Journalist Rana Ayyub has posted a notice from Twitter which informed her that the microblogging site has withheld her account in India under Information Technology Act, 2000. Ayyub on Sunday took to her Twitter account to post the notice and said: “Hello @Twitter, what exactly is this?” The notice from […]
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Twitter testing 2,500 character limit for a post
Fed up with Twitter’s character limit? Fret not. The micro-blogging site is testing out a new feature that will let people go over the 280-character limit in a single piece of content. As per Variety, Twitter will come up with a new feature called “Notes” that would allow users to […]
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Elon Musk threatens to ‘abandon’ Twitter deal over merger breach
Openly accusing Twitter of breaching the merger agreement, Elon Musk has threatened to walk away and call off the USD 44 billion acquisition of the social media company for not providing the data he has requested on spam and fake accounts. Musk alleged that Twitter is “actively resisting and thwarting […]
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Former CEO Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter board
Former Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has stepped down from the Twitter board of directors. The announcement came on Wednesday –the same day that Twitter held its annual shareholder meeting, TechCrunch reported. Dorsey’s exit from the Twitter board marks his full exit from the microblogging site. The plan for Dorsey […]
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China may benefit from Elon Musk’s Twitter ownership: Reports
With Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter on hold, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos wondered whether Musk’s ownership of Twitter might benefit China at democracy’s expense. China has banned Twitter since 2009. However, many Chinese citizens have been using proxy servers to escape from the autocratic regime of the […]
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Twitter fined USD 150 million over alleged user-privacy violations
Twitter has faced a big blow as Federal Trade Commission levied a USD 150 million fine on the microblogging site, alleging that the company illegally used peoples’ personal data over six years to help sell targeted advertisements. As per Variety, Twitter violated a 2011 FTC order that “explicitly prohibited” the company from […]
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Twitter’s latest update will improve third-party apps
Twitter announced an update on Friday that will greatly improve the experience of third-party Twitter apps. This gives developers much more access to the reverse-chronological timeline. This update to Twitter’s recently released API v2 is the interface that developers use to pull data from Twitter, a new step for Twitter […]
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Elon Musk: 20 pc Twitter accounts fake, deal ‘cannot move forward’ until there’s clarity
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday said that he will proceed with his USD 44 billion take over of Twitter only if the microblogging giant is able to prove that less than 5 per cent of its users are bots. “20 pc fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, […]
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Elon Musk intends to quintuple Twitter’s annual revenue to USD 26.4 bln by 2028: Reports
American billionaire Elon Musk, the founder of electric car-making company Tesla and spacecraft manufacturing company SpaceX, intends to quintuple Twitter’s annual revenue to USD 26.4 billion by 2028, media reported on Saturday. The New York Times cited Musk’s pitch deck presented to investors as saying that he would quintuple Twitter’s […]
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Donald Trump’s Truth Social beats Twitter and TikTok on Apple Store
Donald Trump’s Truth Social app is currently leading the charts on Apple Store, at least in the US market. Truth Social was announced by former US President Donald Trump after he was deplatformed from Twitter following the Capitol Hill siege last year. In the screenshot shared by Elon Musk, who […]
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Twitter confirms sale of company to Elon Musk for USD 44 billion
Twitter on Monday (local time) confirmed the sale of the company to Tesla Chief Elon Musk for USD 44 billion. Under the terms of the deal, shareholders will receive USD 54.20 in cash for each share of Twitter stock they own, matching Musk’s original offer and marking a 38 percent […]
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Twitter announces ban on misleading ads about climate change
The micro-blogging site Twitter has announced a ban on “misleading” advertisements related to climate change and its discussion. According to The Verge, Twitter said misleading advertisements that “contradict the scientific consensus on climate change are prohibited, in line with our inappropriate content policy”. “We believe that climate denialism shouldn’t be monetized on Twitter, and that misrepresentative […]
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Twitter users can record GIF from iOS app’s camera
Twitter has rolled a feature that allows you to make GIFs right from the in-app camera on iOS. The new feature could be a useful way to share short clips to your timeline without having to upload a full video. According to The Verge, it is unclear if or when […]
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Twitter might be testing a way to let you untag from threads
Twitter might be testing a way to untag for users who do not wish to be part of a thread. The Verge obtained a screenshot of a new “leave this conversation” feature, according to which, the feature would untag your username from a Twitter conversation, preventing people from mentioning you in the conversation again, […]
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Twitter testing playback speed options for videos
Twitter is working on a new feature to introduce a way to adjust the playback speed of videos on the micro-blogging platform. As per The Verge, the company announced on Tuesday that it is testing video playback speed options on Android and the web. For those that are in the test, it appears that you’ll see a little gear […]