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Threads app now has more daily users than X

05/03/202405/02/2024 Stephanie Beck

Zuckerberg’s microblogging application is now more popular than former Twitter Meta’s newest social media platform, the Threads app, has recently overtaken X (formerly known as Twitter) in terms of its daily active users in the United States. The achievement was initially noted in December 2023 It was the Apptopia data intelligence firm that first observed that the Threads app had more daily active users (DAUs) than the X social media platform. “Threads DAUs in the US passed X in December 2023 and it has not looked back,” said Apptopia vice…

X platform removes pictures and links on Twitter from before December 2014

08/23/202308/22/2023 John Montgallo

Many are speculating that the decision was made as an attempt to try to cut costs. Almost a decade of videos, pictures and links shared on Twitter in the early 2000s are being deleted from the X platform in a move that many are speculating could be an attempt by Elon Musk to cut costs. Images and links tweeted before December 2014 are disappearing from the social media platform. That said, there are other speculations that the removal of the old posts on Twitter might not be a deliberate cost-saving…

AI.com now points to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence project

08/11/202308/10/2023 Stephanie Beck

Though it had previously pointed to ChatGPT, it is now directing users to X.ai instead. AI.com website users seeking to use ChatGPT might be surprised to discover that the site now directs to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence project X.ai. It appears that OpenAI no longer has control of the domain, so it doesn’t direct to ChatGPT anymore. OpenAI had control over the AI.com domain starting in February 2023, but it looks as though that has entirely changed now as the site no longer redirects to their artificial intelligence. Instead, it…

X logo removed from San Francisco Twitter roof

08/07/202308/03/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

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…

Twitter logo rebrand to X hits hiccup when police show up

07/26/202307/25/2023 John Montgallo

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…