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Reddit is rolling out updates to our iOS and Android apps to make it easier and faster to get to these conversations. Conversations are at the heart of Reddit and what sets us apart from the rest of the internet. Posts and comments allow users to engage with each other and their communities.  The new changes are aimed at removing hurdles and reducing friction points to...

The social network X, is headed to your TV, with owner Elon Musk confirming the news on the platform this afternoon. Fortune also has an exclusive article with details about the launch of the streaming video app. The TV app is said to look and feel very familiar (read: a YouTube clone) and will be available on some Smart TVs as soon as next...

The changes and improvements to X continue to roll out and the latest confirmed feature is an important one for content creators. X Designer Andrea Conway (@ehikian) released a preview of the upcoming feature that allows users to control the default upload quality when posting videos to X. The options here include extremely low 240 and 480p video which I hope nobody uses, along...

This afternoon news broke that ABC, Australia's National Broadcaster was ending all but 4 Twitter accounts on the platform. One of their highest-followed accounts @qanda which has 396,200 followers has now been archived. QandA is a show on Monday nights at 9.35 pm on the ABC and focuses on current and future political and societal issues. All ABC accounts will now be archived with...

Elon Musk has taken to the X tonight to test out their latest live-streaming implementation. In the short, 53-second clip, we see Musk laughing, having a good time with what we presume is part of the development team at X. Musk uses the opportunity to lift some weights (a 45 pound/20kg dumbell), which seemed trivial, likely much smaller than the weights used during his...

X (previously known as Twitter) has had a big week, with the logo being updated to the new X at the headquarters in San Francisco, as well as the website and mobile apps. Alongside the branding change, X turned on advertising revenue sharing today for many more creators (including @techAU), as promised by Elon Musk earlier in the year. In February, Musk said Twitter...

I joined Twitter in February 2008, about 16 months before Elon Musk. Today he changed the service forever. Twitter is going through the biggest rebrand since its inception, back on March 21, 2006. There are many parts to the rebrand, chiefly the logo update, moving away from Twitter's famous bird logo to a new X. Last night Musk ran what was effectively a community...

We've known for some time that Elon Musk had plans of transition Twitter to the X, but it looks like that's not far away. The Twitter brand, famously denated by bird icon is not long for this world, as Musk announced this afternoon, we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and gradually all the birds. If Twitter the Brand is going away, that...