Instagram’s Threads app raced to 100 million users in its first month after launch in July 2023. Now it has 500 million.
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X hopes Cox ruling will put an end to lawsuit from publishers
The ripples from the recent US Supreme Court ruling in favour of ISP Cox Communications – and against labels who had sued it – are beginning.
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X will now block Grok users from editing people into bikinis
X has announced that it will no longer allow people to use its Grok AI to turn photos of real people into bikini shots without their permission. “We now geoblock the ability […]
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X files lawsuit against 18 music publishers and the NMPA
Music publishers have been suing X for copyright infringement since June 2023, when it was still called Twitter. In June last year it seemed like a settlement was imminent, as the two […]
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X under fire for Grok’s generation of sexualised and violent images
The platform formerly known as Twitter is in very hot water this week, following reports that its Grok AI was being used to generate sexualised and violent images of real […]
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European Commission fines X €120m over transparency breaches
The platform formerly known as Twitter is in the bad books of the European Commission, and expensively so. The EC is fining X €120m ($104m at current exchange rates) for “breaching its […]
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Instagram’s Threads has grown to 400m monthly active users
The milestones keep on coming for Instagram’s Threads app. “As of a few weeks ago we there are more than 400 million people active…”
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Buffer reveals its latest data on best social content formats
Social-media firm Buffer has plenty of data on what posts work (and don’t) across the big platforms. Now it is sharing some tips.
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Report: Threads is closing in on X’s daily active users total
Elon Musk surely doesn’t need more reasons to feel twitchy right now, given his renewed hostilities with the US president. But the sight of Meta’s Threads app catching up to X […]
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X and music publishers are hoping to settle their legal battle
A settlement may be on the cards for a group of music publishers’ copyright infringement lawsuit against X, formerly Twitter.
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X has has lost 14.4m users in the EU over the last year
Under the EU’s Digital Services Act, large technology platforms have to publish regular transparency reports.
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Euro update: TikTok and X fine rumours and tech-service tariffs
ByteDance could be fined more than €500m – $552m at current exchange rates – by Ireland’s privacy regulator the DPC.
