A white X on a black background was used as the new Twitter logo, which Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino presented on Monday in favor of the well-known blue bird icon. X is present! Let’s do this,” tweeted Yaccarino, who also shared a photo of the company’s San Francisco offices with the logo…
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, combined Instagram with Threads, a brand-new Twitter-like site. Five days after its introduction, Threads has already established itself as a haven for cryptocurrency scammers. On numerous social networking sites, members of the global Web3 and crypto communities are posting advisories to warn unwary victims about the financial…
According to an investor presentation by owner Elon Musk and incoming Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino that was examined by Reuters, Twitter aims to concentrate on video, creative, and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company’s economy outside of digital advertising. According to a source familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of…
Twitter will delete accounts that have been inactive for several years, said CEO Elon Musk in a statement on Monday, adding that the action is “important to free up abandoned handles.” In a separate post, Twitter’s billionaire owner stated inactive accounts would be archived. Musk did not specify when the process would begin. It is…
As the company looks to monetize content on the website in an effort to diversify its revenue sources, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that the social media platform will take a 10 percent cut on content subscriptions after the first year. Earlier this month, social media platform users will be able to sell…
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, announced on Thursday that users of the social media site would be able to sell their followers subscriptions to content, such as lengthy texts and protracted videos. Users who provide the subscription—a feature they can access through the settings menu’s “Monetization” tab—will receive all of the money members pay,…
If they don’t start paying for it, already verified Twitter accounts will soon lose their checkmarks. According to the website, on April 1st, “[it] will start winding down [its] heritage verified program and eliminating legacy verified checkmarks.” It was always clear that the business wanted to accomplish this. Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, stated…
According to a security researcher, hackers obtained the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on a hacking forum online on Wednesday. Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring company Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn that the breach “will regrettably result in a lot of hacking, targeted phishing, and doxxing.” One…
The majority of Twitter users who took part in Elon Musk’s poll to be fired as CEO of the microblogging network voted to have him fired. Musk, the wealthy founder of Tesla Inc., started a poll on Sunday to decide if he should continue serving as CEO. According to the poll’s results, which were finalized…
Twitter CEO Elon Musk continues to want to take the micro out of microblogging, pledging to increase the platform’s character limit once more. The proposed increase this time is from 280 to 4000, which is more than 14 times the current cutoff. Over the weekend, Musk revealed his latest Twitter plans via his personal account….
Elon Musk, a billionaire and the new president of Twitter, has announced a reduction in the monthly charge for Twitter verification from $20 to $8. On Tuesday, Musk revealed this in a string of tweets. The billionaire promoted the advantages of having a paid verified handle, including priority in answers, mentions, and search, which he…
The ability to edit tweets is a feature that has been desired by users for a number of years, and Twitter is now introducing support for it. On Thursday, the business disclosed that it would gradually roll out the eagerly anticipated edit button to a small group of Twitter Blue subscribers. Users will be able…
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the richest man in the world, announced on Friday that he was canceling his $44 billion bid to acquire Twitter because the social media business had broken numerous merger agreement clauses. Bret Taylor, the chairman of Twitter, said on the microblogging site that the board intended to file…
As the billionaire entrepreneur tries to expand Twitter Inc’s reach from “niche” to most Americans, Elon Musk said on Tuesday that casual users will always be free, but commercial and government users may be charged a small fee. “Twitter will always be free for casual users,” Musk wrote in a tweet, “but there may be…
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is the sole owner and operator of Twitter at the time of writing this article. The richest individual on the planet now owns the most popular social networking platform. Musk paid $54.20 per share for the company. This is, after all, the same price as his initial…
According to filings filed with the SEC, Elon Musk, who recently purchased a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, has made an offer to buy the firm altogether for $54.20 per share in cash in a hostile takeover worth around $43 billion. Musk stated in the filing that if his offer is rejected, he will most…
Elon Musk, Twitter’s largest shareholder, has decided not to join the company’s board of directors, according to CEO Parag Agrawal. Musk, who calls himself a free-speech absolutist and has been critical of Twitter, disclosed a 9.1% interest in the social media network on April 4 and said he intends to make big improvements. His appointment…
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is already wielding authority at Twitter after acquiring a $2.9 billion stake in the firm, making him the company’s largest shareholder. He asked his 80 million Twitter followers if they wanted an edit button in a tweet. Twitter’s current CEO, Parag Agrawal, joined in and quoted his poll, stating,…
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), has purchased a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter for roughly $3 billion, making him the company’s largest stakeholder. The action comes after he tweeted that he was “seriously considering” creating a new social media platform and questioned Twitter’s commitment to free expression. Musk holds 73.5 million Twitter…
Twitter has begun testing the ‘co-author’ tweet feature, which Instagram will launch on its platform in 2021. This functionality comes in handy when two accounts wish to have their names associated with a single post, such as in brand partnerships or influencer campaigns. Once published, collaborative tweets are shared with followers from both accounts, and…
Twitter may be testing a way for users who do not want to be tagged to untag themselves from a thread. The Verge obtained a screenshot of a new “leave this conversation” feature, which untags your username from a Twitter conversation, preventing people from mentioning you in the conversation again and stopping you from receiving…
Twitter has added a pinned conversations feature to its Direct Messages (DM) service for iOS, Android, and the Web, allowing users to pin conversations to the top of their inbox. Even if newer messages from other chats arrive, pinning conversations keeps them at the top of the chat list. The feature was previously available as…
A Nigerian rights group has asked the High Court to compel the government to publish an agreement with Twitter that resulted in the social media company’s services being restored last month after a six-month ban. Last June, Nigeria suspended Twitter after the US company removed a post by President Muhammadu Buhari threatening to punish regional…
Twitter said on Friday that it had fixed a software bug in its microblogging website that had caused service disruptions for thousands of its users. Twitter had previously stated on its status page that it was experiencing an increase in the number of application programming interface errors, which are a set of protocols for developing…
The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), through Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE, chairman of the Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement and director-general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has announced that President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has approved the lifting of the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria, which will take effect at 12am tonight, January…
Many people are now looking for love on dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, and the majority of them end up exhausted or burned out as a result. As a result, a few of the industry’s newest matchmakers have chosen to take matters into their own hands. They’re using Twitter and TikTok, as well as…
Automatic captions for videos are now available on Twitter. On Wednesday, December 15, the much-anticipated functionality began rolling out globally for iOS, Android, and the Web. Currently, 37 languages are supported by the auto-captions feature. Because translation is not yet available on Twitter, the captions will appear in the language of the device used to…
Twitter announced today that it is testing a feature that will transform its in-app explore page into a TikTok-style video feed, complete with a “For You” tab. This feature is currently being tested on both Android and iOS for users in select countries who use Twitter in English. “We’re testing out a revamped, more personalized…
Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down earlier this week. He named CTO Parag Agrawal as the company’s new CEO, effective immediately. According to an internal email obtained by The Washington Post, Agrawal, who joined Twitter as an engineer in 2011, has already announced a major reorganization of the company. Twitter also confirmed the…
Twitter implemented new policies on Tuesday that prohibit users from sharing private images of other people without their permission, tightening the network’s policy just a day after it changed CEOs. People who are not public figures can now ask Twitter to remove photos or videos of them that they claim were posted without their permission,…