A ad on X, which appears to be for a burger but doesn’t actually seem to be selling anything, is going viral, with posters wondering what the heck is going on. “Can someone actually explain what’s ...

The social media platform has long had an adversarial relationship with advertisers, which may be why it appears willing to blur the lines of what constitutes an ad. The company’s desperation for ad ...

If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. X-formerly-Twitter owner and self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk abruptly canceled journalist Don Lemon’s upcoming X show on ...

Elon Musk owns X, formerly Twitter, which has an advertising problem. Musk controls Tesla, which famously didn't buy advertising until very recently. Chocolate, meet peanut butter. The company ...

Advertisers, and the precious revenue they bring, have been fleeing X-formerly-Twitter ever since Elon Musk took it over in October 2022, bringing with him a groundswell of hate speech, misinformation ...

Learning a lesson from Facebook, Twitter has realized that the more it knows about us, the more valuable its ads can be, which is why it's working on a "custom audiences" tool that uses email ...

Twitter has announced that it will begin showing individually targeted ads using cookies for users in the U.S, despite heightened public debate concerning online privacy. Cookies are small files, ...

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