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After releasing the Grok AI-1.5V model, Elon Musk's X has now announced a new feature called Stories on X, which will deliver the latest news summarized by Grok AI, only for premium users.

After bringing many changes to X, Elon Musk has reportedly removed the option to hide the blue verification checkmark on users' X profiles even though they are paying for a premium account.

Elon Musk has announced that X will start showing headlines again on the platform in a future release. Earlier this year, the company had decided to remove titles from the articles on the platform.

The founder and chairman of X, Elon Musk, is now saying that he wants to get rid of a way that lets users block other accounts on the social network, claiming, "It makes no sense."

In the saga that is Elon Musk's management of X, it's being reported that links to websites that he has been having arguments with online are now loading slower, with delays of up to 5 seconds.

Elon Musk is ditching the Twitter name for his social network with the new X brand, complete with a new logo. However, it sure looks very similar to the X in Microsoft's Xbox Series X console logo.

Elon Musk has confirmed that X.com now redirects to Twitter in an attempt to rebrand Twitter. The billionaire plans to create a super app but for now X.com will be the new home for Twitter.

Twitter said the new DM limit policy is designed "to reduce spam in Direct Messages." However, it may also be another way to gets users to sign up for a paid Twitter Blue verified account.

A few days after Twitter started moving TweetDeck users to a new version, it's now allowing at least some people to go back to the original version of the application, but that may be short-lived

A Twitter designer posted up an image on her account that seems to indicate the social network may be planning to add support for both video and audio calls in the very near future.

In a legal letter sent to Meta, Twitter accuses the company of stealing its trade secrets from some of its former employees who are now working for Meta and its new Threads social network.

In a new blog post, Twitter said its actions over the weekend to limit the number of posts people could read each day only affected "a small percentage of people using the platform."

After Twitter decided to limit the number of posts users could read on its social network each day, the rival service Bluesky saw a record number of people trying to sign up for its beta.

Musk did not name who the new CEO will be but she will start in six weeks. He will remain at the company as its executive chairman and CTO, and he will be "overseeing product, software & sysops."

Today Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to confirm another move by the platform, to remove accounts that have seen no activity at all for an as of yet undefined amount of years on the site.

Numerous online reports showed that Twitter was kicking off users who were signed onto the social network's website. However, it appears as if this new issue is slowly but surely being fixed.

One of the two fake Twitter accounts claimed it was the UK branch of Disney Junior, while the other claimed it was an account for MTV's The Challenge show. Both accounts have now been taken down.

Elon Musk has admitted that he's paying for a few celebrities like Stephen King, LeBron James, and William Shatner to keep their blue verified checkmark when everyone else now has to pay $8 a month.

National Public Radio says that it gets less than one percent of its yearly budget from the US government and that Twitter's "government-funded media" label is "inaccurate and misleading"

Substack links can be retweeted, replied to, and liked once again by users on Twitter posts. However, searching for "Substack" on Twitter still returns results for "newsletter" instead.

Twitter has not given an official explanation for blocking links from the Substack service, but one of the writers of the "Twitter Files" claims it's because of the new Twitter-like Substack Notes.

The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Politico, and other big media outlets have publicly revolted against Elon Musk's plan to charge $8 a month for a blue "verification" check on Twitter accounts.

The option to either show or hide the Twitter Blue checkmark was discovered in the social network's code by an app developer, but this feature could end up not going live to the general public.

Twitter will be open-sourcing the tweet recommendation code by the end of the month. Elon Musk said the code is in an embarrassing state and isn't even understood by engineers at the company.

Meta is developing a decentralised text-based social media platform that will run on the same protocol as that of Twitter rival Mastodon and aims to create a more transparent and secure social media.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk stated in a message exchange earlier this week that the social network's algorithm will finally be made available as open source software sometime next week,

On Monday, the Twitter community found their For You feed flooded with Elon Musk tweets. This was apparently a result of some internal changes done to give the CEO an artificial boost on Twitter.

Twitter boss Elon Musk who complained of low visibility is trending on the platform more than ever. Thanks to a glitch, his tweets and replies are flooding people's For You feeds across the globe.

Twitter has announced that it will be charging $100 per month for the basic tier of its API. The company also extended the deadline for shutting down free API access to February 13th.

Twitter announced that API access will become paid starting February 9, a few weeks after it blocked some third party usage, marking another monetization effort under Elon Musk's ownership.

It was reported earlier that Twitter had removed the suicide prevention feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines to users looking up certain content. However, the service is still active.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced that the social media platform will delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts that haven't logged in or tweeted from, to free up usernames and handles.

Twitter plans to charge $11 per month for its subscription on the iPhone in order to account for the 30% cut that Apple takes from in-app purchases. On the web, however, the same will cost $7.

While speaking at a summit, Mark Zuckerberg reinstated that Meta is still not happy with Apple's App Store policies, adding that Apple primarily decides what apps get on a device due to their control.

Elon Musk and his transformations to Twitter are causing a stir. Reports suggest companies like HubSpot are beginning to attract ex-Twitter recruits by firing shots at Musk's decisions for Twitter.

According to a new report, Elon Musk has said that he hasn't planned any more layoffs and that he will start actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales. He has also asked for referrals.

Two-factor authentication involves either a text message or the use of a 2FA app that provides users with codes that can help them login securely. However, many users are not receiving the SMS texts.

It looks like double verified checks are back, this time only for selected company accounts, government officials and news outlets after several verified accounts trolled and spammed on the platform.

Elon Musk recently announced that Twitter will soon do away with 280 character limit and allow users to add long-form text. It will completely end the absurdity of attaching notepad screenshots.