Self-Publishing News: Musk Loose Cannoning and Bluesky Have their Eyes Fixed on X
It has been another difficult week for X. And one of the platforms competing to be the place our industry ends up is Bluesky.
Self-Publishing News: X to Start Charging A Dollar a Year
Elon Musk has always made a public show of caring about bots on X. Back in the days when the company was called Twitter and he announced he was going to pay an eye watering sum to buy the company, the reason he gave for subsequently trying to back out was that Twitter refused to say how many bots were on the platform. Now Musk is leveraging that performative concern to start charging users of unverified accounts $1 a year.
TwitterChat: Should Authors Keep Using Twitter?
On the ALLi Twitter chat (#indieAuthorChat) this week we asked questions about Should Authors Keep Using Twitter?
Self-publishing News: Writers Leave Twitter for Mastodon as Several Platforms Offer Enticing New Features
Twitter charges for blue ticks may mean paying for visibility. Writers move to Mastodon but the decentralised platform comes with its own issues.
Self-publishing News: Will Europe’s Digital Markets Act make Amazon more Open or more Closed?
Possible consequences for Amazon of European Union's Digital Services Act, designed to ensure interoperability. And what it would mean for indie authors who congregate on Twitter if Elon Musk bought our favourite social media.