Twitter Blue ‘probably’ coming back end of next week, Musk says

Twitter Blue ‘probably’ coming back end of next week, Musk says

Twitter Blue will probably “come back end of next week”, billionaire owner Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday. Twitter on Friday paused its recently announced $8 blue check subscription service on Friday as fake accounts mushroomed. The coveted blue check mark was previously reserved for verified accounts of politicians, famous personalities, journalists and […]

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Twitter Blue with paid verifications starts rolling out, and there’s chaos

Twitter Blue with paid verifications starts rolling out, and there’s chaos

“Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months. We will keep what works & change what doesn’t. (sic),” tweeted Elon Musk last night as the company’s Twitter Blue subscription service started to roll out. The new subscription plan lets anyone get verified for the price of $8 price in the […]

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Twitter now asks some fired workers to please come back

Twitter now asks some fired workers to please come back

Twitter Inc is heading into its second full workweek under Elon Musk with half its workforce, mounting losses and a couple of unexpected reversals to its plans. The social-media company laid off close to 3,700 people on Friday, only to reach out soon thereafter to dozens of employees who it decided were either fired in […]

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Musk’s Twitter updates app to start charging  for blue checkmark

Musk’s Twitter updates app to start charging $8 for blue checkmark

Twitter on Saturday updated its app in Apple’s App Store to begin charging $8 for sought-after blue check verification marks, in Elon Musk’s first major revision of the social media platform. The change comes a week after Musk took over the social media company in a $44 billion deal. The billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of […]

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Twitter says 50% of staff laid off, moves to reassure on content moderation

Twitter says 50% of staff laid off, moves to reassure on content moderation

Earlier on Friday, Elon Musk said Twitter had experienced “a massive drop in revenue” Earlier on Friday, Elon Musk said Twitter had experienced “a massive drop in revenue” Twitter has laid off 50% of its employees, the company’s head of safety and integrity said on Friday in a tweet, while saying that the social media […]

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Twitter sued for mass layoffs by Musk without enough notice

Twitter sued for mass layoffs by Musk without enough notice

Twitter Inc. was sued over Elon Musk’s plan to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at the social-media platform, which workers say the company is doing without enough notice in violation of federal and California law. A class-action lawsuit was filed Thursday in San Francisco federal court. Twitter intends to start cutting staff Friday, the company said […]

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Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and hateful conduct surge: How the company is tackling this

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and hateful conduct surge: How the company is tackling this

With Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, there are fears about how content and hate speech will be moderated on the platform. Reports have shown that there has been a surge in hate conduct on Twitter. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s Head of Safety & Integrity, has issued a detailed thread on how they are dealing with this […]

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With Twitter’s command in Musk’s hands, here are three remarkable turnarounds tech companies have seen

With Twitter’s command in Musk’s hands, here are three remarkable turnarounds tech companies have seen

Ever since Elon Musk closed the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, he has taken a slew of decisions every day—from firing top executives including CEO Parag Agrawal to proposing new ways to increase revenue streams. The self-anointed ‘Chief Twit’ is a relentless taskmaster but also a visionary who has a track record of reviving […]

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Twitter limits content-enforcement tools as US election looms

Twitter limits content-enforcement tools as US election looms

Twitter Inc, the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used for content moderation and other policy enforcement, curbing the staff’s ability to clamp down on misinformation ahead of a major US election. Most people who work in Twitter’s Trust and Safety organization are currently […]

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