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What is Mastodon? An in-depth view of the Decentralized Social Networking Platform

Note: This is a guest post written by Jeeva Shanmugam – Concerns over the authority and impact of centralized social networks have grown over the past few years. Many users are worried about the effects this concentration of power has on our society and the possibility of censorship, monitoring, and data exploitation as a result …

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5 Best Twitter Alternatives

Note: This is a guest post written by Jeeva Shanmugam After Elon Musk acquired Twitter he fired almost 4000 Twitter employees overnight that includes big shots like Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal. Not only that, he consistently brings drastic changes to Twitter, especially pushing the free social medium towards a subscription base platform with Twitter Blue.

Twitter New Design 2019

It’s 2019 and Twitter.com has a new look

After seven years without any design changes whatsoever, Twitter.com gets a new makeover. Well, to be fair, Twitter did have new features and changes such as the replies threads (imagine not having this now), more characters limit when composing/replying/attaching media, etc. But this time, it’s a complete design makeover – giving Twitter.com a fresh, new, …

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Tweetbot 5 update

Tweetbot 5 for iOS supports the new iPhone Xs Max and OLED-optimised dark mode

Tweetbot and Twitterrific are two of my most favourite Twitter apps on iOS of all time. They look really good and also more powerful compared to Twitter’s native app. And when I’m on Android, I honestly can’t find any Twitter app that looks this good (maybe Talon?) I somehow keep on switching between the two …

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Twitter is removing media attachments and mentions from 140-character limit

Twitter’s 140 character limit is what makes Twitter, a Twitter. Change it to a 1,000 character limit and Twitter will somewhat lose its appeal. It’s an art of its own to try composing your thoughts into a short, concise tweet. But for most cases, it’s kind of an annoyance when Twitter takes into account media …

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