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A simple and endearing game creation tool called Downpour has me and thousands of others creating little shareable interactive games instead of pawing at the news on our phones<br>

Downpour is a mobile app for iOS and Android that launches on March 6th and makes it easy and fast to make simple video games.

On Feb. 9, Twitter’s API will no longer be available for free, with a "paid basic tier" available instead. This change, if it goes through, could make it harder to mass block, and would affect beloved bots.

Automated accounts are the target of ire and the linchpin of Elon Musk’s attempt to break his deal with the platform. But some are benign—or even helpful.

Zubair was simultaneously targeted by thousands of TekFog accounts, hundreds of bot accounts affiliated with a man who has extensive links to the BJP as well as a history of hate speech, all over a single tweet.

An investigation by The Wire has uncovered the existence of a network of 757 Twitter accounts used to mount coordinated attacks against AltNews.