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Shortly after announcing that certain features would disappear behind Twitter's increasingly large paywall, the company's new owner Elon Musk has revised his earlier claim that only paying users would appear in the popular For You feed. This algorithmic feed, long a central feature of the app, allows users to scroll through some of the top new content on Twitter, but Musk's plan envisages that anyone not paying for his Twitter Blue subscription won't have their tweets featured on the For You feed. Less than 24 hours after announcing this, he clarified the matter on Tuesday: “Forgot to mention …

Twitter is set to scrap features for users who do not pay a monthly fee for a blue tick verification, according to new rules shared by billionaire owner Elon Musk. Users of the social media platform who want to remain verified can pay up to $11 a month as part of Musk's shake-up that will also see voting in polls blocked for non-verified accounts. Musk, who is also the chief executive of the platform, said that paid social media will be “the only social media that matters”. rolled out the opt-in paid subscription service, called Twitter Blue, after taking on the top job last year, which all…

Parts of the software code of social media platform Twitter were published online following a major data leak, according to court documents. Twitter has requested the US district court for the Northern District of California to issue a subpoena to GitHub, the platform where the code was published, to identify the individual who shared it and provide data on all users who might have seen or downloaded the code. The social media platform, which was bought by billionaire Elon Musk last year, also launched an internal investigation, the New York Times reported Sunday, citing unidentified sources.

France is banning TikTok and other popular applications from the mobile phones of civil servants because they offer an inadequate level of security and data protection, authorities in Paris said on Friday. the Civil Service wrote on Twitter, which is also subject to the ban, along with Instagram and the streaming service Netflix. France is the latest in a succession of countries to take such steps against TikTok for security reasons. The United States, Germany, Britain and the European Commission also b…

Facebook's parent company Meta is considering setting up an alternative to the popular messaging app Twitter. “We're exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates. We believe there's an opportunity for a separate space where creators and public figures can share timely updates. about their interests,” a Meta spokesperson told the website The Register. As a decentralized service – which means users can set up their own mini-networks – the Meta offering would be similar to existing services such as Mastodon. Twitter's co-founder and former boss Jack Dorsey is working…

Twitter experienced widespread technical disruptions on Monday. “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” Twitter support wrote on the short message platform. significantly due to several waves of layoffs. “We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences,” the Twitter support tweet read. The company's chief executive Elon Musk expressed contrition on Twitter, “This platform is so brittle (sigh). Will be fixed shortly,” the multi-billionaire tweet…

Twitter experienced widespread technical glitches on Monday. “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” Twitter support wrote on the short message platform. The technical problems were apparently caused by the tech department itself, which has seen its staff shrink significantly due to several waves of layoffs. “We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences,” the Twitter support tweet read. For quite a few users, content on the twitter.com website still appeared as usual. embedded in tweets were not displayed correctly. Twitt…

Amid the ongoing sensation surrounding ChatGPT and the boost it has given Microsoft, Facebook parent group Meta says it, too, now wants in on the AI ​​hype. Meta's artificial intelligence-based language model, a technology called LLaMA, is being released in order to support AI researchers in their work, founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says. Unlike Google and Microsoft, however, Meta is not announcing plans to develop an AI for users of its major platforms – WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. wire Bloomberg that the system is not currently used in…

Twitter's changes to its user security settings around two-factor authentication are a “desperate drive” to save the company money rather than protect users, a cybersecurity expert has claimed. Graham Cluley said Twitter's decision to only allow paying subscribers to its Twitter Blue program to use a text message to confirm their identity when logging it to the site would leave “many users worse protected”. Over the weekend, Twitter users began receiving a message telling them that text message-based two-factor authentication (2FA) was being moved into the Twitter Blue subscription – and tha…

Following a decline in advertising revenue, Facebook parent company Meta is experimenting with a new business model of paid subscriptions. The idea is that any Facebook and Instagram user can pay a monthly fee to confirm their identity by presenting ID to get a “verified” badge , as well as other premium features. In addition to the usual tick of a verified account, the so-called Meta Verified service is said to include direct access to customer support and protection from copycat profiles. New Zealand, founder and chief executive M…

Facebook's parent company Meta has been found €390 million ($414 million) in Ireland for data protection violations. The group violated the EU's General Data Protection Regulation with its Facebook and Instagram platforms, the Irish data protection authority DPC announced on Wednesday. Both cases involve personalized advertising and the way Meta collects and processes users' personal data. Meta was found €210 for the Facebook violation, and €180 million for the Instagram one. Corresponding complaints from Belgium and Austria about the company's methods were made on the day that the EU's Genera…

Twitter is relaxing its policies to allow political as well as cause-based advertising in the United States. The changes come as Elon Musk is looking for more ways to cut costs and boost revenue as the social media platform, following its acquisition by the billionaire, is struggling to keep going. The move is a reversal of Twitter's long-term policy not to allow paid political advertising, which was introduced by the then CEO Jack Dorsey. Also, cause-based ads have been limited on Twitter, and they were allowed based on certain criteria. The changes would allow political candidates to promote…

The German Economy Ministry is calling for the EU to consider stricter business regulations for Twitter, which has seen major changes since a controversial takeover by billionaire Elon Musk. The ministry's state secretary, Sven Giegold, wrote “with great concern” to the EU Commission in a letter dated Tuesday, saying the ministry had “taken note of Twitter's platform regulations, their abrupt changes and arbitrary application.” The Brussels authority should therefore as soon as possible designate Twitter as a “gatekeeper” in the sense of the Digital Markets Act, Giegold wrote to the EU Competition…

Facebook parent company Meta is violating strict competition rules in the European Union in the online classified advertising market, the European Commission charged on Monday. The commission's preliminary analysis takes exception to Meta linking the Facebook Marketplace service to Facebook, the company's social media platform. users “automatically have access to Facebook Marketplace, whether they want it or not,” causing competition distortions, the commission's statement said. The US technology company also imposed unfair trading terms for competitors in online classified services t…

Twitter's subscription service that will allow users to pay to be verified on the platform is relaunching on Monday after a failed rollout last month. Twitter Blue will give users who sign up a blue tick badge, the ability to edit tweets and a range of other features in exchange for the $8 monthly fee. The service had initially launched last month but was paused after it was flooded with bad actors who paid for verification and then posed as public figures and businesses, often posting potentially offensive and abusive content. Twitter has said it will allow users to change their account handle…

Social media platform Twitter will relaunch its subscription service “Twitter Blue” on Monday at a higher price for Apple users. The subscription will cost $8 per month to purchase on the web or $11 per month via the iOS App Store. @TwitterBlue on Monday – subscribe on web for $8/month or on iOS for $11/month to get access to subscriber-only features, including the blue checkmark,” the social media company said in a tweet on Saturday. Twitter did not explain why Apple users are being charged more than others on the web. But it is reportedly looking for ways to offset fees ch…

Twitter can be subjected to fines and other measures if it does not comply with EU law, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton has said. breaches of the rules continue, we can shut down the platform in Europe,” Breton told the newspapers of Germany's Funke Media Group and the French newspaper Ouest-France. ,” Breton stressed, announcing that there would be another meeting between him and Musk…

The ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has withdrawn its credit rating for Elon Musk's online platform Twitter due to a “lack of sufficient information to maintain the rating,” the company said on Friday in Chicago. Musk bought Twitter at the end of October. for around $44 billion. The entrepreneur took the short messaging service off the stock exchange so that it no longer has to submit public business reports. In the course of the takeover, Musk saddled Twitter with billions of dollars in debt. On November 1, S&P lowered the credit rating by five notches to “B-” due to these burdens – and…

Twitter has quietly ended the enforcement of its policy to stop the spread of Covid-19 misinformation on the site. The social media platform introduced the policy during the pandemic and used it to remove thousands of misleading tweets as part of efforts to stop the spread of However, a note added to the company's webpage detailing the policy's work says that “effective November 19 23, Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-2022 misleading information policy”. The company did not publicly announce the change.

Twitter is about to implode. Or maybe not? It's anything but clear what fate awaits Twitter in the coming weeks and months. In any case, the company is in a rough spot after it lost numerous critical employees in a mass cull. Twitter's sales revenue meanwhile appears to be at risk after Elon Musk's blue tick policy backfired and prompted a shower of “verified” fake accounts, such as a genuine-looking Pepsi account tweeting that Coke is better. Many users, fearing that Twitter will soon become a safe haven for far-right trolls and misinformation under Musk's free speech policy, have since found…

Amid uncertainty about the future of Twitter, huge numbers of users in Brazil appear to be flocking to a very similar alternative from India. Koo, which replaces Twitter's blue bird with a yellow bird and offers similar features, says it was downloaded more than a million times in Brazil within 48 hours after launching in Portuguese, India Today reported on Tuesday. CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna told Brazilian newspaper Extra that Koo had only registered around 2,000 Brazilians by last Friday. Among the million users are said to be several accounts of major celebrities. Besides a growing distrust…

Twitter boss Elon Musk is shelving his plans to sell blue ticks following a wave of fake accounts pretending to be major companies or public figures. Twitter, which is heavily reliant on company involvement for advertising revenue, is now set to pause its premium subscription service until “there is high confidence of stopping impersonation,” Musk says. When purchasable ticks return, they will probably be in a different color for organizations and for individuals, Musk tweeted late on Monday without giving further details. impersonate companies.

Twitter will soon reinstate its service allowing users to pay for verification, owner Elon Musk tweeted in response to a question in the early hours of Sunday after the $8 blue tick was paused due to being used by countless fake accounts. ,” Musk said in response to the query: “When is Twitter Blue coming back?” Twitter had paused the option allowing users to pay for verification – symbolised by a blue tick – following a wave of faked accounts pretending to be brands and celebrities. Concerns about a plummet in advertising revenue were raised after users used Musk's s…

Confusion over the direction of Twitter as a platform has continued after the sign-up option for its Twitter Blue subscription disappeared barely a day after going live and gray “Official” badges returned less than two days after Elon Musk ordered their removal. more high-profile staff responsible for vital areas such as trust and safety, data privacy, cyber security, and complying with regulations suddenly left the social media giant. On Friday morning, the option to sign up for Twitter Blue, which gives users a blue verification badge if they pay £6.99 a month, had vanished from …

Numerous Twitter users have seized the moment to create fake celebrity accounts after the social media platform introduced a new verification system following the takeover by tech billionaire Elon Musk. Previously, celebrities, politicians, journalists and other public figures were required to provide proof of identification before receiving the blue-tick verification badge. Under the new model, all customers who subscribe for $8 a month will be given verified accounts. Musk has argued that authentication through payment services and the app platforms of Apple and Google was sufficient, so tha…

Numerous Twitter users have seized the moment to create fake celebrity accounts after the social media platform introduced a new verification system following the takeover by tech billionaire Elon Musk. Previously, celebrities, politicians, journalists and other public figures were required to provide proof of identification before receiving the blue-tick verification badge. Under the new model, all customers who subscribe for $8 a month will be given verified accounts. Musk has argued that authentication through payment services and the app platforms of Apple and Google was sufficient, so tha…

Facebook parent company Meta announced on Wednesday that it is cutting 11,000 jobs. The job cuts amount to about 13% of its workforce, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said. It is the biggest round of job cuts in the history of the firm, which also owns photo messaging app Instagram. “We are also taking a number of additional steps to become a leaner and more company by cutting discretionary spending and extending our hiring freeze through Q1,” Zuckerberg said in a statement. online boom at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and therefore…

Facebook parent company Meta announced on Wednesday that it is cutting 11,000 jobs. The job cuts amount to about 13% of its workforce, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said. It is the biggest round of job cuts in the history of the firm, which also owns photo messaging app Instagram.

Tech mogul Elon Musk has again sold several billion dollars in Tesla shares following his expensive purchase of social media firm Twitter.In the past several days, Musk has sold shares in the electric vehicle manufacturer totaling about $4 billion, according to Tesla corporate documents posted early Wednesday morning by the SEC, the main US stock market regulator. The reason for Musk's stock sales was not immediately clear. Musk is the founder and chief executive of Tesla and shares in the company make up the bulk of his massive fortune. one of the wealthiest people in the world

The privacy-oriented messenger app Signal is now letting users post Stories with pictures, videos and texts like on Instagram and other social media platforms. Visible for 24 hours, the so-called Stories can now be posted using both the iOS and Android versions of the app (from version 6.0), while a desktop update to Signal is set to follow shortly. Like with Signal messages, all Stories data is end-to-end encrypted. However with Stories, your pictures, videos and text disappear automatically after 24 hours. You can also decide who gets to see your Story in the app's settings. Here you can pic…

Elon Musk has said verified accounts on Twitter which change their name to impersonate others will be permanently banned from the site. It comes after several celebrities in the US changed their Twitter name to “Elon Musk” and posted messages parodying the site's new owner before their accounts were locked or suspended. Over the weekend, Twitter said it would allow anyone to get a verified blue badge on the platform simply by signing up to the Twitter Blue subscription service and paying a monthly fee, a move criticized by some over fears it would allow any account to appear legitimate and spr…

Instagram is introducing technology to help verify the age of users in the EU, UK, India and Brazil as part of a major safety update. Anyone who tries to edit their date of birth on Instagram from under 18 to over 18 will be asked to verify their age by either uploading their ID or record a video selfie which will be analyzed by independent age estimation technology. Instagram said the new system, which was first tested in the US in June, would help ensure users were having an age-appropriate experience on the platform. The Meta-owned company said the feature is now available in India and Braz…

UN human rights chief Volker Türk has urged Elon Musk to ensure human rights are central to the management of social media platform Twitter. As the new owner of the company, Musk has “enormous responsibilities given the platform's influential role as a digital space,” Türk wrote in an open letter. “Like all companies, Twitter needs to understand the harms associated with its platform and take steps to address them. Respect for our shared human rights should set the guardrails for the platform's use and evolution.” Twitter's entire human rights team and all but two of…

Employees of social media platform Twitter are to learn via e-mail on Friday whether their job at the company is secure, following the takeover by billionaire Elon Musk. Every Twitter employee is to receive an email with the subject line “Your role at Twitter” by 9 am (1600 GMT), according to a statement sent to workers that has been leaked to US media. Those who losing their job will receive a notification on their personal email, while those whose job is not impacted will receive notification via their Twitter email, the statement said. According to the reports, every second employee is at r…

Tech billionaire Elon Musk and new owner of Twitter says he wants to “pay the bills” by making users pay $8 for the privilege of a verified account. “Twitter's current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit,” Musk said on Twitter on Tuesday, announcing “Blue for $8/month.” So far, having your Twitter account verified with a blue tick to guarantee the authenticity of your profile has been free of charge, albeit limited mainly to celebrities, companies and users with many followers such as politicians and journalists. Musk said the monthly fee would gi…

Twitter users may be waiting with bated breath to find out exactly what the platform's new owner Elon Musk has in store for it, and yet the vast majority are unaware of the budding rival Mastodon, according to a recent survey in Germany. Some 80% of people in Germany have never heard of the decentralised and ad-free network, according to a representative survey by the market research institute YouGov, published at the end of October. Only 4% in Germany already have an active Mastodon account, while 11% have heard of the platform but aren't registered. A final 5% declined to give information. I…

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called on Elon Musk to “stick strongly to the principle of transparency” as he takes over ownership of social media platform Twitter. Ardern, speaking at a national summit on countering terrorism and violent extremism on Tuesday, said she was yet to meet with Musk about the “Christchurch Call” initiative. Launched by Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron in 2019, the initiative saw world leaders team up with technology companies including Facebook, YouTube and Google, to tackle terrorist and extremist content online. Twitter was one of the or…

Iran plans to sue the US technology company Meta for “incitement” in connection with the anti-government protests in the country. “The two social networks Instagram and WhatsApp [of Meta Platforms] were involved in spreading inflammatory material and endangering our national security as part of the conspiracy operations of our enemies,” said Deputy Interior Minister Majid Mirahmadi on Monday, according to the Mehr news agency. National security, he said, was a “red line.” Iran has blamed the protests – which were sparked by the death of a woman in custody – on a foreign, US-led conspiracy.

A US judge paused the court case surrounding Elon Musk's proposed acquisition of Twitter on Thursday. Judge Kathleen McCormick ordered the trial, scheduled for October 17, to be put on hold for the time being. not complete the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter by October 28, the parties to the dispute must prepare for a new trial in November. Musk had initially proposed to buy the firm before backing out of the takeover in April, saying Twitter had made false claims about the number of fake accounts on its platform. Twitter took Musk to c…

Instagram has updated some safety controls for teenagers so they are less likely to encounter potentially sensitive content on the site. The Meta-owned platform said that when new users aged under 16 join the site, they will have more sensitive content hidden from them by default The change will also see existing users under 16 prompted to update their own account to bring it in line with this new setting, which is what Instagram calls its Sensitive Content Control. Instagram says the tool makes it more difficult for young people to come across sensitive content or accounts across all areas o…

Has your Facebook News Feed been looking strange? That's no coincidence, and the company confirmed a configuration issue on Wednesday that led to feeds being flooded by strange posts, leaving some users wondering whether they had been hacked. Instead of seeing posts from contacts and pages they follow, many users's feeds were suddenly spammed with comments or posts on celebrity pages. People following stars with a major following – such as Taylor Swift, Coldplay and Lady Gaga – were particularly inundated with unwanted posts and their feeds almost completely clogged by fan comments Some users…

Tesla owner and billionaire Elon Musk, who is fighting a legal battle regarding his shelved efforts to buy the social network Twitter, has subpoenaed Twitter co-founder and former boss Jack Dorsey. Dorsey, who stepped down from the CEO role last year and left the board in May this year, had announced his support for Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in April. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the subpoena seeks documents and communications from Dorsey about the Twitter buyout agreement, reports said. was also asked about spam and fake accounts…

Nearly three years after Vietnamese authorities shuttered cafés along Hanoi's famous “Train Street” and banned selfie-snapping tourists from visiting, vendors have cautiously returned in recent months – although nobody knows how long the area will remain open. in central Hanoi, locomotives thunder down a railway line that runs perilously close to residential buildings, many of which have been turned into cafés, bars and souvenir shops. Christina and Paul, two 50-year-old tourists from Austria, said a friend recently told them about the unusual spot, i…

Elon Musk has sold $6.9 billion worth of shares of in Tesla as he arms himself for possible defeat in his legal battle with Twitter. “In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don't come through, it is important to avoid an emergency sale of Tesla stock,” Musk wrote in a tweet late on Tuesday. This is his largest-ever sale of shares in the US electric car company that he co-founded. Musk has made headlines for months over his dispute with Twitter. After both courting the social media platform and trashing it via tweets, he called off a …

An industry of paid-for fake reviews is infiltrating major platforms such as Facebook, Google and Trustpilot, British consumer group Which has said. As part of an investigation into the issue, Which said it was easily able to use a fake reviews broker to supply The consumer group said it was told by one broker that it had created nearly 16,000 reviews for more than 550 customers around the world – a sign of a vibrant industry not being adequately tackled by the tech giants. It accused Facebook, Google and Tr…

Facebook parent company Meta posted a revenue decline for the first time on Wednesday in its latest quarterly report. It marks the end of an era for Facebook, which has consistently reported rises since its IPO in 2012. Its projections for the coming months didn't show any sign of improvement, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the firm planned to focus on the long-term view. Meta's revenue dropped in the second quarter by around 1% to $ 28.8 billion dollars. Profits declined by 27% to around $ 6.7 billion. Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said the strength of the US dollar provide…

Hurt by a decline in revenues and a surge in costs and expenses, social media giant Twitter on Friday reported a net loss for the second quarter compared to last year's profit. The results also undershot analysts' expectations. For the second quarter, California-based Twitter reported a net loss of $ 270.01 million or $ 0.35 per share, compared to net income of $ 65.6 million or $ 0.08 per share in the prior-year quarter. Adjusted net loss for the quarter was $ 0.08 per share, compared to adjusted net income of $ 0.20 per share in the same quarter a year ago. On average, 16 analysts polled by Thomso…

Hurt by a decline in revenues and a surge in costs and expenses, social media giant Twitter on Friday reported a net loss for the second quarter compared to last year's profit. The results also undershot analysts' expectations. For the second quarter, California-based Twitter reported a net loss of $ 270.01 million or $ 0.35 per share, compared to net income of $ 65.6 million or $ 0.08 per share in the prior-year quarter. Adjusted net loss for the quarter was $ 0.08 per share, compared to adjusted net income of $ 0.20 per share in the same quarter a year ago. On average, 16 analysts polled by Thomso…

Facebook has unveiled a new look to the home page within its mobile app, as the platform moves towards becoming more of a “discovery engine” than just a social network. A major update to the app on Android and iOS sees a new Feeds tab being Introduced, which will show the most recent posts from friends, favorites, pages and groups, with no “suggested” posts shown here. Feeds will sit alongside the existing Home tab, which will still be the first page a user sees when they launch the app, and will now become the place where other content is recommended to users based on their interests. Facebo…

Twitter has announced that it is now letting all users remove themselves from conversations where they were mentioned, as part of an effort to avoid users from being spammed with unwanted notifications and to protect against harassment and bullying. select group of users as part of a trial, is now being rolled globally on all Twitter platforms, the social media company has announced. The purpose of “unmentioning” is to be able to leave conversations in which you may have been mentioned by others at some point, but in which you have lost interest…

Twitter users will “benefit” from Elon Musk's move to pull out of the deal to buy the company, some experts say. The Tesla and SpaceX boss's $ 44 billion bid to buy the social media platform appeared to be on the verge of collapse, after he In the letter, Musk's lawyers said the platform has “not complied with its contractual obligations” surrounding the deal, ie giving him enough information to “make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam” accounts on Twitter's platform ”. Twitter said in response it is“ committed t…

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has ended his bid to buy Twitter, citing the allegedly insufficient information provided by the company on fake accounts, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published on Friday. Musk had been publicly questioning Twitter's figures Twitter shares plunged by over 6% in after-hours trading following the announcement. Since mid-May Musk has focused on Twitter's allegedly false estimates of the number of bots and fake accounts using the se…

Instagram is introducing new ways for users to verify their age on the platform as a way of providing more age-appropriate experiences. The Meta-owned firm said beginning in the US, it was testing tools that would allow users to ask others to vouch for As part of the test, when someone attempts to edit their date of birth on the site from under 18 to 18 or over, Instagram will ask them to verify their age by either uploading their ID, recording a video selfie or ask mutual friends to verify their age. Instagram said it is partn…

US billionaire and Tesla boss Elon Musk's $ 44 billion takeover of social media giant Twitter came closer to succeeding on Tuesday after the company's board of directors “unanimously recommended” its shareholders back the merger. of this proxy statement captioned “The Merger-Recommendation of the Twitter Board and Reasons for the Merger,” has unanimously: (1) determined that the merger agreement is advisable and the merger and the other transactions sintered by the merger agreement are fair to, advisable and in…

US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has accused Twitter of breaching the terms of his multibillion-dollar takeover proposal of the short messaging service. “Twitter has, in fact, refused to provide the information that Mr Musk has repeatedly requested since May 9, 2022, to facilitate his evaluation of spam and fake accounts on the company's platform, ”an open letter released his lawyers on Monday read. Twitter is required under the terms of the acquisition deal to provide data and information Musk requests related to the transaction, it said, adding that, contrary to Twitter's representation…

Amber Alerts about missing or abducted children are to be launched on Instagram in countries around the world. The feature has been developed in partnership with organizations including Britain's National Crime Agency. Instagram said the alerts would include details about the missing child such as a photo, It said this could be a vital tool in searches because of the visual nature of the platform and as its engaged audience could quickly share alerts more widely. The Meta-owned platform said the feature would begin rolling out…

Twitter has warned users to be aware of scammers constituting as Twitter employees in order to try and get hold of log-in details and other personal information. It comes after a number of verified users on the platform, including journalists, reported receiving direct messages ( DMs) which claimed their verified status had been declared as “spam” and they needed to re-register. The messages came from accounts claiming to be Twitter Support and asked users to click on a link in the message to fill in a form to re -apply for a “blue badge” of verification on the site. “Your blue badge Twitter account h…

Billionaire Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter is back on ice amid a fight for information about how many of the service's accounts are operated by actual people or organizations. Musk's tweet putting a hold on the deal comes less than a week after his last such threat to walk away from a deal that was recently valued at as much as $ 44 billion. The founder of carmaker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX says he is having second thoughts about his purchase plans because of concerns that many of Twitter's accounts are actually operated by bots or spam accounts. Twitter has said the number amounts to les…

Twitter share prices went on a roller-coaster ride on Friday amid uncertainty about the future of technology entrepreneur Elon Musk's proposed $ 44-billion takeover bid. Share prices initially dropped after Musk said the deal was on hold amid questions about fake accounts at the service. “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam / fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” he tweeted. In response, the price of shares in the microblogging service fell by almost a quarter, from $ 45.08 on Thursday to $ 34.50. Musk's deal for Twitter valued each…

Twitter shares suffered a huge drop in value on Friday following business magnate Elon Musk's announcement that his proposed $ 44-billion takeover of the company was on hold amid questions about fake accounts at the service. / fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users, ”Musk tweeted on Friday. In response, the price of shares in the microblogging service fell by almost a quarter, from $ 45.08 on Thursday to $ 34.50. Musk's deal for Twitter valued each share at $ 54.20. Twitter announced earlier this week…

In a step towards the virtual realms of social media envisioned by Facebook-owner Meta, artists and collectors from the US are being allowed to showcase and sell digital artworks as NFTs on Instagram. The announcement from Meta Group CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri comes as NFTs (“non-fungible tokens”) continue their boom in the art scene, where artists and galleries around the world have been selling digital works with a certificate of ownership. Technically, NFTs are entries in an endlessly updated digital register, the so-called blockchain, but are being presented by Inst…

US billionaire Elon Musk assured European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton on Monday that he intends to comply with new EU content moderation rules ahead of his impending takeover of Twitter. “I agree with everything you said, really. I think we're very much at Musk's decision to purchase Twitter has prompted concerns. The same mind, ”Musk said in a video with Breton published on Twitter in Texas. Breton met with the Tesla CEO at a factory manufacturing his electric vehicles ahead of EU-US talks to coordinate industry regulations. in the EU about regulatory compliance over disinforma…

Twitter is testing a new feature that undermines the most basic principle of its platform, ie that all tweets are public. Now, for the first time, non-public tweets can be shared using a new trial feature allowing users to make tweets visible only to select people. “Some tweets are for everyone and others are just for people you've picked,” Twitter said on Tuesday, announcing the new feature, called Circle. Twitter says its new Circle feature allows you to have semi-private conversations on Twitter and build closer connections with a smaller group of people. Up to 150 users can be added to…

Twitter reported higher-than-expected profits for the first quarter on Thursday, days after technology billionaire Elon Musk announced plans to take over the social media platform. Twitter's bottom line reached $ 513.29 million, or $ 0.61 per share, according to the company's announcement. This compares with $ 68.01 million, or $ 0.08 per share, for the first quarter last year. Twitter's first quarter revenues increased by 15.4% to $ 1.20 billion, compared to $ 1.04 billion in the same period last year. At the start of the week, Twitter announced that the company has entered into a definitive agree m…

Elon Musk's proposed free speech push following his takeover of Twitter means “we can expect fireworks” in the months ahead because of the current social climate, one commentator has said. The US billionaire's shock purchase of the social media platform, which was agreed on Monday. But one expert said this approach could cause problems for Musk and the platform, at a time when regulators, is based on Musk's belief that Twitter is failing to be the platform for free speech it should be, something he called a “societal imperative”. are looking to rein in social media sites amid growing levels of…

Twitter announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Tesla founder Elon Musk in a transaction valued at around $ 44 billion. Once the transaction is completed, Twitter will become a privately held company, the tech giant said in a statement “The Twitter Board conducted a thoughtful and comprehensive process to assess Elon's proposal with a deliberate focus on value, certainty, and financing,” Twitter's independent board chair, Bret Taylor, said. to the future of humanity are debated, ”add…

Twitter announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Tesla founder Elon Musk in a transaction valued at around $ 44 billion. Once the transaction is completed, Twitter will become a privately held company, the company said in a statement. “The Twitter Board conducted a thoughtful and comprehensive process to assess Elon's proposal with a deliberate focus on value, certainty, and financing,” Twitter's independent board chair, Bret Taylor, said. Musk said “Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated, ”adding…

Twitter announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Tesla founder Elon Musk in a transaction valued at around $ 44 billion. Once the transaction is completed, Twitter will become a privately held company, the company said in a statement. “The Twitter Board conducted a thoughtful and comprehensive process to assess Elon's proposal with a deliberate focus on value, certainty, and financing,” Twitter's independent board chair, Bret Taylor, said. Musk made the non-binding proposal to acquire all outstanding common stock of Twitter not already owned by him e…

Shares of Twitter, Inc are rising almost 5% in pre-market on Monday after reports that the microblogging site's board is set to accept an offer from Tesla founder Elon Musk as early as Monday. Musk made the non-binding proposal of about $ 43 billion to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Twitter not owned by him earlier this month. Though Twitter initially adopted a so-called poison pill to fend off a potential hostile takeover, it became more receptive to the bid after Musk revealed he secured $ 46.5 billion in financing. Prior to that, Musk revealed in the first week of April that h…

Social media giant Twitter has introduced a plan to limit billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's potential stake in the company after he made a $ 43 billion non-binding bid to buy the whole company. Responding to Musk's bid, Twitter's board adopted a limited duration shareholder rights plan called “The board adopted the rights plan following an unsolicited, non-binding” a “poison pill” that makes it difficult for Musk to increase his stake beyond 15%. The billionaire founder of Tesla already owns a more-than 9% stake in Twitter. proposal to acquire Twitter, ”the social-media company said in a stat…

The billionaire owner of electric car manufacturer Tesla, Elon Musk, has offered to buy all of the outstanding shares in the social media platform Twitter. He delivered a letter to Twitter which contained a non-binding proposal to acquire all of the outstanding common stock not owned by him for an all-cash consideration, valuing the common stock at $ 54.20 per share. If the proposed transaction is completed, the common stock would become eligible for termination of its registration, and would be de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange . Elon Musk has engaged Morgan Stanley as his financial ad…

The billionaire owner of electric car manufacturer Tesla, Elon Musk, has offered to buy all of the outstanding shares in the social media platform Twitter. He delivered a letter to Twitter which contained a non-binding proposal to acquire all of the outstanding common stock not owned by him for an all-cash consideration, valuing the common stock at $ 54.20 per share. If the proposed transaction is completed, the common stock would become eligible for termination of its registration, and would be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. Elon Musk has engaged Morgan Stanley as his financial adv…

The billionaire owner of electric car manufacturer Tesla Inc, Elon Musk, has offered to buy all of the outstanding shares in the social media platform Twitter. He delivered a letter to Twitter which contained a non-binding proposal to acquire all of the outstanding common stock If the proposed transaction is completed, the common stock would become eligible for termination of its registration, and would be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. Elon Musk has engaged Morgan Stanley as his financial…

Elon Musk is joining Twitter's board of directors, the social media company said on Tuesday, a day after it was revealed that the Tesla boss had bought up more than 9% of its stock. Twitter said it has entered into an agreement with Musk under which The company will appoint him to the board to serve as a class II director with a term expiring in 2024. Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal said there had been ongoing discussion with Musk in recent weeks. Agrawal tweeted: “He's both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service which is exactly what we need on @Twitter, and in the boar…

He doesn't just like to share his thoughts via Twitter – Tesla chief executive likes to own shares of Twitter, according to data filed in Washington on Monday. According to the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, The Elon Musk Revocable Trust, The purchase makes Musk the owner of the largest single block of Twitter stock. Twitter shares shot up by 73,486,938% on the news. Musk is a prodigious user of Twitter, though he has also gotten into hot water f…

Attacking or weakening end-to-end encryption used by apps such as WhatsApp would not make the world safer, IT experts have warned. Facebook has previously announced plans to roll out end-to-end encryption across its messaging services, however, a recent campaign backed by the British Government warned against a wider tech industry rollout. Critics of the technology, which means that messages can only be read by the sender and the recipient, have asked firms to try and find a way of allowing law enforcement enforcement to access communications while still protecting privacy, warning that otherwise…

Facebook and Instagram were banned on Monday by a Russian court as “extremist” organizations, after an application by the prosecutor general. The two services are already blocked in Russia; the messenger service WhatsApp, which also belongs to the US group Meta, is not The background to the move is a decision by Meta not to remove calls for violence against Russian troops in Ukraine. Twitter is also currently blocked in Russia.

Instagram has been blocked in Russia, just like fellow social media platforms Facebook and Twitter. The Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor made the announcement in a statement, saying Instagram had been used to spread calls for violence against Russian citizens and soldiers amid the war in Ukraine. The state prosecutor's office had earlier ordered Roskomnadzor to restrict access to Instagram – and also announced the deletion of its own Instagram account. A spokesperson for US parent company Meta – which owns Instagram, Facebook and messaging service WhatsApp – said the phrase “Death to Russi” …

Facebook is relaxing its rules on calls for violence, creating a partial exception when the proposed target is Russian troops in Ukraine. As an example of an exception for statements that would normally have violated guidelines, a spokesperson for Facebook's parent company, Meta, cited the phrase “Death to the Russian invaders” late on Thursday. “We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,” the spokesperson wrote on Twitter. The relaxation only applies to users in some countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Poland , Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Hungary, The New…

Facebook is relaxing its rules on calls for violence, creating a partial exception when the proposed target is Russian troops in Ukraine. As an example of an exception for statements that would normally have violated guidelines, a spokesperson for Facebook's parent company, Meta, cited the phrase “Death to the Russian invaders” late on Thursday. “We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,” the spokesperson wrote on Twitter. The relaxation only applies to users in some countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Poland , Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Hungary, The New…

Russia has blocked Facebook, after the social media platform blocked the pages of several Russian media outlets, according to the Roskomnadzor regulator on Friday. The step came after the closure of several independent media outlets by the Russian authorities. of a legal amendment that will pave the way for heavy fines and up to 15 years'imprisonment for the spread of false information about the country's armed forces.

Social media giant Facebook will prohibit Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on the platform. Facebook will also continue to apply labels to additional Russian state media, head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher announced via Twitter. and will keep sharing steps we're taking to protect people on our platform, ”he said. Facebook earlier launched a new feature in Ukraine, allowing users to lock their profiles for extra security and privacy. Russia has partially restricted Facebook in response to its blocking of some Russian…

Shares in Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms were down by more than 24% on Thursday morning after the company reported weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and tepid outlook. The first-quarter revenue outlook came in below Wall Street expectations. For the first quarter, the company expects revenue to grow 3% -11% to between $ 27 billion and $ 29 billion. Net income in the fourth quarter declined to $ 10.285 billion from $ 11.219 billion in the same quarter a year ago, hurt by higher expenses. Revenue for the quarter, however, increased to $ 33.671 billion from $ 28.072 billion last yea…

Mark Zuckerberg's plans for a Facebook digital currency is officially over, and the technology behind the cryptocurrency Diem has been sold to Californian bank Silvergate for a total of 182 million dollars. Silvergate says it will continue to try to launch its own digital currency tied to the The plan was ambitious at best: A global digital currency that could be bought and exchanged back into various national currencies. The currency was immediately opposed by regulators. and governments who…

A large group of people, all speaking different languages, engaged in one conversation that is instantly translated with the help of an unprecedented artificial intelligence – that's the newly announced goal of Facebook owner Meta. The social media giant has announced that it's building what it says The system, launching later in 2022, is set to “power real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each speaking a different language, so they can seamlessly collaborate on a research project or play a […] game to geth…

US social networking giant Twitter Inc has made a minority investment in Aleph Group Inc, a global partner to digital media players, Aleph said on Tuesday. The financial terms were not disclosed. Aleph noted that the investment will help support its educational efforts worldwide. includes building a proprietary educational tech platform, digital advertising education, training and certification to over 50,000 digital professionals in 90 countries across five continents, and efforts to create new digital jobs in underserved markets.

Social media company Twitter said on Monday that it had closed the sale of MoPub to marketing software company AppLovin Corp for 1.05 billion dollars in cash on January 1, 2022. With the sale of MoPub, Twitter said it will continue to concentrate its efforts on enhancing The MoPub Platform, including network mediation, Advanced Bidding, and Marketplace, will sunset on March 31, 2022. The MoPub Dashboard and Reporting will be available until April 8 ads across the platform to deliver faster growth in key areas and accelerate its product development. , 2022. Publishers will benefit from a 90-day…

Twitter has “permanently suspended” the personal account of Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for violating the social media company's Covid-19 misinformation policy. The far-right Georgia politician has pushed baseless conspiracy theories that questioned the safety of coronavirus vaccines and the efficacy of wearing face masks to mitigate the risk of infections. Greene, one of former president Donald Trump's most vocal allies in Congress, recently made headlines for comparing coronavirus restrictions on public life to the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. She refuses to wear am…

Instagram will now suggest users take a break from the platform if they spend too long scrolling, the social media giant has said. The move is part of new tools being rolled out to boost safety on the app, which also includes parental controls such as setting Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said the new Take A Break feature, which is launching in the UK on Tuesday, aimed to “empower people to make informed decisions about how they're spending their time. . ”The feature will be available to all users, but Instagram has spoken of specifically en…

Teenagers are often more adept at using social networks than their parents, but that shouldn't mean parents can't understand what their children are doing on social media. That's why Instagram is giving parents and guardians clear advice on how to make sure their children The advice is likely also aimed at parents whose concerns have been raised by recent headlines Instagram's mental health impact. The new guidelines come after then-parent company Facebook came under renewed scrutiny when a whistleblower leaked information reportedly showing that the company was…

Jack Dorsey has announced his resignation as chief executive of Twitter, the social media platform he co-founded in 2006. It ends the tech entrepreneur's second stint at the company, which has grown to more than 350 million active monthly users. created as a prototype in 2006 by Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams – all then employees at podcasting firm Odeo, who were said to have been looking for a new direction for the company. On March 21, 2006, Dorsey sent the first public tweet as the group began testing the platform – a message that read “just setting u…

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says she is worried about the social media giant's recently announced plans to develop a Metaverse with virtual spaces where work, games and shopping can take place. into our homes, into our offices, of having these systems embedded in our lives, spying on us, when we have no idea how they use the data, ”Haugen told dpa in an interview. Facebook, she said, has repeatedly shown that it cannot be trusted and that its public statements do not match developments w…

For years, Facebook has been in trouble for a feature designed to help us tag the faces of our friends in photos we post. Now, in an out-of-character move for a company known for its eagerness to harvest user data, Facebook has Announced that it's abolishing the controversial facial recognition function that automatically tagged people in photos. Stored data identifying the faces of more than a billion people will now be deleted, the online network says. So why is Facebook giving up one of the social media platform's best -known features? Facebook says it's because there are many concerns over…

Facebook is giving itself a new name – Meta – as part of a reshuffle that sees the social media platform become just one of several products maintained by a new umbrella company. “Starting today our company is now Meta,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said at With the new name, Zuckerberg wants to underline the company's focus on a new virtual environment that it calls “Metaverse”, in which he sees the future of digital communication. He also wants to use this new project to lead the group o…

Facebook intends to change its name, according to a report by US technology website The Verge published on Wednesday. Considered well-connected in the tech world, The Verge cited a source “with direct knowledge of the matter” in its story. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is expected to announce the decision at the company's Connect conference on October 28. The change is believed to herald the tech giant's ambition to be known for more than just social media. According to the report, the group's rebrand would likely position Facebook as just one of many products under a parent company over see…

Facebook is planning to change the name of its company, according to a US media report, days after the social media giant announced it was starting work on a project to rethink the internet with a so-called “metaverse.” To allow the company to focus on this new virtual world for communication and commerce, the company is set to change its name in the coming week, the US website The Verge reported on Wednesday, citing a source with direct knowledge of the plans. The tech news website, known for breaking stories from inside Silicon Valley, said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is expected to talk…

Social media giant Facebook has announced plans to hire 10,000 people in Europe over the next five years as part of ambitious plans to develop a web of new online spaces that it's calling the “metaverse.” Rather than being another social media platform with endless feeds of posts and ads, Facebook's plans put the emphasis on virtual experiences that make the internet a place where not only see and click on things, but where we also feel physically immersed. The company says it's now scaling up its development of a “new phase of a” interconnected virtual experiences using technologies like virtual…