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As a part of a timeline takeover, conservative media nonprofit PragerU promoted the hashtag “#DETRANS” to promote an anti-trans film. In a press launch, PragerU noted that it selected X particularly for its advert marketing campaign “as it is one of the least censored social media platforms” after being bought by Elon Musk.

October 2023

X shuts down its Circles feature

On October 31, X shut down Circles, the much-beloved characteristic that allowed customers to put up to a small, unique viewers much like Instagram’s Shut Mates. It stays unclear why Circles was sunsetted a bit greater than a 12 months after its August 2022 launch.

X tests charging $1 per year in select markets

“This new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform, and bot activity while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver,” the corporate stated.

The corporate plans to make use of payment, phone and ID verification to stop bots.

Beginning at this time, we’re testing a brand new program (Not A Bot) in New Zealand and the Philippines. New, unverified accounts will likely be required to join a $1 annual subscription to have the ability to put up & work together with different posts. Inside this check, current customers should not affected.

This…

— Assist (@Assist) October 17, 2023

A new report claims X traffic and monthly active users are down

In line with data from market intelligence firm Similarweb, X’s world website visitors was down 14% YoY in September. U.S. visitors was down by 19%. Efficiency had additionally declined 17.8% YoY on cell gadgets within the U.S., based mostly on month-to-month lively customers on iOS and Android.

X now requires users to answer a question before joining private Communities 

Admins of personal Communities on X can now require customers to reply a query after they request to affix, together with agreeing to the group’s guidelines. The brand new characteristic might assist admins and moderators determine who ought to be capable to be a part of and provide some safety towards spammers and bots.

X updates Community Notes

A sequence of updates have been made to Group Notes after the fact-checking system took multiple days to correct misinformation associated to the Israel-Hamas struggle. The changes embrace:

• X CEO Linda Yaccarino promised Group Notes would “appear more quickly on X”
• Notice previews are actually supported on each Android and the net, with help “coming soon” to iOS
• Improved media matching
• Notifications will ship to customers who Appreciated, Reposted or Replied to a put up that later obtained a notice

X changes its “Public interest expectations”

X/Twitter eliminated the requirement of getting at the least 100,000 followers for posts to be newsworthy. Previous to the coverage change, solely verified accounts can be thought of for newsworthy posts. Nevertheless, now that X permits people to get verified by paying for a subscription, the brand new model of the coverage says posts solely by “a high-profile account” counts as newsworthy posts.

Nevertheless, the up to date web page doesn’t give particulars on what sort of accounts are thought of “high-profile.”

X can now limit replies to verified users

The brand new management just isn’t restricted to paid/premium accounts. Customers who don’t pay for X Premium also can select to not let non-verified customers reply to their posts.

The feature originally limited replies to both “Accounts you follow” or “Only accounts you mention” in 2020, however customers might solely select this setting earlier than posting a tweet. In 2021, they updated the feature to permit customers to regulate replies after a tweet was revealed.

X to test its three premium tiers

X CEO Linda Yaccarino mentioned the plan in a briefing to X debt holders on October fifth.

It’s not clear when the three-tier subscription plan would go reside, but references found in the X app’s code by @aaronp613 reference a “Premium Basic,” “Premium Standard” and “Premium Plus” plan, which have full adverts, half the adverts or no adverts, respectively.

X is cutting headlines from link previews

Now you’ll solely be capable to see a picture with the area identify of the hyperlink on the underside left, which is simple to overlook. The change is a part of Musk’s efforts to get customers to put up “long-form content” straight on the platform somewhat than encouraging customers to click on out of the platform with hyperlink playing cards.

X Corp. faces a trademark lawsuit

Trademark legal professional Josh Gerben and his agency are representing what appears to be the primary shopper to sue X over its trademark — a Florida-based social media advert company, X Social Media.

The complaint, which was filed within the U.S. District Court docket for the Center District of Florida, states that X Social Media, LLC “has continuously used the X Social Media Mark in commerce since at least early 2016,” and has considerably invested in market consciousness, which included growing a particular “X” mark that’s related to its social media promoting providers.

September 2023

X is shutting down its circle feature

“X is deprecating Circles as of Oct 31st, 2023. After this date, you will not be able to create new posts that are limited to your Circle, nor will you be able to add people to your Circle. You will, however, be able to remove people from your Circle, by unfollowing them as described below,” X stated on its support page.

Audio and video calls will be available to premium subscribers

New code within the X app reveals that each audio and video calls will likely be supported. Nevertheless, the characteristic will solely be out there to these with an X Premium membership, it seems. The brand new findings have been uncovered by tech veteran-turned-investor Chris Messina contained in the X app’s code.

X may no longer be a free site

In a live-streamed conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, X Proprietor Elon Musk stated the corporate was “moving to a small monthly payment” for the usage of the platform. He instructed that such a change can be essential to take care of the issue of bots.

Musk didn’t verify what the brand new subscription fee would value, however described it as a “small amount of money.”

X launches account verification

X has launched authorities ID-based account verification by way of a partnership with Israel-based Au10tix for paid customers to stop impersonation and provides them advantages akin to “prioritized support.” The pop-up for ID verification signifies that the Au10tix might retailer this information for as much as 30 days.

X caught running unlabeled ads in users’ Following feeds

X bans scraping and crawling

The new terms, that are efficient from September 29, ban any sort of scraping or crawling with out “prior written consent.”

NOTE: crawling or scraping the Providers in any type, for any goal with out our prior written consent is expressly prohibited.

The earlier model of the phrases allowed crawling in accordance with robots.txt.

Community Notes is now available for videos on X

Group Notes is an current program for crowdsourced moderation. X introduced that notes by contributors connected to a video will present up in all posts with that video.

August 2023

X will begin collecting user’s biometric data along with education and job history on September 29

“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the updated policy reads. X hasn’t specified what it means by biometric info, however it’s normally used to explain an individual’s bodily traits, akin to their face or fingerprints. X additionally hasn’t offered particulars on the way it plans to gather it.

X allows paid users to hide their likes

Paid customers on X now have a setting beneath profile customization that lets them cover the Likes tab. The transfer comes after rival social networks Threads and Bluesky rolled out the power for customers to see their very own likes.

X confirms it’s lifting the ban on political ads

X confirmed it’s lifting its ban on paid political adverts — a transfer it committed to earlier this year, shortly after Elon Musk took over the social community beforehand often known as Twitter. The corporate had initially banned these adverts in 2019 beneath then-CEO Jack Dorsey’s administration.

X lures advertisers with a $250 ad credit

The corporate announced it might provide a one-time advert credit score of $250 to pick out companies after they spend $1,000 or extra on new advert campaigns over the following 30 days.

X makes changes to retire some of the legacy API endpoints

The corporate stated in a post that it’s discontinuing a number of the endpoints whereas migrating others to the brand new v2 API. X additionally stated that it’s retiring the legacy Important and Elevated tiers, and clients utilizing them might want to transfer to any of the brand new tiers.

X plans to hide headlines from news links

Musk confirmed the transfer to roll out a brand new strategy to show information hyperlinks with none headline or description in a put up, saying the transfer was coming “directly” from him. The change would “greatly improve the aesthetics,” he stated.

As of proper now, a Twitter card for a information article exhibits the headline and abstract textual content together with the header picture within the preview card of a put up. If the proposed change comes by way of, X will solely present the picture with a hyperlink in a put up. Meaning if a publication or a weblog doesn’t put up any accompanying textual content with the hyperlink, customers will solely see the hyperlink and the picture for that article.

Elon Musk says the ‘block’ feature is going away

“Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs,” Elon Musk wrote on X. “Makes no sense.” The put up was a response to a Tesla fan account who requested whether or not there was any motive to make use of block as a substitute of mute.

X now sorts posts by like counts 

Posts, previously referred to as tweets, nonetheless seem in chronological order on profiles whenever you’re logged into the social community, however when you log off, they’re sorted by efficiency.

Our checks present that even you probably have a pinned put up, it received’t seem on the prime of your profile feed when logged out, which defeats the purpose of a pinned put up.

X rolls out a new ‘Highlights’ tab for paid users

X started rolling out the brand new ‘Highlights’ tab to some subscribers in mid August. However according to the updated support page, the corporate is now making the characteristic out there to all paid customers.

X makes X Pro a subscriber-only

Beforehand often known as TweetDeck, X Professional is now a subscriber-only product. The transfer isn’t totally shocking, as on July 3, the corporate stated that inside 30 days TweetDeck can be accessible to solely verified customers. Nevertheless, the social community was delayed in implementing the brand new rule by a number of days.

X lowers requirements for its creator payout program

The corporate stated that creators who’ve garnered 5 million impressions within the final three months will likely be eligible for advert income sharing. That requirement was beforehand set to fifteen million impressions.

Creators will be capable to withdraw as little as $10 as a substitute of $50, X stated. Customers nonetheless must be verified and should have at the least 500 followers to qualify for payouts.

X CEO claims the company formerly known as Twitter is almost breaking even

“I’ve been at the company eight weeks,” Yaccarino stated in her first broadcast interview since taking up her new position. “The operational run rate right now… we’re pretty close to break even.”

“Our data licensing and API with X is an incredible business. Our new subscription business [is] growing,” Yaccarino stated. “And then, part of my, what I would say, expertise and experience, and what I came to do, was to drive advertising at the company.”

Video calls are coming to X

CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed in her first TV interview that video calls will likely be a brand new characteristic coming to the service, as a part of its transformation into an “everything app.”

X expands its partnership with Integral Ad Science

The partnership started in January to inform advertisers if their advert is positioned round inappropriate content material. Now, X is testing sensitivity settings, powered by machine studying, that allow advertisers select their thresholds for the sorts of content material they need their adverts to look round — and in keeping with a tweet from X proprietor Elon Musk, advertisers can purchase these much less fascinating, “relaxed” sensitivity advert slots for much less.

Manufacturers can scale back adjacency to gore, extreme profanity and obscenity, focused hate speech, sexual content material, medicine and spam. Quickly, X will add its “relaxed” setting, which provides cheaper promoting alternatives whereas solely filtering for focused hate speech and specific sexual content material.

X takes over @music handle, hinting at future music plans

The @music account was initially operated for 16 years by software program developer Jeremy Vaught, who grew the @music deal with to roughly half one million followers. Vaught posted in anger that X had commandeered the account for itself.

“Super pissed,” Vaught wrote on X, sharing a screenshot of the e-mail X had despatched him informing him of the change.

X streamlines Community Notes

The characteristic traditionally offered info to customers about why they have been seeing a truth test appended to a tweet. After three years of growth, the corporate says this further context will now be eliminated for individuals who are already skilled with Group Notes.

TweetDeck is renamed to XPro

The corporate has adopted the @Professional deal with as a substitute of @TweetDeck for the instrument. Nevertheless, many elements of the instrument, together with the assistance web page, nonetheless have “Twitter” and “TweetDeck” mentions. Musk hinted at the change a week prior, including that XPro will include a “wide range of psy op plugins.” There are not any particulars about what sort of plug-ins these could be.

X now allows paid users to hide their checkmarks

Paid verification was launched final 12 months with the Twitter Blue relaunch. The service was lately renamed to XBlue in the course of the Twitter rebrand to X.

The concept is to assist customers profit from subscription options with out exhibiting that they’re a verified account. The choice to cover the checkmark will present up within the “Profile customization” part of account settings.

The corporate has up to date the help page for paid subscriptions, saying that even when you cover the checkmark it could be seen in some locations. The corporate didn’t give any additional particulars about these placeholders.

July 2023

Want to change back to the old Twitter app icon on iOS? Here’s how:

• In your iPhone, navigate to the Shortcuts app. If in case you have a more moderen iPhone, this ought to be pre-installed, but when not, you’ll find it within the App Retailer. In case your iPhone is working on iOS 12.0 or greater, you’re good to go.
• From the primary Shortcuts display on the Shortcuts app, you’re going to faucet “All Shortcuts.”
• Hit the blue plus signal within the top-right nook of your display to arrange a brand new Shortcut.
• You must see a instructed motion of “Open App” to construct your new shortcut. Faucet that.
• Now, you’ll be prompted to arrange a brand new “Open App” shortcut. Subsequent to the place it says “Open,” click on on “App” to seek for the X app. Choose that.
• When you’ve chosen the “X” app, faucet the share icon on the navigation bar on the backside of your display. This can carry up one other menu, the place you’ll be able to choose “Add to Home Screen.”
• Go forward and kind in Twitter as a substitute of “Open App.” Then, faucet the small Shortcut icon subsequent to the place you typed in Twitter.
• Right here, you’ll be able to add a picture of the Twitter emblem. Nevertheless, you in all probability don’t have that already saved to your telephone. Simply Google “Twitter icon.” We used this one.

Apple accepts Twitter app’s rebrand to X in the app store

Apple sometimes doesn’t permit builders to call their apps as a single character, however they appeared to have made an exception.

X additionally modified its App Retailer tagline from “Let’s talk.” to “Blaze Your Glory!!” Musk himself posted a tweet with this tagline with none context.

X opens up its ad revenue sharing program globally

The corporate announced its “Ads Revenue Sharing” program is now out there for eligible creators globally. This system, in keeping with posts by X proprietor Elon Musk, goals to provide out $5 million within the first spherical of creator funds.

Twitter is now X

The enduring hen emblem is formally replaced with ‘X’ after Elon Musk introduced the change the weekend of July 22. Notably, Musk x.com now additionally redirects to twitter.com. Musk additionally referred to as this an “interim” emblem, so we would see one other emblem change sooner or later.

The app additionally changed its official handle to @x as a part of the continued rebranding. The unique @Twitter deal with is now inactive, and its bio reads, “This account is no longer active. Follow @x for updates.” Nevertheless, the original owner of the @x handle, Gene X Hwang of the company images and videography studio Orange Photography, confirmed to TechCrunch that the company took over his account without warning or financial compensation, telling him the deal with is property of X.

https://t.co/bOUOek5Cvy now factors to https://t.co/AYBszklpkE.

Interim X emblem goes reside later at this time.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023

Twitter preps a job listing feature 

Twitter hasn’t formally introduced the job postings characteristic but, though some verified organizations have already been in a position to put up job listings beneath their bios. The job listings take candidates on to the corporate’s web site, the place they will be taught extra in regards to the place and submit an utility.

Twitter Notes is back…kinda

Twitter Notes, the characteristic that allows Twitter users to publish long-form content, seems to be again on observe, in keeping with a post from Twitter proprietor Elon Musk on Tuesday. Musk confirmed the corporate’s plans in response to a consumer’s tweet which claimed the Twitter Notes venture had lately been rebranded as “Articles.”

On Tuesday, July 18, consumer @FaustoChou tweeted that Notes had been renamed to Articles, signaling maybe renewed growth efforts on Twitter’s half. His screenshot confirmed the Notes interface, trying very similar to it did earlier than, in addition to different unlaunched options, like Twitter Cash. Musk replied to the tweet, confirming Twitter’s plans.

Twitter shares ad revenue with verified creators

Twitter will now pay creators for a share of the advert income earned from adverts served within the replies to their posts. Twitter Blue subscribers who’ve earned greater than 5 million tweet impressions every month for the final 3 months are eligible to affix the creator payouts.

In line with Elon Musk, the primary spherical of creator payouts will complete $5 million, and will likely be cumulative from the month of February onward. These payouts will likely be delivered by way of Stripe.

Regardless of this system’s vital payouts, some creators weren’t joyful — and took their complaints to Twitter proprietor Elon Musk. In a sequence of tweets, Musk addressed creators’ issues over issues just like the types of accounts that were eligible for monetization, rate limits and other issues.

With the announcement of new DM settings, Twitter admits to having a Verified spammer issue

Starting “as soon as” July 14, Twitter will introduce a brand new messages setting geared toward decreasing spam in DMs by shifting messages from Verified customers you don’t comply with again to your “Message Request” inbox as a substitute of your principal inbox. Solely messages from individuals you comply with will arrive in your major inbox going ahead. Notably, these adjustments will even now apply to everybody who has their inboxes open to permit messages from anybody.

Earlier than changing into pay-to-play, Twitter verification indicated an individual was a public or notable determine of some kind — like a politician, movie star, athlete, journalist or different well-known particular person. By making the Verified blue checkmark accessible to anybody who bought it, Twitter diluted the worth of verification.

That apparently escalated to the purpose that individuals have turn out to be bothered by Verified customers spamming their principal inbox, after they had set it open to obtain DMs from the blue-badged crowd. In different phrases, Twitter has a Verified consumer spam drawback.

Twitter blocks links to Threads

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is pushing again at studies that Twitter visitors is tanking on account of the July 5 launch of a brand new competitor, Instagram Threads. Nevertheless, on Monday, July 10, customers reported that Twitter appears to be selectively blocking hyperlinks to Threads.internet’s web site in Twitter searches, making it harder for anybody to floor conversations on Threads or find customers’ profiles.

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over its new Threads app

Lower than 24 hours after Threads launched, the Elon Musk-owned firm accused Meta of poaching former Twitter staff to create the brand new platform.

“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” Spiro wrote within the letter, which Semafor shared on-line. “Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice to prevent any further retention, disclosure, or use of its intellectual property by Meta.”

June 2023

Only verified users will be able to access TweetDeck after 30 days from now

After swaths of customers have been unable to access parts of TweetDeck over the last few days, Twitter began rolling out a brand new model of the net app to customers July 3. The corporate additionally added that in 30 days, customers should be verified to entry TweetDeck. This implies solely Twitter Blue subscribers, verified organizations and a few people who’ve been gifted verification by Twitter will be capable to use TweetDeck come August.

Twitter limits the number of tweets users can read in a day

Twitter is placing limits to what number of tweets its customers can learn because the social media platform suffers prolonged outage that has stymied customers’ skill to trace new posts.

Verified account holders can peruse a most of 6,000 posts day by day, whereas unverified customers should take care of a drastically decreased restrict of 600 posts. Newly registered, unverified customers face even tighter restrictions with an allowance of a mere 300 posts per day, in keeping with Elon Musk. (He has since elevated the restrict to 10,000, 1,000 and 500, respectively.)

These learn limits impacted TweetDeck users specifically, reporting main issues together with notifications and whole columns failing to load.

Twitter requires an account to view tweets

For those who’re not logged into your Twitter account, or don’t have one, and attempt to view a tweet, you’ll be offered with a sign-in display. Nevertheless, days later, Twitter silently removed the login requirement for viewing tweets.

When Twitter began imposing the login requirement, Musk stated that he took these “temporary” measures to stop information scraping.

The corporate hasn’t made any official announcement about permitting customers to view hyperlinks whenever you aren’t logged in or given any particulars on what measures it has taken to cease scraping.

Subscribers can now post 25,000-character-long tweets

The corporate made the change to its Twitter Blue web page at this time, indicating the restrict. An engineer at Twitter, Prachi Poddar, additionally introduced the change by posting a long tweet.

Twitter faces a $250 million lawsuit filed by major music publishers

The Nationwide Music Publishers’ Affiliation (NMPA), representing 17 publishers, listed 1,700 songs for which it despatched a number of copyright violation notices to Twitter. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court docket in Nashville, says that Twitter didn’t take any motion towards these notices. The publishers’ group stated within the submitting that it’s looking for fines of as much as $150,000 for every violation.

The lawsuit alleged that the social community “fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical ‘compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law.” It added that, in contrast to its opponents TikTok and Instagram, Twitter hasn’t struck a music licensing deal for the usage of copyrighted music.

Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office

Court docket paperwork present that Twitter owes three months’ lease to its Boulder landlord, and a choose has signed off on evicting the tech large from that workplace.

In Might the owner took it to court docket, and on Might 31 the choose issued an order that the sheriff ought to help within the eviction of Twitter throughout the subsequent 49 days — i.e. earlier than the top of July. The case quantity is 2023CV30342 in Boulder District Court docket.

As many as 300 staff as soon as labored in Twitter’s Boulder places of work, however between layoffs, different firings, and resignations, it’s in all probability lower than half of that now.

Window to edit tweets is increased to one hour for Blue subscribers

The time restrict to edit tweets has elevated from half-hour to at least one hour for Blue subscribers, giving customers a much bigger window to alter their tweets and proper any typos.

Linda Yaccarino is officially Twitter CEO

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino formally began her new gig on Monday, June 5, in keeping with a tweet.

It occurred — first day within the books!

Keep tuned…

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayacc) June 6, 2023

Trust and safety lead resigns

Ella Irwin took over for Yoel Roth, who famously left the company in the course of the early days of Elon Musk’s chaotic Twitter takeover.

Might 2023

Twitter launched Community Notes for images in posts

The most recent characteristic is an effort to place extra onus on crowdsourced moderation by permitting customers to deal with situations of morphed pictures or AI-generated pictures throughout the platform the place the pictures are posted. The launches comes days after a pretend AI-generated picture about an attack on the Pentagon spread quickly as distinguished accounts retweeted it.

Twitter’s new API tier costs $5,000 per month

Twitter API Professional for startups offers builders the power to fetch 1 million tweets per 30 days and put up 300,000 tweets per 30 days, and provides them entry to the total archive search endpoint.

Twitter Blue users can now upload two-hour videos

Twitter made adjustments to its paid plan, permitting subscribers to add two-hour movies — increasing the previous 60-minute limit.

The corporate additionally modified its Twitter Blue page and stated the video file measurement restrict for paid customers is now elevated from 2GB to 8GB. Whereas earlier longer video add was solely doable from the net, now it’s additionally doable by way of the iOS app. Regardless of these adjustments, the utmost high quality for add nonetheless stays 1080p.

The rumors are confirmed: NBCU’s leader Linda Yaccarino as the next CEO of Twitter

Musk confirmed Yaccarino’s new position in a tweet this morning (Might 12), a day after he introduced that he had accomplished his seek for a brand new CEO.

Elon Musk tweets that he has found a new CEO 

“Excited to announce that I’ve a new CEO for X/Twitter,” Musk wrote in a tweet on Might 11. “She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.”

Twitter released its first version of encrypted DMs

At the moment, this characteristic is just out there to verified Blue customers or accounts related to verified organizations. Moreover, the encryption characteristic isn’t appropriate with group messages and Twitter doesn’t provide safety towards man-in-the-middle assaults.

Twitter now allows you to react to DMs with emojis

Twitter has launched a brand new characteristic that lets customers select virtually any emoji to react to a DM in a dialog. Beforehand, the corporate allowed you to react to solely the latest DM with solely a choose set of emojis. CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the brand new characteristic is rolling out with the most recent app replace.

Twitter is purging old accounts and freeing up desired usernames, according to Elon Musk 

In line with latest tweets by proprietor Elon Musk, Twitter is purging inactive accounts which have had “no activity at all for several years.”

We’re purging accounts which have had no exercise in any respect for a number of years, so you’ll in all probability see follower rely drop

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 8, 2023

Twitter is contemplating a cheaper verification plan for organizations

Twitter is considering an organizational verification plan that doesn’t value $1,000 a month. Over the Cinco de Mayo weekend, Elon Musk tweeted that the corporate is engaged on a less expensive plan for small companies, however didn’t give any particulars about the price.

We can have a decrease value tier for small companies, however must handle the onboarding of organizations fastidiously to stop fraud.

The $1000/month is supposed for bigger organizations.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed Circle tweets were temporarily not private 

Twitter confirmed a safety error that made Circle tweets floor publicly. TechCrunch reported the glitch in early April, however the platform confirmed the problem Might 5 in an electronic mail despatched to Twitter Circle customers.

“In April 2023, a security incident may have allowed users outside of your Twitter Circle to see tweets that should have otherwise been limited to the Circle to which you were posting,” the e-mail stated. Twitter claims that the bug has now been mounted, and that the group is aware of what brought about it.

Twitter makes its API free for public announcement accounts 

Twitter introduced on Might 2 that it’s making its API free for verified authorities or public-owned providers posting about public utility alerts akin to climate alerts, transportation info and emergency warnings. This comes a month after the corporate introduced its new API pricing tiers.

A bug on Twitter causes legacy blue checks to reappear by updating your bio

It doesn’t appear to matter what textual content you’re including to your bio — TechCrunch reporter Amanda Silberling added a number of areas, then obtained her test again for a second. It even confirmed up with the previous textual content that designates that she is “notable in government, news, entertainment, or another designated category,” and he or she didn’t, the truth is, pay for this. However when you refresh the web page it disappears. In truth, it’s unclear whether or not anybody else may even see your test briefly reappear.

April 2023

EU warns Twitter over disinformation

Twitter was confirmed April 25 as one among 19 major tech platforms subject to centralized oversight by the European Union’s govt beginning this fall, when so-called very giant on-line platforms (VLOPs) are anticipated to be compliant with the Digital Providers Act (DSA). However the Fee has not wasted any time warning the Elon Musk-owned social community that issues aren’t trying good for staying on the correct facet of the incoming regulation.

In a pair of tweets, Vera Jourova, the EU’s values and transparency VP, warned of “yet another negative sign” by Twitter — accusing the platform beneath Musk of “not making digital information space any safer and free from the Kremlin #disinformation & malicious influence”.

Twitter now shows labels on tweets with reduced visibility

Twitter stated that labels will likely be proven to each authors and viewers. Normally, these tweets will present textual content akin to “Visibility limited: this Tweet may violate Twitter’s rules against Hateful Conduct.”

The app’s enforcement policy says that tweets with such labels is not going to present up in search outcomes, suggestions or timelines — these tweets will likely be hidden in each the “For You” and “Following timelines. Moreover, there will likely be no adverts positioned adjoining to posts with decreased visibility.

Twitter restored Blue verification mark for top accounts, even if they didn’t pay for Twitter Blue

Over the April twenty first weekend, a number of prime accounts (with greater than 1 million followers) obtained their verification marks again. Nevertheless, lots of them, together with author Neil Gaiman, footballer Riyad Mahrez, musician Lil Nas X, actress Janel Parrish Lengthy and British TV presenter Richard Osman stated that they didn’t pay for the blue badge.

In March, The New York Times reported that Twitter was contemplating handing out a free verification mark to the highest 10,000 manufacturers and corporations. It’s not clear if the corporate is making use of the identical coverage to private accounts.

Twitter removes ‘government-funded’ news labels

Twitter has eliminated “government-funded media” labels on all accounts, from NPR to the Chinese language state-affiliated Xinhua Information. The app even seems to have deleted its web page explaining the “government-funded media” labels.

Twitter sends an email seemingly requiring advertisers to have a verified checkmark

Several users have posted screenshots of an electronic mail reportedly despatched by Twitter, which states that ranging from April 21, verified checkmarks are required to proceed working adverts on the platform.

WOW… Twitter is now telling advertisers it MUST subscribe to Twitter Blue or Verified Organisations to proceed working adverts! pic.twitter.com/4DrDu82Zi0

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) April 21, 2023

Twitter officially kills legacy blue checkmarks on 4/20

With the legacy checks gone, the app can have verification marks just for paid customers and companies, in addition to authorities entities and officers. Now if a consumer sees a blue test mark and clicks on it, the label reads: “This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.”

Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform

Microsoft is dropping the hen app from its promoting platform beginning on April 25, practically two months after Twitter introduced that it’s going to start charging a minimal of $42,000 per 30 days to customers of its API, together with enterprises and analysis establishments. The strikes imply customers will not be capable to entry their account, or create, schedule or in any other case handle tweets by way of Microsoft’s free social media administration service.

Twitter proprietor Elon Musk threatened to take authorized motion:

They skilled illegally utilizing Twitter information. Lawsuit time.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 19, 2023

Twitter quietly removes policy against misgendering trans people

Twitter up to date its content material moderation pointers concerning hateful content material, eradicating a coverage that prohibited the focused deadnaming or misgendering of transgender individuals. Enacted in 2018, the coverage explicitly said that it violated Twitter’s guidelines to repeatedly and purposefully name a transgender particular person by the fallacious identify or pronouns.

Twitter to label tweets that get downranked for violating its hate speech policy

Twitter plans to “soon” start including seen labels on tweets which have been recognized as probably violating its insurance policies, which has impacted their visibility. It didn’t say when precisely the system can be absolutely rolled out throughout its community.

Sometimes, when tweets violate Twitter’s insurance policies, one of many actions the corporate can take is to restrict the attain of these tweets — or one thing it calls “visibility filtering.” In these situations, the tweets stay on-line however turn out to be much less discoverable, as they’re excluded from areas like search outcomes, developments, really useful notifications, For You and Following timelines, and extra.

Traditionally, the broader public wouldn’t essentially know if a tweet had been moderated on this means. Now Twitter says that may change.

10,000-character-long tweets for Blue subscribers

Twitter’s new characteristic will let Blue subscribers put up 10,000-character-long posts — as if the social community is trying to compete with a rival newsletter platform. Twitter has additionally added help for daring and italic textual content formatting.

Lengthy-form writing can be not totally new. Final June, the corporate launched a program referred to as Twitter Notes for select writers. Nevertheless, that program was shut down beneath Musk. After taking up the corporate he also killed newsletter tool Revue, a startup Twitter had acquired in 2021.

NPR, PBS and a handful of other news organizations bail on Twitter as Musk meddles with account labels

A PBS spokesperson confirmed to Axios that PBS had “no plans to resume tweeting” after Twitter gave it a murky “government-funded media” label over the weekend. A couple of other news entities appeared to have adopted go well with, together with the distinguished Boston NPR affiliate WBUR, Hawaii Public Radio and LA-based native information supply LAist.

The Australian Broadcasting Firm (ABC Australia), Australia’s Particular Broadcasting Service (SBS), New Zealand’s public broadcaster RNZ, Sweden’s SR Ekot and SVT, and Catalonia’s TV3.cat a were labeled “government-funded media” weeks later.

Twitter partners with eToro to show real-time stock and crypto information

This expands upon the social community’s Cashtag characteristic, which offered data about a limited number of stocks and crypto coins through TradingView data.

The brand new partnership with eToro goes past simply displaying info. It additionally redirects customers to the eToro website the place they will interact in buying and selling. For those who seek for a inventory on Twitter, you will note a button saying “View on eToro,” which redirects to the location.

🎉Very excited to be launching a brand new $Cashtags partnership with @Twitter which is able to allow Twitter customers to see real-time costs for a a lot wider vary of shares, crypto & different belongings in addition to having the choice to speculate by way of eToro. @elonmusk https://t.co/Iv2q9iNxbf

— eToro (@eToro) April 13, 2023

Elon Musk says he only bought Twitter because he thought he’d be forced to 

Elon Musk gave a uncommon interview to an precise reporter late on Tuesday, talking to BBC reporter James Clayton on Twitter Areas. Throughout the interview, Clayton pressed Musk on whether or not his buy of Twitter was, ultimately, one thing he went by way of with willingly, or whether or not it was one thing he did as a result of the lively court docket case on the time by which Twitter was making an attempt to power him to undergo with the sale was going badly.

The reply was that Musk did certainly solely do the deal as a result of he believed legally, he was going to be compelled to take action anyway.

Elon Musk says Twitter will officially remove legacy checkmarks on 4/20

That is the “final date,” he stated in a tweet. If the transfer goes by way of, Twitter can have verification marks just for paid customers and companies, and authorities entities and officers.

Last date for eradicating legacy Blue checks is 4/20

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023

Twitter, Inc. is now X Corp.

Twitter, Inc. is now referred to as X Corp., in keeping with a court filing in California.

Since Twitter is not a public firm, it doesn’t should report updates like identify adjustments to the SEC. However in any case, the brand new identify was noticed in an April 4 doc associated to far-right activist Laura Loomer’s lawsuit towards Twitter and Fb.

“Twitter, Inc. has been merged into X Corp. and no longer exists,” the doc states.

Ex-Twitter CEO and other execs sue firm over unpaid legal bills

The lawsuit, filed in Delaware Chancery Court docket, alleged that Twitter has to pay greater than $1 million to the previous executives for authorized payments they incurred whereas on the firm to answer requests by the Division of Justice and Securities and Change Fee.

Twitter Circle tweets aren’t very private

Quite a few Twitter customers reported a bug on April 10 by which Circle tweets are surfacing on the algorithmically generated For You timeline. That implies that your supposedly non-public posts would possibly breach containment to achieve an unintended viewers, which might rapidly spark some uncomfortable conditions.

TechCrunch has spoken to a number of customers who’ve additionally skilled this glitch firsthand; many more have reported the glitch of their tweets. Most frequently, evidently Circle tweets are being surfaced within the For You timeline to customers who comply with the poster, however should not of their Circle. Others have reported that their Circle tweets are reaching even additional than those that comply with them.

A year later, Twitter is now resurfacing official Russian accounts in search results

The Elon Musk-owned platform has resumed surfacing accounts of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Embassy in search outcomes. A former Twitter worker instructed the publication that this transfer is probably going due to a coverage change.

Twitter won’t let you retweet, like or reply to Substack links

Twitter is censoring Substack hyperlinks by making the posts inconceivable to answer to, like or retweet. Whereas quote-tweeting works, merely urgent the retweet button surfaces an error message: “Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter.”

You didn’t hear this from us, however when you hyperlink to a Substack by way of a redirected URL, it appears to put up with out restrictions.

Twitter Blue subscribers will now be shown ‘half ads’ on the platform

Twitter is rolling out further options for Blue subscribers together with exhibiting 50% of adverts of their timeline in comparison with non-paid customers and a visibility enhance in search.

“As you scroll, you will see approximately twice as many organic or non-promoted Tweets placed in between promoted Tweets or ads. There may be times when there are more or fewer non-promoted Tweets between promoted Tweets,” Twitter’s description of the characteristic says.

Whereas Twitter is claiming to scale back adverts on paid subscribers’ feeds, it’s arduous to show if they’re really seeing fewer adverts other than anecdotal experiences.

Twitter singles NPR out with misleading state-backed media label

NPR’s Twitter account on the platform now comes with a tag denoting it as “US state-affiliated media.” However NPR doesn’t meet Twitter’s personal definition for a state-affiliated account:

State-affiliated media is outlined as shops the place the state workouts management over editorial content material by way of monetary sources, direct or oblique political pressures, and/or management over manufacturing and distribution…

State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, just like the BBC within the UK for instance, should not outlined as state-affiliated media for the needs of this coverage.

GET REKT @NPR

Properly completed, @elonmusk 🤣 pic.twitter.com/jvX15QWSf5

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 5, 2023

NPR later announced that it’s going to not be posting content material to its 52 official Twitter feeds, changing into the primary main information group to go silent on the social media platform.

Twitter’s verification changes feel like an accidental April Fools’ joke

Musk had claimed that beginning on April 1, blue checkmarks that beforehand indicated that an account was official, verified and notable can be maintained solely for individuals who have a subscription to Twitter Blue. The change can be a part of a wider push for Twitter to gate beforehand free options, and bundle new ones, beneath the $8 per 30 days Twitter Blue subscription, which prices $11 on iOS and Android gadgets.

As quite a few celebrities and companies spoke out to say they wouldn’t pay the $8 price, it appeared that eradicating so many blue checks can be simpler stated than completed. As an alternative, Twitter merely updated the text accompanying a blue test to make it unclear whether or not somebody was verified for being notable, or for paying for Twitter Blue. In an final act of pettiness, Twitter eliminated The New York Instances’ verification test when the information large stated it wouldn’t pay for verification.

Based mostly on early returns, the revamped Twitter Blue has yet to contribute significantly to Twitter’s bottom line, with simply $11 million generated from cell signups in its first three months.

March 2023

Twitter announces new API tiers; free, basic and enterprise levels

The three API tiers embrace a free degree meant for content material posting bots, a $100/month primary degree and a pricey enterprise degree. Subscribing to any degree will get entry to the Advertisements API at no further value. 

Twitter talked about that over the following 30 days, the corporate will discontinue previous entry ranges, together with Commonplace (for v1.1), Important and Elevated (for v2), and Premium.

Developers remain unhappy with Twitter’s new API construction.

Introducing a brand new type of Free (v2) entry for write-only use circumstances and people testing the Twitter API with 1,500 Tweets/month on the app degree, media add endpoints, and Login with Twitter.

Get began: https://t.co/CqCRD3vbE5

— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) March 29, 2023

Elon Musk says Twitter will only show verified accounts on its “For You” timeline starting April 15

Musk justified the transfer by saying this was the “only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over.”

Beginning April fifteenth, solely verified accounts will likely be eligible to be in For You suggestions.

The is the one practical strategy to deal with superior AI bot swarms taking up. It’s in any other case a hopeless shedding battle.

Voting in polls would require verification for similar motive.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2023

New Twitter accounts now have to wait only 30 days to purchase Twitter Blue

Twitter decreases the wait to buy Twitter Blue for newly created Twitter accounts from 90 days to 30 days.

“New subscriptions to Twitter Blue are available globally on web, iOS, or Android. Not all features are available on all platforms. Newly created Twitter accounts will not be able to subscribe to Twitter Blue for 30 days. We may also impose waiting periods for new accounts in the future at our discretion, and without notice,” the Twitter Blue web page reads.

Twitter to kill ‘legacy’ blue checks on April 1

Twitter introduced that the elimination of legacy blue checkmarks will start April 1 for customers that aren’t subscribed to Twitter Blue.

Elon tweeted back in December that the corporate will take away legacy checkmarks “in a few months.” After that, customers with legacy blue checks had been seeing a pop-up after they clicked on their checkmark, which learn, “This is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.” However as soon as Twitter botched this elimination of checkmarks, they modified the copy once more — as of now, users cannot distinguish whether someone has a checkmark as a result of they paid, or as a result of they have been deemed notable.

On April 1st, we are going to start winding down our legacy verified program and eradicating legacy verified checkmarks. To maintain your blue checkmark on Twitter, people can join Twitter Blue right here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOpLp

Organizations can join https://t.co/RlN5BbuGA3…

— Twitter Verified (@verified) March 23, 2023

Twitter’s privacy-preserving Tor service goes dark

Twitter’s Tor service, a model of the location that may very well be accessed even in international locations the place the social community is banned, has gone darkish after the corporate didn’t renew its certificates, which expired on March 6.

Pavel Zoneff, director of strategic communications on the Tor Challenge, instructed TechCrunch that the location “is no longer available seemingly with no plans to renew.”

Twitter Blue is now available in more than 20 countries

This growth makes the social community’s subscription service out there in additional than 35 international locations the world over.

These international locations embrace Netherlands, Poland, Eire, Belgium, Sweden, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta and Cyprus.

February 2023

Layoffs continue

Twitter laid off greater than 200 staff in its fourth spherical of cuts, together with loyalist Esther Crawford — the chief govt of Twitter funds who oversaw the corporate’s Twitter Blue verification subscription.

Twitter’s employees is down from about 7,500 staff to lower than 2,000 since Musk.

A number of hypothesis amongst ex staff that Musk have to be about to put in an entire new regime and that’s why he’s cleansing home. In any other case the cuts don’t make sense. “Hard to keep the lights on with the people who are still left,” one ex supervisor instructed me.

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) February 26, 2023

One of many quite a few rounds of cuts eradicated the platform’s complete accessibility group. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) referred to as on Elon Musk to carry the accessibility group again in an open letter. Markey requested a response by March 17.

Twitter allows cannabis ads in states where it’s legal

After updating its ad policy on February 15, Twitter turned the primary social media app within the U.S. to permit hashish promoting. Hashish adverts will run on Twitter in U.S. states the place hashish is authorized and in Canada.

Twitter delays launch of its new API platform…again

The preliminary date set to chop free entry to Twitter’s API was February 9, which was then prolonged to February 13. Now, the social community has delayed the shutdown once more, this time with no date set.

There was an immense quantity of enthusiasm for the upcoming adjustments with Twitter API. As a part of our efforts to create an optimum expertise for the developer neighborhood, we will likely be delaying the launch of our new API platform by a number of extra days.

Extra info to comply with…

— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) February 13, 2023

The delay jeopardizes the plans of builders and startups constructing instruments across the Twitter API as they wouldn’t have any readability on future spending and price range allocation on the developer platform.

Twitter’s basic tier of its API will cost $100 per month

The corporate initially deliberate to close down free entry to its API on February 9. Now it has prolonged this deadline to February 13. Twitter stated that it’s going to cost $100 per 30 days for the essential tier of API. This can get builders entry to a “low level of API usage,” in addition to the Advertisements API.

We now have been busy with some updates to the Twitter API so you’ll be able to proceed to construct and innovate with us.

We’re excited to announce an extension of the present free Twitter API entry by way of February 13. Right here’s what we’re transport then 🧵

— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) February 8, 2023

When builders making an attempt to hunt readability across the new API guidelines went to the developer forum website, they discovered that the location had been put behind a login. The discussion board was lastly accessible 4 days afterward February 13.

Twitter Blue introduces 4,000-character tweets

Twitter introduced the power to put up longer tweets for paid customers on February 8. As an alternative of being restricted to 280 characters, paying Blue subscribers can put up tweets which can be as much as 4,000 characters.

Whereas solely Twitter Blue subscribers can put up lengthy tweets, all customers will be capable to learn them. You will note solely the primary 280 characters on the timeline, and if you wish to learn extra, you’ll be able to click on on “Show more.”

want greater than 280 characters to precise your self?

we all know that plenty of you do… and whereas we love a superb thread, typically you simply need to Tweet every little thing abruptly. we get that.

so we’re introducing longer Tweets! you’re gonna need to test this out. faucet this 👉…

— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) February 8, 2023

Elon Musk claims Twitter will start sharing ad revenue with creators

Elon Musk introduced in a tweet on February 3 that the corporate would quickly start sharing promoting income with creators on the platform for the primary time. He follows up the announcement with a catch: Eligible customers have to be signed up for Twitter Blue.

Payouts have but to reach creators’ wallets.

More monetization pushes: Twitter Blue expands new countries, brings back Spaces curation

Twitter Blue subscriptions are actually out there in Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain, making it 12 areas in complete to which customers can subscribe to it as of February 2. On February 8, Twitter Blue extended services further to India, Indonesia and Brazil.

Twitter additionally introduced launching a brand new Areas tab with curated stations for reside and recorded areas, together with podcasts. The social community is making podcasts out there solely to Blue subscribers and “some people on Twitter for iOS and Twitter for Android apps.”

Twitter to end free access to its API

Twitter will discontinue providing free entry to the Twitter API beginning February 9 and can launch a paid model, Twitter stated because it appears to be like for extra avenues to monetize the platform.

Beginning February 9, we are going to not help free entry to the Twitter API, each v2 and v1.1. A paid primary tier will likely be out there as a substitute 🧵

— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) February 2, 2023

Every week later and days earlier than the February 9 deadline, Elon Musk stated that after getting suggestions from builders, Twitter will provide a write-only API for “bots providing good content that is free.”

Twitter discontinues CoTweets

Twitter announced February 1 that it’s discontinuing CoTweeting, a characteristic that allowed two customers to co-author a tweet. Customers will be capable to view the set of co-tweets for a month. After that, they are going to be mechanically transformed to retweets on the co-author’s profile.

January 2023

Twitter partners with DoubleVerify and IAS on brand safety initiative

As a consequence of declining advert income and advertiser exits, Twitter introduced on January 25 that it has teamed up with adtech corporations DoubleVerify and Integral Advert Science (IAS) to inform advertisers if their advert is positioned round inappropriate content material. This system, out there first for U.S.-based promoting campaigns, permits manufacturers to investigate the content material adjoining to — primarily tweets above and under the advert — all forms of adverts, together with promoted tweets.

Twitter rolls out its bookmark feature on iOS

The brand new design shows the bookmark button beneath the expanded tweet view, making it simpler so as to add a put up to your bookmarks.

Earlier than the change, you needed to faucet on the share button to open the sharing card after which faucet on the bookmark choice to save lots of a tweet. Along with the brand new button, as quickly as you faucet on the button, you will note a banner on the prime of the display that claims “Show all bookmarks.”

The choice is at present seen solely on the iOS app, however we will anticipate that Twitter will roll this out to Android and the net quickly.

Picture Credit: Twitter

Twitter quietly bans third-party clients

After cutting off prominent app makers like Tweetbot and Twitterific, Twitter quietly up to date its developer phrases to ban third-party clients altogether on January 19.

The “restrictions” part of the corporate’s developer agreement was up to date with a clause prohibiting “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.” Earlier within the week, the corporate stated that it was “enforcing long-standing API rules” in disallowing shoppers entry to its platform however didn’t cite which particular guidelines builders have been violating.

In consequence, third-party Twitter shoppers started offloading their apps from App Stores.

Twitter now offers an annual Blue subscription

Customers now have an opportunity to get a reduction for $84/12 months in the event that they buy an annual Blue subscription on the internet.

Twitter Blue, together with the brand new annual plan, is at present out there within the U.S., the U.Okay., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Picture Credit: Twitter

Twitter HQ furniture auctions

In a wierd try to earn a living, Twitter is auctioning off surplus office furniture (public sale is now closed) that it doesn’t want anymore, now that hundreds of staff have both left the company or been laid off. While you’re quickly shedding advertisers and apparently not paying your rent, why not go for the hail mary?

Twitter makes algorithmic “For You” timeline the default

The corporate has tried to tug this stunt previously, solely to provide the choice to modify again to a chronological timeline after a lot of backlashes.

What’s totally different this time? The Elon Musk-led firm is now exhibiting each algorithmic and chronological feeds side-by-side. Customers can change between them by swiping on their telephone screens. Till now, customers needed to faucet on the glint icon within the top-right nook to modify between the “Home” and “Latest” timelines. Twitter is justifying its newest change by saying that customers can now simply swipe between the renamed “For You” and “Following” timelines.

• January 13: Twitter rolled out the dual-timeline replace to the net however at the moment the social community used to recollect your selection.
• January 20: The corporate made the “For You” feed default on the internet when customers first opened Twitter in a tab or refreshed the web page.
• January 24: Now, Twitter remembers your decisions once more.
• February 7: Twitter remembers your decisions once more on iOS and Android, too.

Now you can simply change between “For you” and “Following” on internet. Android coming quickly 👀

— Twitter Assist (@TwitterSupport) January 13, 2023

Twitter’s advanced search filters for mobile are said to be coming soon

In line with social media analyst Matt Navarra, Twitter’s superior search filters for cell are coming quickly.

Right here’s what it appears to be like like:

NEW! Twitter Superior Search characteristic on iOS is coming quickly 👀👇 https://t.co/ae56yE3JTU pic.twitter.com/xbQUpQJAlS

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) January 4, 2023

Twitter lifts the political ad ban to bolster revenue

The corporate initially enforced the ban back in 2019. At the moment, it stated that “political message reach should be earned, not bought.” Twitter charted a unique path from different social networks like Fb and Instagram, which allowed political adverts.

The corporate’s announcement to raise the political advert ban comes at a time when advertisers have been pulling back spending on the platform, and the corporate has been reducing down its internal revenue projections.

December 2022

Twitter Blue users can now upload 60-minute videos

On December 23, the Twitter Blue page was up to date declaring that subscribers can now add 60-minute movies from the net at 1080p decision and 2GB in file measurement.

Layoffs continue, impacting employees in public policy, engineering

In line with posts on Twitter and LinkedIn from a former public coverage worker on December 22, Twitter minimize half of its public coverage group.

The corporate additionally laid off some engineers in infrastructure by way of electronic mail on December 16. Throughout all of Twitter, it’s estimated that about 75% of staff have both chosen to depart or have been laid off since Elon Musk took possession of the corporate in October.

Twitter now displays stock and cryptocurrency prices directly in search results

To entry the brand new characteristic, customers have to only kind the greenback image adopted by the related ticker image, e.g. “$GOOG” or “$ETH” (minus the quote marks), within the search bar and Twitter will show the present value. This additionally works with out utilizing the $ image in some cases, but it surely’s much less constant and doesn’t at all times return the inventory or crypto costs as requested.

If somebody desires to know extra particulars a few inventory or cryptocurrency, they will hit the “View on Robinhood” button.

$Cashtags, now with information 📈

👀 $SPY 👇 pic.twitter.com/XgOK6gf02E

— Twitter Enterprise (@TwitterBusiness) December 21, 2022

You can now see how many people view your tweets

A tweet’s View Depend will likely be seen to everybody, not simply the proprietor of the account.

“Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is normal for video,” Elon Musk wrote in a tweet. “Shows how much more alive Twitter is than it may seem, as over 90% of Twitter users read, but don’t tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions.”

Twitter Blue for Business now allows companies to identify their employees

Twitter’s product supervisor Esther Crawford said the social media platform is launching a pilot program for Blue for Enterprise with choose companies. The corporate plans to develop this to extra organizations subsequent 12 months.

We’re launching the pilot of Blue for Enterprise so starting at this time you’ll begin seeing firm badges on choose profiles. We’ll quickly be increasing this system and sit up for having extra companies added within the new 12 months! https://t.co/ytnMRO5rcE

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) December 19, 2022

Twitter goes on an account suspension spree, including prominent journalists

A day after Twitter crafted a brand new coverage to elucidate its resolution to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet, Twitter also suspended its open source competitor Mastodon from the service.

Inside the similar day, Twitter suspended plenty of distinguished journalists on the platform with out warning. “Same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else,” Elon Musk tweeted in a reply in regards to the journalists’ suspensions.

The corporate seemingly had a glitch that allowed banned customers to nonetheless take part in Twitter Areas. A gaggle of the banned journalists began a bunch dialog on Areas the place Musk himself joined in. Shortly after, the app pulled its Spaces group audio feature quickly.

Twitter shuts down Revue, its newsletter platform

Revue, the e-newsletter platform acquired by Twitter in January 2021, sent a message to newsletter writers on December 14 declaring, “We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Revue.” Writers had till January 18, 2023 to retrieve their information in the beginning was deleted.

Twitter disperses the Trust & Safety Council

Twitter dispersed the advisory group consisting of roughly 100 impartial researchers and human rights activists from all over the world. The council members obtained an electronic mail on Monday, December 12 from the corporate saying that the Belief & Security Council is “not the best structure” to get exterior insights into the corporate product and coverage technique.

Elon Musk says Twitter will remove all legacy verifications ‘in a few months’

Twitter will take away all legacy blue checkmarks “in a few months,” Elon Musk tweeted on December 12. Earlier than Musk purchased Twitter, checkmarks have been used to confirm people and entities as lively, genuine and notable accounts of curiosity.

This previous week, many blue checkmark holders have been seeing a pop-up after they click on on their blue checkmark that reads, “This is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.”

Twitter Blue relaunches with new verification process, plus Blue for Business

Twitter is formally bringing again the Twitter Blue subscription on December 12, beginning in 5 international locations earlier than rapidly expanding to others. The app updated its terms to specify that users will need to verify their phone numbers earlier than buying the Twitter Blue subscription.

Net sign-ups will value $8 per 30 days and iOS signal ups will value $11 per 30 days for “access to subscriber-only features, including the blue checkmark,” per a tweet from the corporate account. Twitter Blue became available on Android on the similar value as iOS in January 2023.

Along with the relaunch of Twitter Blue, the corporate additionally started rolling out a new offering called Blue for Business that provides a gold checkmark to firm accounts.

Twitter’s Community Notes feature is now global

Group Notes, beforehand often known as Birdwatch, are actually seen all over the world. Group Notes is the social media large’s crowdsourced fact-checking system.

Moderators who’re a part of this system can add notes to tweets so as to add context and customers can then vote in the event that they decide the context to be useful. Previous to this world growth, Group Notes have been solely seen to customers within the U.S. Twitter added moderators from the U.Okay., Eire, Australia and New Zealand in January 2023.

Twitter announces charging $11 on iOS for Blue subscription to offset App Store fees

When Twitter launched its new subscription plan with a verification mark on November 9, it charged customers $7.99 per 30 days. In an try to offset App Retailer charges, the corporate is charging iOS customers $11 for the brand new subscription plan — although the Twitter Blue plan is on halt.

November 2022

Twitter’s Community Notes updated to better address ‘low quality’ contributions

The platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, Group Notes, are notes written by customers which can be appended to tweets to supply additional clarification and context.

The Group Notes algorithm change includes scoring notes the place contributors clarify why a tweet shouldn’t be deemed deceptive.

Twitter announces a new multicolored verification system

Elon Musk publicizes that Twitter will tentatively roll out a brand new multicolored verification system the place corporations will get a gold checkmark, authorities officers will get a gray checkmark and the blue checkmark will likely be devoted to people even when they don’t seem to be celebrities. Meaning the blue checkmark will likely be used with legacy verified accounts and folk who purchase the corporate’s proposed $8 per month paid plan.

For those who’re confused about all of the checkmarks, you’re not alone. Right here’s a quick guide on what every checkmark and badge means.

Twitter Blue verification chaos ensues

On November 9, CEO Elon Musk floated adjustments to Twitter’s system for verifying consumer accounts, together with charging $8 per month for it. The social media firm seemingly started rolling out a brand new tier of Twitter Blue, its premium subscription service. In line with a tweet by Esther Crawford, a former product lead, the brand new Twitter Blue plan wasn’t but reside, however some customers noticed notifications as a part of a reside check.

The brand new Blue isn’t reside but — the dash to our launch continues however some people may even see us making updates as a result of we’re testing and pushing adjustments in real-time. The Twitter group is famous. 🫡 New Blue… coming quickly! https://t.co/ewTSTjx3t7

— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 5, 2022

The corporate additionally launched grey-colored official checkmarks for notable accounts akin to corporations and politicians. However inside hours of the launch, Elon Musk killed it. Crawford clarified that the gray “Official” labels are nonetheless going out as a part of the brand new Twitter Blue product.

The brand new $8 Twitter Blue plan started rolling out to iOS customers within the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.Okay with the one characteristic out there on the time being the blue “verified” checkmark. This brought about a number of fake accounts pretending to be celebrities, manufacturers and in any other case influential individuals to create accounts and unfold misinformation.

The Twitter exodus begins with mass layoffs and exits

Elon Musk laid off 3,700 individuals on November 3, virtually half its employees, shortly after finishing the acquisition. Twitter was sued in a category motion lawsuit in response to not giving staff advance discover of a mass layoff, alleging Twitter violated employee safety legal guidelines.

Every week later, the app reached out to some former staff to return as they have been laid off “by mistake.”

Along with layoffs, a round of executive departures additionally swept by way of the corporate. In Musk’s first email to his new staff, he talked about ending distant work and making the struggle towards spam a precedence.

October 2022

Elon Musk is revamping Twitter’s verification system

Twitter begins overhauling a brand new and dearer model of Twitter Blue, the platform’s paid plan, that may reportedly value $19.99 per 30 days and provides customers a verified badge. On the time, Twitter Blue value $4.99 per 30 days within the U.S.

In line with a report from The Verge, the corporate plans to take away verification badges from present holders in the event that they don’t pay for Twitter Blue inside 90 days of launching the brand new verification system.

Elon Musk officially owns Twitter

Elon Musk closed on his $44 billion acquisition of the hen app on October 27, 2022. The deal got here after months of legal drama, bad memes and will-they-or-won’t-they-chaos. After sealing the deal, Musk took Twitter private and started clearing house. On day one, he fired former CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, normal counsel Sean Edgett and head of Authorized, Belief and Security Vijaya Gadde.