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Several celebrities refuse to pay Musk $8 for Twitter Blue
Several celebrities refuse to pay Musk $8 for Twitter Blue

Musk now wants everyone to pay $8 a month (Rs 900 in India a month) for verified Blue check marks, and all legacy Blue badges are set to go away any moment.

  • Sunday, 02 April 2023
Twitter bans record over 6.8 lakh accounts in India amid major overhaul
Twitter bans record over 6.8 lakh accounts in India amid major overhaul

The micro-blogging platform, going through a churning under Musk, also took down 1,548 accounts for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country.

  • Saturday, 01 April 2023
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White House refuses to pay for Twitter's Blue verification: Report

According to a report in Axios, White House director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, has sent guidance to the staffers via an email.

  • Saturday, 01 April 2023
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Twitter 'Verification for Organisations' now available globally

Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Friday announced that its 'Verification for Organisations' service is now available globally.

  • Friday, 31 March 2023
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Paid account social media will be only media that matters: Musk

Twitter boss Elon Musk on Monday said that paid verification increases the cost of bots by 10,000 per cent and makes it much easier to identify bots by phone, so paid accounts will be the only social media that matters.

  • Monday, 27 March 2023
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Twitter Blue subscription users may hide their paid check marks soon

App researcher Alessandro Paluzzi posted on Twitter that the micro-blogging platform is working on a control panel for verification settings.

  • Saturday, 25 March 2023
Woman says paneer is better than chicken, sparks war on Twitter
Woman says paneer is better than chicken, sparks war on Twitter

Soon, Twitterati flooded the comment section with their thoughts and opinions. Since being shared online, the post has already got 723.2k views, with 2533 likes, 721 quotes and 199 retweets.

  • Saturday, 25 March 2023
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Legacy Twitter Blue badges to be removed from April 1, pay Rs 9,400 a year in India

Elon Musk on Friday said that Twitter will remove all legacy Blue verified checkmarks for both individual users and organisations from April 1. Twitter Blue in India will cost Rs 9,400 a year for individual users.

  • Friday, 24 March 2023
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Twitter to soon increase long-form tweets to 10k characters: Musk

Musk replied: "Increasing long form to 10k characters soon, along with simple formatting tools."

  • Tuesday, 21 March 2023
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Twitter will prioritise replies by people you follow, verified, unverified accounts: Musk

Twitter boss Elon Musk has announced a new feature on the microblogging platform that will prioritise replies from people you follow, verified accounts, and unverified accounts in the coming weeks.

  • Sunday, 19 March 2023
‘Mujhe Bhaiya Mat Bulao’: Rapido driver sends lewd messages to woman passenger on WhatsApp
‘Mujhe Bhaiya Mat Bulao’: Rapido driver sends lewd messages to woman passenger on WhatsApp

Sharing the screenshot, the woman wrote, “Shared my location with a captain at @rapidobikeapp and this is what I get. F*k Your App, Fk Your Men, F*k Men.”

  • Thursday, 16 March 2023
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Musk apologizes after mocking physically-challenged Twitter employee

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has apologisedAafter publicly mocking a physically-challenged employee who was unsure if he had been fired by the company.

  • Thursday, 09 March 2023
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Twitter suffers problems with links, images

According to reports on third-party web monitoring service Downdetector, the issues began at around 11:50 a.m. ET on Monday, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a report by TechCrunch.

  • Tuesday, 07 March 2023
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Twitter to soon let users post 10K character tweets

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the micro-blogging platform will "soon" extend "longform tweets" to 10,000 characters.

  • Monday, 06 March 2023
Hilarious memes flood Twitter after ChatGPT fails to crack UPSC Civil Services Exam
Hilarious memes flood Twitter after ChatGPT fails to crack UPSC Civil Services Exam

It could not even clear the 87.54 per cent cut-off of 2021 general category students. The questions were mostly from social development and polity, current affairs, science, ecology, history, economics, and geography.

  • Saturday, 04 March 2023
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