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Twitter bans record over 680,000 accounts in India amid major overhaul

Twitter banned a record 682,420 accounts promoting child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity in India between January 26 and February 25

Twitter makes most of its recommendation algorithms open source

Musk said that most of the recommendation algorithms will be made open source and the rest will follow

White House refuses to pay for Twitter's Blue verification: Report

"It is our understanding that Twitter Blue does not provide person-level verification as a service. Thus, a blue check mark will now simply serve as a verification that the account is a paid user"

To pay or not to pay: Media cos split over buying $1,000 Twitter blue tick

The $1,000 per month 'Verified Organisation' package offers a verified tick to the organisation's account and five affiliated accounts which will get Twitter Blue features

Twitter working on fact-checking programme 'Community Notes' for media

Community notes aims to allow users to add more context to tweets through links and reports

Not Obama or Bieber, Elon Musk is now the most followed person on Twitter

Twitter has approximately 450 million monthly active users. Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, is followed by 30% of total Twitter users

Twitter's 'Verification for Organisations' now available globally

According to the company, Verified Organisations is a new way for organisations and their affiliates to differentiate themselves on the micro-blogging platform

Pakistan govt's Twitter account withheld for the third time in India

The Pakistan government's official Twitter account has been withheld in India.When anyone tries to access the Twitter account of the Pakistan government, it says, "Account Withheld @GovtofPakistan's account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand."This is reportedly the third time when Pakistan's Twitter account has been restricted to be viewed in India.Earlier in October 2022, the Twitter account of the Pakistan government was withheld in India.It was reportedly the second such incident in recent months. This account was withheld earlier in July as well but had been reactivated and was visible.According to Twitter guidelines, the microblogging site takes such action in response to a valid legal demand, such as a court order. Currently, the Twitter feed of the Pakistan government "@GovtofPakistan" is not visible to Indian users.In June last year, Twitter in India banned official accounts of Pakistan Embassies in the United Nations, Turkey, Iran and Egypt. In August, ..

Twitter's revenue drops amid advertisers' concerns over Elon Musk's antics

From September to October of last year, the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent $71 million on ads, according to estimates from Pathmatics

Twitter launches new API with free, basic, and enterprise access tiers

Elon Musk-run Twitter has launched its new paid API (Application Programming Interface) platform with free, basic, and enterprise access tiers

Twitter removes tweets on Trans Day of Vengeance, says protest not peaceful

Twitter says it has removed thousands of tweets showing a poster promoting a "trans day of vengeance" protest in support of transgender rights in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Ella Irwin, Twitter's head of Trust and Safety, said in a tweet Wednesday that the company automatically removed more than 5,000 tweets and retweets of a poster promoting the event. "We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. 'Vengeance' does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok," Irwin wrote in the tweet. In removing the tweets, Twitter said it used automated processes to do it quickly at a large scale, without considering what context the tweets were shard in. Because of this, both tweets that were critical of and those that supported the protests were removed. This appeared to anger many conservative Twitter users who said the rules were unfairly applied to them because they were posting the image of the protest flyer to speak out

User will still see tweets in 'For You tab' from people they follow: Musk

After saying that only verified accounts will be allowed to appear in the 'For You recommendations', Twitter CEO Elon Musk clarified that users will still see tweets in the 'For You tab'

Recommendations to voting: Blue tick shake-up at Elon Musk's Twitter

The move may impact independent journalists and other peripheral voices most heavily, running counter to Musk's professed goal of trying to ensure free speech on Twitter

BBC Punjabi Twitter account withheld in connection with Amritpal's case

Amid ongoing police crackdown against pro-Khalistani elements in Punjab, the official Twitter account of the BBC Punjabi was blocked by the authorities

Musk announces how new Twitter plan will stop people from voting in polls

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday announced that only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations and also revealed the reason behind it.

Only verified accounts to get For You recommendations from Apr 15: Musk

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday said that only verified accounts will be allowed to appear in 'For You recommendations', starting April 15

Twitter activist booked for posting misleading information about Make in UP

A 'Twitter activist' has been booked for posting misleading information about 'Make in UP' and 'Make in India' projects and denting the image of the state government and the Basic Education Department

Twitter proprietary source code leak turns into hunt for the perpetrator

Exposing Twitter's internal workings may make the service more vulnerable to hacking attempts

Twitter says its source code leaked on GitHub, blames ex-employees

Twitter also launched an internal investigation to determine who was responsible for the leak. So far, the investigation has concluded that the person involved left the organisation last year

Musk attacking us as he is stressed about AI safety, alleges OpenAI CEO

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has hit back at Twitter CEO Elon Musk for criticising his for-profit company which is now owned by Microsoft