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Soon after public outrage on Twitter’s “crossposting” policy, Elon Musk apologised and started a poll asking whether he should step down as the “head of Twitter,” and 57.5 per cent of citizens of Twitter, around 10 million, voted for ‘Yes.’ Since then, Musk has not tweeted anything related to this, he, however, seems to agree … Read more
Elon Musk recently banned Twitter accounts of various journalists for “doxxing real-time location information” and calling it “inappropriate.” However, two days after the incident, the company CEO posted that he was at the Lusail Stadium in Qatar watching the final between Argentina and France. Soon after he posted his “location”, various users called him out … Read more
Ever since he took over as the head of Twitter, polls are something that Elon Musk has used for quite a few things. For instance, he asked users via a poll whether former US president Donald Trump should be unbanned or not. He did the same for a few other suspended accounts. Musk has rather … Read more
WASHINGTON: Microblogging site Twitter has suspended the account of Indian microblogging platform Koo. The Twitter handle @kooeminence was suspended on Friday, a development that came in the wake of billionaire Elon Musk-owned Twitter suspending the accounts of several prominent global journalists, including those from the New York Times, CNN and Washington Post. Taking to Twitter, … Read more
Elon Musk-owned Twitter recently suspended accounts of several journalists from outlets including CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post following his “doxxing real-time location information.” The new CEO of the company sounded unhappy with the development and went on a suspension spree attracting criticism for his actions. However, he hit back and defended … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO: What you’re seeing in your feed on Twitter is changing. But how? The social media platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, has been trying to prove through giving selected journalists access to some of the company’s internal communications dubbed “The Twitter Files” that officials from the previous leadership team allegedly suppressed right-wing voices. This … Read more
After weeks of delays and glitches, Twitter has finally rolled out its subscription service — Twitter Blue — to users. In the last couple of weeks, Elon Musk had said that the service will fix all the glitches — and it did have quite a few — with Twitter Blue. Now it seems like the … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk relaunched a subscription service for Twitter on Monday after a first attempt saw an embarrassing spate of fake accounts that scared advertisers and cast doubt on the site’s future. The first try last month came just 10 days after Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the influential platform and a mass round … Read more
When Elon Musk set out his vision for Twitter 2.0, one of the features that he called a game changer was Community Notes. In Twitter 1.0 — that is pre-Musk — it was called BirdWatch. Musk made it clear that not only he wasn’t a fan of the name BirdWatch but also wanted to change … Read more