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Twitter to soon extend longform tweets, let users post 10K character: Musk

Last month, the company had announced that Blue subscribers in the US can post long tweets of up to 4,000 characters on the platform

Twitter CEO Musk announces roll out of individual DM replies, encryption

Twitter Boss Elon Musk has said that the company is seeking to enable responding to individual direct messages (DM), use any reaction emoji, and encryption on the platform later this month

Journalist says Twitter stole his concept of special tick for state heads

A city-based journalist has filed a complaint of cheating against Twitter and its owner Elon Musk, accusing them of stealing his concept of a new label or 'tick' for the accounts of prominent personalities including heads of state. Twitter assigns a blue tick to ordinary verified accounts, but those of prominent personalities -- such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi or US President Joe Biden -- get a brown tick. In his complaint filed before a magistrate's court in suburban Andheri, journalist Rupesh Singh sought action under Indian Penal Code sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and the Copyright Act. The complaint was filed on March 1, but the details were available on Friday. Besides Musk, the complaint also named former Twitter India head Manish Maheshwari. Being a senior journalist, writer and director, he is very active on Twitter, Singh said in the complaint filed through Advocate Niraj Gupta. He noticed that all verified

Musk led Twittter expands Blue services to 20 more European countries

Micro-blogging platform Twitter has expanded its Blue subscription service to more than 20 countries in Europe

Delhi HC asks police about action over offensive tweet against Md Zubair

The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the city police about the action taken by it against a Twitter user for his alleged offensive tweet on fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair. Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani, who was hearing Zubair's plea to quash an FIR registered against him after he responded to the Twitter user who was using a picture with his minor daughter as display picture on the platform, observed that although the police have not found anything against Zubair in the case, the matter should come to a logical closure. The FIR was lodged against Zubair in 2020 for allegedly threatening and torturing a minor girl. "What about the person who put the offensive tweet? What did you do regarding this gentleman? asked the court. "I want to know what happened... I want to see if things are coming to logical closure, said the court as it listed the matter for further hearing on March 13. Zubair's counsel has earlier told the court that he was being trolled for

Twitter services resume after global outage hits thousands of users

Microblogging site Twitter faced an outage on Wednesday with several users, including those in India, reporting issues with refreshing their newsfeeds or posting new content on the website

Twitter faces major outage globally again, users report issues with tweets

Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Wednesday faced a major outage globally, with users reporting that the site's timeline is not loading on either the web or mobile apps

Twitter officially launches 'Violent Speech' policy, updates rules

Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Wednesday announced that it has updated its rules on violent content and similar language, and has now officially launched its Violent Speech policy

Jack Dorsey back in social media game with Twitter alternative Bluesky

The Twitter-funded micro-blogging platform is available as an invite-only beta as of now, and a public launch is near, reports TechCrunch

Twitter seeks to sublease NYC office space as Elon Musk cuts costs

Twitter recently listed nearly 200,000 square feet (19,000 square meters) of space for sublease at 245 and 249 W. 17th St. in Manhattan, according to data from real estate brokerage Savills

Twitter employees to soon receive performance-based stock awards: Musk

This past week, we completed a difficult organisational overhaul focused on improving future execution, using as much feedback as we could gather from entire company, Musk wrote in an internal memo

Elon Musk returns to the top, becomes richest person on the planet again

The rise in Musk's wealth can be attributed to the rally in Tesla stocks that has outpaced the rally in the Nasdaq 100 Index so far this year

Official Twitter account of TMC hacked, name changed to 'Yuga labs'

The official Twitter handle of All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) appears to be hacked as its name has been changed to 'Yuga labs'.Along with the name, the display picture has also been changed."#DidirSurakshaKawach is a mammoth effort at securing basic sustenance for every resident in Bengal, irrespective of age, gender, caste or religion. To achieve state-wide inclusive growth & expand welfare cover, Didir Doots are generating awareness across households," read the last tweet by Yuga labs.The logo appeared in 'Y' shape in black font.The All India Trinamool Congress has not yet released an official statement about this.Last year in April, Twitter account of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's Office (CMO) was hacked.UP CMO (@CMOfficeUP) Twitter account has four million followers at present.The breach came to light when unknown hackers used the UP CMO Twitter handle to publish a post based on a tutorial called "How to turn your BAYC/MAYC animated on Twitter". In addition, a ...

'Hard work was a mistake', Twitter employee regrets after being fired

Another 200 staffers fired in fresh round of job cuts

Fair share

Web platforms and news generators' relation needs review

Twitter CEO Elon Musk feels artificial intelligence existential anxiety

"But, all things considered with regard to AGI existential angst, I would prefer to be alive now to witness AGI than be alive in the past and not," he tweeted

Twitter sacks product manager Esther Crawford in another round of layoffs

Crawford led various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription and its forthcoming payments platform

Twitter lays off 200 employees, nearly 10% of current workforce: Report

The layoffs on Saturday night impacted product managers, data scientists and engineers who worked on machine learning and site reliability, which helps keep Twitter's various features online

Twitter fires at least 50 in relentless cut on costs, says report

The job cuts impacted multiple engineering teams, including those supporting advertising technology

Twitter shuts off its internal Slack, employees say didn't pay bills

Twitter has apparently shut off its internal communication system Slack and employees posted on anonymous workplace chat app Blind that the company had stopped paying its Slack bills