Elon Musk goes low against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads spat intensifies Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk’s network
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
Twitter account suspended for tracking Elon Musk’s jet joins Meta’s Threads Long reviled by Twitter’s owner, @elonmusksjet is now tracking the billionaire’s jet from the new social media app
Twitter faces legal challenge after failing to remove reported hate tweets HateAid in Germany alerted the social media giant to antisemitic and racist tweets, which were not taken down
Rightwing figures sign up for Meta’s Threads app ‘within 24 hours’ of release White nationalist Richard Spencer and white supremacist Nick Fuentes join app, according to Media Matters
If Threads is the final nail in Twitter’s coffin, where will the journalists and politicos go? Elon Musk is wrecking his platform, but it has invented a medium for catchy soundbites that is too invaluable to lose
I finally joined Twitter – and Threads – to see what all the fuss was about … and discovered a hall of mirrors. Can the 70 million who signed up in two days last week to Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media have got it wrong?
A eulogy for Twitter: the place we journalists loved, for better or worse Four Guardian reporters on the platform that defined the early years of their career – and what its end might mean for them
Zuckerberg’s ‘Twitter killer’ Threads hits 70m sign-ups in two days Microblogging platform apparently fastest-downloaded ever, with Elon Musk threatening to sue over ‘copycat’ app
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
New Twitter rules restrict US weather service, raising safety fears Limits on number of tweets users can see have prevented National Weather Service from receiving key reports
Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? Here is First Dog on the Moon’s handy guide to the dystopian social network you should be on
The launch of Meta’s Threads proves yet again we are too much in awe of the internet For all the talk about being ‘extremely online’, new technology still wields power over us
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over rival Threads app In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a lawyer for the Elon Musk-owned app said Meta had unlawfully misappropriated trade secrets