Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is set to launch twitter rival on Thursday. The new app known as “Threads” is available for pre-order on Apple’s App store and is expected to give tough competition to twitter. It seems like Mark Zuckerberg is capitalizing on the sidelined & unsatisfied twitter market, after Musk introduced some rules which displeased the users.
Twitter has imposed temporary restrictions on the number of tweets users can read. Thousands of people complained about the access to the platform after twitter limited the number of tweets unverified users can read to 1,000 per day. Elon Musk tweeted that only verified users will be able to view 10,000 posts per day.
While millions across the world are excited about the fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Musk’s father has issued a warning to his tech billionaire son not to engage in a UFC cage fight with the Meta man. Elon Musk’s father Erroll Musk told Fortune Magazine that the fight will be a no-win situation for his son.
The last thing the world could see is this, the CEOs of two giant tech companies have agreed to fight each other in a cage match. Both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agreed to hold a UFC cage fight after replying to each other on social media. The president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship also confirmed it and said he has talked to both of them and they are “dead serious”.
The Australian cyber watchdog has given 28 days ultimatum to twitter to clean up its platform from hate speech. The Australian internet safety watchdog wanted the platform to respond to multiple complaints filed against it or face a penalty of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The US President Joe Biden was laughed at on social media after he, out of nowhere, ended his speech about gun safety with “God save the Queen man!”. The statement caused confusion online as to what Biden actually meant by saying something so awkward to an audience at National Safer Communities Summit.
Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey has said that the Indian government once threatened to shut down twitter and raid employees’ homes. He said Modi’s government has requested the platform to restrict and remove accounts that were critical of the government on numerous occasions.
An AI generated photo of baby Elon Musk went viral on twitter. A twitter user by the name of @alifarhat79 uploaded a photo of little Elon Musk with the description saying “BREAKING: Elon Musk was reportedly working on some anti-aging formula but it got way out of hand”.
Tesla boss Elon Musk has arrived in Beijing for the first time in three years. Elon Musk arrived in China on Tuesday and met Chinese foreign, commerce and industry ministers. Musk didn’t disclose the reason for his visit amid increasing tensions between China and the US as he declined to comment when asked by reporters.
Twitter has suspended its services in Turkey a day before elections in the country. Twitter didn’t specify what type of content will be restricted but users suspect it’ll be about the elections. The ban was announced on a legal request just a day before Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, but twitter didn’t declare who made the request.
Elon Musk has finally announced the new CEO of twitter after months of speculation. Elon Musk has named Linda Yaccarino as new chief executive of the company while Elon Musk will remain the executive chairman and chief technology officer.
Twitter has announced that it’ll be launching encrypted DMs for verified users only. Twitter will only let its verified users who have blue ticks on their profiles to access the encrypted messaging services.
