Twitter Inc. suffered downtime earlier today after introducing the ability for Twitter Blue subscribers in the U.S. to post tweets of up to 4,000 characters. The additional feature was announced at 3 p.m. EST in an extended post on Twitter. Outside the ability to post up to 4,000 characters, normal Twitter restrictions apply. Twitter Blue users […]
Twitter has been testing the edit tweet option for quite some time now. The company has been promising to roll out the feature soon. Now it appears that Twitter Blue subscribers can try this much-awaited feature. Twitter has started rolling out the option to edit tweets to Twitter Blue users in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The company also […]
Elon Musk is now the biggest shareholder in Twitter, thanks to a recent stock purchase that raises his stake in the social media company to 9.2% at the time of disclosure. As per a Schedule 13G declaration filed before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk now owns 73,486,938 shares of Twitter. As per Bloomberg’s […]
Brand new CEO, Twitter has announced a major update to its policy in a blog post on Tuesday. Twitter will now prohibit the sharing of “private” media of private individuals without their consent. This update, which the company announced on Tuesday, broadens an already existing “private information” policy. This policy already banned Twitter users from sharing the sensitive […]
Nigerians on Twitter have begun a ‘Goodbye Nigeria’ trend to comment on the rate at which youths are leaving the country. As part of the trend, Nigerians who have departed the country shared their pictures at the airport or in a foreign country, with the caption ‘Goodbye Nigeria’. Other associated words in line with the […]
Trump’s “free speech” case is likely doomed by First Amendment and Section 230. Former President Donald Trump today sued Twitter, Facebook, Google subsidiary YouTube, and their CEOs, claiming that all three companies are guilty of “impermissible censorship” that violates “the First Amendment right to free speech.” Trump’s lawsuits are almost certainly doomed. The First Amendment […]
The Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), in a report, revealed that the Federal Government and China’s Cyberspace Administration office discussed plans of building a Nigerian internet firewall, just after the ban of Twitter in Nigeria. This was disclosed in a report by the FIJ on Sunday. They added that Nigerian reps in the meeting included Ibrahim Gambari, […]
Micro-blogging platform, Twitter has explained why it deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet, which had been received with mixed reactions. The controversial tweet, which was part of a thread by Buhari on Tuesday, reads: “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the […]
The account, @DJTDesk, was suspended for violating Twitter’s policies. Twitter barred Trump from the site earlier this year after the Capitol insurrection. Twitter blocked former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to get back on the social-media site. A new account called @DJTDesk on Thursday morning said it had been suspended for violating Twitter’s rules. In […]
Donald Trump has launched a new “communications” website, which says it will publish content “straight from the desk” of the former US president. Mr Trump was banned by Twitter and suspended by Facebook and YouTube after the Capitol riots in January. The former president has since been releasing statements by press release – which the new […]
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