Dwight Silverman

Instagram, like X before it, is turning into a "monster" so we offer you alternatives.

A text-based meme circulating earlier this month on social media and in forums warned that Siri could “see” normally encrypted exchanges in Signal, a privare messaging app. Most of it was wrong.

From gaming consoles to handheld gadgets, a lot of popular consumer tech could go up in price next year, says Houston Chronicle columnist Dwight Silverman.

Starter Packs helped facilitate a huge influx of people onto Bluesky. In less than a week, I went from having just under 600 followers to more than 3,000, which I chalk up to my name showing up in several Houston- and tech-centric Starter Packs.

When we last saw Jenny Staff Johnson, a Houston-based writer and frequent social media user, she was in search of an alternative to the chaotic cesspool that Elon Musk’s X, the former Twitter, had become. In July, she settled on Bluesky, one of…

When it comes to making tech work for you, it's the little things that bring the most joy. The tips, tricks and clever hacks that make you say, "Where has this been all my life?” One of the most satisfying things is having readers, friends or family…

In Sunday's paper, Houston Chronicle consumer tech columnist Dwight Silverman wrote about the proliferation of text-driven social media platforms designed to compete with Twitter. While Donald Trump's Truth social was already out there, and upstarts…

Jenny Staff Johnson has been on Twitter since 2008, not long after it launched and when it was still the social network for the coolest of kids. The Houston-based writer found her people there, and it became her main online hangout. “I’ve either…

As Twitter continues its implosion under the chaotic ownership of billionaire Elon Musk, a new social media world order is being born. The killing off of an entire software ecosystem by fiat has given a boost to development elsewhere. While Twitter…

For the past few days, a wake has been held on Twitter – not for a person, but rather for the social network itself. It is presumed to be dying, killed off by the apparent missteps of its new owner, billionaire Elon Musk. So goes the narrative that…

Under Elon Musk’s bull-in-a-china-shop stewardship of Twitter, the site that one of its founders once called the pulse of the planet” has developed a severe case of atrial fibrillation. From the firing of half the San Francisco-based company’s staff…

When Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion last month, he immediately began a chaotic restructuring of the company and its product, laying off half its employees, dismantling its identity verification system and initially threatening to upend its…