twitter users. Now, it has been reported that all these accounts have been exposed in a hacker forum. The one […]
After a hiatus of over three years, Twitter relaunched the app’s verification program last May only to be paused again after Elon Musk’s Twitter take over. Good news is that Twitter will tentatively launch Verified this coming December 2. Read on to find more about the new Verified program the app is launching. Twitter will […]
It’s a common catchphrase to say you “slid in someone’s DMs.” After all, it’s eponymous to talking to strangers, acquaintances, and friends privately over the platform. After Elon Musk’s admittedly rocky takeover of the social media giant, he’s looking to evolve how people interact in his bid to turn it into Twitter 2.0. This is […]
Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the company has appeared to be under immense turmoil. Essential services are being turned off left and right, drastically affecting the overall user experience. Verification, a once-venerable symbol of credibility, has even been sold out for an $8 Twitter Blue subscription. It now appears that Musk has issued […]
While Elon Musk is making changes to Twitter to make it better and give it a fresh start of sorts, it almost always ends up making the social media platform broken. One of the latest round of mistakes Musk made with Twitter is turning off what he calls the “microservices” bloatware. Despite Musk’s claims that […]
Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk has been implementing interesting changes for the past few weeks. This time, he announced that Twitter will soon include a feature allowing users to add long-form text to their tweets. Although Musk didn’t say when the functionality would arrive, he promised it would end the “absurdity of notepad […]