twitter Scared Musk sends legal threat to Meta after Threads lures 30 million on launch day Mark Frauenfelder

media Zuckerberg's "Twitter killer" Threads wins 10m users within hours of launch. Musk whines about the "false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram" Rob Beschizza

Internet BlueSky, Jack Dorsey's new Twitterlike platform, arrives in the App Store Rob Beschizza

social media Project Mushroom, a "complete social community ecosystem", among emerging alternatives to Twitter Elías Villoro

alt-right Domain registrars emerging as the internet's moral enforcers Andrea James

AI OpenAI sues Elon Musk hoping it might get him to shut up for a few minutes Rob Beschizza

elon musk Everyone hates Teslas except Tesla owners Rob Beschizza

Delightful Creatures Throwback blog delivers an adorable seal daily Grant St. Clair

trump Trump's Truth Social tries to pitch losing funding as good news Jason Weisberger

twitter Despite negative feedback from advertisers, Musk confirms plan to further reduce Twitter/X's utility Jason Weisberger

politics Top journalists banned from Twitter without notification or explanation—and Mastodon's account is gone too. Rob Beschizza

twitter Twitter users flock to Tumblr. Tumblr users have mixed reactions Grant St. Clair

Buyers remorse Twitter offers Musk the data he wants, thinks it won't help him wriggle out of the deal Jason Weisberger

Disney Disneyland's lovable fox was rude with park-goers in China, offending fans Carla Sinclair

censorship Libertarian social media site Parler asks government to force private businesses to do commerce with them Thom Dunn

web Alternative Twitter front-end kills the cruft Rob Beschizza

politics Ohio governor Mike DeWine tests positive for coronavirus (UPDATE: false positive) Rob Beschizza

deepfakes 'Deepfake face swap' app ZAO is making people afraid of the future Xeni Jardin

web theory Chinese slackers embrace "fat otaku happiness" Cory Doctorow