Twitter’s blue tick back only for high-profile accounts

Twitter’s blue tick back only for high-profile accounts

[ad_1] New Delhi: In a surprising turn of events, Twitter has restored verification badges on several high-profile celebrity accounts with millions of followers, just days after the microblogging platform culled the legacy blue checkmarks for non-paying users. The move assumes significance as Indian celebrities and top politicians from Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan to Congress … Read more

Twitter’s Super Follows now called Subscriptions

Twitter’s Super Follows now called Subscriptions

[ad_1] New Delhi: Twitter CEO Elon Musk has renamed its “Super Follows” feature, which lets you subscribe to individual users to access some exclusive content, to simply “Subscriptions”. Users can find the feature in the “Monetization” section of settings. “Apply to offer your followers subscriptions of any material, from longform text to hours-long video! Just … Read more

Twitter’s plan to charge researchers for data access puts it in EU crosshairs

Twitter’s plan to charge researchers for data access puts it in EU crosshairs

[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Elon Musk pledged Twitter would abide by Europe’s new content rules — but Yevgeniy Golovchenko is not so convinced. The Ukrainian academic, an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen, relies on the social network’s data to track Russian disinformation, including propaganda linked … Read more

Twitter’s priority is to fix recommendation algorithm: Musk

Twitter’s priority is to fix recommendation algorithm: Musk

[ad_1] Twitter Boss Elon Musk San Francisco: Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that the company’s “current top priority” is to fix the recommendation algorithm. In a tweet on Tuesday, Musk asked: “What are your top requests for Twitter features & bug fixes?” “We will prioritise by number of likes times ease of implementation,” he … Read more