Twitter has degraded in quality under Elon Musk, and TikTok is under siege in Washington — yet replacing them is no easy task. Part of the reason has to do with what experts call "network effects." ...

Twitter isn’t the only social media app making changes right now. TikTok announced on Monday that it has added text posts to its platform. “With text posts, we're expanding the boundaries of content ...

Drew Austin is a writer and urban planner in New York City. He's also something of a Twitter addict. Since Elon Musk acquired the platform in October, Austin has noticed his Twitter feed devolve into ...

TikTok surpassed 2 billion downloads worldwide in October 2020. TikTok has added a new feature that allows users to create text-only posts with the change coming just a day after Twitter rebranded ...

Some TikTok users have been X-ed out of their accounts. When the social media platform first launched users could choose to sign up through their preexisting social media platforms. But since Twitter ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) cited her previous ban on Twitter, the platform now known as X, in opposing legislation that could ban TikTok on Wednesday. “I rise today as the only member of ...

The ByteDance-owned app unveiled its launch of text-based posts on Monday, adding tools like sound effects and stickers. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor “With text posts, we’re expanding the boundaries ...

Veteran reporter and editor with over ten years of experience. Probably reading comic books. TikTok is expanding text posts to compete with Twitter, aiming to attract Twitter's vulnerable audience.

Quitting Twitter and TikTok is a lot harder than other people think. In this photo illustration, the Tik Tok app is displayed on an Apple iPhone on November 01, 2019 in San Anselmo, California. The ...

As the 2024 presidential election comes into focus, tech giants have struggled to balance curtailing misinformation with protecting users’ political speech. A recent YouTube policy change, which ...

Social media platforms have a long history of lifting ideas from each other, but as TikTok continues to explode in popularity, competing platforms like Instagram ...

Drew Austin is a writer and urban planner in New York City. He’s also something of a Twitter addict. Since Elon Musk acquired the platform in October, Austin has noticed his Twitter feed devolve into ...