Twitter says it removes over 1 million spam accounts each day
2 years, 5 months ago

Twitter says it removes over 1 million spam accounts each day

The Hindu  

Twitter removes more than 1 million spam accounts each day, executives told reporters in a briefing on Thursday, providing new insight into efforts to reduce harmful automated bots as billionaire Elon Musk has demanded more details from the social media company. The briefing comes after Musk threatened to halt a $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter unless the company showed proof that spam and bot accounts were fewer than 5% of users who see advertising on the social media service. On a conference call, the company reiterated that spam accounts were well under 5% of users who are served advertising, a figure that has been unchanged in its public filings since 2013. Human reviewers manually examine thousands of Twitter accounts at random and use a combination of public and private data in order to calculate and report to shareholders the proportion of spam and bot accounts on the service, Twitter said.

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Social media age ban inquiry flooded with 15,000 submissions after Elon Musk weighs in
1 month ago

Social media age ban inquiry flooded with 15,000 submissions after Elon Musk weighs in

ABC  

A rushed inquiry into the government's proposed laws to ban children and young teenagers from social media has been inundated with about 15,000 submissions, despite having only been open for 24 hours. Musk questions government's motive Under Labor's plans, children younger than 16 will be barred from using social media platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and X. "The government's deal …

Twitter brain drain: Academic exodus followed Elon Musk’s takeover
2 months ago

Twitter brain drain: Academic exodus followed Elon Musk’s takeover

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter in 2022 triggered an exodus of academics from …

X/Twitter will charge new users to post, Elon Musk says
8 months, 1 week ago

X/Twitter will charge new users to post, Elon Musk says

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The owner suggested that requiring a “small fee” from users to access the site’s central features is …

Elon Musk says new X users will have to pay to tweet: ‘Only way to stop bots’
8 months, 1 week ago

Elon Musk says new X users will have to pay to tweet: ‘Only way to stop bots’

Hindustan Times  

Elon Musk is planning to charge new X users a small fee to use the social media platform, a move that he believes could solve the bot problem. In reply to an X account that posted about changes on the microblogging website, Elon Musk said charging a small fee to new accounts was the “only way” to stop the “onslaught …

How the porn bots took over Twitter
9 months, 2 weeks ago

How the porn bots took over Twitter

NPR  

How the porn bots took over Twitter Enlarge this image Illustration by Jackie Lay/NPR Illustration by Jackie Lay/NPR The routine of a loyal X user remains relatively simple. On the business side, Musk dissolved the Trust and Safety Council and cut staff overseeing content moderation — two things Enberg said were vital for keeping the platform safe for advertisers and …

Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents
1 year ago

Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents

Wired  

Kristina Collins didn’t know her photo was being used on Telegram. “The last thing you want as a physician is for your identity to be used to promote misinformation,” Collins tells WIRED, adding that many doctors use social media specifically to make sure people have access to accurate health information. Researchers at Logically, a UK-based disinformation detection company, have uncovered …

China removes anonymity of bloggers' accounts with more than 500,000 followers
1 year, 1 month ago

China removes anonymity of bloggers' accounts with more than 500,000 followers

Firstpost  

The new measures will remove the anonymity of thousands of influencers on social media platforms that are used daily by hundreds of millions of Chinese. China’s most popular social media platforms on Tuesday announced that “self-media” accounts with more than 500,000 followers will be asked to display real-name information, a controversial measure that has prompted concerns over doxxing and privacy …

Elon Musk bought Twitter one year ago. Here’s everything he broke there.
1 year, 1 month ago

Elon Musk bought Twitter one year ago. Here’s everything he broke there.

Slate  

He didn’t want to, but Elon Musk closed his purchase of Twitter one year ago. The lawyers representing Twitter’s outgoing board of directors were better than Musk’s—or, maybe more accurately, had a close-to-ironclad case against a reputably brilliant billionaire who tried to call “backsies!” on a contract he’d inked. Related From Slate The Elon Effect Is Real: Twitter Users Are …

Elon Musk says X is fighting bots and spam, and the solution is: $1 subscriptions
1 year, 2 months ago

Elon Musk says X is fighting bots and spam, and the solution is: $1 subscriptions

LA Times  

The social media platform formerly known as Twitter announced its “Not a Bot” program, saying $1 subscriptions were “the main solution” to bots. The social media platform formerly known as Twitter posted an announcement of the “Not a Bot” program Tuesday evening, saying it was being piloted in New Zealand and the Philippines. Twitter already offers paid subscriptions of $8 …

Commentary: Elon Musk bought Twitter just to break it. With a new war, we’re paying the price
1 year, 2 months ago

Commentary: Elon Musk bought Twitter just to break it. With a new war, we’re paying the price

LA Times  

It’s been nearly a year since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, and more than the average landlord, he’s made some changes to the storefront: replacing the social media platform’s cheerful winged mascot with an ominous “X,” stripping all but paying subscribers of verified status, and turning it from a frenetic crossroads of breaking news and opinion to a playground for falsehoods …

Musk's X Corp Pulls Down More Than 23 Lakh Accounts From The Platform In 'June-July': Report
1 year, 4 months ago

Musk's X Corp Pulls Down More Than 23 Lakh Accounts From The Platform In 'June-July': Report

ABP News  

Taking note of the accounts that promote non-consensual nudity and child sexual exploitation, tech billionaire Elon Musk's X Corp, formerly Twitter, has pulled down more than 23 lakh accounts from the platform in June-July in India, says a report by news agency IANS. The monthly India compliance report got delayed, which includes the details of complaints from users via the …

Twitter to limit DMs for these accounts? Check details
1 year, 5 months ago

Twitter to limit DMs for these accounts? Check details

Hindustan Times  

Elon Musk’s Twitter will soon impose a limit on the number of direct messages that an unverified account can send on the platform. Earlier, Musk had also ‘temporarily’ limited the number of tweets that users can view each day to to address ‘extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation'. This helped reduce spam in Direct Messages by 70 per …

Elon Musk says Twitter has lost half its advertising revenue
1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk says Twitter has lost half its advertising revenue

The Hindu  

Twitter has lost roughly half of its advertising revenue, according to owner Elon Musk, since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion last October. Earlier this month, Musk announced that Twitter was limiting verified accounts to reading 10,000 tweets a day, in a bid "to address extreme levels of data scraping" and "system manipulation" by third-party platforms. Twitter …

Twitter claims new limits are to fight bots and bad actors
1 year, 5 months ago

Twitter claims new limits are to fight bots and bad actors

The Hindu  

Twitter defends its decision to limit the number of tweets users are allowed to view on the platform. Twitter said it did not warn users about this in advance as it would have helped the bad actors to evade detection. While verified accounts can see several thousand tweets a day, unverified or newly verified accounts are limited to several hundred …

‘For a mission like Twitter…’: CEO Linda Yaccarino's first reaction to tweet-reading limit
1 year, 5 months ago

‘For a mission like Twitter…’: CEO Linda Yaccarino's first reaction to tweet-reading limit

Hindustan Times  

Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday reacted for the first time to the company’s new restrictions on tweet reading. Former CEO Elon Musk announced on Saturday that users without the blue tick would now be able to view only 600 tweets daily. Ex-Twitter CEO Elon Musk, center, speaks with Linda Yaccarino, Defending the move, Yaccarino said that Twitter’s mission …

‘Rate limits’ and Twitter chaos: What exactly is Elon Musk doing?
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Rate limits’ and Twitter chaos: What exactly is Elon Musk doing?

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Twitter has been plunged into chaos in recent days, amid new “rate limits” …

Elon Musk put new limits on tweets. Users and advertisers might go elsewhere
1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk put new limits on tweets. Users and advertisers might go elsewhere

Associated Press  

TikTok and Instagram users can scroll with abandon. But Twitter owner Elon Musk has put new curfews on his digital town square, the latest drastic change to the social media platform that could further drive away advertisers and undermine its cultural influence as a trendsetter. “By sending users elsewhere, Musk is killing the main proposition Twitter has had for advertisers …

Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say
1 year, 5 months ago

Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say

The Hindu  

Elon Musk's move to temporarily cap how many posts Twitter users can read on the social media site could undermine efforts by the company's new Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino to attract advertisers, marketing industry professionals said. Musk announced Saturday that Twitter would limit how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage "extreme levels" of data scraping and …

Twitter limits number of tweets people can read in a day, Elon Musk announces
1 year, 5 months ago

Twitter limits number of tweets people can read in a day, Elon Musk announces

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Unverified accounts can only read 600 posts a day, with new unverified accounts limited to just 300 …

Elon Musk put new limits on tweets. Users and advertisers might go elsewhere
1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk put new limits on tweets. Users and advertisers might go elsewhere

LA Times  

Elon Musk has put new limits on Twitter, the latest drastic change to the social media platform that could further drive away advertisers and undermine its cultural influence as atrendsetter. But Twitter owner Elon Musk has put new limits on his digital town square, the latest drastic change to the social media platform that could further drive away advertisers and …

Elon Musk sparks meme fest online for setting reading limit on Twitter
1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk sparks meme fest online for setting reading limit on Twitter

India TV News  

Twitter chief Elon Musk recently made an announcement that the company will be fixing a daily limit on the number of posts users can read has sparked a meme fest on the social media platform. He also mentioned that under temporary limits, verified accounts are now limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts 600 posts per day, and …

Twitter imposes daily limits on reading posts
1 year, 5 months ago

Twitter imposes daily limits on reading posts

Deccan Chronicle  

San Francisco: Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the amount of tweets that most users can view each day restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform. Musk elaborated on the limits Saturday, saying unverified accounts will temporarily be restricted to reading 600 posts per day, while verified accounts …

Elon Musk caps Twitter post views to combat web data scraping
1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk caps Twitter post views to combat web data scraping

The Hindu  

Elon Musk said on Saturday Twitter is changing its policies that will directly affect the number of tweets users will be able to read in one day. As per Musk’s initial tweet, verified accounts would be limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, while unverified accounts would face a cap of 600 posts per day. New unverified accounts would have …

Amid ‘RIP Twitter’ trend, Jack Dorsey reacts as Elon Musk limits tweet reading
1 year, 5 months ago

Amid ‘RIP Twitter’ trend, Jack Dorsey reacts as Elon Musk limits tweet reading

Hindustan Times  

Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and former CEO, reacted after Elon Musk announced on Saturday that Twitter would temporarily restrict how many tweets users could read per day, in a move meant to tamp down on the use of the site's data by artificial intelligence companies. Good for all, and critical to preserve the open internet.” Read 10,000 tweets a day …

Elon Musk changes 'Twitter Rate Limit': Know why you're limited to 1,000 tweets per day?
1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk changes 'Twitter Rate Limit': Know why you're limited to 1,000 tweets per day?

India TV News  

In a series of tweets, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, announced that the "rate limits" on the micro-blogging platform would soon increase. Currently, verified accounts can read up to 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts are limited to 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts can only access 300 posts per day. However, in a subsequent update, Musk …

Twitter applies temporary reading limits amid ongoing problems with platform
1 year, 5 months ago

Twitter applies temporary reading limits amid ongoing problems with platform

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Twitter has applied temporary reading limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping …

Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading posts on Twitter
1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading posts on Twitter

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the number of tweets that users can view each day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform. In a Friday tweet, Musk described the new restrictions as a temporary measure that was taken because “we were getting data …

Elon Musk limits number of posts Twitter users can read each day
1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk limits number of posts Twitter users can read each day

Hindustan Times  

Twitter on Saturday limited the number of posts users can read each day, with the move coming a day after the social media giant made it mandatory for people to log in to read tweets, or sign up with the microblogging platform to be able to do so. Elon Musk The limits, ‘temporary’ in nature, were announced by Elon Musk, …

Elon Musk’s Twitter announces read limits
1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk’s Twitter announces read limits

The Hindu  

Thousands of people logged complaints about problems accessing Twitter on Saturday after owner Elon Musk limited most users to viewing 600 tweets a day — restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the site. Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified https://t.co/fuRcJLifTn — …

‘Temporary measure’, says Elon Musk as Twitter makes logging in mandatory to view tweets
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Temporary measure’, says Elon Musk as Twitter makes logging in mandatory to view tweets

Hindustan Times  

In a sudden and unannounced update, Twitter has made it mandatory for people to log into their accounts to view tweets and user profiles. This also means that one must have an account on the microblogging website to view tweets, which, until now, could be seen without being logged in or having a profile on the social network. Users discovered …

Elon Musk Keeps Lying About One Very Specific Thing
1 year, 6 months ago

Elon Musk Keeps Lying About One Very Specific Thing

Slate  

Even before Elon Musk lit a match under a pile of money and agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share last April, he was talking a lot about bots. Given that Musk has a challenging time looking away from the site he bought—that’s part of why he bought it!—he’s probably seen more spam on Twitter than just about anyone. …

Twitter to remove inactive accounts, says Elon Musk
1 year, 7 months ago

Twitter to remove inactive accounts, says Elon Musk

Live Mint  

Twitter CEO Elon Musk Monday said the social media platform will remove those accounts that have been inactive for several years. “We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop,"Elon Musk tweeted. Earlier, the Twitter CEO "threatened" to reassign National Public Radio's Twitter account to another company, after …

Twitter fulfilling more government censorship requests under Musk
1 year, 7 months ago

Twitter fulfilling more government censorship requests under Musk

Al Jazeera  

Twitter has complied at least partially with 98.8 percent of takedown requests under Elon Musk’s ownership, data shows. Taipei, Taiwan – Twitter complied at least partially with almost every government request to take down content after Elon Musk, a self-described free speech absolutist, took over the platform, Twitter’s self-reported data shows. “As Twitter’s own previous reports and actions show, government …

Twitter Warned By EU Over Disinformation, Favouring Russia Agenda
1 year, 7 months ago

Twitter Warned By EU Over Disinformation, Favouring Russia Agenda

ABP News  

According to a recent tweet by Vera Jourova, Vice-President for Values and Transparency at the EU, the EU has issued a warning to Elon Musk's Twitter over the spread of disinformation and promotion of the Kremlin agenda. Jourova expressed her concern that Twitter's policies have made the digital information space unsafe and susceptible to malicious influence from authoritarian governments. Jourova …

Column: Elon Musk broke what made Twitter great. It’s going to cost him — and us
1 year, 7 months ago

Column: Elon Musk broke what made Twitter great. It’s going to cost him — and us

LA Times  

Twitter once aspired to be the town square of the internet. Things have been trending in this direction since Elon Musk took over the platform in October, but it’s clearer what Twitter has become in the wake of the Great Blue Check-opalypse of 2023. To most of Twitter’s users, the blue check mark had become not a widely desired service, …

'Monetising hate': Unease as misinformation swirls on Twitter
1 year, 8 months ago

'Monetising hate': Unease as misinformation swirls on Twitter

The Hindu  

When the iconic U.S. diaper company Huggies was swamped with false paedophilia allegations last month, the conspiracy was traced to a once-banned influencer reinstated to Twitter by Elon Musk. "Anecdotally, there's no doubt that the flood of toxic content from repeat offenders Elon has re-platformed is driving real-world harm," Jesse Lehrich, cofounder of the advocacy group Accountable Tech, told AFP. …

Twitter secretly boosts accounts of Elon Musk, US President Joe Biden and other VIP users
1 year, 8 months ago

Twitter secretly boosts accounts of Elon Musk, US President Joe Biden and other VIP users

India Today  

Remember the time when your Twitter account was filled with tweets of Elon Musk? As per the latest findings of the managing editor of Platformer, Zoe Schiffer, Twitter secretly boosts accounts of certain notable figures including Musk, a Tesla focused account, US President Joe Biden among others. The high-profile list also includes LeBron James, YouTuber MrBeast, Twitter account Dril, and …

Twitter API access could cost $42,000 per month at minimum, says report
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter API access could cost $42,000 per month at minimum, says report

The Hindu  

Access to Twitter’s once free Application Programming Interface could cost users tens of thousands of dollars per month based on the enterprise package that they choose, reported tech outlet Wired on Friday. According to documents shared with Wired, a Small Package will let Twitter subscribers access 50 million tweets for $42,000 a month. A higher priced package will let them …

Some top Instagram influencers found to be using Russian bots to boost reach
1 year, 9 months ago

Some top Instagram influencers found to be using Russian bots to boost reach

The Hindu  

Top Instagram profiles with up to 40 million followers were found to be allegedly using Russian bots to boost their presence on the image-sharing platform. Accounts associated with the music industry, graphic artistry, fashion modelling, dance studios, events venues, health and beauty, and fitness were also found to be using bot accounts to inflate their reach, a report from Cybernews …

Twitter goes down days after Musk fires 200 staff
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter goes down days after Musk fires 200 staff

The Telegraph  

Twitter’s main timelines have gone down for thousands of internet users as the social network endures more glitches under Elon Musk’s leadership. The social network’s “For You” and “Following” tabs, where users view other people’s Tweets, were not loading for thousands of people on Wednesday morning. The outage is the latest wobble for the social network since its acquisition by …

Twitter lays off 10% of current workforce
1 year, 9 months ago

Twitter lays off 10% of current workforce

The Hindu  

Twitter Inc. has laid off at least 200 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, the New York Times reported late on Sunday, in its latest round of job cuts since Elon Musk took over the micro-blogging site last October. The layoffs on Saturday night impacted product managers, data scientists and engineers who worked on machine learning and site reliability, …

‘…A bug': Elon Musk rejects claims of boosting his tweets ‘above normal levels’
1 year, 10 months ago

‘…A bug': Elon Musk rejects claims of boosting his tweets ‘above normal levels’

Hindustan Times  

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has dismissed reports of 'reconfiguring the platform's algorithm' to boost his tweets ‘above normal levels’. It was reportedly after Musk's tweet about the Sunday Super Bowl that ‘failed to achieve as much engagement as a tweet from Joe Biden’ that efforts started to gather more attention to his tweets. According to an interview conducted by tech …

‘Some issue…’: Elon Musk’s test identifies problem with locked Twitter account
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Some issue…’: Elon Musk’s test identifies problem with locked Twitter account

Live Mint  

After receiving complaints regarding the engagement through public and private posts, Elon Musk on Wednesday locked his own account to test the same and cited that there are some “issues with the system”. “Made my account private until tomorrow morning to test whether you see my private tweets more than my public ones,” he tweeted shortly after 6:00 a.m. London …

Elon Musk has made his Twitter account private. Here's why
1 year, 10 months ago

Elon Musk has made his Twitter account private. Here's why

Hindustan Times  

Twitter boss Elon Musk baffled millions of the social media giant's users Wednesday after marking his account private; this means only those who already follow the billionaire can see his tweets. Elon Musk's tweet announcing the account update garnered over 24 million views. He indicated it was a test to see if tweets from locked/private accounts had greater reach; Musk's …

Twitter Lost Over 70 Per Cent Ad Revenue In December, After Elon Musk's Takeover: Report
1 year, 11 months ago

Twitter Lost Over 70 Per Cent Ad Revenue In December, After Elon Musk's Takeover: Report

ABP News  

Top advertisers cut their spending on the micro-blogging platform after a chaotic takeover by tech billionaire Elon Musk last year and total advertising spending on Twitter declined by 71 per cent in December, the media has reported. According to a report by news agency Reuters, data from an advertising research firm showed that top advertisers slashed their spending on Twitter …

Ad spending on Twitter falls by over 70% in December 2022
1 year, 11 months ago

Ad spending on Twitter falls by over 70% in December 2022

The Hindu  

Advertising spending on Twitter Inc. dropped by 71% in December, data from an advertising research firm showed, as top advertisers slashed their spending on the social-media platform after Elon Musk's takeover. Most of the companies had stopped spending in November, estimates by another research firm Pathmatics showed, the same month that Musk restored suspended accounts and released a paid account …

Want ad-free Twitter? Elon Musk says pay more
1 year, 11 months ago

Want ad-free Twitter? Elon Musk says pay more

India TV News  

Twitter boss Elon Musk has announced that the company is taking steps to address the issue of frequent and big Taking to Twitter, Musk said, "Ads are too frequent on Twitter and too big. Following Musk's tweets, a verified account on Twitter named The Rabbit Hole asked, "Can individual users opt to monetize accounts through ads? Musk also announced that …

Twitter Deny Data Leak Hack Sold Online Researcher Alon Gal
1 year, 11 months ago

Twitter Deny Data Leak Hack Sold Online Researcher Alon Gal

ABP News  

Twitter has denied a data leak that apparently hit 200 million of its users and their information was being sold online. The data hack that resulted in 200 million names and email IDs of Twitter users was not a result of a security bug on the micro-blogging platform's systems, Twitter has said. ".Therefore, based on information and intel analyzed to …

Twitter leak exposes 235 million email addresses from hack
1 year, 11 months ago

Twitter leak exposes 235 million email addresses from hack

The Hindu  

Personal emails linked to 235 million Twitter accounts hacked some time ago have been exposed according to Israeli security researcher Alon Gal — making millions vulnerable to having their accounts compromised or identities exposed if they have used the site anonymously to criticise oppressive governments, for instance. Though the hack appears to have taken place before Elon Musk took over …

What Twitter’s 200 Million-User Email Leak Actually Means
1 year, 11 months ago

What Twitter’s 200 Million-User Email Leak Actually Means

Wired  

After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked to about 200 million users is likely a refined version of the larger trove with duplicate entries removed. From June 2021 until January 2022, there was a bug in a …

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