Twitter breaks for millions as only 1 engineer left handling crucial APIs
When users clicked on links, they were greeted with a mysterious error message reporting that "your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint". Images stopped loading as well and some users said that they could not access TweetDeck. About 85 per cent users had trouble with the web version of Twitter while 13 per cent had issues with the mobile platform
Ex-Twitter Blue project head breaks silence, days after Musk fired her
"Seeing people who remain at a company after a round of layoffs get demonised for not quitting in solidarity is truly bizarre. Empathy should be extended to both sides. It's hard to lose your job and the people who remain often end up having to pick up even more work," she tweeted.
Twitter to soon let users post 10K character tweets
When YouTuberA@ThePrimeagen, who posts videos related to coding, asked Musk, "the dev community and I were wondering if you could add code blocks to tweets?" Musk replied: "As an attachment? How many chars? We are extending longform tweets to 10k soon." Several users expressed their thoughts on Twitter CEO's post.
Twitter to roll out individual DM replies, encryption
"Aiming to roll out ability to reply to individual DMs, use any reaction emoji & encryption later this month," he tweeted. Several users expressed their thoughts on Musk's post. Great updates that will help conversations flow more smoothly. Particularly looking forward to variety of reaction emoji's, it's the little things.
Twitter expands Blue service to more than 20 countries
The countries include the Netherlands, Poland, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta, and Cyprus, according to Twitter's About Page. With this expansion, the Blue subscription service is now available in more than 35 countries globally.
Twitter expands Community Notes to Brazil
The company tweeted from its @CommunityNotes account: "Welcome contributors in Brazil! We're excited to bring Community Notes to one of the largest communities on Twitter, and the first to write and rate notes predominantly in a different primary language." "We continue to expand Community Notes globally. Coming soon: Japan and a first group of Spanish-speaking countries. As always, we're paying close attention to ensure notes are helpful to people from different points of view around the world."
Twitter faces global outage again
According to the outage monitor website Down Detector, over 56 per cent of people had reported problems while using the application, 37 per cent while using the website, and 7 per cent with server connection. Users from various countries, including the US, the UK, Japan, and India, began reporting issues with the site.
Twitter announces 'Violent Speech' policy
The new policy prohibits violent threats, wishes of harm, glorification of violence and incitement of violence, the company tweeted from its @TwitterSafety account. The company has a "zero tolerance policy" towards violent speech in order to ensure the safety of the users and prevent the normalisation of violent actions. We allow expressions of violent speech when there is no.
Jack Dorsey is back with Twitter alternative called Bluesky
The Twitter-funded micro-blogging platform is available as an invite-only beta as of now, and a public launch is near, reports TechCrunch. According to app intelligence firm data.ai, the Bluesky iOS app debuted on February 17 and had seen some 2,000 installs in the testing phase. The app offers a simplified user interface where you can click a plus button.
Reinstate Twitter's accessibility team, US Senator tells Elon Musk
In an open letter addressed to Musk, Markey wrote that Twitter has a responsibility to ensure that its platform is open and accessible to disabled users. "Yet, you recently eliminated Twitter's Accessibility Team, which played a crucial role in developing and implementing essential features for Twitter users with disabilities," he told Musk.
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