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Twitter ads to change after fiasco
9Dec By adminNo Comments
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Twitter ads to change after fiasco

[ad_1] Twitter will roll out new controls as soon as next week to let companies prevent their ads from appearing above or below tweets containing certain keywords. Twitter Inc will roll out new controls as soon as next week to let companies prevent their ads from appearing above or below tweets containing certain keywords, the social media platform told advertisers in an email on Thursday. The new controls are part of Twitter's effort to reassure and lure back advertisers that have pulled ads off the platform since it was purchased in October by billionaire Elon Musk, amid reports from civil rights groups that hate speech has risen since the acquisition and after several banned or suspended accounts were reinstated. Twitter earns nearly 90% of its revenue from selling digital ads...
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Twitter Layoffs Will Shrink Free Speech Around the World
8Nov By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Layoffs Will Shrink Free Speech Around the World

[ad_1] Elon Musk thinks firing content moderators will promote unmediated expression. Outside the US, it will have the opposite effect. Twitter Inc. — now under new management, if that's the right word — fired about half its workers over the weekend, a big story by anyone's standards. Yet some teams and countries suffered worse — and that is a story with global political implications.In India, for example, Twitter seems to have laid off 90% of its employees. In Brazil, a team of 150 was let go, according to Bloomberg Línea. Shortly after Elon Musk took over the company, the number of employees with the ability to suspend or ban an account for breaches of user policies was at least temporarily reduced from “hundreds” to about 15. Musk's vision for Twitter is not particularly complex. H...
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Elon Musk launches crackdown against some Twitter handles
7Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk launches crackdown against some Twitter handles

[ad_1] Elon Musk said that any Twitter handles that are found engaged in 'impersonation' without clearly specifying "parody" will be suspended. Elon Musk on Sunday said through a series of tweets that any Twitter handles found engaged in 'impersonation' without clearly specifying "parody" will be suspended permanently. "Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying "parody" will be permanently suspended," Musk tweeted. Twitter's new CEO further said that unlike before, no warning will be given now as widespread verification is being rolled out. "Previously, we issued a warning before the suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning. This will be clearly identified as a condition for signi...
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Anatomy of the week the Elon Musk tornado hit Twitter
7Nov By adminNo Comments
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Anatomy of the week the Elon Musk tornado hit Twitter

[ad_1] The whirlwind week that Elon Musk took over Twitter began with sleepless nights for company engineers -- and ended with half the staff getting the axe. The whirlwind week that Elon Musk took over Twitter began with sleepless nights for company engineers -- and ended with half the staff getting the axe. "It was a strange week," said one former employee speaking on condition of anonymity. "Executives were getting fired or were resigning, but there was basically no official communication until 5 pm Thursday," some seven days after the deal was made official. The employees received a first email Thursday informing them that they would know their fate the next day. On Friday, the second email confirmed the rumors: 50 percent of the staff lost their jobs. The cull hit the mar...
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Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification
6Nov By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Rolls Out New $8 Subscriptions Offering Verification

[ad_1] Twitter Inc. has started giving users who sign up for $8 a month a verified check mark, days after owner Elon Musk floated the idea of a new verification system. Twitter Inc. has started giving users who sign up for $8 a month a verified check mark, days after owner Elon Musk floated the idea of a new verification system.“Power to the people,” Twitter said in the version notes for its latest update that was released Saturday. “Your account will get a blue checkmark, just like the celebrities, companies, and politicians you already follow.” Alongside the new verification system, Twitter is promising to halve the number of ads subscribers see “soon.” Also coming are the ability to post longer videos and get priority ranking in replies, mentions and searches, the company said. The...
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Bad news for iPhone users from Twitter Inc!
6Nov By adminNo Comments
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Bad news for iPhone users from Twitter Inc!

[ad_1] Elon Musk led Twitter has updated its iOS app for Apple iPhone users and it is not good news at all. Elon Musk led Twitter has updated its iOS app for iPhone users and it is not good news at all. Musk's newly acquired micro-blogging platform Twitter  has included the new $7.99 per month Blue subscription. Now, iPhone users will have to pay up front for the Twitter Blue Tick.In the Apple App store, Twitter posted this, "Get Twitter Blue for USD 7.99/month if you sign up now Blue checkmark: Power to the people: Your account will get a blue checkmark, just like the celebrities, companies, and politicians you already follow." Soon after the news went viral, Esther Crawford, a product manager at micro-blogging site said that the new Blue tick "isn't live yet". "The new Blue isn't li...
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Elon Musk’s Pay-to-Play Strategy Will Make Twitter Clubby- Have Nots Will Suffer
3Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s Pay-to-Play Strategy Will Make Twitter Clubby- Have Nots Will Suffer

[ad_1] Elon Musk plan to distinguish users along financial lines will weaken Twitter and increase the divide between between the haves and the have nots. Twitter Inc. is set to charge users $8 per month for the privilege of having the blue-tick honorific put on their account. We know this because Elon Musk said so, one of of many proposals the world's richest man has put forth over the past year aimed at improving the social media platform and its profitability.The key difference is that Musk is now the owner, chairman, and chief executive officer. What he says, goes. Unless he changes his mind, which he's wont to do. Or he's simply joking, which also happens. This feels pretty real, though, given that he's talked about it quite regularly in the past. The point of the blue tick is to ...
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