News & Reviews: twitter
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Dec 11, 2022
At the end of last month, Twitter decided to hold off on the relaunch of Twitter Blue. Allegedly, this was because Elon Musk didn't want to pay the 30% cut that the Apple App Store collects from all apps with transactions. However, it looks like the company will relaunch it soon.
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Dec 09, 2022
Twitter is rolling out a new feature under the reign of Elon Musk. The CEO tweeted an announcement on the arrival of "a software update that will show your true account status". According to the report, it's said to be a feature that tells you if you're shadowbanned.
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Dec 01, 2022
Previously, Elon Musk was quite "emotional" about Apple's alleged plan to remove Twitter from the Apple App Store. But it seems that it has been cleared out. This was after Musk had met up with Tim Cook recently.
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Nov 30, 2022
Twitter has delayed the relaunch of its Twitter Blue subscription to make various other changes to the service, as well as to avoid paying Apple’s 30 per cent App Store cut. Moreover, the revamped Blue subscription may not be available as an in-app purchase on the Twitter iOS app when it relaunches on the Apple App Store.
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Twitter to implement "manual authentication process", introducing more colours for verification tick
Nov 25, 2022Elon Musk might have figured out a solution to solve the Twitter Blue fiasco. The current Twitter CEO says that the company will implement a new manual authentication process, which he described as "painful, but necessary."
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Nov 23, 2022
With the recent General Election 15 held in Malaysia, the public has been growing weary and starting to spread some insightful content on social media. It has gotten so bad that TikTok had to step in to do something about it.
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Nov 22, 2022
Previously, we reported that Twitter may be working on reintroducing end-to-end encryption for Direct Messages (DMs), and now, it is pretty much confirmed by the company’s owner Elon Musk. Moreover, the social media platform is also adding encrypted video and voice calling between accounts too.
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Nov 20, 2022
Twitter has been in turmoil since Elon Musk acquired it, with plans for Twitter Blue unravelling due to a problem with impersonation. As a solution, the subscription plan was shut down last week. Well, it seems Twitter is back with a new plan.
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Nov 17, 2022
Twitter might have brought end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages (DMs) back to life. The company had worked on the feature in 2018, but it never gets to see the light. Until now, Jane Manchun Wong, a tech blogger who likes to dig up unreleased features of various apps, claims that the social media company is bringing it back.
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Nov 17, 2022
Elon Musk has announced that he is planning to reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find a new leader to run his newly-acquired company. However, he clarified that this may “take some time” and that he will continue to run the social media company until it is in a strong place.
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