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Twitch Streamer in Custody After Giveaway Clogs Downtown NYC with Crowd of Thousands

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: The New York Police Department took social media influencer Kai Cenat into custody Friday and is considering charges such as “inciting a riot” after thousands-strong crowds gathered in Union Square for a… Continue Reading →

Twitch streamer’s PS5 giveaway sparks Union Square ‘riot’

Twitch streamers Kai Cenat and Fanum invited fans to Union Square on Friday for a real-life stream and giveaway. They promised to hand out gift cards, gaming PC equipment and PlayStation 5s. But the IRL stream descended into chaos as… Continue Reading →

BBC is testing being on Mastodon, says fediverse better fit for public purposes than Twitter or Threads

In another sign of shifting forces in the social media universe, the UK’s national public service broadcaster, the BBC, is dipping a toe into the fediverse by setting up its own Mastodon instance. The BBC is labelling its move as… Continue Reading →

Twitter, now X, took over the @x handle without warning or compensating its owner

The owner of the @x Twitter handle confirmed that the company, now known as X, took over his account without warning or financial compensation, telling him the handle is property of X. The handle had previously belonged to Gene X… Continue Reading →

Owner of @x Twitter handle says no one reached out ahead of Twitter’s rebranding to ‘X’

Twitter’s rebranding to X has not been faring well. In addition to the haphazard rollout, which saw parts of the site referencing “X” while other parts still implored you to “search Twitter” or push a blue button to “Tweet,” the… Continue Reading →

A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative

As Twitter users fret over the direction that new owner Elon Musk is taking the company, masses of users have hopped over to Mastodon, an open-source Twitter alternative. The news that Twitter is rebranding to ‘X’, a change already live… Continue Reading →

Reddit Takes Over One of the Biggest Protesting Subreddits

Reddit is now in charge of r/malefashionadvice, which for a time was the biggest subreddit still closed in protest of the platform’s API pricing changes. From a report: The subreddit is now open, meaning Reddit users can browse content in… Continue Reading →

Threads, a Slack alternative completely unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

Instagram’s Twitter clone Threads enjoyed a fairly fruitful first week in existence, sailing past 30 million users in the first 24 hours before passing 100 million signups within five days. And just yesterday, numbers from Data.ai indicated that Threads has… Continue Reading →

One of Reddit’s Biggest Communities Is Suggesting Users Move To Discord

r/malefashionadvice, one of the biggest Reddit communities that’s still private as part of the Reddit protest, is encouraging its users to move to Discord and Substack. The subreddit has more than 5 million subscribers. The Verge reports: Specifically, the Discord… Continue Reading →

Reddit is Getting Rid of Its Gold Awards System

Reddit is sunsetting its current coins and awards systems, meaning you soon won’t be able to thank a kind stranger for giving you Reddit Gold for one of your posts. From a report: Awards are little icons on posts you… Continue Reading →

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