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Elon Musk’s fiefdom: Chief Twit fires Twitter engineer for falling engagement on his personal profile
Elon Musk was told by his team of engineers that the reason for falling engagement on his personal Twitter account was due to a slightly reduced popularity and virality, based on data and numbers. Upon learning this, Musk fired the engineer who tried to explain this to him
Twitter splits user’s feed into two, will roll out its own TikTok-like ‘For You’ page
Twitter, like all other social media platforms, is trying to become more and more like TikTok. The latest feature that Twitter copied has not gone down well with regular users of the blue-bird app.
Twitter starts showing how many views posts gets, Musk says Tweets read exponentially more than they are liked
The view counter under each tweet shows how active Twitter as a platform is. However, the counter may not be an accurate representation of the popularity or virality of a tweet, as the count may be overinflated.
Twitter to add a bunch of new features like encrypted DMs, video and voice calling
Musk plans on adding a bunch of niche features that would make Twitter Blue or other subscription services worthwhile for users to pay for. The first set of these features will focus on DMs, video and voice chats.
Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover. What changes will the billionaire introduce?
‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk has long had ideas to make Twitter ‘maximum amazing’. With his takeover completed, the billionaire could make updates such as reinstating Donald Trump and defeating spam bots
Twitter is overhauling tags, will start testing the redesigns with some users in the US
The labels are an update from those Twitter used for election misinformation before and after the 2020 presidential contest.
Twitter may soon rollout Facebook-like 'cheer', 'sad', 'hmm', and 'haha' emoji reactions
While clearly inspired by Facebook reactions, Twitter may take a different approach on the moods or emotions that users will be able to use to react on a post.
Twitter scraps automated image-cropping algorithm, says it cropped out Blacks and females
Twitter says it found the algorithm delivered "unequal treatment based on demographic differences", and "objectification" bias that focused on a woman's chest or legs.
Twitter will now allow iOS users to watch YouTube videos directly from timeline
Earlier, to watch videos on Twitter, people had to click on the link, only to be directed to another page to watch it.
Twitter rolls back threaded conversation feature, pulls the plug on its prototype app called Twttr
The company said that it is killing Twttr prototype so that they can concentrate on new tests to improve the conversation experience on Twitter.
Twitter now lets users control who can reply to their tweet: How it works
People who can’t reply will still be able to view, Retweet, Retweet with Comment, share, and like these Tweets.
Twitter will now let you record 140-seconds audio clips as 'voice tweets'
For now, only iOS users will be able to voice tweet, however, all users will be able to listen to that tweet.
Twitter rolls out 'retweet with comment' feature for Android and the web
This Twitter feature will let you keep track of your tweets without searching for them manually as we did up till now.
Twitter is testing a feature that will let users choose who can reply to their tweets
Users can decide if everyone, or people they follow or, people they mentioned can reply to their tweet.
Twitter is testing a new layout that will make reading threaded conversations easier
Twitter said that some of its users will see a new layout for replies, with lines and indentations.
Twitter puts 'manipulated media' label on edited clip of Biden retweeted by Trump
Twitter implemented its new policy, which labels tweets with manipulated or synthetic media such as deepfakes or more manually edited videos, on 5 March.
How to use the 'continue thread' feature on Twitter
With this new Twitter feature, you won't have to manually find the tweet to start a thread.
Twitter testing labels to fight misinformation, launches 'continue thread' feature
It was reported that Twitter company documents showing a mockup of the new approach were accessible on a publicly available website.
Twitter will probably never rollout an edit feature, says CEO Jack Dorsey
That is the most conclusive answer Dorsey or anyone from Twitter has ever given about the feature.
CES 2020: Twitter to soon let you control replies on a tweet directly from the compose box
Twitter to soon allow users to decide before they post a tweet if and who they want to allow to reply to the post.