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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Twitter staff say that removing legacy APIs to prevent data scraping broke TweetDeck and Twitter plans to move users to “a new, improved version of TweetDeck” — Twitter is officially launching its “new” version of TweetDeck to everyone, according to a tweet from Twitter's support account …
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Kris Holt / Engadget:
Twitter claims advanced notice about rate limiting would have allowed bad actors to evade detection and says rate limiting had a “minimal” effect on advertising — The company claims bad actors could otherwise have changed their strategies. — Twitter has been even more of a mess …
@twittersupport:
Twitter says that in 30 days, users must pay for Blue to use TweetDeck, the new version of which supports full composer functionality, Spaces, polls, and more — We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ by selecting “Try the new TweetDeck” in the bottom left menu. Some notes on getting started and the future of the product... https://twitter.com/...
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read limits; home timelines still load
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features — Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the U.S. The app will be called Threads …
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Mary Yang / The Guardian:
A profile of Jesse Watters, who is taking Tucker Carlson's Fox slot and has drawn backlash for amplifying racial stereotypes, xenophobia, and sexist rhetoric — Promotion of Fox host to Carlson's former slot signals network move towards blurring lines between news and entertainment
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Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
Armed masked men attack and seriously injure prominent Russian journalist Yelena Milashina, who writes for Novaya Gazeta, and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya — Armed masked men attacked and seriously injured a prominent female Russian journalist and a lawyer in the Russian region …
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep when ordering Meta to overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta is “evaluating” the ruling — Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed …
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Kendra Clark / The Drum:
A look at MediaMath's demise, caused by failed acquisition talks, a mountain of debt, and poor leadership decisions, like hiring the CEO of another failed DSP — The adtech company filed for bankruptcy on Friday, leaving investors, staff, customers and ecosystem partners in limbo.
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John Ortved / New York Times:
A history of Paper Magazine from co-founders Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits, former staff, writers, and others, as new owner Brian Calle plans its revival — It started as a chronicler of all things downtown. After success came, it morphed into something else. Now Paper has a new owner — and an uncertain future.
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David Sharman / HoldtheFrontPage:
An investigation finds that a website purporting to cover local news in a UK town launched in June 2023 with 11 fake journalist profiles that used stock photos — Fake journalist profiles have been used to launch a new website purporting to cover local news in a UK town, an HTFP investigation has found.
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
The National Music Publishers Association: in February 2023, Spotify had 44.4M US subscribers, Apple Music had 32.6M, Amazon Music had 29.3M, YouTube had 8.5M — MBW's Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a data point that deserves the attention of the global music industry.
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Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Brut CEO Guillaume Lacroix says the digital media startup gained 700K TikTok subscribers to reach 5.3M after its live coverage of the riots in France went viral — Video footage of the riots in France were hugely popular on social media last week as unrest spread throughout the country …
Financial Times:
A look at Reliance's JioCinema, which had 400M+ IPL cricket stream viewers, acquired content rights from NBC, HBO, and WBD, and is challenging Disney in India — Asia's richest man is on a mission to transform Reliance Industries into a digital group — India's richest man Mukesh Ambani …
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