Tweets with racial slurs increased since Elon Musk's acquisition: Report
According to The Washington Post, researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate discovered that in the week following Musk's purchase of Twitter, the number of tweets containing one of several different racial slurs increased dramatically. The number of racial epithets used to attack Black people was more than 26,000, which is three times the average for 2022.
'Captain Sully' quits Twitter as Elon Musk makes drastic changes
"To my friends on Twitter, I will be taking a step back from the platform for now," Sully tweeted. In a 2013 CNBC video, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey called the 2009 US Airways Flight 1549 landing on the water in the Hudson River a moment that "changed everything."
Fired by Twitter, prankster Rahul Ligma now sacked by crypto exchange FTX
In a new video, Ligma is seen standing at a beach with an office box, posing as a laid-off worker of FTX, a crypto company which is in deep trouble after leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance backed out of its acquisition deal.
I will remove all legacy Blue badges in coming months: Elon Musk
The new Twitter CEO also said that going forward, accounts engaged in parody must include "parody" in their name, not just in bio. "To be more precise, accounts doing parody impersonations. Basically, tricking people is not ok," he tweeted.
Twitter alternative Mastodon gains maximum traction after Musk takeover
"Hey, so, we've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today. 1,124 new Mastodon servers since Oct 27, and 489,003 new users. That's pretty cool," Eugen Rochko, Founder and CEO of Mastodon, said in a post on the platform. According to him, the platform had 381,113 active users on October 28.
Elon Musk ends remote work at Twitter, tells staff 'difficult times ahead'
Elon Musk warned that a weaker economic environment in the US would mean difficulties for Twitter and there was "no way to sugarcoat the message" about these challenges. He also reportedly told employees that they should be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours a week.
Twitter will add granular details to verified badges: Elon Musk
After abruptly killing the gray 'Official' badge for government accounts, Musk said that the company will now add organisational affiliation and ID verification to verified accounts with Blue badges.
Elon Musk abruptly kills gray 'Official' badge within hours
Twitter earlier started giving gray badges to government officials and public figures globally, including in India, but later reversed the change. "I just killed it," Musk tweeted to a user. "Blue check will be the great leveller," he added. Musk said that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months.
Twitter will roll out gray 'Official' badge for prominent accounts, public figures
Esther Crawford, head of the new Twitter Blue service, said that select accounts related to governments, companies or public figures will get a gray "Official" check mark to separate them from other users. "A lot of folks have asked about how you'll be able to distinguish between @TwitterBlue subscribers with blue check marks and accounts that are verified as official, which is why we're introducing the "Official" label to select accounts when we launch," she said in a tweet.
$8 Twitter Blue service may not affect existing verified accounts
According to a Twitter FAQ for advertisers, the paid verification for $8 a month "will not affect existing verified accounts at this time", reports The Verge.The original plan for the new Blue plan was that users who are already verified should also pay or lose their Blue Badges after 90 days.
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