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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 One of their highest-followed accounts @qanda which has 396,200 followers has now been archived.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...

If you've been on Twitter today, chances are you've seen some of your favourite Twitter users sharing screenshots of an email they received. Some Twitter users received an email that indicated they had received a payout Earlier this year, Twitter CEO Elon Musk indicated that content creators would be able to earn a living on the platform, thanks to revenue earned on the platform....

Instagram's new social media network Threads, officially launched today. The service developed by Meta, has an unusual domain name. We would normally expect to see a global service like this be at the most popular top-level domain .com, but there are a couple of reasons it is not. The first is that Threads.com is actually taken by a Slack alternative, designed for makers. I'm...