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Aakar Patel stopped at Bengaluru airport, says not allowed to fly out to US

Former Amnesty India says a Gujarat court order had granted him permission 'specifically' for the US trip.

After Musk's poll, Twitter to add edit button soon to help users fix typos

Twitter on Wednesday announced that it is working to allow users to edit their tweets after posting them to fix typos and errors, as its CEO Parag Agrawal welcomed Tesla CEO to its board of directors

Musk joins Twitter's board of directors, promises significant improvements

According to a fresh filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Musk will serve as a class II director until 2024

Elon Musk, the new Twitter biggie, may have thoughts on edit button

Tesla CEO and Twitter's largest shareholder Musk launched a Twitter poll about whether they want an edit button, misspelling yes as yse and no as on, the poll closes Tuesday evening Eastern time

Twitter to name top shareholder Musk to board

The Tesla boss will serve as a Class II director, with the term expiring at Twitter's 2024 annual meeting of stockholders

Tesla's Elon Musk puts up a poll on Twitter, Parag Agrawal responds

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday asked his more than 80 million followers if they wish to have an edit button on their tweets

Elon Musk takes 9% stake in Twitter, starts poll on edit button

By Nivedita Balu

Wall Street, tech stocks fired up by Twitter rally after Musk purchase

Wall Street's three major equity indexes rose about 1% on the average with shares of Twitter, particularly, outperforming on news that flamboyant tech-entrepreneur and influencer Elon Musk had become the largest shareholder in the microblogging site.The three indexes - the S & P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite - also rose broadly for a second day in a row after closing first quarter trading last week with the biggest slump since the coronavirus breakout of two years ago.Twitter jumped 27% in price, closing up $10.66 at $49.97 per share after Musk, the chief executive of electric carmaker Tesla, bought almost 73.5 million shares in the company amounting to a passive stake of 9.2%.Musk' purchase, worth nearly $3 billion, comes less than two weeks after he criticized the company, polling people on Twitter about whether Twitter adheres to free speech principles. An entrepreneur known for courting controversy and for getting into trouble with stock market

Musk takes 9% stake, valued at $3 bn, in Twitter to become top shareholder

A prolific Twitter user, Musk has over 80 million followers since joining the site in 2009 and has used the platform to make several announcements

Musk reveals 9.2% stake in Twitter, shares surge 26%

Shares of other social media firms, including Meta Platforms and Snapchat owner Snap Inc, were also trading higher

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey regrets playing a role in centralising Internet

In a tweet, Dorsey who now focuses on Blockchain and cryptocurrencies via his financial services company Block (earlier Square), lamented over the current state of the Internet.

Twitter for Android is likely getting tweet text selection

Micro-blogging site Twitter is reportedly adding the ability to select text within tweets to the Android version of its app.

Twitter's new feature may soon allow multiple users to co-author a tweet

Micro-blogging site Twitter is working on a feature that would allow multiple users to co-author a tweet, which it is referring to as "Collaborations".

Twitter bets on cricket in India market with new features, content formats

Between January 2021 and January 2022, 4.4 million Indians on Twitter shared 96.2 million tweets about cricket

Why can't you block objectionable content on Hindu deities: HC asks Twitter

After hearing the submissions, the further hearing in the matter was posted for September 6

Twitter's iOS app lets Apple iPhone users record GIF through in-app camera

Micro-blogging site Twitter has announced a new feature that makes it easier for people to create and share their own GIFs

Microsoft likely to remove direct Twitter sharing feature from Xbox

Tech giant Microsoft is likely to remove the feature for Xbox users to upload gameplay clips straight from their consoles to Twitter.

MOSPI's Twitter handle hacked briefly, showed display picture of Elon Musk

The Twitter handle of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) appeared to be hacked briefly on Thursday as it was showing a display picture of Tesla chief Elon Musk. However, the handle, which has over 40,000 followers, was restored later in the afternoon. Sources said the ministry got in touch with the cyber crime cell and had to reset its password. The hacker reportedly also posted replies to some tweets. However, nothing new was tweeted from the handle. Asked about the incident, the spokesperson of the ministry did not confirm it and told PTI to wait for the ministry's official response. The MOSPI publishes important macroeconomic data in the form of national account, industrial production index and inflation indices, among others. It tweets important national statistics, used by policymakers as well as executives for decision making. Earlier, the Twitter handles of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting too

Twitter rolls back users access to chronological timeline by default

Twitter recently made an unnecessary change that made it difficult to see chronological feed by default, which gained criticism, but the firm has now announced that it would revert things to normal

Twitter makes it difficult to see chronological feed, users annoyed

Twitter has made an unnecessary change that makes it difficult to see chronological feed by default, leaving millions of users frustrated.