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Telegram launches new updates with topics in groups, collectible usernames

Users can now assign multiple collectible usernames to each of their accounts and publicly accessible channels on Telegram, so others can find and contact them easily

'$8 for all': Elon Musk on fees for blue-tick Twitter verification

'Power to the people', says social media platform about subscription for verified status

Musk warns impersonating Twitter accounts may lead to permanent suspension

Over the weekend, several Twitter accounts had changed their name to "Elon Musk" or to usernames that suggested those handles were of the tech billionaire

Musk's Twitter updates app to start charging $8 for blue checkmark

The billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of electric car maker Tesla cut half the staff at Twitter and has vowed to start charging users more

WhatsApp Communities: What is it, how it works, and how to get started

WhatsApp's Communities feature allow users to manage multiple groups by bringing them under one umbrella

WhatsApp introduces 'Online Presence', 'Communities' features: Details here

In-chat polls, 32-person video calling, and group of up to 1024 members are some other features rolled out by the instant messaging platform WhatsApp

Paid Twitter blue ticks? A look at the origin of social media verification

Elon Musk on Tuesday announced that Twitter users would have to 'buy' their verification blue ticks for $8 per month

Mastodon social network sees user influx amid Twitter turbulence: Report

Mastodon is a decentralised, open source and distributed social network with independent user-managed servers

Twitter discontinues ad-free articles for premium Blue subscribers

The feature was based on the platform Twitter acquired from Scroll, a service that specialised in removing ads from news sites

Twitter global sales VP leaves company after Elon Musk's takeover

Musk, who acquired the company for $44 billion last week, is moving swiftly to thin the executive ranks as he looks to reshape the company to conform with his own vision.

Twitter's new boss Elon Musk says blue tick on sale for $8 per month

Twitter's new owner billionaire Elon Musk announced that the verification blue tick in front of a user's name that authenticates the account will now be available at a price of eight dollars per month. Musk blasted the "current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark, using an expletive. Power to the people! Blue for USD 8 per month, he tweeted adding that the price is adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity. With that price, he said, users will also get priority in replies, mentions, and searches, which he said is essential to defeating spam/scams, as well as the ability to post long video and audio, half as many ads, and paywall bypass for publishers willing to work with the social media company. He said the monthly payments from users for the blue tick will also give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators. A blue tick signifies that a particular account is verified because it's notable in government, news, ...

Chennai, SRM College set to host Elon Musk's chosen man Sriram Krishnan

Krishnan, who is also a former Twitter employee, is expected to guide Musk in his ambitious plan to monetise the social media giant

Musk sets up A team to rejig Twitter, seeks to change verification process

According to a report from The Verge, he has asked employees to change Twitter Blue, a monthly subscription service costing $4.99 to a much more expensive new subscription

Instagram down for several users, days after global WhatsApp outage

According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, at the peak of the outage, over 7,000 users reported being unable to log in

Twitter, Facebook, other social media cos will have to abide by local laws

The new amendments to IT rules impose a legal obligation on social media companies to take all out efforts to prevent barred content and misinformation, the government said on Saturday making it clear that platforms such as Twitter and Facebook operating in India will have to abide by local laws and constitutional rights of Indian users. The new rules provide for setting up appellate committees which can overrule decisions of the big tech firms on takedown or blocking requests. The hardening of stance against the big tech companies comes at a time when discontent has been brewing over alleged arbitrary acts of social media platforms on flagged content, or not responding fast enough to grievances. Amid concerns over the rising clout of Big Tech globally, the CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc, Elon Musk, on Friday completed his USD 44-billion takeover of Twitter, placing the world's richest man at the helm of one of the most influential social media apps in the world. Incidentally,

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Elon Musk to form a council to advise on lifting any Twitter bans

Musk, whose $44 billion deal to take the social network private was completed Thursday, had indicated previously that he thought Twitter's content moderation standards were too strict

Musk takes a $10 bn hit to his net worth after finalising Twitter deal

The $10 billion hit to Musk's fortune brings his total losses this year to $66 billion, according to the Bloomberg wealth index

Appellate panels to be set up for resolving social media users' grievances

The government on Friday tweaked IT rules to pave way for setting up of grievance appellate panels, which will settle issues that users may have against the way social media platforms initially addressed their complaints regarding content and other matters. These committees will be able to review content moderation decisions by social media companies like Meta and Twitter. The 'Grievance Appellate Committees' will be set up within three months, according to a gazette notification on Friday. Incidentally, the move comes at a time when the CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc, Elon Musk, has completed his USD 44-billion takeover of Twitter, placing the world's richest man at the helm of one of most influential social media apps in the world. The IT rules changes have been in the works for months, though, ever since users red-flagged instances of digital platforms acting arbitrarily. The latest move will arm the users with a grievance appeal mechanism in the form of appellate committee

Telegram to organise existing username auctions on TON blockchain

Each handle that is placed up for bid will have an additional hour for final bidding and will end in a week