Elon Musk says prepare for follower drop
He tweeted: "Twitter is purging a lot of spam/scam accounts right now, so you may see your follower count drop." Several users expressed their thoughts on Musk's action. While one user commented, "Dude that's like all my followers", another said, "exactly.. but good to lose followers that were never actually followers..lol."
Twitter bans over 44K accounts for policy violations in India
In the earlier period between August 26 and September 25, the company had banned 52,141 such bad accounts in India. The micro-blogging platform, going through a churning under Musk, also took down 4,014 accounts for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country.
Twitter to show you more tweets from people you don't follow
The company said that it will expand recommendations to all users to give them the best content. Signals for recommended tweets can include things like user interests, topics they follow, tweets they engage with, and even Tweets people in their network like.Based on these signals and more, Twitter will show users content it thinks they will be interested in.
After pig & monkey, Neuralink 6 months away from human trial: Musk
Neuralink has submitted most of the paperwork needed for a human clinical trial to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). "We are now confident that the Neuralink device is ready for humans, so timing is a function of working through the FDA-approval process," the new Twitter CEO posted, after addressing a company event.
Apple 'never considered' removing Twitter, says Elon Musk
Elon Musk posted a video on Twitter of his trip to the Apple headquarters and said: "Thanks @tim_cook for taking me around Apple's beautiful HQ." In a subsequent tweet, he added: "Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so."
Elon Musk starts reinstating 62K suspended Twitter accounts as 'Big Bang' process
According to Platformer, Twitter employees are calling the reinstating process as "Big Bang". The project could cause more instability at Twitter at a time when the company is facing a severe engineering talent crunch, the report said late on Tuesday, quoting current employees. "Each reinstatement requires Twitter to rebuild a social graph, activating data on who the account follows and who follows the account. For large accounts like Trump's, with 88 million followers, that's millions of lists that Twitter has to update and maintain."
Twitter stops enforcing Covid misleading information policy
As per an update on the company's blog, "Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-19 misleading information policy". Under its Covid misinformation policy, Twitter removed "demonstrably false or potentially misleading content that has the highest risk of causing harm." However, it is still not clear why Twitter has taken this action, as Covid is not gone yet and countries like China are reeling under its after effects.
Twitter rolls out update to better identify 'low quality' Community Notes
The algorithm update will help more low quality notes get identified, more contributors who consistently write low quality notes have their writing ability locked (and have to earn it back) and contributor helpfulness scores improve with more scoring data, said the company.
We're keeping a close eye on Twitter under Musk: White House
During a media briefing, a White House spokesperson said late on Monday that the relevant authorities are "keeping track of" what is going on Twitter at the moment. "We're certainly keeping an eye on it. We have always been very clear that when it comes to social media platforms, it is their responsibility to make sure that when it comes to misinformation and hate that we're seeing, they take action and they continue to take action again and again," the spokesperson told the media persons.
Apple threatens to withhold Twitter from App Store: Musk
Musk's allegation came shortly after he tweeted late Monday night that Apple has "mostly stopped advertising on" Twitter following a poll that asked users about whether the iPhone maker should "publish all censorship actions it has taken that affect its customers". In a series of tweets, Musk said: "Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won't tell us why.
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