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Popular microblogging site ‘X’, formerly known as Twitter, had its services disrupted in Pakistan on Monday for the third consecutive day. Users nationwide have grappled with prolonged inaccessibility to the platform , marking yet another glitch in internet instability in the weeks leading up to, during, and after the hotly-contested February 8 national elections. According to Downdetector, X services were disrupted at around 1pm. The social media platform also experienced outages earlier in the day, it was reportedly not accessible around 10:30am and services were restored around noon.  This is the third consecutive day of disruptions, which started soon after the now-former commissioner Rawalpindi alleged rigging and irregularities during the February 8 polls and said he played a part in the process. Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chatha took responsibility for what he termed a "heinous crime," and implicated not only himself but als...

Meta Platforms' Threads is starting a test where posts from accounts on the microblogging platform will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. Meta had announced plans to make Threads compatible with open, interoperable social networks when the app was launched in July. "Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people," Zuckerberg said. Mastodon, which prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven structure, is like Threads, an alternative to Elon Musk's social media platform "X", formerly Twitter. Mastodon runs on a framework called ActivityPub that allows users to build independent social media experiences. "Our plan is to work with ActivityPub to provide you the option to stop using Threads and transfer your content to another service," the compan...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI will be integrated into his social media platform X and also be available as a standalone app, he said on Sunday in a post. The billionaire also said xAI released its first AI model, a bot named Grok, after making it available to all X Premium+ subscribers on Friday. The startup aims to create AI tools that 'assist humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge' and that Grok has been designed to answer questions with a bit of wit. Musk who has criticized Big Tech's AI efforts as ridden with censorship, in July launched xAI, calling it a "maximum truth-seeking AI" that tries to understand the nature of the universe to rival Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI. "Grok has real-time access to info via the X platform , which is a massive advantage over other models," Musk added. X, the social media firm formerly known as Twitter which Musk owns, is separ...

Elon Musk says X will soon require user's to pay a monthly fee to use the platform . Musk made the statement during a live-streamed event on X with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to Musk, the company is struggling to regain trust with advertisers especially as its US ad revenue declined 60% earlier this month. During the conversation Netanyahu brought up the challenge of preventing large armies of bots that amplify hate speech as well. "The single-most important reason we're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system is it's the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots," Musk replied. He believes that adding a subscription would make it difficult for bots to create accounts since a credit card registeration would be required every single time. He says the company will come up with "a lower tier pricing," than its Premium subscription of $8. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/musk-says-he-will...

Twitter Inc is offering free advertise ments to brands that advertise on its platform , an attempt to woo brands back to the social-media platform , which has seen its ad Business deteriorate following Elon Musk's takeover, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Twitter is dangling free ad space by offering to match advertise rs' ad spending up to $250,000, the report said, citing emails reviewed by the Journal. Twitter did not respond to Reuters request for a comment after Business hours. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-offers-free-ads-to-brands-that-advertise-on-its-platform-TheFOXposts-9848.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

Twitter announced Sunday it would no longer allow users to promote their accounts on several rival social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram, but the site's mercurial owner Elon Musk appeared to backtrack on the new policy just hours later. The sudden shift in the rules was the latest in a series of controversial changes made by Musk since he took over the company in October -- upheaval that has led a growing number of users to encourage followers to view their posts on other sites. The unpredictable billionaire even put his future as Twitter's CEO to a vote. "Should I step down as head of Twitter?" he tweeted, asking the site's users to click yes or no.  "I will abide by the results of this poll," he added, with the vote open until the early hours of Monday. Twitter had announced that the company would "no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms ." "At both the Tweet level and the account l...