TikTok merged with Musical.ly in 2018 after the latter launched in 2014; both have drawn many comparisons to Vine, a now-defunct social media platform that Twitter acquired in 2012 and ...

Ego-surfing aside, the truth is that Twitter’s new home page won’t have a whole lot of impact on those of us already using the service (that includes you, tweeting astronaut T.J. Creamer).

Twitter is retiring its blue checkmarks for "authentic, notable, and active" accounts, such as those for government figures, entertainers, athletes, activists, content creators, or journalists.

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, began changing how links to news posts appear in users’ feeds Wednesday night, removing headlines and text that were previously displayed alongside images.

Twitter is making the algorithmic feed the default, though you can still switch to your reverse chronological feed with a swipe. The star icon that used to let you swap feeds is now gone.