How to create a Subreddit on desktop and mobile
Few social media sites are as popular as Reddit. Regardless of what you’re interested in, there’s probably a thriving community for you to interact with on the platform. Known as …
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Generative AI is repeating all of Web 2.0’s mistakes
If 2022 was the year the generative AI boom started, 2023 was the year of the generative AI panic. Just over 12 months since OpenAI released ChatGPT and set a …
X rival Threads could be about to get millions of more users
Meta Threads — Meta’s rival to X, formerly Twitter — has just launched in the European Union (EU), a market with nearly half a billion people. The app launched in …
WhatsApp now lets you send self-destructing voice messages
If you’re on WhatsApp and regularly make use of the view once feature for photo and video messages, then you might be interested to learn that the feature has now …
Heads up — your Google account may get deleted next month
Joe Maring / Digital Trends Owners of a Google account that has been inactive for at least two years have started receiving email warnings telling them it will be permanently …
Threads has lost half its users, Zuckerberg says
Meta’s Threads app looks set for an uphill climb if it’s ever to take the microblogging crown from Twitter, which is currently being rebranded as X. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
Threads adds a bunch of new features in first notable update
Threads got off to an amazing start earlier this month when around 100 million people quickly signed up to check out the new Twitter-like app from Meta. User engagement with …
Twitter is now giving money to some of its creators
Some Twitter users are now earning money via ads in the replies to their tweets. New Twitter owner Elon Musk announced the revenue-sharing program in February, and on Thursday some …
Rising Interest Rates Might Herald the End of the Open Internet
The open internet once seemed inevitable. Now, as global economic woes mount and interest rates climb, the dream of the 2000s feels like it’s on its last legs. After abruptly …
ChatGPT’s record growth was just beat by a new viral app
ChatGPT established a previously unseen rate of growth at the beginning of 2023, hitting a 100 million user base in just two months. But tech moves fast, and with that …