Instagram suffers major global outage, users react
According to DownDetector, which monitors online outages, 44 per cent of users had issues with the app, 32 per cent had problems with the web version, and 24 per cent had issues with the server connection. People took to Twitter to report the problems they were facing with the app, including posting memes and GIFs.
Twitter Blue users now get 1 hr to edit their tweets
"Blue subscribers now have up to 1 hour to edit their Tweets," the official Twitter Blue account tweeted on Tuesday. Twitter's support page for Blue was updated shortly after the post went up to reflect the new one-hour time limit.
Elon Musk reacts to his AI-generated baby pic
Twitter user @alifarhat79 posted the AI-generated image of Musk as a baby and wrote, "BREAKING: Elon Musk was reportedly working on some anti aging formula but it got way out of hand."
Musk 'loves' his AI avatar in sherwani, Twitterati welcomes 'Indian groom'
The Twitter handle DogeDesigner tweeted the image of Musk wearing the traditional Indian dress, generally meant to be wornAon wedding occasions.A midjourney art of Elon Musk in an Indian attire is going viral in India," he posted. Musk replied: "I love it."Musk's AI-generated image in a sherwani left several Indian Twitter.
OpenAI CTO's Twitter account appears to have hacked to promote crypto scam
Mira Murati, who has worked at OpenAI for over five years, lost control of her Twitter account around 6.03 p.m. Pacific Time (as per timestamps on the tweets), reports VentureBeat.Later, her account started promoting a new cryptocurrency called "$OPENAI" that was allegedly "driven by artificial intelligence-based language models".
Twitter's trust and safety head quits amid drama over film
She joined Twitter in June 2022 and was appointed as head of trust and safety in November, replacing Yoel Roth who resigned after Elon Musk took over. According to reports, her departure coincides with the platform's ongoing challenges in retaining advertisers, primarily due to concerns from brands about their association with inappropriate content.
Twitter bans record over 25L accounts for policy violations in India
In total, Twitter banned 25,53,881 accounts in the reporting period in India. Twitter, in its monthly report in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021, said that it received just 158 complaints from users in India in the same time-frame through its grievance redressal mechanisms.
Twitter leaves EU code of practice against disinformation, regulators warn
EU's internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, on Saturday said Twitter cannot hide from incoming legal liability in the region. "Twitter leaves the EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation. But obligations remain. You can run but you can't hide," Breton posted in a tweet.
Big Tech firms can sack more employees to boost productivity: Musk
Musk slashed over 80 per cent of the Twitter staff in October-November last year as he took over after acquiring the platform for $44 billion. Speaking virtually at The Wall Street Journal's summit in London, Musk said there were a lot of people at Twitter that didn't seem to have a lot of value. I think that's true at many.
Twitter Spaces team down to 'roughly three' employees from 100
For months now, the Spaces team has been operating without most of the "institutional knowledge it accumulated since Twitter added live audio conversations in 2021 to compete with then-hot Clubhouse," reports Platformer. "Practically no one remaining knows the current architecture in depth.
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