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Twitter has suspended Buitengebieden, a popular account with more than two million followers which was known for sharing daily videos of animals and children. Sander van den Berg, a 42-year-old man from the Netherlands, said his account was taken down on Wednesday afternoon after a copyright claim from a major record label. “My account on Twitter is suspended because music (in videos) isn’t allowed there,” he said. “Instagram and TikTok for example pay the music industry to let their users post videos with music, but Twitter refuses to do this.” Van den Berg said he plans to appeal the suspens…

Twitter has suspended Buitengebieden, a popular account with more than two million followers which shared daily photos and videos of animals and children. Sander van den Berg, a 42-year-old man from the Netherlands, said his account was taken down on Wednesday afternoon after a copyright claim from a major record label. “My account on Twitter is suspended because music (in videos) isn’t allowed there,” he said. “Instagram and TikTok for example pay the music industry to let their users post videos with music, but Twitter refuses to do this.” Van den Berg said he plans to appeal the suspension….

Just a few weeks ago, Twitter ceased two-factor authentication using text messages for non-Twitter Blue users. This came after the social media platform announced that users should use third-party apps or a security key instead to verify their accounts, as it’s much safer. The future of TwitterIn recent times, Twitter has revamped Twitter Blue, its subscription-based service that adds a blue checkmark to subscribed users. The feature and many other implementations are part of Twitter’s plan to create an all-in-one super app. According to its post, ExpressVPN shared that the platform’s new owne…

The social networking website Twitter suffered another outage on Saturday when users were briefly unable to see new tweets in their timeline. The cause of the problem, which affected users around the world, was not immediately known. The problems began just after 1 p.m. ET on Saturday when many users were unable to view any new tweets in their timeline, although the website itself appeared to load normally for most users. The cause of the outage was not immediately known but it follows a series of major outages in recent weeks. Elon Musk fired most of Twitter’s staff, including large parts of …

The social networking website Twitter suffered from major outages on Saturday, affecting users around the world. The cause of the problem was not immediately known. The problems began just after 1 p.m. ET on Saturday when many users were unable to view or send any new tweets, though the website itself appeared to load normally for most users. The cause of the outage was not immediately known but it follows a series of major outages in recent weeks. Elon Musk fired most of Twitter’s staff, including large parts of the engineering team, after buying the company last year. A website created by Tw…

Kanye West’s deal to buy Twitter alternative Parler, which is mostly used by conservatives and people on the far-right, has been terminated, the company announced Thursday after controversial comments made by the rapper. Parler said in a brief statement that the company and Kanye West had “mutually agreed” to terminate the deal in mid-November. It did not specify what led to the deal falling apart. The announcement came just hours after Kanye West went on an antisemitic rant while appearing on a livestream with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Among other things, West said he liked Nazi leader …

Kanye West’s deal to buy Twitter alternative Parler, which is mostly used by conservatives and people on the far-right, has been terminated, the company announced Thursday amid controversial comments made by the rapper. Parler said in a brief statement that the company and Kanye West, whose legal name is Ye, “mutually agreed” to terminate the deal in mid-November. It provided no specific details. The announcement came just hours after Kanye West went on an antisemitic rant while appearing on a livestream with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Among other things, West said he ‘likes’ Nazi leader …

Hive Social, an alternative for both Twitter and Instagram, went down on Wednesday to address critical security flaws in the app, the startup has confirmed. It’s expected to remain offline for several days. The problems were first reported by German website Zerforschung, which claims an attacker could access “all data,” including private posts, private messages, shared media, email addresses, and phone numbers. “People on Twitter wished for an edit button,” the website said in a post. “One of Hive’s security vulnerabilities allows even more: You can edit posts of other accounts.” Hive, which r…