There’s no good way to ask people if they think Twitter will outlive them. I don’t mean any offense to Jack Dorsey and Co., but one must ask this awkward question when trying to find out programmers’ ...

About three weeks ago, I started noticing that almost every time I opened up Twitter, the Notifications tab had that oh-so-nice blue dot, the reward for tweeting well done. The flag alerts users ...

It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem. Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for verification would help to weed out the bots (aka ...

Grimes is leading the charge of AI in music right now: Notably, she has an officially sanctioned AI model of her voice that artists can use in songs. She also has an AI Twitter bot that’s based on her ...

For years it’s been obvious that online social services of all kinds are beset by a problem with bots. I work on a cybersecurity product that can go inline and literally watch bot traffic, and too ...

Are we at peak social media yet? It's an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a social media experience just for one (i.e. you). At a glance, SocialAI-- which is ...

The routine of a loyal X (formerly known as Twitter) user remains relatively simple. You open the app and scroll to see what The Discourse is for the day. Someone's thought entices you enough to ...

Twitter engineer William Morgan is the real, live human behind the “highly experimental bot,” and yesterday it was made clear it’s not a Twitter product, but a “toy.” Morgan’s been discussing the bot ...