Before Elon Musk’s takeover last year, Twitter verified accounts of public interest based on certain criteria. Many times, the process was opaque and blue badges were arbitrarily given. Twitter will remove blue verified badges from profiles without a Twitter Blue subscription today, April 20 (4/20). The company…
After buying Twitter late last year, Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees to mitigate excess expenses. Musk also revealed that Twitter employs roughly 1,500 workers, down from 8,500 employees before his takeover. However, Musk said that not all past employees got laid off, but some left voluntarily. It was due to…
Twitter announced on Sunday that it is discouraging users from promoting rival social media accounts on its platform. However, it seems that the company is now backtracking on this decision. In a now-deleted post, the company stated that if users violated this rule multiple times, their account could be permanently…
Twitter has been seeing a lot of changes since Elon Musk bought the company in late October, but its fundamental feature remains the same. The platform allows users to tweet thoughts and opinions in just 280 characters, and the case has been like this for the last four years. However, it appears that the new Twitter…
Elon Musk, in his confidentially filed countersuit in Delaware court, relied on Twitter’s litigation in India to counter the social media giant’s claim of breach of their merger agreement by Musk. Musk has claimed that Twitter failed to disclose its litigation with and the investigation by the Indian…
Twitter Inc has a strong legal case against Elon Musk walking away from his $44 billion deal to acquire the U.S. social media company but could opt for a renegotiation or settlement instead of a long court fight, according to legal experts. Delaware courts, where the dispute between the two sides is set to be…
Web3 is being hailed as the biggest revolution that the blockchain technology could enable in the coming years. The new form of Internet will supposedly bring back the ownership of information and property exchanged over it to the people. In the process, it aims to eliminate the middlemen, which at present are…
Vijay has an immense fan following and social media is flooded with hashtag trends in favor of the star. Vijay fans have been tweeting with the hashtag #Master for more than a year, and it is been trending regularly. As a result, ‘Master’ has become the most tweeted Indian movie hashtag of 2021. This shows…
Swiss company Mitto AG that assisted technology giants like Google, WhatsApp, Twitter, LinkedIn and Telegram with the OTP services, now finds itself in the middle of a global spying business. According to a report by London based nonprofit, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), co-founder and chief operating…
Twitter has released a study that analyses if its recommendation algorithms amplify political content on users’ timeline and the reasons why it does that. Twitter’s ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) research team analysed the tweets posted by elected officials between April 1 and August 15, 2020.…