In a report from Bloomberg is it reported that the major changes Elon Musk is planning to make to Twitter could come into effect as soon as next week. Musk is planning to being verification check marks to everyone as soon as next week, something which has been covered heavily in the media for the past few days as well as in discussions between users. We reported earlier this week that Twitter […]
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Elon Musk suggests bringing back Vine, as he now owns Twitter
It is pretty much common knowledge at this stage that Elon Musk now owns Twitter and he become the CEO of the company earlier this week too. He has suggested a few debatable changes so far, such as abolishing the current verification process and instead bundling it within Twitter Blue and then charging $8 for the privilege. However, one suggestion seemed to have gone down much easier, such as bringing […]
Twitter Blue price is to increase to $8 per month and include ability to be verified
Today, along with more updates to how Twitter works – Elon Musk has revealed that Twitter Blue will see a price rise, from $4.99 per month to $8 per month. This is $3 per month more than prior and more features will be coming soon, such as the ability to be verified, which currently has the requirement to be a known person, such as a journalists and celebrities. Twitter’s current […]
Elon Musk is now Twitter’s CEO
Since Elon’s takeover of Twitter on Friday last week, he is now the company’s official CEO. The change was made official as of today and according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Elon Musk is now officially the CEO of Twitter. So far, since the takeover last week, Elon Musk completely dissolved the company board and fired many executives including the previous CEO Parag Agrawal. This […]
Elon Musk now owns Twitter, having bought it for $44 billion
As of yesterday (Friday 28th October), Elon Musk completed the takeover of Twitter, which cost him $44 billion. The deal was completed just a few hours before the court-ordered deadline which would have meant the deal would have to be re-negotiated. Elon bought Twitter for $44 billion, changed his Twitter bio to “Chief Twit”, tweeted “the bird is freed” and fired many top executives. the bird is freed — Elon Musk […]
WhatsApp is down worldwide
This morning, messages wont have been sending for people who use WhatsApp, due to a worldwide outage, with the main amount of users having issues from the US, Canada, UK, India and more. Messages can’t be sent at the moment and this doesn’t seem to be just affecting the app, but the web version too. Meta spoke to Engadget this morning, who provided this statement: “We’re aware that some people are currently […]
Ability to edit tweets now available in the US, for Twitter Blue subscribers
Twitter announced that starting yesterday (6th October) that Twitter Blue subscribers in the United States now have the ability to edit tweets. Twitter has been testing the feature for around a month. Earlier this week, the company added support for the edit button to Twitter Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. the Edit Tweet test is expanding and now rolling out to Twitter Blue members in the US […]
Twitter Mac app updated, no longer crashes on launch
For around a week, the Twitter for Mac app has been crashing on launch making the app completely unusable. There was little anyone could do to make it work, deleting and reinstalling didn’t do anything. However, earlier this week Twitter has released an update for the app to stop it from crashing whenever it is opened. Version 19.9.21 is now the latest and seems to solve the app crashing issue. […]
For the first time, Twitter raises the price of its ‘Blue’ subscription
For the very first time, Twitter has raised the price of its premium ‘Blue’ subscription this week. The subscription service has been available for around a year and is only available in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It usually runs for $2.99 per month, but the company is raising prices quite dramatically up to $4.99 per month. The new price has been quick to make its mark, the latest […]