Figures such as the Pope, Trump or Beyoncé lost their 'blue badge' on Twitter this Thursday, after the social network led by Elon Musk fulfilled its promise and withdrew the badge from those who refused to pay. The social network has undergone a change with accounts losing this distinctive mark obtained in the past, after...
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, head of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, has become the most followed person on Twitter, effectively surpassing the number of followers of former US president Barack Obama. According to Notícias ao Minuto, at the time of publication of this piece, Elon Musk had 133,072,262 followers on his page, while Obama trailed behind with 133,043,246...
The billionaire owner of the social network Twitter, Elon Musk, fired more than 200 of his company's employees on Sunday without telling them, including the disabled Haraldur Throleifsson, who insisted on getting confirmation from his boss. Unusual exchange of tweets ends with Musk apologizing. Dear @elonmusk 👋 9 days ago the access...
Twitter users began to report during the morning of Wednesday, March 1, that the platform seems to be having problems. In fact, consulting the DownDetector platform, quoted by Notícias ao Minuto, it can be seen that the number of reports of faults with Twitter has gradually increased throughout this morning. A...
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey left the company in May 2022 amid negotiations with Elon Musk. Since then, he has been working on Bluesky - a new decentralized social network that is set to compete with Twitter. This week, the Bluesky app was officially made available on the iOS App...
Meta has launched a page verification program on Facebook and Instagram, which allows users to pay a monthly fee to keep their page verified. However, it seems that Mark Zuckerberg wants to avoid some of Twitter's problems with the implementation of this feature. Meta Verified members will be prevented from making certain...
On Wednesday, Twitter became the first social network to allow advertising for cannabis brands and products in the United States. Previously, Elon Musk's company allowed advertising of products derived from the cannabis plant and CBD, while platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok continue to prohibit it. In a statement quoted by Notícias ao...
Twitter will start charging for access to the Application Programming Interface (API) from February 9, according to the newspaper "CNBC", quoted by the newspaper Económico. This system on Elon Musk's social network, which has both a free and paid option, is used by millions of programmers...
At the end of 2019, Twitter banned all political ads on the platform so as not to impact future electoral processes. However, it seems that Elon Musk's new leadership will see a return to this type of advertising on the social network. The Twitter Safety account announced on its website that it will "relax the policy of...
The billionaire took control of the social network in October and his leadership has been marked by an increase in misinformation and thousands of layoffs. Almost two months after taking control of Twitter, Elon Musk said this morning that he is stepping down as CEO, confirming the results of the poll that...