Twitterati slam Musk for allowing 2-factor authentication only for Blue users
After March 20, non-Blue accounts with text or SMS-based 2FA still enabled "will have it disabled." Currently, the platform offers three methods of 2FA - text message, authentication app and security key. Musk tweeted on Sunday: "Use of free authentication apps for 2FA will remain free and are much more secure than SMS".
Twitter to soon let users adjust algorithm: Musk
Musk tweeted: "If many people who you follow or like also follow me, it is highly probable that the algorithm will recommend my tweets. It's not super sophisticated." In coming months, we will offer the ability to adjust the algorithm to closer match what is most compelling to you."Several users expressed their thoughts on Musk's post. When one user commented.
Sorry for showing you so many irrelevant & annoying ads on Twitter: Musk
"Sorry for showing you so many irrelevant & annoying ads on Twitter," Musk tweeted."We're taking the (obvious) corrective action of tying ads to keywords & topics in tweets, like Google does with search. This will improve contextual relevance dramatically," he added. Last month, Musk announced that a higher-priced subscription to the microblogging platform.
Musk shuts 2 Twitter India offices: Report
Twitter closed its offices in the country's capital New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai, and continued to operate an office in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru, reports Bloomberg, citing sources. In November last year, Musk fired more than 90 per cent of its staff in India, around 200-plus. Globally, Twitter has laid off more than 50 per cent of its staff.
Twitter relaxes its 'Cannabis Ads policy' in US
With this change, the company aims to "create more opportunities for responsible cannabis marketing." "As the cannabis industry has expanded, so too has the conversation on Twitter," the company said in a Business blogpost. "The cannabis space on Twitter is fun and engaging with users tweeting about their experiences using cannabis-- whether medicinally, for wellness, or recreation," it added.
'Trouble' fixed, Twitter back after brief outage on iOS
The company tweeted from its @TwitterSupport account: "Pardon the interruption! iOS users may have experienced some trouble using Twitter earlier. Things should be back to normal now."User reports peaked at more than 8,700 on the online outage monitor website Downdetector. According to the outage monitor website, over 85 per cent of people had reported problems.
Elon Musk says he may step down as Twitter CEO by 2023 end
After conducting a poll on stepping down as Twitter CEO in December last year, Musk has not offered any indication as to when he is going to appoint a new CEO to run the daily affairs at the micro-blogging platform. "I need to stabilise the organisation and just make sure it's in a financially healthy place in that the product roadmap is clearly laid out," Musk said via video link at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
Tweetbot's creators bring 'Edit Posts' feature to their Mastodon client
Other updates include the ability to report users and posts and support for Mastodon's server language translation services, reports The Verge. After Twitter stopped supporting third-party applications last month and later announced new restrictions requiring developers to pay for access to Twitter's application programming interface (API), Tapbots has been adding additional functionality to its new Mastodon client.
Twitter's priority is to fix recommendation algorithm: Musk
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 added.To this post, a user commented, "Feed refreshes for 'For You' tab is weird. So is the font and paragraph spacing." Replying to the user's concern, Musk said Fixing the recommendation algorithm.
Twitter again delays roll-out of its paid API platform
The company shared the information on Twitter via its Twitter Dev account, saying: "There has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API. As part of our efforts to create an optimal experience for the developer community, we will be delaying the launch of our new API platform by a few more days. More information to follow over the coming days".
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