Twitter has restored blue ticks for many users with over millions of followers. Twitter removed blue ticks from high profile accounts recently accusing the users of not paying the due subscription fees to twitter. The accounts whose blue ticks were removed included the BBC, New York Times and some other celebrities too.
SpaceX will attempt to launch the most powerful rocket system ever developed in the entire history. SpaceX’s Starship has almost double the thrust of a conventional rocket. The two-stage rocket ship will send the upper part of the vehicle eastward in order to complete one trip around the earth.
US tech giants are finding it hard to lay off workers in Europe. Unlike in the US where companies can lay off thousands of workers without having to face any consequences, strict labor laws in Europe makes it almost impossible to lay off workers. Companies must consult with labor interest groups prior to announcing the layoffs, leaving thousands of tech employees in confusion.
The US citizen jailed in 2021, for tweets against the kingdom was finally released after the Saudi court order. Saad Ibrahim Almadi was arrested when he arrived in the kingdom’s capital to visit his family. The 72-year-old Saad Ibrahim was sentenced to 16 years in prison which was later increased to 19 years.
In yet another round of Twitter layoffs, Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk has fired additional 200 employees. This is not the first time layoffs, but rather a continuation of the series of layoffs Musk has been doing since he took over. Further layoffs have reduced Twitter’s workforce by 10% out of the 2000 prior workforce.
The news may have come as a surprise to many, but surprisingly, the twitter CEO Elon Musk has said it himself. He talked about his retirement as twitter CEO by the end of this year. He just recently took over the social media giant and has already started looking for someone to look after the platform when he retires in late 2023.
Turkey has restricted the access of twitter for its citizens after the two massive earthquakes that devastated a large portion of Turkey’s infrastructure. The restriction came into play after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, imposed a national emergency amid chaos. So far 12,000 people have been killed in the two bordering countries, Turkey & Syria.
Yes, Twitter has a rival, and the thing people are appreciating more about it, is its decentralization. The rival microblogging platform competing against twitter is “Nostr”. The platform has been endorsed by co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. The goal is to create an anti-censorship social network that aims to be accessible to everybody around the globe. Nostr is already launched on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided to make his twitter account private for a day. The tech billionaire informed his followers that he will be making his account private to see if there is any change in his account’s reach.
The tech giant is set to cut 18,000 jobs. The announcement is the most significant among recent layoffs that have impacted the US tech industry. After announcing just 8,000 layoffs in November 2022, Amazon has increased the toll to 18,000. The recent job cuts are the largest downsizing plan so far.
Twitter has deleted a feature that has been showing suicide prevention hotlines and other safety options to users searching on the platform. It has caused some to worry about the vulnerable users on twitter. However, according to Musk, since he took charge in October, the number of damaging content impressions or views has decreased.
Twitter lifted its ban on several journalists it recently banned. The Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times each had reporters who were banned from accessing the platform. The journalists were banned when they shared location data of Elon Musk. The ban was lifted after the second poll Musk conducted. 59% of 3.6 million participants chose to lift the restriction right away.
