In a bizarre turn of events it seems that Tik Tok was asking users to contact Congress member in the US to complain that the app was being banned…. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68517607

Interesting article about Tik Tok having to be sold due to it’s connections! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/house-committee-votes-50-0-to-force-tiktok-to-divest-from-chinese-owner/?utm_brand=arstechnica

It is a fact that ads on the internet no longer work. Ad based revenues are falling, and in 2024 that fall is accelerating. Here is a video from around 8 months ago that makes… The Ad based Internet is dying…

Yesterday Meta services took a big hit with issues plaguing Facebook, Instagram and Threads. The amount of people thinking they had been hacked, and the others who literally thought the internet were down shows how… Fallout from the Meta downtime

It appears that Meta is currently down in lots of places, affecting ALL their products. The links below shows it’s a big one this time… https://downdetector.co.uk/status/facebook/ https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091207/meta-outage-facebook-instagram-threads-down-signed-out

Ex-employees sue for severance pay. One of many current law suits that Musk is embroiled in, and there are still many where he has simply not paid outstanding bills/charges. It is obvious that he was… Elon Musk sued for $128 million!

Now here’s a cool generated ambient landscape with visuals. Check it oot! https://ambient.garden/

After a complaint by Spotify Apple has been hit by a huge $2billion fine from the EU https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24005938/european-commission-antitrust-apple-investigation-anti-steering-rules-app-developers

Interesting picture showing that just a couple of apps dominate the smartphone traffic charts!

Threads is making its API available from June says Meta. Big strides there and to be honest I can see Threads overtaking X/Twitter quite quickly if the API is robust enough and the rates aren’t… Threads API from June