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Twitter again delays roll-out of its paid API platform by few more days

Elon Musk-run Twitter has announced that the launch of its new paid API (Application Programming Interface) platform will be delayed by a few more days.

Twitter's plan to charge for crucial tool prompts outcry from volunteers

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, thousands of volunteer software developers have been using a crucial Twitter tool to comb the platform for calls for help including from people trapped in collapsed buildings and connect people with rescue organisations. They could lose access as soon as Monday unless they pay Twitter a monthly fee of at least $100 prohibitive for many volunteers and nonprofits on shoestring budgets. That's not just for rescue efforts which unfortunately we're coming to the end of, but for logistics planning too as people go to Twitter to broadcast their needs, said Sedat Kapanoglu, the founder of Eksi Sozluk, Turkey's most popular social platform, who has been advising some of the volunteers in their efforts. Nonprofits, researchers and others need the tool, known as the API, or Application Developer Interface, to analyze Twitter data because the sheer amount of information makes it impossible for a human to go through by ...

Activists protest outside Twitter HQ in support of laid-off workers

Some of the laid-off employees filed a class-action lawsuit against Twitter and Musk, alleging the sacking violated state and federal labour laws

Twitter grows retweet reach, removes filter causing false negatives: Musk

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the Twitter team "completed" several works "over night", including improving the reach of retweets and "removed filter causing false negatives".

After Twitter Blue rollout, all legacy Blue badges to be removed soon: Musk

Earlier this month, the Twitter CEO had said that all legacy verified accounts will soon lose their Blue badges as those are 'deeply corrupted'

Twitter facing internal, external issues, to be up by night: Elon Musk

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said that the micro-blogging platform is facing "multiple internal and external issues simultaneously" and will be "fully back on track later tonight."

Twitter to charge $100 fee from developers for access to its basic API

A week after Twitter announced shutting down free access to the API, the microblogging platform on Thursday said that it will charge $100 per month for the basic tier of API

Twitter Blue in India: Here is what changes for those with Blue ticks

Twitter Blue has been launched in India as a part of Twitter's roll-out happening worldwide. Twitter's Blog said, newly created Twitter accounts

Twitter Blue subscribers in US can now write 4,000-character tweets

Earlier, tweets were limited to only 280 characters, which still applies to non-subscribers

Twitter Blue plans announced in India: Pay Rs 900 per month for blue tick

To enjoy the benefits, however, users will have to be on the platform for at least 90 days before the date of application

Twitter to be re-enabled in Turkey soon, says Elon Musk amid earthquakes

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that the Turkey government has informed the company that access to the microblogging site will be re-enabled shortly

Twitter scrambles to fix meltdown as many unable to tweet after glitch

Many Twitter users found themselves unable to tweet, follow accounts or access their direct messages on Wednesday as the Elon Musk-owned platform experienced a slew of widespread technical problems. "Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We're aware and working to get this fixed," the company tweeted from its "support" account. Further details were unavailable Wednesday afternoon and an email seeking comment from the company's press account went unanswered. Twitter has dissolved its media relations team. Users first noticed the problem when they tried to send tweets and received a message saying they had reached their "tweet limit". While Twitter has for years limited the number of tweets an account can send, it is 2,400 per day or 100 an hour far more than most regular, human-run accounts send on the platform. Accounts also had trouble when they tried to follow another Twitter user, getting a message "You are unable to follow more people

For You tab to stay on users' preferred timeline on Twitter on Android, iOS

Twitter has announced that it will now remember which timeline users were using last and default to it when they open it again, on Android and iOS

Twitter under Musk not doing enough to curb child abuse content: Reports

The New York Times found images containing 10 child abuse victims in 150 instances across multiple accounts on Twitter

Top US cybersecurity diplomat Nate Fick's Twitter account hacked

It was not clear who was responsible for the hack or if cyber-criminals posted anything derogatory from his personal account

Twitter fixes bug that showed users 'this tweet is unavailable': Musk

In December last year, Twitter went down for several users globally including in India, and Musk said that the outage was because of backend changes to make the micro-blogging platform faster

Twitter to charge $1,000 per month from businesses for their gold badges

The micro-blogging platform has expanded its Blue service subscription service to six more countries, taking the total to 12 where users can subscribe to it

Twitter to enable free write-only API to bots providing good content: Musk

Last week, Twitter announced that it will stop offering free access to its API from February 9 and instead launch a paid version

Last 3 months extremely tough, had to save Twitter from bankruptcy: Musk

Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said that the past three months have been "extremely tough" as he "had to save Twitter from bankruptcy" while also fulfilling his duties in Tesla and SpaceX. Taking to his official Twitter handle, Musk said that the microblogging site continues to have challenges.Elon Musk tweeted, "Last 3 months were extremely tough, as had to save Twitter from bankruptcy, while fulfilling essential Tesla & SpaceX duties. Wouldn't wish that pain on anyone. Twitter still has challenges, but is now trending to breakeven if we keep at it. Public support is much appreciated!". He tweeted in response to The Wall Street Journal's news article.Musk lamented the company's "massive drop in revenue" just one week after closing the USD 44 billion deal to buy Twitter in October, which he attributed to "activist groups pressuring advertisers," Fox Business reported. Since then, he has made a number of changes on Twitter, as per the news report.Elon Musk has reduced .

Twitter sued by advisory firm for not paying $1.9 mn as Musk deal fees

An advisory firm Innisfree M&A Incorporated has sued Twitter for failing to pay it $1.9 million for services the firm rendered for the $44 billion deal by Elon Musk.