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Yesterday morning followed its usual pattern of early morning events for me, but for one notable change in circumstance. On the iphone I reach for the second my eyes open a decorous new squiggle avatar appeared, a memorable addition to the banking apps, endless snapshots, email chains, texts, whatsapps, notes, calendars, weather veins, Wordle reminders, headlines, playlists, DMs and (cough, cough) all that other stuff which lives on our hand-held brains. Before the customary cup of tea and cuddl...

Evadne Eddins joined Myspace in 2005. Then Facebook in 2009. Tumblr in 2010. Twitter in 2011. LinkedIn in 2012. Instagram and Snapchat in 2013. TikTok and Reddit last year. Clubhouse about a month ago. And she signed up for Spill and Threads on Thursday, about an hour before talking to The Washington Post.

If history is any guide, the new microblogging app from Facebook could win its fair share of Twitter refugees.

Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyI’ve tried them all, and Meta’s new “Threads” poses the greatest opportunity to (finally) transcend Twitter. Perhaps that’s why the social media app is already being dubbed the “Twitter killer.”Like Donald Trump, reports of Twitter’s demise always seem to be greatly exaggerated—or at least, premature. But there are a couple of reasons why this latest challenge cannot be ca...

If history is any guide, the new microblogging app from Facebook could win its fair share of Twitter refugees.

Is Snap involved in Gfycat's now-inevitable demise? Say goodbye to your favorite GIF reactions from Gfycat. The popular source for netizens' GIF reactions recently announced it is shutting its operations down in September, advising everyone to save their favorite GIF reactions before then.

Social media is a double-edged sword. While it has opened up new avenues for expression and collaboration, it has also given rise to challenges

Charli Edwards of Cavendish Consulting reflects on a world pre-dating social media, as well as why we need it now, in honor of today's Social Media Day.

On this social media day, here's a walk down memory/nostalgia lane, to some of the apps that became an integral part of people's lives, and while some vanished into oblivion after a burst of glory.

To think that there was a time when computers were unheard of by the majority of people around the world. It was in 1937 in the USA,