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Since his takeover, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been seeking to end the “lord and peasants” system to level the playing field for all the users of the social media platform. Previously, he relaunched the Blue services with allowing all to purchase a subscription and get a blue checkmark. Now, the micro-blogging website is removing … Read more
Twitter offers users the ability to customise, organise, and prioritise tweets they see in their timeline with the help of the Lists feature. Users have the option of joining Lists that have already been created by other users on Twitter, or they can create their own Lists of other accounts by group, topic, or interest. … 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
Koo — the Made-in-India rival of Twitter — has offered to migrate all historic tweets of any Twitter user willing to shift to its platform that will continue to not charge users for verification badge, its co-founder and CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna said. Since taking over Twitter in a USD 44 billion deal in October, Elon … Read more
Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended for a day over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire’s plane. The reinstatements came after the unprecedented suspensions evoked stinging criticism from government officials, advocacy groups and journalism organizations from several parts of the globe on Friday, with some saying … Read more
Twitter has deactivated the accounts of journalists covering its new CEO, Elon Musk. While Twitter did not divulge why these accounts were banned, Musk says it is because of the rules applicable to “doxxing,” which, as per him, will lead to a temporary deactivation of 7 days. The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, Donie O’Sullivan … Read more
Elon Musk on Thursday made his stand clear about increasing cyber safety on Twitter, saying accounts indulging in doxing – publicly posting identity-related information, especially of real-time locations of someone else – will be penalised. The Twitter CEO, who is also the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, has been coming up with new rules and … Read more
Elon Musk sold another $3.58 (roughly Rs. 29,625) billion worth of Tesla stock this week, but it wasn’t clear where the proceeds were being spent. The Tesla CEO, and new owner of Twitter, sold the shares from Monday through Wednesday, according to a filing posted Wednesday night by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk … Read more
It has been over a month since Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October. The micro-blogging site has gone through several policies and personnel changes since Musk’s takeover. In November, Musk shared a tweet to extend his commitment towards free speech by not banning the account that follows his plane, “even … Read more
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 week, Musk … Read more