internet culture
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There’s No Reason People Need to Call You on X/Twitter
I have plenty of ideas for useful features for X (formerly known as Twitter), but audio and video calls aren’t on my list. Unfortunately, they seem to be on Elon Musk’s, as the app now allows users to call one another for some reason. Yay? Maybe I’m just not the Tweep I used to be,…
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How to Write Alt Text on Twitter That Doesn’t Suck
Twitter has had the ability to add alt text to your images for years, but if you don’t use a screen reader, you probably weren’t able to read what anybody else’s alt text says. Recently, though, the “ALT” icon began appearing in the corner of images, and now anyone can tap it to see the…
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How to Prepare Now for Slack’s Next Outage
When Slack goes down, it’s a big deal. In 2019, the workplace communications software company announced it had over 10 million daily users — and as workers shifted to home office settings amid the pandemic the following year, needing increasing ways to stay connected with colleagues, we can safely guess that number went up. Slack,…
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Finally, Android Users Can Turn iMessage Reactions Into Emoji
While there are some who will fight tooth and nail to say whether iOS or Android is the superior smartphone platform, most of us can get along just fine with one another, green bubbles be damned. What isn’t fun is when iMessage reactions from iPhones (called Tapbacks) come into Android as a full text. What…