You've likely heard of the carrot and stick routine. When you need to coerce people into doing something, shower them with gifts (carrots) on one end, and beat them with a stick (punish them for ...

Twitter’s API, short for Application Programming Interface, allows users to utilize the company’s public data. Many third-party developers have used Twitter’s API to make unique applications and ...

Elon Musk continues to make Twitter worse and this may be the worst decision yet. Credit: STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images Say goodbye to some of your favorite Twitter apps, automated accounts, tools, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The platform will soon introduce a ‘paid basic tier,’ with more details expected sometime next week. The platform ...

Once he owns Twitter, Elon Musk will have to choose between a free speech free-for-all and a profitable business. Start with the numbers. Musk is putting up $21 billion of his own cash as part of the ...

Chief Twitter free speech enthusiast Elon Musk has suspended the accounts of a number of prominent journalists reporting on him, blocked links to rival social media service Mastodon, and closed the ...

Nearly every agency that studies hate speech has noted an alarming uptick in antisemitism and white supremacy on Twitter — recently renamed X — since Elon Musk bought the social media platform last ...

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion on April 14, in what he claimed was a move that would allow him to change the platform to promote more “free speech.” The world’s richest man calls ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Thursday ...