"Compared to online audiences, partisan TV news consumers tend not to stray too far from their narrow sets of preferred news sources."

Navigating a strange new world through tech.

I guess I’ll stop doing this, too.

With Snapchat for Web, you can send messages and snaps, and chat via video and regular calls. It also allows users to take advantage of messaging features.

Twitter Inc sued Elon Musk on Tuesday for violating his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform and asked a Delaware court to order the world's richest person to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 per Twitter share.

This deal was always headed to court. What happens next?

Land of the Giants explores the social media juggernaut in a moment of transformation.

Twitter Blue now supports custom navigation on Android.

You can set your "BFF," see who watched your story, and more.

This Week in Apps is the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.

The Big Tech platforms drive us towards feelings of shame and profit off of that spiral of shame, explains Cathy O'Neil

In discussing the network topology of social networks — whether centralized like Facebook or federated like ActivityPub — I think the ult...

In what could be one of Twitter’s more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters, the company is preparing to launch a new feature that would support the direct publishing of long-form content on its platform. With Twitter Notes, as the upcoming feature…

Is this the end of short-form Twitter?

Musk wants Twitter to be the place where people "understand the nature of reality"

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It’ll be easier to get a proper timeline in third party apps.

Elon Musk's deal is looking wobbly, and the CEO just fired his top two lieutenants

Are billionaires, invasive ads, and trolls turning your favorite online social space into a trash fire? There are better options out there if you know where to look. These are our favorites.

Twitter is adding the ability for users to upload both videos and pictures within the same tweet, along with a new "awards" feature.

Twitter today announced that it is testing a new Twitter Circle feature, which is designed to allow people to share their tweets with a smaller...

Running headfirst into fights for users’ rights on the internet.

The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive to create a more resilient global platform without profit incentives. We believe that your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company.

The tech billionaire’s shocking purchase of every reporter’s and editor’s favorite time-wasting/career-building/brand-enhancing platform has caused a whole lot of consternation about whether or not to stick around. So who will?

It starts with DMs, group chats, and Spaces.

What employees are saying. PLUS: Musk's key decisions

The feature supports audio files less than five seconds long.

Musk proposed a buyout of the social platform yesterday.