Twitter bans over 57K accounts for promoting child porn, nudity in India
Earlier this week, Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal had said the replies received from Twitter in the child pornography complaints were incomplete and the Commission was not satisfied with them. Maliwal had on September 20 summoned Twitter India Policy Head and Delhi Police over tweets depicting child pornography and rape videos of women and children on the micro-blogging platform.
Why most Twitter users don't follow political 'elites' but celebrities
Despite the prominence and impact of presidents, congressmen, journalists, pundits and the news media, researchers found that only 40 per cent of Twitter users follow one or more political "elites" and the remaining 60 per cent follow no political actors at all, according to the study published in the journal Science Advances.
Elon Musk extremely worried at child porn proliferation on Twitter
Reacting to a report on how major advertising brands have pulled out from Twitter as their promotion posts appeared alongside child porn tweets, Musk said: "Extremely concerning."Engaged in a fierce legal battle with Parag Agrawal-led micro-blogging platform over his termination of the $44 billion takeover deal, Musk's criticism comes at a time when Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal said on Tuesday
Musk texted Oracle's Larry Ellison all night before putting Twitter deal on hold
According to Insider, Musk texted Ellison "into the early morning hours" before he announced on Twitter that his $44 billion agreement to takeover the micro-blogging platform was "temporarily on hold". "Musk's phone company records show that he exchanged multiple text messages with the Oracle cofounder on May 12, through 12.20 am on May 13," according to a court filing by Twitter.
Instagram returns after being down for hours
According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, nearly 34,000 users reported having trouble accessing the platform late Thursday. "And we are back! We resolved the issue that caused today's outage and apologise for any inconvenience," Instagram said in a tweet.
Twitter hunts for connection between whistleblower Zatko & Musk
The Delaware Court of Chancery in the US, where the legal battle is set to begin from october 17, has agreed on a request by Twitter for details about whether Musk or his associates knew about Zatko's claims before he took them to the public. Judge Kathleen McCormick on Thursday ordered Musk's legal team to provide some of the documents being requested by Twitter regarding any communications by them with Zatko.
Twitter discloses bug that left users' account logged in after password reset
The company said that it has fixed the bug that didn't close all active logged in sessions on Android and iOS devices after an account's password was reset. "If you proactively changed your password on one device, but still had an open session on another device, that session may not have been closed.
Twitter breaks all records with over 30 mn tweets on passing of Queen Elizabeth II
Since the Queen's passing, there have been over 30.2 million tweets about the Queen, said the company. The day of the announcement on September 8 was the highest volume of conversation ever seen on the micro-blogging platform. There were over 1 million Tweets about queues and the #1 hashtag within this conversation was #queueforthequeen.
Twitter makes it easy for the visually impaired to read images
The new image description reminder will encourage more people on Twitter to add helpful descriptions to the images they tweet, the company said in a statement. Alternative text, or alt text, is a written description of what's in an image that can be picked up by screen reader software used by the visually impaired.
Twitter to roll out Edit Tweet feature for Blue subscribers on Sep 21
The Edit Tweet feature lets people make changes to their tweet after it's been published. Edited Tweets will appear with an icon, timestamp, and label so it's clear to readers that the original Tweet has been modified. Tapping the label will take viewers to the Tweet's Edit History, which includes past versions of the Tweet.
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