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Opinion On February 21, Twitter god-king Elon Musk proclaimed “our algorithm is made open source next week.” He added it wouldn’t work well at first, “but it will improve rapidly!” That hasn’t happened. Twitter algorithm to be open sourced ‘next week,’ says Musk READ MORE Musk has been claiming he wanted to open source Twitter’s …

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In the middle of the night, Twitter made an announcement that disappointed a wide range of developers whose research, bots, and apps depend on free access to the platform’s API to function. Twitter announced in a tweet that starting on February 9, Twitter “will no longer support free access to the Twitter API.” Instead, many …

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Jan 30 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc has made its first interest payment under Elon Musk after the billionaire took the social media company private last year using about $12.5 billion of debt, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Twitter paid a group of seven banks, led by Morgan Stanley, …

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Echofon is the fastest, most powerful Twitter app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and the ONLY free app with Inline Photo Previews! ********** Lightning Fast. Super Powerful. Simple to Use. Echofon is wrapped in a beautiful, clean interface that delivers powerful extras to enable you to manage your busy social media life on Twitter. …

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Elon Musk said on Tuesday (Dec 20) he will step down as chief executive of Twitter after finding a replacement. “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams,” Musk wrote on Twitter. This is the …

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Donald Trump’s Twitter account appeared to be back online after a slim majority of votes were cast, in a Twitter poll organised by Elon Musk, in favour of reinstating the former US president, who was banned from the social media service for inciting violence. Slightly more than 15 million votes were counted in the poll …

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The new social software is subtly designed to reduce the huge, viral surges of attention we see on Twitter. Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash Back in 2017 I wrote a short column for Wired about “antiviral” design. I’d recently been using some fun, experimental web services, like Rob Beschizza’s txt.fyi. These sites all allowed …

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Opinion I’ve decided to sign up for Twitter’s subscription-based service for a simple reason: to put my money where my mouth is. I’m a verified user, but care not for the blue tick as a status symbol. I applied for it as a sign of authenticity because plenty of websites cut and paste copy from …

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FILE PHOTO: A view of the Twitter logo at its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S. October 28, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (Reuters) – After Twitter Inc laid off roughly half its staff on Friday following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition, the company is now reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs …

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Twitter, after laying off roughly half the company on Friday following Elon Musk’s $44 billion (€44 billion) acquisition, is now reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs and asking them to return. Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake, according to two people familiar with …