Twitter’s Elon Musk-ified account verification system will be pay-to-play

4 years ago

It's Halloween. You pick up the phone. "Seven dayssss," someone rattles. Congratulations, you're a Twitter engineer, and instead of a…

Meta’s ‘Creators of Tomorrow’ include emerging stars like QCP, Drew Afualo

4 years ago

Meta's second-annual Creator Week begins on November 1, and social giant is kicking off its seven-day celebration with an announcement. The company…

Kat Callaghan, the “Siri of our generation,” reveals herself as the voice of TikTok

4 years ago

The voice that powers TikTok's text-to-speech function is disembodied no more. Kat Callaghan, a radio host who is heard on the…

Barack Obama was a social star during his two terms. Now he’s logging back on to get out the vote.

4 years ago

Let's flashback to 2018: There was no pandemic, some people still thought Game of Thrones would have a good ending, and Barack…

TikTok is launching a standalone hub dedicated to gaming

4 years ago

On November 2, a pair of sessions titled TikTok Made Me Play It will explore how the titular platform creates opportunities…

TikTok’s Pasta Queen gets her own “gorgeous” cookbook

4 years ago

TikTok's self-dubbed Pasta Queen is embarking on her first book tour. Nadia Caterina Munno, who's from a longtime pasta-making family…

YouTube is splitting long-form videos, Shorts, and live streams into separate tabs

4 years ago

For months, YouTube has been urging its homegrown community of creators to adopt a "multiformat" approach. Now we know why.…

A member of the Sidemen is getting a trial with a professional soccer club

4 years ago

YouTube stars keep finding new ways to break into professional sports. One month after scoring two goals in a charity…

Is your small business looking to get big on TikTok? Enroll in the TikTok Academy.

4 years ago

For small businesses, school is now in session -- and TikTok is the classroom. The buzzy app is a marketing…

Democrat officials say YouTube is a path into the “incelosphere”

4 years ago

Democrat officials are urging YouTube to scrub incel content from its platform. Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Senator Dick Durbin…