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Meta's Threads racked up more than 30 million sign-ups within about 18 hours of its launch, emerging as the first real threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, as it took advantage of its access to billions of Instagram users and a similar look to that of its rival. Dubbed as the "Twitter-Killer", Threads was the top free app on Apple's App Store in the ...

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter eight months ago, users irked by the platform's new regime have vowed to move their online presence elsewhere, though the habit has proved hard to break.

Elon Musk's Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network's efforts to attract advertisers. The limit, imposed to "address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation", is the latest change by Twitter, which was last yea...

Turmoil at Twitter following new limits to the amount of posts users can see appears to be driving a surge in activity at Mastodon, a German rival that prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven structure.

Twitter has no clear alternative, months after Elon Musk acquired the widely used microblogging platform. From Mastodon to Bluesky, these are some of the popular contenders for a Twitter alternative, in the aftermath of sweeping changes introduced by Musk after the takeover deal.

Jack Dorsey is taking another whack at a Twitter-like service with a new social media platform called Bluesky. The service is gaining traction among Twitter power users, attracting prominent personalities including US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

Twitter on Monday backtracked from its new policy to ban accounts that linked to other social media platforms, such as Instagram, Mastodon, and Facebook, after some notable accounts were suspended under the new policy, including tech investor Paul Graham. The company's support handle has deleted its tweets announcing the new policy, which has also ...

The over half-dozen journalists whose Twitter accounts have been banned had been writing about the company and Mr Musk. Many of the journalists have joined Mastodon and got thousands of followers in a few hours.

Twitter suspended the accounts of prominent journalists who covered Elon Musk, the company's new owner. The microblogging service on Wednesday suspended @elonjet, an account tracking Musk's private jet in real-time using data available in the public domain. On Thursday, the Twitter account of Mastodon, a Twitter alternative, was also suspended on t...

Twitter Inc on Thursday suspended the accounts of several journalists, including ones from the New York Times and the Washington Post, with the site showing "account suspended" notices for them.

From firing nearly half of Twitter's workforce to charging a monthly fee for the coveted blue tick, Elon Musk has made several unprecedented moves since taking control of the microblogging platform.

Mastodon, an open-source social network that markets itself as an alternative to Twitter, has seen a surge in new sign-ups in recent days, overwhelming the site and its founder as the tiny operation struggles to keep up.

Twitter alternatives are being sought out by users eager to move away from the microblogging platform after Elon Musk took over the company over a week ago. As Musk seeks to charge for user verification and plans changes to Twitter's content moderation policies, many users are looking to move elsewhere. From Mastodon to Clubhouse, here are some of ...

Mastodon is a decentralised, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany that has seen a flood of new users, as Twitter is in disarray following Elon Musk's takeover last week. While Twitter and Facebook are controlled by one authority, a company, Mastodon is installed on thousands of computer servers, largely run by volunteer administrators who...

Microblogging platform Mastodon was originally created by Eugen Rochko, who announced it on hacker News in 2016.

Meta's Threads racked up more than 30 million sign-ups within about 18 hours of its launch, emerging as the first real threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, as it took advantage of its access to billions of Instagram users and a similar look to that of its rival. Dubbed as the "Twitter-Killer", Threads was the top free app on Apple's App Store in the ...

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter eight months ago, users irked by the platform's new regime have vowed to move their online presence elsewhere, though the habit has proved hard to break.

Elon Musk's Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network's efforts to attract advertisers. The limit, imposed to "address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation", is the latest change by Twitter, which was last yea...

Turmoil at Twitter following new limits to the amount of posts users can see appears to be driving a surge in activity at Mastodon, a German rival that prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven structure.

Twitter has no clear alternative, months after Elon Musk acquired the widely used microblogging platform. From Mastodon to Bluesky, these are some of the popular contenders for a Twitter alternative, in the aftermath of sweeping changes introduced by Musk after the takeover deal.

Jack Dorsey is taking another whack at a Twitter-like service with a new social media platform called Bluesky. The service is gaining traction among Twitter power users, attracting prominent personalities including US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

Twitter on Monday backtracked from its new policy to ban accounts that linked to other social media platforms, such as Instagram, Mastodon, and Facebook, after some notable accounts were suspended under the new policy, including tech investor Paul Graham. The company's support handle has deleted its tweets announcing the new policy, which has also ...

The over half-dozen journalists whose Twitter accounts have been banned had been writing about the company and Mr Musk. Many of the journalists have joined Mastodon and got thousands of followers in a few hours.

Twitter suspended the accounts of prominent journalists who covered Elon Musk, the company's new owner. The microblogging service on Wednesday suspended @elonjet, an account tracking Musk's private jet in real-time using data available in the public domain. On Thursday, the Twitter account of Mastodon, a Twitter alternative, was also suspended on t...

Twitter Inc on Thursday suspended the accounts of several journalists, including ones from the New York Times and the Washington Post, with the site showing "account suspended" notices for them.

From firing nearly half of Twitter's workforce to charging a monthly fee for the coveted blue tick, Elon Musk has made several unprecedented moves since taking control of the microblogging platform.

Mastodon, an open-source social network that markets itself as an alternative to Twitter, has seen a surge in new sign-ups in recent days, overwhelming the site and its founder as the tiny operation struggles to keep up.

Twitter alternatives are being sought out by users eager to move away from the microblogging platform after Elon Musk took over the company over a week ago. As Musk seeks to charge for user verification and plans changes to Twitter's content moderation policies, many users are looking to move elsewhere. From Mastodon to Clubhouse, here are some of ...

Mastodon is a decentralised, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany that has seen a flood of new users, as Twitter is in disarray following Elon Musk's takeover last week. While Twitter and Facebook are controlled by one authority, a company, Mastodon is installed on thousands of computer servers, largely run by volunteer administrators who...

Microblogging platform Mastodon was originally created by Eugen Rochko, who announced it on hacker News in 2016.