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The social network Threads by Meta has surpassed Elon Musk's X for the first time in terms of the number of daily active mobile users worldwide. According to the analytics company Similarweb, in January Threads averaged 143 million users daily, while X had 126 million.
The social media network Bluesky has made the Live Now feature available to all users. As part of the v1.114 update, streamers can add a badge to their avatar linking to a live Twitch stream. Previously, the feature was tested with a limited set of accounts, including the official NBA profile.
The X platform (formerly Twitter) has begun rolling out a new feature "About this account" that provides more details about user profiles. It allows you to see the country of account creation, the user's location, as well as the history of name changes. It will also indicate whether the account is associated with the web version or the app store.
Australia is expanding a law banning social media for children under 16 to include YouTube. The new law will impose age verification and fines of up to $32.2 million.
Grok 4, the latest AI model unveiled this week by xAI, has attracted attention not only for its high benchmark scores but also for its questionable approach to generating answers. As TechCrunch found out, the AI often relies on Elon Musk's Twitter posts and news about him to provide answers to controversial issues ranging from immigration to abortion to the conflict in the Middle East.
Social platform X is currently unavailable to many users due to a large-scale data centre failure.
Okay, Musk, I get it, you've been calling Twitter "X" for almost a year now (there's a separate story about how he called all his businesses X in the beginning, probably some kind of psychological trauma). But enough time has passed for me to finally realise that I will not call Twitter "X". And here's why.
There are more and more questions for Musk
Apple may resume buying ads on X (formerly Twitter). The Wall Street Journal reports that the company has already held talks with X about the possibility of resuming advertising on this platform.
The European Commission has completed an investigation into social network X (formerly Twitter) and, according to the German newspaper Handelsblatt, is preparing to impose a fine of millions of euros.
Elon Musk wants to remove dates from posts on the X platform (formerly Twitter) and introduce an $8 sign-up fee for new users. What does this mean for users and how will the platform change?
An influx of users has been seen in Threads as well
He faces a fine of 6 per cent of annual income from all assets
X owner Elon Musk has announced a change to the blocking feature that will allow blocked users to view posts from accounts that have blocked them.
