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Elon Musk had Twitter engineers working late on Sunday to alter his social network’s algorithm and prioritize his tweets, resulting in a glut of them in users’ feeds on Monday, according to a report by Platformer. The billionaire Twitter owner was said to be unhappy with the number of views of his Super Bowl tweet. As … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk had Twitter Inc engineers working late on Sunday to alter his social network’s algorithm and prioritize his tweets, resulting in a glut of them in users’ feeds on Monday, according to a report by Platformer.The billionaire Twitter owner was said to be unhappy with the number of views of his Super … Read more
After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people more resilient to the corrosive effects of online misinformation. The tech giant plans to release a series of short videos highlighting the techniques common to many misleading claims. The videos will appear as advertisements on … Read more
Elon Musk has been pretty active on Twitter. He can be seen replying to a lot of tweets and in some cases, he details upcoming features on the social media platform. However, in a recent development, the company CEO threw his support behind Apple in one of the widely talked about issues between Google and … Read more
Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said that he spent a long day at the microblogging platform’s headquarters in San Francisco, US addressing two problems- overloading of fanout service for following feed and modifications in the recommendation algorithm. He also said that Twitter will also resolve the oversized font and undersized paragraph spacing issues by … Read more
Over half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers in September 2022 were no longer spending on the microblogging platform in the first weeks of January this year, CNN reported citing the data provided by digital marketing analysis organisation Pathmatics. Read more: This US restaurant bans children under age of 10. Here’s why The data highlights a … Read more
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, recently announced that the company would soon eliminate the “legacy blue check” on handles that have not subscribed to the Twitter Blue subscription service.According to Musk, these “legacy blue checks” are the ones that are considered to be “truly corrupt.”Musk said this in response to a user who wrote, … Read more
Twitter boss Elon Musk on Friday said legacy blue tick marks will be removed soon as those with legacy blue ticks are “truly corrupt”. The statement came in reply to a question of a user named Ria from India who said blue ticks are now jokes as they can be obtained by payment now. “Legacy … Read more
The surgeon general is the “nation’s doctor” in the United States. They are tasked with giving Americans the “best scientific information” about their health. Late last month, the current US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, warned 13 is too young to join social media. He said it poses a risk to young people’s “self-worth and their … Read more
Twitter failed to provide a full report to the European Union on its efforts to combat online disinformation, drawing a rebuke Thursday from top officials of the 27-nation bloc. The company signed up to the EU’s voluntary 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation last year — before billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought the social media … Read more