It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem.
It does appear that at least some of the bot accounts are older, according to the “join date” that’s displayed on their X profile.
While a few were from real people joking about the bot problem, the majority were AI responses.
It appears that the Verified bots are largely X accounts created in the November 24-26, 2023 timeframe.
The company admitted last summer it had a Verified spammer problem when it announced new DM settings.
Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered an outage globally earlier Thursday that lasted for more than an hour.
X Pro, formerly known as TweetDeck, also faced the outage.
This was not Twitter’s first outage – the abrupt workforce cuts earlier exposed the site to more vulnerabilities and reliability issues.
The last major outage on the platform, which was still called Twitter at that time, occurred in early July.
Users encountered “rate limit exceeded” and “cannot retrieve tweets” errors.
Spill, a platform founded by ex-Twitter employees, is closing out its first year on the market by opening up its beta to all users, whether they’re on iOS or Android.
Spill is like the polar opposite of X, a platform that continues to alienate users with platform policies that make the app actively less inclusive.
Around his one-year anniversary of being laid off from Twitter, Spill CEO Alphonzo Terrell told TechCrunch that the app has amassed around 200,000 users.
Spill may not be growing as quickly as other Twitter competitors like Bluesky, Mastodon or Threads, but Terrell isn’t worried.
“People are looking for something new,” Terrell told TechCrunch last month.
Instagram is launching the ability for users to post video Notes, the company announced on Wednesday.
Up until now, you could only post text or emojis to your status update.
Now, you can post a two-second looping video Note that will be visible to your mutual followers or Close Friends for 24 hours.
Another differentiator between video Notes and video Stories is that you can only post content from your front-facing camera when sharing video Notes.
Plus, you have to capture the content in the app when posting a video Note, which means that you can’t upload a video from your phone’s camera gallery.
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