The X account of a Turkish opposition leader with 9.7M followers is restricted in Turkey. Although his new account is not restricted, many users say they don’t see his posts on their homepages. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s university diploma was … Read more
Matthew Garrett has a nice post about Twitter (uh, X)’s new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, which is now called XChat. The TL;DR of Matthew’s post is that from a cryptographic perspective, XChat isn’t great. The details are all contained within … Read more
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is currently banning links to “Signal.me,” a URL used by the encrypted messaging service Signal. The “Signal.me” domain is specifically used by the service so that users can send out a quick link to … Read more
April 2009 Om Malik is the most recent of many people to ask why Twitter is such a big deal. The reason is that it’s a new messaging protocol, where you don’t specify the recipients. New protocols are rare. Or … Read more
Twitter — which at the time was threatening to move to Brisbane — became the face and symbol of this incentive to attract companies and construction to the neighborhood. A city report assessing the impact of the tax break, published … Read more
I no longer feel any pull towards Twitter. I can’t really recall the last time anything good came out of it for me personally. Neither ideas nor connections. The changes to the algorithm turned the platform into a form of … Read more
It’s been over three years since my last blog post. I think that the website code started to feel like it had bitrotted, and so making new blog posts became onerous. But I’ve taken the time to redo this website … Read more
Twitter has removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo. This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend. The change is already live on the website. Notably, Musk tweeted that x.com now … Read more
For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting “EXTREME levels of data scraping,” forcing them to bring “large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis” and … Read more
If you’re not logged into your Twitter account and try to view a tweet, you’ll be presented with a sign-in screen. And if you don’t want to have an account on the bird app, too bad! Twitter hasn’t commented on … Read more