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Threads is getting its most wanted upgrade in the next few weeks

Two essential upgrades are coming to Threads to further torment Twitter

"Some Kind Of Monster? It was all a bit Spinal Tap." Bill Bailey on the rock and metal albums that have defined his life

From Mastodon and Opeth's prog metal majesty to Metallica going off the rails with St Anger, these are the albums that have sountracked Bill Bailey's life

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Elon Musk's controversial AI plan has artists jumping ship from Twitter

Could BlueSky benefit from the X exodus?

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Today’s Cache | Musk threatens to sue researchers; BBC tries out Mastodon; India’s premium smartphone shipments grow

News snippets for X social media platform threatening to sue a non-profit for research critical of its leadership. BBC experimenting with Mastodon, and India's premium smartphone segment growing 112% YoY in Q2 2023.

The Hindu

Inside Bluesky CEO’s 10 days of silence

Bluesky, the Twitter rival, faced its first major crisis when a racist username went unchecked, leading investors to push for an apology that took the CEO 10 days to formulate.

Fortune

Mastodon: Twitter rival used to host child sexual abuse content, study finds

Stanford University researchers found almost 2,000 posts using child sexual abuse material hashtags on the decentralised social network

Evening Standard

Threads gets another free app update to welcome Elon Musk’s exes

The biggest rival to the service formerly known as Twitter teases big new features

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Here's where Twitter found its new X logo

Elon Musk has rebranded Twitter's logo from the old blue bird symbol to a new X logo. Here's where he seems to have found the inspiration for the new "X."

Windows Central

A beginner's guide to sludge metal in five essential albums

From the Louisiana swamps to Washington State and beyond, these five albums defined sludge metal's history

Metal Hammer

10 metal b-sides and bonus tracks so perfect that they should have been classics

These bangers by Metallica, Linkin Park and more never got an album or single release – but, in hindsight, they really deserved one

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Extraordinary Portraits season 3: release date, interview and everything we know

Bill Bailey is your new host as Extraordinary Portraits season 3 celebrates 75 years of the NHS.

WhatToWatch

Everything I hate is on Twitter – how can the alternatives compete?

When Elon Musk took over the platform, the downward slide was depressing. But then, the horror may always have been a big part of its appeal, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Watch Mastodon portray violent cinema snacks in the most metal movie opening of all time

Mastodon performed a raging extreme metal song as animated characters in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie – and stole the entire show.

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TechScape: With 100 million users, is Threads on course to finish off Twitter?

Meta wants its new rival to be a friendly, news-free space. But with missing features, it might not leave Elon Musk’s platform in the dust quite yet

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Twitter traffic sinks in wake of changes and launch of rival platform Threads

Data shows the micro-blogging website has been shedding users since early 2023, not long after Elon Musk’s takeover

The Conversation

Meta's Threads is surging, but mass migration from Twitter is likely to remain an uphill battle

Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users can see in a day was the latest in a series of decisions that has spurred millions of users to sign up with alternative microblogging platforms since Elon Musk acquired Twitter last year.

The National (Scotland)

Battle of the apps: Threads has potential but Twitter shouldn't be 'written off yet'

BILLIONAIRE Mark Zuckerberg threw down the gauntlet to his rival Elon Musk by launching a new microblogging app this week but Twitter shouldn’t be…

Fortune

Is Threads threatening Twitter’s reign?

As the social media landscape becomes more fragmented, Meta's Twitter clone has entered the arena.

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TechRadar

Mastodon fixes major security flaw that could have allowed system hijacking

A total of five CVEs have been addressed in Mastodon’s latest round of security patches, including several critical vulnerabilities.

The Guardian - UK

Could Meta’s Threads deal a knockout blow to Twitter?

Mark Zuckerberg’s rival social network is first serious threat to Twitter since Elon Musk takeover

Reason

Attack of the Twitter Clones

Plus: Groups ask Supreme Court to say public officials can't block people, latest jobs report shows openings down, and more...

PC Gamer

Threads threatens to muscle in on Mastodon's Fediverse and admins are up in arms about it

Privacy concerns have lead to petitions being signed to keep Meta out.

The Conversation

Threads: new Twitter rival looks like a shrewd move but Meta lacks credibility

Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media platform, Threads, has been released in smartphone app stores (although not in the EU). Zuckerberg, who is chief executive of Threads’ parent company Meta, says that at least 30 million users signed up in the app’s first day. According to some speculative reporting, Threads might…

The Conversation

Why Meta's Threads app is the biggest threat to Twitter yet

The launch of social media app Threads as a competitor to Twitter is a game-changer.

Axios

Threads poses rare threat to Twitter's political monopoly

More than 1/4 of Congress has already signed up for the platform.

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