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Follower count may drop: Musk as Twitter decides to purge inactive accounts

'We're purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop,' tweets Musk

Elon Musk credits father for teaching 'physics, engineering & construction'

Errol Musk had previously claimed in an interview that he used emeralds from an "under the table" mine in Zambia to finance his son's escape from South Africa to America

Over half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers not paying anymore

Reports last year showed that a total of 150,000 users originally signed up for Twitter Blue within just a few days of its launch in November

Bug exposed private Circle tweets to public; Twitter says security incident

Twitter said the bug has now been fixed, and the team knows what caused it, said report

Alt News' Zubair gets death threat, pork; FIR against 16 Twitter handles

Alt News co-founder alleged that 16 Twitter handles were responsible for posting his address on social media. Zubair also claimed that a Twitter user @cyber_Huntss sent him pork during Ramadan

Don't know what's happening: Ganguly's remark on wrestlers' protest

While many have come forward and voiced their concerns, Ganguly said, he would not like to talk on the matter without having complete knowledge

Google announces blue verified checks for email senders to minimise scams

After Twitter, Google has now announced to display a Blue checkmark next to a sender's name to verify their identity and minimise scams, which is free at the moment

Twitter makes second interest payment on Elon Musk's buyout debt

Twitter, which no longer has a team handling media queries, didn't specifically respond to an emailed request for comment

Elon Musk threatens to reassign NPR's Twitter account to another firm

Elon Musk threatened to reassign NPR's Twitter account to another company, according to the non-profit news organization, in an ongoing spat between Musk and media groups since his USD 44 billion acquisition of Twitter last year. So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company? Musk wrote in one email late Tuesday to NPR reporter Bobby Allyn. NPR stopped tweeting from its main account after Twitter abruptly labelled NPR's main account as state-affiliated media last month, a term that's also been used to identify outlets controlled or heavily influenced by authoritarian governments. Twitter then changed the label to government-funded media. NPR said that both labels were inaccurate and undermined its credibility noting the nonprofit news company operates independently of the U.S. government. Federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting accounts for less than 1% of NPR's annual operating budget, the company said. The

Musk tells Sachin Agarwal why Twitter's 'For You' algorithm is working fine

As Indian-origin entrepreneur Sachin Agarwal, Co-founder of non-profit organisation GrowSF, posted that he finds the "For You" timeline to be more valuable than the "Following" timeline

Twitter played a role in Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, shows research

"Shares of banks with a lot of Twitter activity in January and February incurred much larger declines in March"

Twitter lets emergency, transportation services to access API for free

Twitter backtracked on its decision to put its application programming interface (API) behind a paywall, and will allow emergency and transportation service providers to access its APIs for free

'Super Mario Bros. Movie' leaked on Twitter, gets 9 mn views

Animated film 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' was leaked online on Twitter and remained on the platform for several days before it was removed

Several Twitter users logged out from desktop accounts globally due to bug

Several users took to Twitter (via mobiles) to complain they were randomly logged out from their desktop accounts

Blue badges reappear briefly for legacy Twitter users if they update bio

Legacy Blue tick owners on Twitter were in for a surprise on Monday when a minor edit in their bio resulted in getting their Blue badge back, albeit briefly

Elon Musk cuts down parental leaves of Twitter employees: Report

The two weeks of paid leave will be topped up to meet the minimum requirements of the region where the employees work

Twitter to take 10% cut on content subscriptions after 12 months: Elon Musk

He added that the cut taken by iOS and Android platforms on subscriptions will drop to 15% in the second year from 30% in the first

Jack Dorsey's Bluesky Social is a Twitter alternative in the works

Available only through invitation from current users for now, Bluesky aims to give users greater control

Media publishers can soon charge users per article per click on Twitter

Elon Musk on Sunday said that Twitter will allow news publishers to charge users per article basis with one click from next month

Jack Dorsey blames Twitter board for forcing the $44 bn sale on Tesla CEO

Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey has admitted that the micro-blogging platform is performing poorly under Elon Musk, and blamed Twitter board for forcing the $44 billion sale to Tesla CEO