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AI Menace: Twitter ‘verified’ troll account posts AI-image of blast at Pentagon, US stock market dips
Mehul Das • 2 years agoAn AI-generated image exposed, how Twitter's paid verification programme has become a joke. A Twitter troll posted a fake image of a supposed blast near Pentagon, which caused a dip in the US stock market.
Elon Musk launches ‘deeply inferior’ encrypted DMs for Twitter Blue users, service riled with issues
Mehul Das • 2 years agoElon Musk-led Twitter has finally launched encrypted DMs for Twitter Blue subscribers. However, users are reporting that there are some glaring issues and bugs with the new feature. Even Musk tweeted out, saying that users should try it out, but not trust it yet.
Explained: Why Elon Musk's Twitter is cancelling some accounts
• 2 years agoElon Musk has announced that Twitter is cancelling accounts that haven't been used for a long time. The move comes as the billionaire tries to ramp up engagement, and opportunities to make money, at the online platform he bought for $44 billion last year
Unsubscribing From Blue: Over half of Twitter Blue’s initial adopters cancel their subscriptions
Mehul Das • 2 years agoOver half of Twitter's initial Twitter Blue subscribers have now cancelled their subscriptions. Over 150,000 users initially signed up for Twitter Blue within days of its launch, but only 68,157 of them kept their subscriptions.
Twitter Blue Tick Fiasco: Elon Musk may get sued for forcibly giving some users Twitter's Blue Tick
Mehul Das • 2 years agoTwitter faces a number of lawsuits in the US as well as Europe for forcibly giving some accounts the Twitter Blue Tick and having the terms and conditions claim that Blue Tick owners have subscribed to Twitter Blue and had their numbers verified.
Twitter’s Blue Tick Mystery: How did dead celebs like Sushant Singh Rajput, and Michael Jackson ‘pay’ for the label?
Fp Explainers • 2 years agoTwitter seems to be one of the biggest mysteries of recent times. After a blue tick cull, the platform started mysteriously reinstating the label – even for profiles of actors Sushant Singh Rajput and Rishi Kapoor, pop star Michael Jackson, and former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, who are no more
Elon Musk's Twitter Blue hopes dashed: Less than 5% of legacy accounts paid for Twitter Blue
Mehul Das • 2 years agoA Berlin-based researcher looked into Twitter's data and found out that only five per cent of legacy-verified users subscribed to the new verification programme. As a result, Elon Musk has to rely on some unusual tricks to popularise the subscription-based Blue Tick.
Ronaldo, Kohli, Tendulkar, Federer lose Twitter blue ticks: 'Who cares if you have it or not?'
Fpsports • 2 years agoSome of the biggest global and Indian athletes have lost their legacy Twitter blue tick marks which ensured verification status.
Twitter's Blue Tick purge: Who still has the verification mark, who doesn't?
• 2 years agoElon Musk's long-promised move to strip free blue ticks from Twitter users swung into action on Thursday. Many high-profile accounts, including the Pope and former US president Donald Trump, had their checkmarks removed
Payday For Twitter Creators: Elon Musk unveils monetisation plans for creators to earn through sub plans
Mehul Das • 2 years agoTwitter is ramping up its creator economy and has decided to let creators offer subscriptions to their followers. Twitter also said that they won't charge commission on those subscription, and will pass the entire amount that they receive from users, to creators.