Elon Musk has suspended Kanye West’s (aka Ye) Twitter account after the latter posted antisemitic tweets and violated the platform’s rules. In a reply to Mega founder Kim Dotcom, Musk clarified that Ye’s account was suspended for “incitement to violence” and not because of the music artist posting an “unflattering” picture of the Tesla CEO. […]
Elon Musk suspends Kanye West’s account for breaking Twitter rules by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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In the older days of the web, an app called Trillian emerged to solve the problem of allowing users to connect to their friends across multiple messaging services, like AIM, Jabber, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC and others. Lately, I’ve been longing for a Trillian-like service that would allow me to keep up with Twitter’s fleeing user […]
What’s a Twitter user to do? by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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As new Twitter owner Elon Musk tinkers around with the social network’s feature set, more algorithmic recommendations are apparently on the way. Twitter’s support account tweeted about the change on Wednesday, noting that the platform was “expanding recommendations to all users.” This is of course under the guise of giving users the “best” content (Instagram […]
Twitter is going to show you more tweets from people you don’t follow by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch
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The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over their head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step of fully shutting down its servers for a couple of days in response to concerns raised by security researchers who discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities on Hive, several of which they […]
Twitter alternative Hive shuts down its app to fix critical security issues by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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European Union regulators have fired another warning shot at Elon Musk over his erratic piloting of Twitter since his takeover last month — saying he has “huge work” ahead if the social media site is to avoid falling foul of major new governance rules for digital services which entered into force earlier this month. Reminder: […]
Musk at Twitter has ‘huge work’ ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
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The football World Cup — yes, the “soccer” one — is one of the biggest sporting events on the globe. And it’s really fun to follow it on Twitter with all the memes, commentary, and live tweets. But under Elon Musk-led Twitter it’s something different. After the World Cup started, the social network started sending […]
How to turn off World Cup notifications from Twitter by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter is no longer enforcing its policy against misleading information about COVID-19, per an update posted to an official company blog page. Reuters spotted the change earlier — which said the change was effective as of last Wednesday. “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,” the social media […]
Twitter says it’s no longer enforcing COVID-19 misleading information policy by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
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Open-source Twitter alternative Mastodon has seen sizable growth following Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition, topping a new milestone of 1 million monthly active users in just over a week after the deal closed. But one of the many challenges for users coming to Mastodon for the first time is in re-creating their network of friends and […]
A new tool ‘Movetodon’ makes it easier to find your Twitter friends on Mastodon by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter saw a surge in downloads in China as protests against the country’s stringent COVID restrictions erupted nationwide over the last few days. The social media app ranked 9th amongst all the free iOS apps in China on November 29, up from 150th a week ago, according to app analytics firm SensorTower. Discussion about the […]
Despite ban, Twitter downloads surge in China amid COVID protests by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
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After decimating Twitter’s workforce, imperiling its infrastructure and emptying its ad coffers all within his first month at the company, it’s on to the next thing for Elon Musk. The erratic billionaire picked a fight with Apple in a series of tweets on Monday, bracing for a battle — or perhaps just another volley of […]
Elon Musk’s next trick? Picking a fight with Apple by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch
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