BBC - Twitter is being sued in Germany by two groups claiming the social network failed to remove six posts attacking Jewish people and denying the Holocaust after they were reported. The posts were published after billionaire Elon Musk bought the platform in Oct 2022. The case will try to determine whether Twitter is contractually obliged to remove such material.
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Twitter Sued Over Antisemitic Posts Left Online
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Elon Musk Admits Twitter Has Too Many Ads, Says Fix Is Coming
TECH CRUNCH - Musk said that Twitter would be "taking steps" to address what he acknowledged was too much frequency for ads displayed on Twitter and the ads themselves taking up too much space. Musk reiterated that there would also be a new, higher-priced subscription tier coming that will entirely remove ads.
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Twitter Lures Advertisers With $250K Free Placements
TECH NEWS SPACE - Of Twitter's $5.1B in 2021 revenue, ~90% came from advertisers. After Elon Musk took control of the social network in late Oct, many companies stopped advertising on its pages. Now Twitter is trying to lure customers with a special offer and is providing free advertising space worth up to $250K. The offer is valid until Feb 28 of this year.
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Twitter Jumped the Shark, Now It Looks Like MySpace
BLOOMBERG - This is the moment Twitter jumped the shark. That term comes from the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days which signaled a peak in relevance and popularity. Two months after Twitter's massive lay-off, recent gimmicks include reinstating banned accounts, introducing blue ticks for all, 2, and pseudo-democratic policy decisions. At first glance, none of these alone herald impending doom, merely the whims of a billionaire showing off his new play toy. It started to look like Myspace. Rupert Murdoch's multinational conglomerate in July 2005 spent $580M to take over MySpace. At the time, MySpace had 16M users, making it the US's fifth most-visited website and the world's premier social networking platform. Although MySpace continued to grow, hitting 100M global users a year later, Facebook overtook MySpace in web traffic in 2008.
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Twitter: Personal Data of 235M Users Leaked
MARCA - The data of some 235M users of Twitter, including e-mail addresses, have been stolen by a popular hacking forum. This data and information leak was detected by Alan Gal, co-founder of Israeli security firm Hudson Rock. Several cybercriminals are offering email addresses and phone numbers in exchange for cash.
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Twitter Hit by Cyber Attack as 400M Users' Data Stolen, Hacker Claims
7NEWS - ~400M Twitter users may have had their personal details stolen and put up for sale online in a major cyber attack. A hacker claims to be selling the stolen data of hundreds of millions of users including celebrities, businesses and government organisations on an online hacking forum. The user profiles up for sale contain public and private Twitter data, including people's email addresses, names, usernames and phone numbers.
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Elon Musk Promises to Step Down as Twitter Boss If Voted out in a Poll
SKY NEWS - Elon Musk has set up a poll on the social networking site asking users to vote on whether he should step down. Elon Musk has vowed to stand down as the CEO of Twitter if users vote to oust him. The poll received well ~12M votes in just 6 hours with 56.3% of voters electing to see the back of the billionaire.
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Elon Musk Shuts Down Twitter Spaces After Arguing With Journalists on One Twitter Space
BLOOMBERG - Twitter's live audio service, Twitter Spaces, is down after several journalists that had just been suspended from the social network found they could still participate in it. Elon Musk said late Thursday night that the company was fixing an old bug and the audio service "should be working tomorrow." Musk said tersely in the space with the journalists that anyone who doxxes - gives personal location information about another person - will be suspended.
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Twitter Shuts Down Revue, Its Newsletter Platform
TECH CRUNCH - Revue, the newsletter platform acquired by Twitter in Jan 2021, is shutting down. The platform helped writers monetize their Twitter following by integrating their newsletters directly into the Twitter timeline. Writers have until Jan 18, 2023, to retrieve their data before it all gets deleted.
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Twitter Disperses the Trust & Safety Council After Key Members Resigned
TECH CRUNCH - Twitter dispersed the Trust & Safety Council, which was an advisory group consisting of roughly 100 independent researchers and human rights activists. The group, formed in 2016, gave the social network input on different content and human rights-related issues such as the removal of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), suicide prevention, and online safety. After taking over Twitter, Musk said that he was going to form a new content moderation council with a "diverse set of views," but there has been no development on that front.
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Twitter Will Require Phone Number Verification to Purchase a Twitter Blue Subscription
TECH CRUNCH - Twitter updated its terms to require phone number verification for users who want to purchase the Twitter Blue subscription. What's more, the company may also prevent users who have changed their username, display name, or profile picture within the last 7 days from purchasing the Twitter Blue subscription.
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Twitter Will Reportedly Charge $11 on iOS for Blue Subscription to Offset App Store Fees
TECH CRUNCH - Twitter Blue plan is on halt right now but when it resumes, users will have to pay $11 per month if they subscribe from iOS according to a report. The subscription plan will cost $7 per month if they purchase from the web.
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Twitter Turns Its Back on Open-Source Development
ZDNET - Besides firing most of Twitter's technical staff, new owner and CEO Elon Musk has dropped support for Twitter's open-source efforts. According to Twitter sources, the plan was to move to CentOS Stream. But Twitter relies on open-source software for much more than its foundational operating system.
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Social Networks Are Going Much Smaller
SLATE - Some experts and pundits are saying the departure of ~1M people from Twitter after Elon Musk's takeover marks the death of social networks. It is not so much the death of age as an evolution in social networks - a shift towards community-focused and - designed spaces like Mastodon, Discord, and Twitch. While social media was for 15 years or so focused on bringing messages to as many people as possible at one time, it is heading toward a future in which it's about reaching a much smaller group of people with whom they already share interests, beliefs, or affinity.
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Musk Claims Twitter Sign-ups at 'All-time High' as He Faces Mass Exodus of Advertisers
IRISH EXAMINER - In a tweet, Musk said he sees a "path to Twitter exceeding 1B MAUs in 12 to 18 months". Musk has claimed new user signups to the social media platform are at an "all-time high", as he struggles with a mass exodus of advertisers and users fleeing to other platforms over concerns about verification and hate speech. Signups were averaging ~2M per day in the last 7 days as of Nov 16, up 66% compared to the same week in 2021. The user active minutes were at a record high, averaging ~8B active minutes per day in the last 7 days as of Nov 15, an increase of 30% compared to the same week last year.
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