The massive, glowing letter is no longer propped on the roof of the company’s headquarters. Following a substantial squabble in San Francisco, the rooftop of the Twitter building no longer glows with the letter X, which represented the new name of Elon Musk’s social media company. The city building department received several complaints shortly after the large X was installed. San Francisco’s city building department received 24 complaints following a weekend during which the large X was glowing from the rooftop of the Twitter headquarters building on Market Street. Neighbors…
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Twitter logo rebrand to X hits hiccup when police show up
Authorities said no crime was committed but stepped in to stop “unauthorized work” removing the old sign. Elon Musk met mixed responses to his decision to rebrand the Twitter Logo to X and faced another hurdle when the police stopped work in progress to remove the old sign from the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. Workers were removing the first few letters of the word Twitter when local police arrived. The police accused the workers who were removing the old Twitter logo signage of “unauthorized work” and halted them from…
Read MoreWill the Threads app really be the ‘friendly’ place Meta says it will?
As millions of users continue to download the application, it is unclear what shape it will take. Mark Zuckerberg has given his official pitch of Meta’s new Threads app – the company’s alternative to Twitter – promising that it will be a “friendly” place users can enjoy for public online discourse. This markets the application as a distinctly different experience from its rival Twitter. Twitter, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has earned a reputation as a place where anger is heavy, and arguments and trolling are a regular occurrence. If…
Read MoreThis social media platform’s ‘security incident’ made private posts public
Twitter says the event that made private Circle tweets public was “immediately fixed.” In April, users discovered a bug on Twitter that would make public the private tweets by Twitter Circle feature users on the social media platform. Almost a month after the discovery was first reported, the company has now released a comment. According to the social media platform, it told affected users that the exposure that made the private tweets public was due to “a security incident” that occurred earlier in 2023. According to Twitter, the issue was…
Read MoreCanada’s government becomes the latest to launch TikTok ban
The country is mandating that the app be removed from all government devices. The Canadian government has just announced that it is implementing at TikTok ban on all its government-issued devices as concerns continue to rise over privacy and security. That said, the North American country is far from the only one to have made such a move. It is becoming increasingly commonplace for governments worldwide to put a TikTok ban into place on their own devices or across their entire populations. The app, which is owned by Bytedance, a…
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