On Thursday, April 20, Elon Musk made a rare move: He delivered on a promise. Since acquiring Twitter in October of last year, Musk has been open about his disdain for Twitter’s old verification system. Musk has made it clear that “legacy verified” users would eventually lose their checkmarks. And, after missing the originally scheduled…
It’s 4/20. Elon Musk is removing the blue checkmarks from the around 420,000 “legacy verified” accounts that were granted the icon through Twitter’s now-defunct identity verification process. From this point forward, only users who pay $8 per month (or $11 per month on mobile devices) will have the blue checkmark badge affixed to their Twitter…
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Twitter is a stressful place these days. You can get the news faster than ever before by relentlessly refreshing your Twitter timeline, which can be both a blessing and a curse. We all probably know someone who is stressing themselves out right now by anxiously scrolling Twitter all…
Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform. And this time it’s one of the biggest companies in the tech industry. Microsoft is going to drop Twitter from its Microsoft Advertising plan next week, according to the company. “Starting on April 25, 2023, Smart Campaigns with Multi-platform will no longer support Twitter,” Microsoft…
On Friday and throughout the weekend, multiple National Weather Service (NWS) accounts announced that Twitter had removed their API access, which would disrupt crucial potentially life-saving automated emergency updates. The move came as Twitter prepares to transition its currently free API service to a paid subscription model starting at an exorbitant $42,000 per month for…
You can still find hate speech on Elon Musk‘s Twitter. But now, some of it will come with a warning label. According to Twitter, the company will start rolling out new warning labels on tweets that break its “Hateful Conduct” rules. Tweets with this label will have “limited visibility” on the platform, meaning that Twitter’s…
Were you using Facebook sometime between the dates of May 24, 2007 and December 22, 2022? If so, there’s a good chance the company, now known as Facebook’s parent company Meta, owes you money! And who would turn down free money, right? So, here’s what’s going on and how you can find out if you’re…
Since acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk maintained that one of his major objectives was to eliminate the bots. Last night, Twitter did just that. One problem, though: The bots blocked are the good ones. Numerous public service Twitter accounts have lost their ability to automatically post breaking news and events. Twitter has been removing API access,…
Since acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk maintained that one of his major objectives was to eliminate the bots. Last night, Twitter did just that. One problem, though: The bots blocked are the good ones. Numerous public service Twitter accounts have lost their ability to automatically post breaking news and events. Twitter has been removing API access,…
As lawmakers across the country try their best to legislate TikTok out of the US, its parent company, China-based ByteDance, has been undeterred and has set its focus on a new app for Gen-Z named Lemon8. The app is surging in the US right now, and as of the time of this writing has over…