News X (Formerly Twitter) Introduces a Job Listings Feature for Verified Organizations Although Twitter hasn't yet officially announced this feature, some verified companies have already taken advantage of it, adding job listings beneath their bios. Interested applicants are directed to the respective company's website.
News Twitter Starts Sharing Ad Revenue with Creators Elon Musk clarified that the initial round of creator payouts will amount to $5 million, and the payments will be cumulative starting from February. These payouts will be facilitated through the Stripe payment platform.
News Twitter Employees Sue the Company Over Unpaid Bonuses The class-action suit accuses Twitter executives, including former CFO Ned Segal, of repeatedly promising employees that they would receive 50% of their 2022 bonuses.
News Twitter Blue Subscribers Can Now Upload Two-Hour Videos Twitter Blue subscribers, who now pay $8/month for it, are allowed to upload videos up to two hours at 1080p resolution that must have an 8GB file size or smaller. Also, longer two-hour videos can only be uploaded from the web or iOS.
News Twitter Is Rolling Out Its Edit Button for Twitter Blue Subscribers From now on, these users can edit the content of a tweet after it has been published, which means that they will no longer have to delete and publish the tweet again in case they make a mistake or a typo.
News Twitter Is Bringing Podcasts to Its Platform Twitter internal research shows that 45% of the platform's US users listen to podcasts every month, so it's worth recommending audio content to them. Listeners will now have access to a more personalized selection of audio content.
News Twitter Is Rolling out the Unmentioning Feature to All Users To unmention yourself from the conversations you no longer want to be a part of, you need to select the tweet you're tagged in and tap the three dots at the top-right corner of the screen. You should then choose the Leave this conversation option.
News Twitter and Elon Musk Will Go to Trial over the $44 Billion Deal in October Musk and Twitter are preparing for a lawsuit after the billionaire refused to buy the company. The lawsuit states that Musk refuses to honor the agreement because the deal has ceased to interest him personally. A trial in the case is set for October.
News Elon Musk Is Backing Out of the $44 Billion Deal to Buy Twitter The entrepreneur previously said he was holding off on a deal to buy Twitter until the company could prove that spam bots and fake accounts represented no more than 5% of the social network's daily active users.
News Twitter Is Testing Its Notes Feature for Long-Form Posts In the timeline, notes will look like a link preview that you click on to read the entire note. Like tweets, notes will have their own link and can be tweeted, retweeted, sent to private messages, liked, and added to favorites.
News Twitter Introduces Exclusive Spaces for Super Followers Until now, Super Followers had only one advantage over regular Twitter users – they had access to exclusive tweets of the creators they followed. Now Super Followers will also have a dedicated place only they can attend.
News Twitter Created a Web Game to Explain Its Privacy Policy The game is set in PrivaCity, and your task is to navigate a dog named Data safely to the part. Along the way, you will "dodge cat ads, swim through a sea of DMs, battle trolls, and learn how to take control of your Twitter experience along the way."
News Elon Musk Acquires Twitter for $44 Billion Shareholders will receive $54.2 for each common share, which is 38% more than their value as of April 1, when it became known that Musk had purchased a 9% stake in the company.
News Twitter Is Experimenting With the New Unmentioning Feature The new tool will help avoid "unwanted attention" to users, as such cases often lead to bullying on social networks. Or users will simply have an ability to leave the conversations they are no longer interested in or do not want to be a part of.
News Twitter Is Finally Working on an Edit Button The company first announced the news on its official Twitter account on April 1, but the public took it as a joke at the time. However, Twitter confirmed the new feature later on April 6, so this is surely not a joke.
News Elon Musk Will Not Join Twitter Board After All Musk was about to be appointed to Twitter's board of directors, with his term expiring in 2024, and he was limited from owning more than 14.9% of Twitter's common stock.
News Twitter Now Lets iOS Users Create GIFs With an In-App Camera Users will still have the GIF search feature while creating a tweet since Twitter offers integrated GIF support. The new feature only makes the whole GIF sharing experience more personal.
News Twitter Spaces for iOS Is Testing a New Clipping Tool for Select Hosts The feature is designed to provide a new way for users to draw interest in their Spaces, as well as highlight a specific part of the audio without having to share the entire recording.
News Twitter Now Lets Users Put Content Warnings on Tweets The feature allows users to hide individual photos and videos behind warnings for "violence," "nudity," or "sensitive" content. Previously, users only had the option of adding a general warning to all multimedia tweets.
News Twitter Adds Ethereum Wallet Support to Its Tips Feature Twitter announced the Tips Jar feature back in May 2021. To support your favorite author financially, you should visit their profile and click the dedicated icon. Once you click it, you will need to select the payments service or platform to transfer the money.
News Twitter Is Rolling Out Its Downvote Button Test Globally During the previous round of testing, the company found that users generally downvote replies that are offensive or irrelevant. The same experiment also showed that downgrading is most often used to label content that users don't want to see.
News Twitter Is Testing TikTok-Like Reaction Videos The company says the new feature is now being tested on a limited number of iOS users. If you have access to this feature, you will see a corresponding button in the retweet menu. Once you tap it, you’ll be able to take a video or photo to reply to a tweet.
News Twitter Is Testing TikTok-Like Vertical Videos The company representatives say that the new feature is an additional way to promote content that's already on the platform. It's also part of the efforts of Twitter to improve personalized recommendations.
News Jack Dorsey Stepped Down as Twitter Chief Executive By the unanimous decision of the board of directors, Dorsey will be replaced by Parag Agrawal, who has been working in the company for over ten years. Agrawal joined Twitter in 2011 as an engineer and has worked as technology chief since 2017.
News Twitter Blue Is Now Available for Users From the US and New Zealand This subscription allows users to read ad-free articles from over 300 US news sites, including The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic. Twitter promises to donate a portion of the revenue to the publishers that participate in the subscription.
