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Matt Navarra on Threads, citing a Business Insider article, reports that in the United States, Threads already has more daily users than X, formerly Twitter. In April 2024, Threads has 28 million daily active users, X has 22 million. Threads has 100 million monthly active users, X has 140 million.
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Carbon Brief has published a comprehensive article containing multiple visualizations of global temperature data. The visualizations show that 2024 has already broken multiple temperature records. As shown in Figure 1, the first four months of 2024 have seen the largest temperature anomaly since the 1940s. The temperature anomaly is the
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Figure 1 is an interesting plot shared on Bluesky by Jacob T. Levy. It shows the cumulative total of funds raised by the campaigns of Donald Trump (in red) and Joe Biden (in blue), in 2020 (dotted line) and 2024 (solid line), between 600 days before Election Day and Election
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As a reminder, Threads is Meta's Instagram-backed Twitter competitor. According to Digiday, Meta has been promoting Threads' upcoming advertising features to a selection of executives working in the advertising industry. The advertising features would arrive in the second half of 2024, a bit more than a year
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Noam Bardin, CEO of the social network post.news: It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news with you. Despite how much we’ve accomplished together, we will be shutting down Post News within the next few weeks. We have done many great things together. We
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In February 2024, a Canadian court forced Air Canada to partially refund the airline ticket purchased by one of its customers. The customer had asked the customer support AI bot under which conditions Air Canada reimburses emergency-purchased airline tickets when a loved one dies. The bot responded by hallucinating a
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I just learned on Bluesky that the American-Israeli psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman has passed away at the age of 90. During his long scientific career, Daniel Kahneman helped to show that psychological mechanisms, including cognitive biases, have a substantial influence on human decisions. Trained as a psychologist, his work
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In July 2023, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a group fighting against online hate, published a series of reports claiming that X, formerly Twitter, does very little moderation of various hate speeches. In response, Elon Musk announced that X was going to sue the CCDH, alleging that the
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According to data compiled by the Washington Post, Donald Trump is using increasingly radical language in his speeches to describe the rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. After calling them “political prisoners”, which they are not, Donald Trump now calls the rioters “hostages”, which they are not
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CNES, the French space agency, shared on Bluesky a spectacular picture of the Taj Mahal taken by one of the two Pleiades satellites. Le Taj Mahal en Inde, observé par un satellite Pléiades à près de 700 km d'altitude ! Ce mausolée de marbre blanc est considéré comme un
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Sensor Tower released data on the number of daily active users on the mobile application of X, formerly Twitter. The data shows that in the United States, the number of daily active users on the mobile application has decreased by almost 25% since Elon Musk acquired the platform. Worldwide, Sensor
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As shown in Figure 1, Gatun Lake is a key component of the Panama Canal. However, as shown in Figure 2, the water level in Gatun Lake is at a historically low level. In fact, this is the lowest level measured since 1965. The cause is a significant drought in
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I have found this interesting plot in a recent article by Laura Laker on Bloomberg: Figure 1 shows that since the 2000s, the number of trips per day by bike in London has multiplied by 4. From about 300,000 trips in 2000, there are now between 1.1 and
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Anyone who still uses X has experienced it: the platform is overwhelmed by inauthentic actors — namely, bots. Who hasn’t had a deluge of “Hannah” in their notifications for the last few months? However, personal anecdotes are not enough to show that X has a generalized problem of inauthentic activity.
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After almost a year in closed beta, the social network Bluesky is now accessible to everyone. You no longer need an invite code to create an account. If you don’t already have an account on Bluesky, creating one is simple: just go to bsky.app and follow the instructions.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools switched to remote instruction. What effects did the switch to remote instruction have on the mental health of students? This question is not a matter of opinion, but a matter of facts. The effects of the switch to remote instruction are not a matter