Twitter's office in Boulder, Colorado is soon to be vacated as a judge has ruled that it must leave the premises due to failing to pay rent to the landlord for at least three months.
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Twitter will allegedly implement new rules for DMs. Free users will have limits on sending DMs to non-followers, requiring mutual following for unlimited access. Read on for the details.
Twitter's new CEO has now sent her first memo to the site's employees, having joined to take over the running of the majority of the company from Elon Musk after his purchase last year.
Twitter has allegedly refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as the company plans to move off Google Cloud. However this has endangered services like anti-spam services that are hosted on Google Cloud.
Twitter Blue subscribers now have a new perk as part of their paid monthly subscription. The company has now increased the time window in which Blue users can make changes to their tweets.
A popular Reddit client raises concerns over Reddit's API pricing. The cost of $12,000 for 50 million requests threatens the future of third-party apps. It is equivalent to $20 million annually.
Due to the growing use of AI, Twitter is having trouble preventing the spread of misleading content across its platform. Today, it has announced Community Notes as an attempt to handle the issue.
Twitter has recently been on a spree where it is asking companies and parties to pay more and more for access to APIs. Now, researchers with access to Decahose are being targeted to pay $42K a month.
Although we haven't received any new Windows 11 builds this week, the last 7 days brought plenty of news. It is time to recap the most interesting and noteworthy stories from the world of Microsoft.
After six former workers sued Twitter, S.F. authorities opened an investigation into the company's headquarters. Elon Musk's team is charged with deliberately breaking federal laws in the case.
GroupM has reversed its "high risk" designation of Twitter. This means that its clients can resume their advertisements on the website and Twitter can begin earning revenue from those ads.
Meta is reportedly developing a text-focused app that will rival Twitter. Leaked screenshots show an interface resembling a mix of Instagram and Twitter. When is the early access date?
Twitter has written a letter to Microsoft to review its use of Twitter data and to complain that the company hasn't paid for access. It wants a report back from the company by next month.
Twitter has acquired business matching startup Laskie. Under Elon Musk's leadership, an important step is being taken towards turning Twitter into a versatile "super-app". Here are the details.
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."
Twitter's encrypted DMs are now available for eligible users on the latest versions of its app for mobile and web. The feature only works for verified users, verified organizations, and affiliates.
Twitter is getting a bunch of new features such as DM Replies, a new emoji picker, and encrypted DMs, the company announced. In the future, Twitter will also add video and audio calling functionality.
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.
Twitter has confirmed that a security breach caused Twitter Circle tweets to be accessible to everyone. Meant for a select group of people, Circle tweets were viewable to everyone for almost a month.
The latest reversal by Twitter comes a few days after the New York City Subway said it would no longer use the social network for traffic alerts due to its refusal to pay the company's new API charges
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.
After Microsoft, WordPress is the latest company to leave Twitter's API. This happened after Twitter suddenly suspended WordPress from accessing their API without any warning on April 3rd.
The hit animated movie adapting Nintendo's video game franchise was uploaded on Twitter this past weekend. It stayed uploaded for hours until it was finally taken down by the social network.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has stopped using Twitter to provide real-time alerts to customers. This decision comes amidst Twitter's hefty $50,000 demand to continue using its APIs.
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.
The newly restored blue checkmarks are another example of a partial reversal for Twitter, which took down the legacy verified badges for nearly all of the accounts that had them just a few days ago.
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Twitter's search feature appears to be unavailable to people not signed into the site. It was possible to search while logged out until recently. To use search, you'll have to log in with an account.
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.
The disabling of this feature on Twitter is likely due to Microsoft deciding to no longer use Twitter's API which is now only available for a starting price of $42,000 for large companies.
Now the only way you can have a blue "Verified" checkmark on your Twitter page is to pay $8 a month for a Twitter Blue subscription that also comes with a number of other features.
Microsoft Advertising has decided to no longer support Twitter starting April 25. However, this move has apparently caused Twitter CEO Elon Musk to threaten Microsoft with a lawsuit.
Twitter Blue customers can now post long-form content on the social network. The company said subscribers will have an upper limit for their posts of 10,000 characters. It also launched subscriptions.
Twitter is going to be giving users the ability to buy and sell stocks, cryptocurrencies and other assets thanks to a new partnership with social trading company eToro, starting from Thursday.
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.
Twitter was expected to remove verified checkmarks from older, non-paying, accounts this weekend, but the social network decided instead to label them as having a "legacy verified account."
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.
Twitter is working on a new For You feed that boosts blue tick accounts. Elon Musk also stated that those who want to vote in polls will now also need to purchase Twitter Blue for $7 per month.