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One week after launching its Twitter Blue subscription platform in the US and other countries, Twitter announced that it’s acquiring Threader. For those unfamiliar, Threader is a popular third-party app that lets users create and share long-form threads on Twitter. One of the features of the Twitter Blue subscription service is a “Reader” mode that takes multi-tweet threads on Twitter and…

Twitter in 2020 announced a major overhaul to its official API as a way to offer access to more of the social network’s features to third-party apps. While Twitter API v2 was already available as a beta, the company is now making the API the standard for developers. On its official Developer blog, Twitter confirmed that the Twitter API v2 is now “officially the primary Twitter API.” The…

Samsung just announced its Android 12 update this morning, alongside a list of devices slated to get the update, but without any clear timeline for most devices. However, a leaked message seems to clear up Samsung’s Android 12 timeline. Apparently, Samsung briefly posted an official timeline to its Samsung Members app in Korea today, but that notice has since been deleted. The list, though…

According to a new report, Huawei will begin licensing smartphone designs out to other companies as US sanctions continue to decimate the Chinese giant’s smartphone business. Bloomberg reports that Huawei is looking at licensing out its smartphone designs to third-party companies. This would allow those other companies to source the chips and other components that Huawei currently cannot.