Culture & Policy Internet News Community Notes on ‘X’ tweaked, allowing for a more balanced fact checking Users may have noticed that social media platform X recently brought several… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 15, 20233 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News X to collect biometrics of premium users for “safety, security and identification purposes” X, the erstwhile Twitter, is now set to collect even more sensitive… Soumyadeep SarkarSeptember 1, 20232 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News X will remove account blocking feature, says Musk X owner Elon Musk announced that the popular micro-blogging site will be… Soumyadeep SarkarAugust 21, 20232 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News X deliberately slowed down access to Threads, Bluesky, NY Times and others, before reversing it: Report For all the talk of Elon Musk being a “free speech absolutist,”… Soumyadeep SarkarAugust 16, 20232 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News X reduces eligibility threshold for its ads revenue sharing program X has now decided to lower the requirements for its creator payout… Soumyadeep SarkarAugust 13, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News Twitter Elon Musk rebrands iconic Twitter blue bird logo to ‘X’, ‘X.com’ now redirecting users to Twitter X marks the spot, and in more ways than one. Twitter is… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 24, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News Twitter Twitter is testing a job board feature on profiles of verified organisations Twitter is digging deep into the recruitment landscape, it seems. According to… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 21, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Twitter tweaks DM settings to reduce spam, including from verified users In a tweak that will be implemented “as soon as July 14”,… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalJuly 13, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News Twitter threatens Meta with lawsuit over ‘Threads’, claims it violated Twitter’s intellectual property rights Twitter is not taking its newfound competition with Meta over Threads lying… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 7, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Internet News Non-users can once again view content on Twitter With the Threds mania rapidly taking over the Twitter chaos, the latter… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 6, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News Meta’s Twitter competitor, Instagram ‘Threads’ goes live on iOS, Android Instagram ‘Threads’, the Twitter competitor from Facebook-parent Meta, that is aiming to… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalJuly 5, 20232 minute read
Apps News Twitter restricts TweetDeck access to verified accounts with 30 days’ grace period for unverified users If you tried to access TweetDeck over the last few days, and… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 4, 20232 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Instagram’s Threads to debut on July 6 amid Twitter chaos With all that is going on at Twitter, the sight of a… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 4, 20233 minute read
Apps Internet News Twitter puts a cap on number of tweets users can read daily Following the latest widespread outage suffered by Twitter in recent months, Twitter… Soumyadeep SarkarJuly 3, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy News Twitter Twitter faces $250Mn lawsuit by music publishers over alleged copyright infringement Twitter’s chaotic run, specially post its ownership change to Elon Musk, is… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 15, 20233 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy News Twitter Dorsey claims India threatened to shut down Twitter, govt terms accusations as “outright lie” Twitter may count India as one of its key markets, but the… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 13, 20233 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Twitter Twitter refuses to pay Google Cloud bills, putting its Trust and Safety operations in jeopardy: Report Elon Musk’s Twitter, once again, finds itself embroiled in a contract standoff.… Soumyadeep SarkarJune 12, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy News Twitter Linda Yaccarino to be Twitter’s new CEO, Musk confirms Updated: Elon Musk confirmed in a tweet that Linda Yaccarino has been… Soumyadeep SarkarMay 12, 20233 minute read
Internet News Twitter Twitter could soon allow voice and video chats, encrypted messaging, says Musk Twitter is taking a page out of WhatsApp and Facebook’s books by… Soumyadeep SarkarMay 10, 20232 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News Twitter to purges inactive accounts It is a common sight to see users create accounts on social… Soumyadeep SarkarMay 9, 20232 minute read
Global Internet News Twitter “Security incident” led to Twitter Circle tweets being viewable by the public Twitter has suffered multiple glitches in the past months, and now, the… Soumyadeep SarkarMay 8, 20232 minute read
