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Talk about law, guardrails: MoS Chandrasekhar on Elon Musk's poll

The Minister was reacting over Musk 's tweet as he started a poll on Twitter asking millions of users "should I step down as head of Twitter?"

Twitter now supports themed icons in latest Android 13 update: Report

With the new update, it will change the Twitter icon's colour to match the users' wallpaper and system, as well as any other apps that support this feature

Top Headlines: India's economic activity, online gaming policy, and more

Business Standard brings you the top headlines at this hour

Elon Musk asks Twitter users to vote to decide if he should step down

Since his takeover of Twitter, Musk has weathered criticism for his sweeping changes at the social network

Twitter bans all links to FB, Insta, Mastodon, other rivals on its platform

'We will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter,' said Twitter

Migrate your tweets and come to Koo, CEO Radhakrishna offers in new move

Koo -- the Made-in-India rival of Twitter -- has offered to migrate all historic tweets of any Twitter user willing to shift to its platform that will continue to not charge users for verification badge, its co-founder and CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna said. Since taking over Twitter in a USD 44 billion deal in October, Elon Musk has sacked its employees, overhauled its moderation policies, put a price for account verification, and restored previously banned accounts including that of former US President Donald Trump. In recent days, he suspended the accounts of several prominent journalists without warning who had been covering him, but had to reinstate the accounts following strong criticism from government officials, journalist organisations, and advocacy groups. Koo, which allows users to express views in Indian languages, has already crossed 50 million downloads and is now flying into the rival's nest, starting a campaign to woo Twitter users, offering self-verification and a ...

Musk announces new changes for Twitter; mute, block signals for Blue users

Twitter will start incorporating mute and block signals from Blue Verified (not Legacy Blue) as downvotes, Musk said

Device labels will no longer be seen in tweets, confirms Elon Musk

A device label shows from which device a tweet has been tweeted

Multiple algorithms will guide Twitter users on their timelines: Elon Musk

Amid the "doxxing" row with journalists, Elon Musk on Sunday said that Twitter users will soon see multiple algorithms that will guide them about which kind of tweets they would like to see

2022 in review: Russia war to COP27, top events that shaped the world

The year 2022 is coming to an end and a lot has happened that shaped the world in the year. Let's have a look at some of these significant events

Twitter starts restoring suspended accounts, to reinstate more in 30 days

The company said reinstated accounts still need to comply with its rules. "Permanent suspension remains an enforcement action for serious violations," it said

Twitter's suspension of journalists' accounts draws global backlash

Not only media institutions but also officials from France, Germany, the UK, the UN and the EU condemned the suspensions, with some saying the platform was jeopardising press freedom

Twitter suspends Indian microblogging site Koo's account, bans Mastodon

Mastodon is the social media rival of Twitter

Elon Musk seeks new investors for Twitter at the same price he paid

Musk, who also runs Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, has acknowledged in the past that he paid too much for Twitter but has expressed confidence in its prospects in the long run

Elon Musk cries foul over flight data that's readily available on the net

People who for security or privacy reasons don't want their location known can opt for FAA to screen their aircraft's identity

Media should not be silenced: UN slams Twitter's 'arbitrary' suspension

The spokesperson said this move sets a dangerous precedent at a time when journalists all over the world are facing censorship, physical threats, and even worse

Twitter suspends accounts of several journalists covering Musk, his company

Twitter has abruptly suspended the accounts of several high-profile journalists who cover the social media platform and Elon Musk, who acquired the company in October. The accounts of Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Donie O'Sullivan of CNN, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Matt Binder of Mashable, Micah Lee of The Intercept, Steve Herman of Voice of America, and independent journalists Aaron Rupar, Keith Olbermann as well as Tony Webster had all been suspended as of Thursday evening, CNN reported. The journalists, however, found a backdoor way onto the platform through the website's audio function, and hours later of suspension faced off with Musk in a Twitter Space audio discussion before an audience of more than 30,000 listeners. You doxx, you get suspended. End of story. That's it, Musk said to one of the suspended journalists, explaining his latest policy to the group before he left minutes after having joined the discussion. Musk was referring to Twitter's latest rule chan

Musk disables Twitter Spaces after suspending accounts of some journalists

Twitter's live audio service, Twitter Spaces, is down after a number of journalists that had just been suspended from the social network found they could still participate on it

Twitter will suspend accounts engaged in doxxing for 7 days: Elon Musk

Elon Musk on Friday announced that Twitter accounts engaged in doxxing will receive a temporary seven-day suspension

Twitter suspends accounts of several journalists; Musk cites doxxing rules

Musk tweeted: "Same doxxing rules apply to "journalists" as to everyone else"