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After being suspended for 2 years, Meta has decided that Donald Trump can use Facebook and Instagram once more in the next few weeks. This comes after he was not only suspended from Facebook and Instagram but also supposedly banned for life from Twitter back in 2021.

Recently, all third-party Twitter clients such as Tweetbot and Twitterific suddenly became unusable with the social media platform believed to have blocked its API access to these apps. Now, Twitter itself has confirmed the matter via new rules on its Developer Agreement page.

Twitter has introduced a slew of changes since Elon Musk officially took over in October last year. We may see yet another change soon too, whereby the social media platform is reportedly planning to sell usernames as a way to increase revenue.

Twitter has undergone a slew of changes since being acquired by Elon Musk, many of which incurred backlash from the social media platform’s users. Well, the company is implementing yet another change, this time in regard to the default functionality of its feed, which will now function similarly to TikTok. 

A senior product manager at Microsoft may have inadvertently revealed a new feature on the Notepad app on Windows 11 after accidentally sharing it on Twitter. The tweet, which showed the Notepad app having tabs has since been deleted, but not before netizens managed to take notice of the post.

Two days ago, Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking if he should step down as the head of Twitter. He even said he will abide by the results so lo and behold, a majority of Twitter users voted yes and looks like he will do it.

Previously, we reported that Twitter introduced a new policy banning links to certain social media, including Facebook and Instagram on the platform. The move was subsequently met with criticism from Twitter users and now, the company has backtracked on that decision and deleted the new policy.

Today, Twitter has announced a bizarre decision to ban the free promotion of certain social media platforms on its own space. In other words, this means you won't be able to post and share other social network links anymore on Twitter.

Tesla has recently announced that a “Holiday Update” is rolling out to its cars, which most notably allows owners to play games from Steam in their Tesla vehicles. According to the company’s official Twitter account, Steam is now available on new Model S and Model X vehicles, though no specific car models were mentioned.

Besides relaunching the Twitter Blue subscription, the social media platform could soon allow users to type up to 4,000 characters in a tweet. It's worth mentioning that the current limit is 280, so it's a pretty big increment by the time it rolls out.