The parent company of Meta, Instagram on Wednesday, July 5, introduced Threads, a text-based companion to Instagram that is similar to other text-based social platforms, including Twitter. Meta owner, Zuckerberg on Thursday, announced that Threads had already signed up 30 million users on its first day, vastly dwarfing competitors. Hours after the new App was
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…Trump’s Twitter account was permanently suspended from the platform in January 2021 The Twitter account of former United States President, Donald Trump, has being reinstated on the social media platform. Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, had set up a poll on Saturday to ask users on the platform whether the former president should be allowed
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…says Twitter became a platform of choice for those who want to destabilise Nigeria The Nigerian Government has revealed that the social media giant, Twitter, under the new ownership of Elon Musk has been placed under close observation. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this known on Thursday in Abuja. The Federal
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…Elon Musk had reportedly directed engineers to finish building a paid verification system for twitter by next week or get fired Hours after the take over of Twitter by Elon Musk, the microblogging and social networking service, has announced plans to start charging almost $20 monthly for verification. This is coming barely 48 hours after
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…Elon Musk tweeted earlier on Thursday that he was buying Twitter Elon Musk took control of Twitter and fired its top executives late Thursday in a deal that puts one of the leading platforms for global discourse in the hands of the world’s richest man. Following the takeover, Musk tweeted that “the bird is freed,”
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Twitter said Thursday it has begun actively testing an edit button, after months of publicly discussing such a tweak. The trial of “Edit Tweet” will begin with internal employees, then be expanded out to the platform’s “Twitter Blue” subscription population, the company said. “Edit Tweet is a feature that lets people make changes to their
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Twitter on Thursday confirmed that it pulled the plug on several accounts trying to skirt its ban on former president Donald Trump by promoting his blog posts. The ex-president launched a page on his website earlier this week promising a comment “straight from the desk of Donald J Trump.” The page was made public just
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Former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter ban will remain forever, even if he runs for president again in 2024, a top company official said on Wednesday February 10. During an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Twitter’s chief financial officer, Ned Segal, was asked if the platform would restore Trump’s account if he ran again and
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Social media giants, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have frozen the accounts of the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, following violent protests that erupted at the Capitol building while Congress leaders sat to certify the November 3 election win of Democrat candidate, Joe Biden. Reacting swiftly to the protests on Wednesday, the
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