Enlarge / A fake AI-generated image of an “explosion” near the Pentagon that went viral on Twitter. reader comments 49 with On Monday, a tweeted AI-generated image suggesting a large explosion at the Pentagon led to brief confusion, which included a reported small drop in the stock market. It originated from a verified Twitter account… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 180 with Share this story The Microsoft Advertising platform will drop support for its Twitter integration starting on April 25, according to a recently updated support page. Microsoft allows advertisers to manage their campaigns, create posts, and view engagement data on multiple social sites via one centralized interface, and they’ll still… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “a cyborg Twitter bird logo composed of thousands of computer chips.” Midjourney reader comments 91 with Share this story Despite recently calling for a six-month pause in the development of powerful AI models, Twitter CEO Elon Musk recently purchased roughly 10,000 GPUs for a generative AI project within Twitter,… Read More »
Getty Images | Future Publishing reader comments 191 with Share this story Portions of Twitter’s source code recently appeared on GitHub, and Twitter is trying to force GitHub to identify the user or users who posted the code. GitHub disabled the repository on Friday shortly after Twitter filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown… Read More »
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 76 with Share this story Twitter’s revenue and adjusted earnings reportedly fell about 40 percent year over year in December 2022 amid an advertiser exodus following Elon Musk’s takeover. Twitter no longer reports earnings publicly since Musk bought the company and took it private in late October. But Twitter… Read More »
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 217 with Share this story Twitter suffered an embarrassing technology failure today that temporarily broke links to outside websites and even to Twitter’s own webpages. The problem lasted for about 45 minutes or so. In our tests, clicking any link brought up this error message: {“errors”:[{“message”:”Your current API plan… Read More »
reader comments 232 with Share this story Twitter announced Friday that as of March 20, it will only allow its users to secure their accounts with SMS-based two-factor authentication if they pay for a Twitter Blue subscription. Two-factor authentication, or 2FA, requires users to log in with a username and password and then an additional… Read More »
reader comments 63 with 0 posters participating Share this story Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and Internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible if Twitter suffers a data breach, or to company staffers with the right permissions to access them. Both scenarios are arguably… Read More »
Enlarge / Many third-party Twitter clients, apps the social network has been seeking to diminish since 2012, are suddenly not working, with no update or outreach from Twitter. Nathan Coppen/Getty Images reader comments 134 with 0 posters participating Share this story Tweetbot, Twiterrific, Echofon, and other third-party Twitter clients have failed to work for many… Read More »
Rosie Struve; Getty Images reader comments 38 with 0 posters participating Share this story After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked to about 200 million users is likely a refined version of… Read More »