Twitter just killed off legacy checkmarks, and the reaction is mixed
Today’s the day. The Twitter verification checkmark apocalypse is upon us. Leading up to today, Twitter has made multiple pleas and what sometimes sounded like …
Elon Musk claims Microsoft illegally trained its AI using Twitter data, threatens lawsuit
Elon Musk has chosen his next major technology company to go to war with: Microsoft. Earlier today, Microsoft announced that it will be dropping support …
Twitter will label hateful tweets that violate its terms of service
Twitter has announced that it will be making it more clear when a tweet violates the company’s policy against hateful conduct. In a blog post, …
Twitter Blue now includes 10,000 character limit, bold, italics, and more
As Twitter plans to end the Blue checkmark for legacy accounts next week, the social media platform announced the new perk of being a Blue …
Twitter rebrands Super Follows as Subscriptions and will give creators all the money it makes
If Elon Musk was angry that people were leaving Twitter to write Notes on Substack, today’s announcement is looking to get Substack creators to write …
PBS follows NPR and leaves Twitter over ‘government-funded’ labels
Do you know PBS? The home of Elmo? You won’t find those characters on Twitter anymore… at least from the official PBS accounts. Earlier this …
As Twitter and Meta start charging, LinkedIn rolls out free verification to all users
If anyone had said that being verified on a social media platform would be a paid feature back in 2022, I wouldn’t have been surprised. …
Elon Musk calls to defund NPR after it quits Twitter
Well, this went exactly as most of us would have expected it to. Earlier this month, NPR stopped posting content to Twitter after the platform …
Substack launches tweets — wait, erm, Notes — to challenge Twitter
Substack is riding the “Elon is going to implode Twitter” train so hard that it is bringing tweets (well, Notes) to its platform. In a …
Twitter’s latest bug is making your private tweets public
The Twitter bugs keep on coming! While Twitter has had all sorts of performance issues over the last few months since Elon Musk took over, …
Making good on Elon Musk’s promise, Twitter open sources its recommendation algorithm
It is officially a “new era of transparency” at Twitter. For a while now, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been promising that the company would …
GitHub will have to give up the user who leaked Twitter’s source code
Well, it looks like Twitter is definitely going to know who FreeSpeechEnthusiast is really soon. Earlier this week, a GitHub repository containing part of Twitter’s …
Twitter is turning into a pay-to-play social network and I’m worried about the consequences
If you want to vote in a poll on Twitter, you’re going to need to pony up money for Elon Musk. On Monday night, Musk …
GitHub takes down repository that leaked Twitter’s source code
If you’re wanting to rummage around Twitter’s source code, GitHub is no longer the place to do it. Over the weekend, a GitHub repository containing …
Twitter Blue subscribers might soon be able to hide their checkmark
Imagine paying for a blue checkmark only to turn around and hide it. That’s what might be happening, at least according to Alessandro Paluzzi who …
More of you need to be following @HelpfulNotes instead of believing everything you see on Twitter
While everyone was waiting (in vain, as it turns out) to see whether a New York grand jury on Wednesday would return an indictment against …
Elon Musk says Twitter will open source its recommendation code on March 31
Elon Musk seems to be close to making good on his promise to open-source Twitter’s code. Well, at least part of it. In a post …
Twitter will now show you how many people bookmarked your tweet
One of the things that the new regime at Twitter seems to love is metrics, and they are expanding visibility to another one starting today. …
Elon Musk lays off more Twitter employees, promises stock awards for the rest
Twitter has undergone another round of layoffs after Elon Musk said he was done with them. After Twitter went through major layoffs last year, which …
Tumblr’s iOS revenue more than doubled after it launched its parody verification checkmark
It looks like more people might be willing to pay to be fake verified than actually verified on social media. As reported by TechCrunch, new …
Twitter will charge users for SMS two-factor authentication
If you’re currently using text-based two-factor authentication to secure your Twitter account — and if you’re also not forking over $8/month at the moment (if …
Elon Musk plans to step down as CEO of Twitter by the end of this year
Elon Musk says that he plans to find someone else to run Twitter by the end of this year, but we all know how best-laid …
Twitter has delayed the launch of its new paid API platform
If you’re a developer and have been anxious about the launch of Twitter’s new API platform, you can breathe. The launch has officially been delayed. …
Elon Musk reportedly fired a Twitter engineer because his tweets aren’t as popular now
The chaos at Twitter continues, and the latest story is really weird. As reported by Casey Newton and Zoe Schiffer on The Verge, Elon Musk …
Twitter’s ‘For You’ tab on iOS and Android gets way more usable
If you primarily use Twitter on iPhone or Android, like most of the world, the company has rolled out an update that you’re likely to …
Twitter wants to charge brands $1,000 per month to be verified
Twitter really wants to cash in on its new verification system and brands could be the ones holding the bill. As reported by The Information, …
Twitter will now share ad revenue with creators
Twitter is looking to take a note out of YouTube’s book and start sharing ad revenue with creators on the social media platform. Today, Chief …
Twitter will start charging for API as Elon Musk seeks revenue growth
After killing support for long-time Twitter clients, the company has announced it will charge money for its API starting February 9. Unlike other platforms, such …
Twitter is developing a payments feature, they should call it X and crush PayPal
One of Elon Musk’s grand visions for Twitter is to become an “everything” app similar to the WeChat giant in China. Since taking over the …
Twitter for the web will now default to the timeline you were last on
Well, this is a nice quality-of-life improvement for everyone who is still using Twitter. Today, the Twitter Support account took to the social media platform …
