Social Media platform X restores services after global outage
SOCIAL media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was restored globally early on Thursday (Dec 21), with over 77,000 US users facing issues at the peak of the outage.
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Musk: X will offer video and audio calls in move toward super-app
USERS of X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, will be able to make video and audio calls through the platform without having to share their phone number, owner Elon Musk said in a post Thursday (Aug 31), in the latest expansion of services as he seeks to create an “everything app”. He wants…
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Musk says video and audio calls coming to Twitter
TWITTER boss Elon Musk put out word that audio and video calls are coming to the platform. “Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform,” Musk said in a tweet. “So you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number.” In a…
Twitter suffers major outage disabling external links
TWITTER on Monday suffered a major outage with users worldwide reporting they could no longer read links to articles from outside websites. “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” the company’s tech support account said in a tweet, blaming the problem on “unintended consequences” from an update to the platform….
More than 500 advertisers have paused spending on Twitter
More than 500 of Twitter’s advertisers have paused spending on the microblogging site since Elon Musk’s takeover last year, The Information reported on Wednesday (Jan 18), citing a person familiar with its ad business. The social media company’s daily revenue on Jan 17 was 40 per cent lower than the same day a year ago, the report…
Twitter hacked, 200 million user email addresses leaked: researcher
HACKERS stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said on Wednesday. The breach “will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing,” Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn. He called it…
Limited Twitter outage rattles users
THOUSANDS of Twitter users reported an outage on Wednesday, according to tracking sites Downdetector.com and Netblocks, but the issue appeared to be resolving, with error messages and missing tweets reappearing. At the peak of the outage, at about 0035 GMT, DownDetector said more than 10,000 people reported problems with the platform, which is now owned…
Twitter to launch blue check subscription next week, says Musk
TWITTER will tentatively launch its blue check subscription feature next Friday (Dec 2), chief executive officer Elon Musk said in a tweet, after holding off on the launch earlier this week. The social media platform will use different colour checks for organisations and individuals, Musk said. “Gold check for companies, grey check for governments, blue for…
As Meta and Twitter slash staff, TikTok plans to keep hiring
While much of Silicon Valley is grappling with hiring freezes and job cuts, at least one social media company is still planning to keep hiring TikTok. The short-form video app remains committed to its goal of hiring nearly 1,000 engineers at its Mountain View office, a person familiar with the matter. This specific hiring target is…
MoIB exposes fake campaign on social media about Independence Day ceremony
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB) on Monday termed the social media post which claimed that a woman danced during Independence Day event. A tweet from facts checker MoIB twitter account stated that disseminating fake news was not only unethical and illegal but it was also disservice to the nation. The tweet further said it…