Culture & Policy Internet News Twitter reportedly working on new govt ID-based verification Verification is a tricky subject for Twitter, more so since Elon Musk… Soumyadeep SarkarMarch 20, 20232 minute read
Culture & Policy News Twitter lays off 10% of remaining workforce in fresh layoffs Elon Musk may have promised that there would be no further layoffs… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 27, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News Twitter brings longer, 4000 character tweets for ‘Blue’ subscribers in the US Elon Musk has been promising longer tweets for a while, and now,… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 9, 20232 minute read
Internet News Twitter Blue goes live in India, Brazil and Indonesia Twitter is continuing to gradually expand the roll out of its paid… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalFebruary 9, 20231 minute read
Apps Internet News Twitter launches Blue in six more countries, launches new Spaces tab Twitter Blue, which went through a phase of utter confusion during the… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 3, 20232 minute read
Apps Internet News Twitter pulls the plug on CoTweets The pace of sweeping changes across Twitter has slowed down over the… Soumyadeep SarkarFebruary 2, 20232 minute read
Business Culture & Policy Enterprise Global Internet News Twitter Twitter makes the algorithmic “For You” timeline as default on iOS Yet another major change has come to Twitter in the post-Musk era.… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 11, 20232 minute read
Business Internet News Twitter to bring long-form tweets and other changes as part of major UI overhaul Twitter’s user interface is set to get a major overhaul, according to… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 8, 20232 minute read
Business Culture & Policy News With eye on increasing revenue, Twitter to expand political ads on its platform, relax policy for cause-based ads In the latest instance of Elon Musk reversing Twitter’s policies, the social… Soumyadeep SarkarJanuary 4, 20232 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Twitter Twitter back online after suffering global outage, Musk says it “should feel faster” Twitter has been pretty chaotic ever since Elon Musk took over, and… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 29, 20222 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News Twitter restores suicide prevention feature soon after removing it, Musk claims removal was “fake news” Soon after it took down a feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 26, 20222 minute read
Business Internet News Twitter to start displaying stock and crypto prices, Musk says it is ‘one of many upcoming product improvements Even though chaos has become almost part and parcel of Twitter under… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 22, 20222 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Elon Musk to step down as Chief Twit, as soon as he finds a replacement After a conspicuous silence that followed his polls on Twitter, Elon Musk… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 21, 20222 minute read
Business Internet News Twitter launches ‘Twitter Blue for Business’, Musk restricts major policy decisions to Twitter Blue subs Twitter has made the headlines multiple times over the past month, but… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 21, 20222 minute read
Internet News Let this sink in: Nearly 10Mn Twitter users respond in favour of Elon Musk stepping down as head of Twitter Looks like Elon Musk could well be at the receiving end of… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalDecember 19, 20222 minute read
Global Internet News Twitter Twitter suspends accounts of prominent journalists, offers no explanation Yesterday, Twitter banned several accounts that tracked the locations of private jets… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 16, 20223 minute read
Apps Global Internet News Twitter Twitter suspends accounts sharing live location of someone else, including one that tracked Elon Musk’s jet In the age of the internet and social media, where nothing remains… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 15, 20222 minute read
Apps Culture & Policy Global News Twitter Blue rolls out at $8/month for web and $11/month on iOS, includes Blue Tick checkmark, Edit Tweet, and more After an abrupt (but not expected) halt last month due to the… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 12, 20222 minute read
Internet News Twitter Twitter Blue could cost $11/month via iOS app store, $7/month on the web In the next phase of Twitter Blue’s journey in the Musk era,… Soumyadeep SarkarDecember 9, 20222 minute read
Culture & Policy Internet News Kanye West’s Twitter account suspended twice in two months, this time for “incitement to violence” It seems that Kanye West cannot stay out of controversy, not when… Staff@The Tech PortalDecember 2, 20222 minute read
Culture & Policy Global Internet News Twitter Twitter to relaunch Verified service next week with multicolour check marks, certain banned accounts to be restored Twitter’s verification service has been in a state of confusion ever since… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 26, 20224 minute read
