Ex-Twitter India head's startup to create metaverse of education
Founded by Maheshwari and Tanay Pratap, it provides employability-focused training to help the workforce realign with the digital world and secure themselves jobs in high-growth tech companies. "We will use this investment to bolster the product and technology team for the Metaversity platform, build a virtual-first curriculum and expand into Europe and the US," said Maheshwari.
Twitter, Google blocked ads from medical journal about health, racism
The peer-reviewed journal's latest issue, released last week, includes articles on sexual and reproductive health of Black women in the South, racial bias in electronic health records, health and police encounters, and inequity in the use of home health agencies, the Verge reported. To reach new readers, the journal aimed at targeted advertisements on social media platforms Twitter and YouTube.
Twitter starts rolling out pinned direct messages to everyone
Twitter is now rolling out a feature to pin up to six conversations, which will then always appear above your other messages."Keep your fave DM convos easily accessible by pinning them. You can now pin up to six conversations that will stay at the top of your DM inbox. Available on Android, iOS, and web," the company said in a tweet. To pin a conversation on the best Android phones, you just need to press and hold the message.
Twitter adds Paytm Payment Gateway for Tips in India
Through Tips, users can support their favourite creators or small business owners on Twitter by using any Paytm Payment Instrument like Paytm UPI, Paytm Wallet, Paytm Postpaid (buy now-pay later), debit and credit cards and netbanking.
Twitter opens access to anti-abuse tool for millions of users
Called 'Safety Mode', the feature was first introduced to a small set of users in September last year. The 'Safety Mode' tool is now available in beta for more users across English-speaking markets, including the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand.
Twitter readying Communities updates, more features
According to reverse engineer Nima Owji, Communities' admins will be able to choose whether the members of a community will be able to invite other people or not, reports 9To5Mac. There will be some options for community membership -- 'Open' will allow anyone to join and/or be invited to the Community. In the 'Restricted' option, people must ask to join, and the mod team must approve those requests.
Twitter back after facing hour-long outage
According to internet outage reporting platform Downdetector, the outage lasted for about an hour late in Friday evening and some users had more trouble than others, and more users reported web issues. According to the heat map, Twitter outage was reported from England, Canada, France, Mexico, the US and India (Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai).
Speed up or slow down video playbacks on Twitter soon
Currently being tested with a select set of users on Android and Web, the tools will also be available for iOS users. Twitter plans to expand the test to iOS in the future, he added. It means you can watch a video at as slow as 0.25x speed or as fast as 2x, giving some fun to the videos and voice playbacks.
Twitter to let you send Direct Message straight from a tweet
Twitter feels the feature will make it easier to start a conversation from your timeline. "For when you want to reply directly to a Tweet's author, we're making it easier to DM them from your timeline to start a conversation," said the micro-blogging platform. "Now testing a DM icon on Tweets with some of you on iOS," it added. The test, however, has alerted civil servants and public safety experts.
Twitter expands its downvote test worldwide
The company said that they have been testing how it can surface the most relevant replies within tweets with the use of downvoting on replies. The company said that Downvotes are not public, but they will help inform the micro-blogging site of the content people wants to see.
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