Twitter Hanging by Threads After a Self-Inflicted Winging
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Twitter had another very bad week after it deGoogled itself in a badly thought through response to the scrapers and bots attracted to the network. Last Friday, Elon Musk announced he was limiting the number of Tweets users could see in a day in response to scrapping activity and bots on the network. Those limits had numerous effects, including having nearly half of Twitter content in Google's index removed. Today the world woke to the first day of Threads, the Twitter-like messaging platform started by Meta and based on its Instagram platform. While Twitter's data is slowly returning to Google's index, it's a little less likely unhappy users will return to Twitter. Kristine Shachinger and Jim Hedger talk about the first day of Threads and the threat Threads might pose to Twitter. We also talk about OpenAI's quest to reign in AI, Canada's reaction to Google and Meta removing news coverage for Canadian users, Google and file structure, and a lot more. Tune in for an interesting and weirdly silly episode.
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