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Twitter shows label on tweets that violate its rules to reduce visibility

Twitter on Tuesday said it has started placing labels to tweets that have been flagged for violating its rules, to reduce their visibility on the platform

Twitter account of crypto exchange KuCoin hacked, over $22.6K stolen

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has said that its Twitter account was hacked, allowing threat actors to promote a fraudulent giveaway scam

Verified accounts are now prioritised announces Twitter CEO Elon Musk

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has made an important announcement regarding the accounts which are blue tick verified. The changes which Musk has made on Twitter after his takeover are crazy

Twitter verification reappears, but some disavow Elon Musk's mark

Celebrities and other high-profile Twitter users are once again being verified by the social media platform and they don't know why the blue check marks reappeared nor do they seem too happy about it. Twitter removed the blue marks last week from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee. But the check marks mysteriously returned for many highly followed accounts over the weekend, leading some prominent users to disavow what's become a divisive symbol of Twitter owner Elon Musk's erratic changes to the platform. Accounts belonging to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bette Midler, gymnast Simone Biles Owens, writer Neil Gaiman and rapper Lil Nas X were among the users all with more than 1 million followers who took to Twitter to make clear they didn't pay to get their blue check back. On my soul i didn't pay for twitter blue, u will feel my wrath tesla man! wrote the rapper who has 8 million followers. Added Gaiman, who has 3 million followers: "What a sad, muddled place thi

Musk's TruthGPT sparks buzz among Twitter influencers: Report

In February, Musk for the first time tweeted that what we need is a "TruthGPT."

Twitter war erupts between Elon Musk, Stephen King over blue tick, Ukraine

From laying off employees to charging a fee for blue tick, billionaire Elon Musk rolled out major changes on Twitter ever since he took over as the company's new CEO

Musk's Twitter reinstates legacy blue tick on high-profile accounts

In a surprising turn of events, Twitter has restored verification badges on several high-profile celebrity accounts with millions of followers, just days after the microblogging platform culled the legacy blue checkmarks for non-paying users. The move assumes significance as Indian celebrities and top politicians from Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi lost verified blue ticks on their Twitter accounts this week after Elon Musk-led microblogging site started removing checkmark icons from accounts that did not pay a subscription fee. The coveted blue ticks have now made a surprising comeback on accounts of these celebrities. Top cricketers such as Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli who lost the blue tick mark on their Twitter handles, have also got them back. It was not immediately clear whether or not these accounts have paid for the verification. Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah - who got the blue tick back on his Twitter handle - ...

Twitter Blue tick reappears for some influential users without subscription

Recently, Musk announced that the legacy ticks would begin disappearing from April 20 onwards.

Former CEO of NITI Aayog Amitabh Kant loses blue tick on Twitter

Twitter CEO Elon Musk recently suspended blue checkmark from all the legacy accounts

Musk's wealth nosedives $12.6 bn after chaos at SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter

Musk still remains the world's second-richest person despite this latest tumble in net worth, behind French tycoon Bernard Arnault

Twitter removes 'government-funded' news labels from all media accounts

Twitter has also deleted its web page explaining the "government-funded media" labels, report The Verge

Dorsey brings Twitter alternative Bluesky to Android after losing Blue tick

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who has also lost Blue check-mark courtesy new CEO Elon Musk, has brought his new micro-blogging platform and Twitter rival called Bluesky to Android users

Weekend Bites: Cook serves his own India recipe, and the wailing over ticks

In which we munch over the week's platter of news and views

Rahul to Kohli: Celebs see red after Twitter accounts lose blue tick

Accounts of top Indian brands including HDFC Bank, Maruti Suzuki, Axis Bank, TVS, Swiggy, and PhonePe remained without a verification tag till the time of going to press on Friday

Twitter asks companies to pay for check marks, spend monthly to advertise

Businesses that already spend $1,000 a month on ads will be allowed to continue and will be given a gold check mark, the company added

HC reserves verdict on Twitter plea against govt's account blocking order

Twitter challenged the government orders claiming that they are arbitrary, and procedurally and substantively not in consonance with Section 69A of the IT Act

Twitter removes blue tick from celebrities' accounts across the world

Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform removed the blue verification badge from celebrities' accounts across the globe. They need to pay subscription fees to continue using blue tick

Twitter removes legacy blue ticks for thousands; all you need to know

From Virat Kohli to Shah Rukh Khan, microblogging site Twitter on Thursday removed blue ticks for those who did not pay for the Twitter Blue package

SRK to CM Adityanath: List of Indians who lost blue tick on Twitter

Micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday removed the legacy verified blue ticks from all accounts

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