Twitter Blue Subscribers’ Verified Accounts Are Now ‘Prioritised’, Elon Musk Says

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has made an important announcement regarding the accounts which are blue tick verified. The changes which Musk has made on Twitter after his takeover have been wide-ranging. Adding another pointer to his updates is about getting verified accounts prioritised. The information came on Tuesday as Elon Musk tweeted, “Verified accounts are … Read more

No Blue Tick for Pope as Twitter Cuts ‘Legacy’ Checks; Musk ‘Pays’ to Keep LeBron James, Stephen King Verified

Elon Musk’s long-promised move to strip free blue ticks from Twitter users swung into action on Thursday, dividing the have-paids from the have-nots. Like some kind of fable in which the chosen few ascend to a higher plane, accounts with a Twitter Verified check began rising above the rest — a rapture that left most … Read more

Elon Musk Threatens Lawsuit After Microsoft Removes Twitter From Ad Platform

Twitter chief Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft after the technology giant announced plans to drop his social media company from its advertising platform. “They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time,” Musk tweeted. The tech giant earlier in a notice said that its advertising platform “will no longer support Twitter” from April 25. … Read more

‘Monetising Hate’: Misinformation Surges on Twitter After Elon Musk’s $44 Billion Takeover

When the iconic US diaper company Huggies was swamped with false pedophilia allegations last month, the conspiracy was traced to a once-banned influencer reinstated to Twitter by Elon Musk. The Tesla tycoon bitterly denies that misinformation has surged since his turbulent $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,62,100 crore) acquisition of the messaging platform, but experts say … Read more

Twitter Partners With eToro, Will Let Users Engage With Crypto, Trade Stocks Within Platform

Elon Musk, after briefly changing Twitter’s blue bird logo with the Dogecoin logo, has taken a step towards making the platform more ‘crypto friendly’. Twitter has finalised a partnership with eToro to enable over 450 million of its active users to access crypto trading from within the app. The announcement of this development was disclosed … Read more

Elon Musk Says Unaware Why Twitter India Pulled Posts on BBC Documentary Critical of Modi

Elon Musk said on Wednesday that he did not know “what exactly happened” when Twitter took down content related to a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year, adding that some rules related to social media content were “quite strict” in India. In January, India ordered the blocking of a BBC documentary … Read more

Twitter Will Finally Remove Legacy Blue Check Marks on April 20, Says Elon Musk

Elon Musk on Tuesday set a deadline for purging legacy blue check-marks from Twitter accounts verified under the company’s previous regime. “Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20,” tweeted billionaire owner of Twitter, Musk. This means that if you have a legacy verified account on Twitter with a blue mark, you will have … Read more

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Others to Sue Twitter Over Legal Bills

Three top Twitter executives who were sacked by Elon Musk last year when he took over the social media company filed suit on Monday, seeking to be reimbursed for costs of litigation, investigations and congressional inquiries related to their former jobs. Ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, along with the company’s former chief legal and financial officers, claim … Read more