Twitter has taken the extreme step of essentially restricting users from viewing tweets, in an effort to address what Elon describes as ‘extreme levels of data scraping’. Continue reading
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Twitter Now Requires an Account to View Tweets
If you’re not logged into your Twitter account and try to view a tweet, you’ll be presented with a sign-in screen. And if you don’t want to have an account on the bird app, too bad! Coninue reading
Twitter Rolls Out 25k Character Tweets for Twitter Blue Subscribers
After initially enabling Twitter Blue subscribers to share tweets up to 4,000 characters long back in February, then expanding that to 10,000 characters in April, Twitter’s now expanded this again, with Blue users now able to post 25,000 character posts in a single...
Twitter’s New ‘Highlights’ Tab is Now Available to Twitter Blue Subscribers
After testing it out over the past month, Twitter has now rolled out a new tweet highlights tab for Twitter Blue subscribers in the app, which enables paying users to showcase their best tweets via a new, dedicated feed on their Twitter profile. Contineu reading
Twitter Expands Community Notes to Attached Visuals in Tweets
Twitter’s looking to increase the value of its Community Notes, with a new feature that’ll enable Community Notes contributors to add a contextual note to an image in the app, which will then see Twitter’s system attach that note to any matching re-shares of the same...
Twitter Adds List Search Capacity on Desktop
Here’s a small, but potentially helpful Twitter update. Starting today, when you go to the ‘Lists’ tab in the web version of the app, you can now search for interesting lists based on your focus keywords. Continue reading
Twitter Adds Picture-in-Picture Video Playback, Tests New Video Download Options
Elon Musk recently promised that new Twitter video updates would be coming through thick and fast, and he’s definitely holding true to this, with two new video updates now being rolled out to Twitter users. Continue reading
Twitter now Allows Paid Users to Upload Two-Hour Videos
Twitter has made changes to its paid plan, allowing subscribers to upload two-hour-long videos — expanding the previous 60-minute limit. Continue reading
Twitter Adds New Video Playback Speed Controls, Flags Coming Video Updates
Twitter added new playback speed controls for videos in the app, another step in its video development roadmap which looks set to become an even bigger focus under incoming CEO Linda Yaccarino. Continue reading
Elon Musk Appoints New Twitter CEO, NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino
The rumors are true: Elon Musk has chosen NBCU leader Linda Yaccarino as the next CEO of Twitter. Musk confirmed Yaccarino’s new role in a tweet this morning, a day after he announced that he had completed his search for a new CEO. Continue reading
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