Content creators and social media influencers in Nigeria have started receiving their first payout from X, formerly known as Twitter through its ad revenue-sharing program. While the payouts had started for X users in the U.S. early last month, X announced the extension of the gesture to the global users by the end of July. […]
In typically swift and spontaneous fashion, Elon Musk has effectively killed off Twitter after promising over the weekend to ditch the bird logo. The new X logo is in the process of rolling out, and X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “X will be the platform that can deliver, well….everything”. At the moment it is […]
Announcing the new features on Tuesday, the billionaire tweeted: “Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform. So you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number.” Musk did not specify an exact timeline for the call feature but said “encrypted DMs […]
Elon Musk said that only verified accounts will appear in Twitter’s “For You” recommendation feed, as the billionaire further shakes up the social media platform Elon Musk said that only verified accounts will appear in Twitter’s recommendation feed, as the billionaire further shakes up the social media platform. Twitter’s “For You” tab shows users tweets from […]
Twitter Inc. suffered downtime earlier today after introducing the ability for Twitter Blue subscribers in the U.S. to post tweets of up to 4,000 characters. The additional feature was announced at 3 p.m. EST in an extended post on Twitter. Outside the ability to post up to 4,000 characters, normal Twitter restrictions apply. Twitter Blue users […]
Twitter has been testing the edit tweet option for quite some time now. The company has been promising to roll out the feature soon. Now it appears that Twitter Blue subscribers can try this much-awaited feature. Twitter has started rolling out the option to edit tweets to Twitter Blue users in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The company also […]
Elon Musk is now the biggest shareholder in Twitter, thanks to a recent stock purchase that raises his stake in the social media company to 9.2% at the time of disclosure. As per a Schedule 13G declaration filed before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk now owns 73,486,938 shares of Twitter. As per Bloomberg’s […]
Brand new CEO, Twitter has announced a major update to its policy in a blog post on Tuesday. Twitter will now prohibit the sharing of “private” media of private individuals without their consent. This update, which the company announced on Tuesday, broadens an already existing “private information” policy. This policy already banned Twitter users from sharing the sensitive […]
Nigerians on Twitter have begun a ‘Goodbye Nigeria’ trend to comment on the rate at which youths are leaving the country. As part of the trend, Nigerians who have departed the country shared their pictures at the airport or in a foreign country, with the caption ‘Goodbye Nigeria’. Other associated words in line with the […]
Trump’s “free speech” case is likely doomed by First Amendment and Section 230. Former President Donald Trump today sued Twitter, Facebook, Google subsidiary YouTube, and their CEOs, claiming that all three companies are guilty of “impermissible censorship” that violates “the First Amendment right to free speech.” Trump’s lawsuits are almost certainly doomed. The First Amendment […]
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