Tinder warns of declining to flat direct revenue through 2026, below estimates, and says it plans to prioritize improving its user experience over monetization
now it's trying everything, including AI, to hold onto its paying users Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : tech company has crazy idea. Analysts say “company is insane” and “they demand the app cos...
Some users on X who share content that includes election misinformation, AI images, and conspiracy theories say they are being paid “thousands of dollars” by X
Some users on X who spend their days sharing content that includes election misinformation, AI-generated images … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Forums: r/centrist Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage...
Dating apps are struggling as users seek organic ways to meet; Match Group reported a decline in its total number of paying users for seven straight quarters
and getting addicted to — AI voices Punisheddonjuan / Don Juan in Hell : ‘Bumble fumble’: online dating apps struggle as people swear off swiping … Bluesky: @chickenpuppet.bsky.social : Wow it turns o...
Dating apps are struggling as users seek organic ways to meet; Match Group reported a decline in the total number of paying users for seven straight quarters
Online dating industry in crisis as shares fall and nearly half of all users report negative experiences on the apps
Beeper says “Beeper Mini is back” but now requires users to log in with their Apple ID, as phone number registration doesn't work; Beeper makes the service free
Bug fixes and other improvements — We've created an updated version … Anurag Singh / Dexerto : Android iMessage app releases new update to sidestep Apple block Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines :...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
Chats, screenshots, and interviews: some people are pirating GPT-4 and offering free access after stealing OpenAI API tokens scraped from other people's code
Joseph Cox / VICE : Tweets: @fabianstelzer , @simonw , @alex , @josephfcox , @iethics , @josephfcox , and @josephfcox Tweets: Fabian Stelzer / @fabianstelzer : “pirating API tokens” - apt scene https...
Elon Musk tweets that all Twitter Blue subscribers “should get an authentication checkmark” and that the service should be ad-free for a lower ~$2/month price
👏 @elonmusk 👏 https://twitter.com/... @joelkatz : This actually makes a lot of sense. It would make Twitter a lot more money and would make it much more expensive to get your bots to compete with acti...