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Welcome to Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter (now X<\/a>), where the rules are made up<\/a> and the check marks<\/a> don\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is just my strong, intuitive sense that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization,\u201d Musk said<\/a> at a TED conference on the day he made his offer. \u201cI don\u2019t care about the economics at all.\u201d<\/p>\n Even for one of the richest men in the world, $44 billion is a lot of money to cough up to buy a middling social platform. Despite his fervent declarations about expanding \u201cthe scope and scale of consciousness\u201d through public discourse, the billionaire got cold feet. A month later in May, he tried to kill the deal<\/a>, claiming that Twitter had more bots than its public filings let on. After a truly chaotic legal discovery process, which even included some embarrassing texts<\/a>, Musk was forced to seal the deal<\/a>. By October, the platform was his.<\/p>\n Since Musk bought Twitter and took the company private, the news around the microblogging platform has been a whirlwind, rife with verification chaos, API access shakeups, ban reversals, staggering layoffs, and most notably, rebranding to X<\/a>.<\/p>\n Musk also transitioned from his role as Twitter (X) CEO to serving as its executive chair and CTO. It was announced on May 12 that Linda Yaccarino will step in as the next X CEO<\/a>. Yaccarino will be leaving her role as chairman of Global Advertising & Partnerships at NBCU.<\/p>\n The company said that creators who have garnered 5 million impressions in the last three months will be eligible for ad revenue sharing. That requirement was previously set to 15 million impressions.<\/p>\n Creators will be able to withdraw as low as $10 instead of $50, X said. Users still need to be verified and must have at least 500 followers to qualify for payouts.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been at the company eight weeks,\u201d Yaccarino said in her first broadcast interview since taking on her new role. \u201cThe operational run rate right now\u2026 we\u2019re pretty close to break even.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur data licensing and API with X is an incredible business. Our new subscription business [is] growing,\u201d Yaccarino said. \u201cAnd then, part of my, what I would say, expertise and experience, and what I came to do, was to drive advertising at the company.\u201d<\/p>\n CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed in her first TV interview that video calls will be a new feature coming to the service, as part of its transformation into an \u201ceverything app.\u201d<\/p>\n The partnership began in January to tell advertisers if their ad is placed around inappropriate content. Now, X is testing sensitivity settings, powered by machine learning, that let advertisers choose their thresholds for the kinds of content they want their ads to appear around \u2014 and according to a tweet from X owner Elon Musk, advertisers can buy these less desirable, \u201crelaxed\u201d sensitivity ad slots for less.<\/p>\n Brands can reduce adjacency to gore, excessive profanity and obscenity, targeted hate speech, sexual content, drugs and spam.\u00a0Soon, X will add its \u201crelaxed\u201d setting, which offers cheaper advertising opportunities while only filtering for targeted hate speech and explicit sexual content.<\/p>\n The @music account was originally operated for 16 years by software developer Jeremy Vaught, who grew the @music handle to roughly half a million followers. Vaught posted in anger that X had commandeered the account for itself.<\/p>\n \u201cSuper pissed,\u201d\u00a0Vaught wrote on X<\/a>, sharing a screenshot of the email X had sent him informing him of the change.<\/p>\n The feature historically provided information to users about why they were seeing a fact check appended to a tweet. After three years of development, the company says this extra context will now be removed for those who are already experienced with Community Notes.<\/p>\n The company has adopted the @Pro handle instead of @TweetDeck for the tool. However, many parts of the tool, including the help page, still have \u201cTwitter\u201d and \u201cTweetDeck\u201d mentions. Musk hinted at the change a week prior<\/a>, adding that XPro will come with a \u201cwide range of psy op plugins.\u201d There are no details about what kind of plug-ins those might be.<\/p>\n Paid verification was introduced last year with the Twitter Blue relaunch. The service was recently renamed to XBlue during the Twitter rebrand to X.<\/p>\n The idea is to help users benefit from subscription features without showing that they are a verified account. The option to hide the checkmark will show up in the \u201cProfile customization\u201d section of account settings.<\/p>\n The company has updated\u00a0the help page for paid subscriptions<\/a>, saying that even if you hide the checkmark it might be visible in some places. The company didn\u2019t give any further details about those placeholders.<\/p>\n Apple typically doesn\u2019t allow developers to name their apps as a single character, but they seemed to have made an exception.<\/p>\n X also changed its App Store tagline from \u201cLet\u2019s talk.\u201d to \u201cBlaze Your Glory!!\u201d Musk himself posted a twee<\/a>t with this tagline without any context.<\/p>\n The company announced<\/a>\u00a0its \u201cAds Revenue Sharing\u201d program is now available for eligible creators globally. The program, according to\u00a0posts<\/a> by X owner Elon Musk, aims to give out $5 million in the first round of creator payments.<\/p>\n The iconic bird logo is officially replaced with \u2018X\u2019<\/a> after Elon Musk announced the change the weekend of July 22. Notably, Musk x.com now also redirects to twitter.com. Musk also called this an \u201cinterim\u201d logo, so we might see another logo change in the future.<\/p>\n The app also changed its official handle to @x<\/a> as part of the ongoing rebranding. The original\u00a0@Twitter<\/a> handle is now inactive, and its bio reads, \u201cThis account is no longer active. Follow @x for updates.\u201d However, the original owner of the @x handle<\/a>, Gene X Hwang<\/a>\u00a0of the corporate photography and videography studio\u00a0Orange Photography<\/a>, confirmed to TechCrunch that the company took over his account without warning or financial compensation<\/a>, telling him the handle is property of X.<\/p>\n https:\/\/t.co\/bOUOek5Cvy<\/a> now points to https:\/\/t.co\/AYBszklpkE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Interim X logo goes live later today.<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Twitter hasn\u2019t officially announced the job postings feature yet, although some verified<\/a>\u00a0organizations<\/a> have already been able to post job listings under their bios. The job listings take applicants directly to the company\u2019s website, where they can learn more about the position and submit an application.<\/p>\n Twitter Notes, the feature that allows Twitter users to publish long-form content<\/a>, appears to be back on track, according to a post<\/a> from Twitter owner Elon Musk on Tuesday. Musk confirmed the company\u2019s plans in response to a user\u2019s tweet which claimed the Twitter Notes project had recently been rebranded as \u201cArticles.\u201d<\/p>\n On Tuesday, July 18, user @FaustoChou tweeted that Notes had been renamed to Articles, signaling perhaps renewed development efforts on Twitter\u2019s part. His screenshot showed the Notes interface, looking much like it did before, as well as other unlaunched features, like Twitter Coins. Musk replied to the tweet<\/a>, confirming Twitter\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n Twitter will now pay creators for a share of the ad revenue earned from ads served in the replies to their posts. Twitter Blue subscribers who have earned more than 5 million tweet impressions each month for the last 3 months are eligible to join the creator payouts.<\/p>\n According to Elon Musk, the first round of creator payouts will total\u00a0$5 million<\/a>, and will be\u00a0cumulative<\/a>\u00a0from the month of February onward. These payouts will be delivered via Stripe.<\/p>\n Despite the program\u2019s significant payouts, some creators weren\u2019t happy \u2014 and took their complaints to Twitter owner Elon Musk. In a series of tweets, Musk addressed creators\u2019 concerns over things like the types of accounts that were eligible for monetization, rate limits and other issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n Starting \u201cas soon as\u201d July 14<\/a>, Twitter will introduce a new messages setting aimed at reducing spam in DMs by moving messages from Verified users you don\u2019t follow back to your \u201cMessage Request\u201d inbox instead of your main inbox. Only messages from people you follow will arrive in your primary inbox going forward. Notably, these changes will also now apply to everyone who has their inboxes open to allow messages from anyone.<\/p>\n Before becoming pay-to-play, Twitter verification indicated a person was a public or notable figure of some sort \u2014 like a politician, celebrity, athlete, journalist or other well-known individual. By making the Verified blue checkmark accessible to anyone who purchased it, Twitter diluted the value of verification.<\/p>\n That apparently escalated to the point that people have become bothered by Verified users spamming their main inbox, when they had set it open to receive DMs from the blue-badged crowd. In other words, Twitter has a Verified user spam problem.<\/p>\n Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is pushing back at reports that Twitter traffic is tanking as a result of the July 5\u00a0launch of a new competitor, Instagram Threads<\/a>. However, on Monday, July 10, users reported that Twitter seems to be selectively blocking links to Threads.net\u2019s website in Twitter searches, making it more difficult for anyone to surface conversations on Threads or locate users\u2019 profiles.<\/p>\n Less than 24 hours after Threads launched, the Elon Musk-owned company accused Meta of poaching former Twitter employees to create the new platform.<\/p>\n \u201cTwitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,\u201d Spiro wrote in the\u00a0letter<\/a>, which Semafor shared online. \u201cTwitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice to prevent any further retention, disclosure, or use of its intellectual property by Meta.\u201d<\/p>\n After swaths of users were unable to\u00a0access parts of TweetDeck over the last few days<\/a>, Twitter started rolling out a new version of the web app to users July 3. The company also added that in 30 days, users will have to be verified to access TweetDeck. This means only Twitter Blue subscribers, verified organizations and some folks who have been gifted verification by Twitter will be able to use TweetDeck come August.<\/p>\n Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the social media platform suffers extended outage that has stymied users\u2019 ability to track new posts.<\/p>\n Verified account holders can peruse a maximum of 6,000 posts daily, while unverified users must contend with a drastically reduced limit of 600 posts. Newly registered, unverified users face even tighter restrictions with an allowance of a mere 300 posts per day, according to Elon Musk. (He has since increased the limit to 10,000, 1,000 and 500, respectively.)<\/p>\n These read limits impacted TweetDeck users<\/a> in particular, reporting major problems including notifications and entire columns failing to load.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re not logged into your Twitter account, or don\u2019t have one, and try to view a tweet, you\u2019ll be presented with a sign-in screen. However, days later, Twitter silently removed the login requirement for viewing tweets<\/a>.<\/p>\n When Twitter started enforcing the login requirement, Musk said that he took these \u201ctemporary\u201d measures to prevent data scraping.<\/p>\n The company hasn\u2019t made any official announcement about allowing users to view links when you aren\u2019t logged in or given any details on what measures it has taken to stop scraping.<\/p>\n The company made the change to its Twitter Blue page today, indicating the limit. An engineer at Twitter, Prachi Poddar, also announced the change by posting a long tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n The National Music Publishers\u2019 Association (NMPA), representing 17 publishers, listed 1,700 songs for which it sent multiple copyright violation notices to Twitter. The lawsuit<\/a>, filed in Federal District Court in Nashville, says that Twitter didn\u2019t take any action against these notices. The publishers\u2019 organization said in the filing that it is seeking fines of up to $150,000 for each violation.<\/p>\n The lawsuit alleged that the social network \u201cfuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical \u2018compositions, violating Publishers\u2019 and others\u2019 exclusive rights under copyright law.\u201d It added that, unlike its competitors TikTok and Instagram, Twitter hasn\u2019t struck a music licensing deal for the use of copyrighted music.<\/p>\n Court documents show that Twitter owes three months\u2019 rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from that office.<\/p>\n In May the landlord took it to court, and on May 31 the judge issued an order that the sheriff should assist in the eviction of Twitter within the next 49 days \u2014 i.e. before the end of July. The case number is 2023CV30342 in Boulder District Court.<\/p>\n As many as 300 employees once worked in Twitter\u2019s Boulder offices, but between layoffs, other firings, and resignations, it is probably less than half of that now.<\/p>\n The time limit to edit tweets has increased from 30 minutes to one hour for Blue subscribers, giving users a bigger window to change their tweets and correct any typos.<\/p>\n Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino officially started her new gig on Monday, June 5, according to a tweet.<\/p>\n It happened \u2014 first day in the books!<\/p>\n Stay tuned\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Linda Yaccarino (@lindayacc) June 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Ella Irwin took over for Yoel Roth, who famously left the company<\/a> during the early days of Elon Musk\u2019s chaotic Twitter takeover.<\/p>\n The latest feature is an effort to put more onus on crowdsourced moderation by allowing users to address scenarios of morphed images or AI-generated images across the platform where the photos are posted. The launches comes days after a fake AI-generated image about an attack on the Pentagon spread quickly<\/a> as prominent accounts retweeted it.<\/p>\n Twitter API Pro for startups gives developers the ability to fetch 1 million tweets per month and post 300,000 tweets per month, and gives them access to the full archive search endpoint.<\/p>\n Twitter made changes to its paid plan, allowing subscribers to upload two-hour videos \u2014 expanding the previous 60-minute limit<\/a>.<\/p>\n The company also\u00a0modified its Twitter Blue page<\/a>\u00a0and said the video file size limit for paid users is now increased from 2GB to 8GB. While earlier longer video upload was only possible from the web, now it\u2019s also possible through the iOS app. Despite these changes, the maximum quality for upload still remains 1080p.<\/p>\n Musk confirmed Yaccarino\u2019s new role in a tweet this morning (May 12), a day after he announced that he had completed his search for a new CEO.<\/p>\n \u201cExcited to announce that I\u2019ve a new CEO for X\/Twitter,\u201d Musk wrote in a tweet on May 11. \u201cShe will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.\u201d<\/p>\n Currently, this feature is only available to verified Blue users or accounts associated with verified organizations. Additionally, the encryption feature isn\u2019t compatible with group messages and Twitter doesn\u2019t offer protection against man-in-the-middle attacks.<\/p>\n Twitter has introduced a new feature that lets users choose almost any emoji to react to a DM in a conversation. Previously, the company allowed you to react to only the most recent DM with only a select set of emojis. CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the new feature is rolling out with the latest app update.<\/p>\n According to recent tweets by owner Elon Musk, Twitter is purging inactive accounts that have had \u201cno activity at all for several years.\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Twitter is thinking about an organizational verification plan that doesn\u2019t cost $1,000 a month. Over the Cinco de Mayo weekend, Elon Musk tweeted that the company is working on a cheaper plan for small businesses, but didn\u2019t give any details about the cost.<\/p>\n We will have a lower cost tier for small businesses, but need to manage the onboarding of organizations carefully to prevent fraud.<\/p>\n The $1000\/month is meant for larger organizations.<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Twitter confirmed a security error that made Circle tweets<\/a>\u00a0surface publicly. TechCrunch reported the glitch<\/a> in early April, but the platform confirmed the issue May 5 in an email sent to Twitter Circle users.<\/p>\n \u201cIn April 2023, a security incident may have allowed users outside of your Twitter Circle to see tweets that should have otherwise been limited to the Circle to which you were posting,\u201d the email said. Twitter claims that the bug has now been fixed, and that the team knows what caused it.<\/p>\n Twitter announced on May 2 that it is making its API free for verified government or public-owned services posting about public utility alerts such as weather alerts, transportation information and emergency warnings. This comes a month after the company announced its new API pricing tiers<\/a>.<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t seem to matter what text you\u2019re adding to your bio \u2014 TechCrunch reporter Amanda Silberling added a few spaces, then got her check back for a moment. It even showed up with the old text that designates that she is \u201cnotable in government, news, entertainment, or another designated category,\u201d and she did not, in fact, pay for this. But once you refresh the page it disappears. In fact, it\u2019s unclear whether anyone else can even see your check briefly reappear.<\/p>\n Twitter was confirmed April 25\u00a0as one of 19 major tech platforms subject to centralized oversight<\/a> by the European Union\u2019s executive starting this fall, when so-called very large online platforms (VLOPs) are expected to be compliant with the Digital Services Act (DSA). But the Commission has not wasted any time warning the\u00a0Elon Musk-owned social network\u00a0that things aren\u2019t looking good for staying on the right side of the incoming law.<\/p>\n In a pair of tweets<\/a>, Vera Jourova, the EU\u2019s values and transparency VP, warned of \u201cyet another negative sign\u201d by Twitter \u2014 accusing the platform under Musk of \u201cnot making digital information space any safer and free from the Kremlin #disinformation & malicious influence\u201d.<\/p>\n Twitter said that labels will be shown to both authors and viewers. Usually, these tweets will show text such as \u201cVisibility limited: this Tweet may violate Twitter\u2019s rules against Hateful Conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n The app\u2019s enforcement policy<\/a>\u00a0says that tweets with such labels will not show up in search results, recommendations or timelines \u2014 those tweets will be hidden in both the \u201cFor You\u201d and \u201cFollowing timelines. Additionally, there will be no ads placed adjacent to posts with reduced visibility.<\/p>\n Over the April 21st weekend, multiple top accounts (with more than 1 million followers) got their verification marks back. However, many of them, including writer Neil Gaiman, footballer Riyad Mahrez, musician Lil Nas X, actress Janel Parrish Long and British TV presenter Richard Osman said that they didn\u2019t pay for the blue badge.<\/p>\n In March,\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0reported that Twitter was considering handing out a free verification mark<\/a> to the top 10,000 brands and companies. It\u2019s not clear if the company is applying the same policy to personal accounts.<\/p>\n Twitter has removed \u201cgovernment-funded media\u201d labels on all accounts, from NPR to the Chinese state-affiliated Xinhua News. The app even appears to have deleted<\/a>\u00a0its\u00a0web page<\/a>\u00a0explaining the \u201cgovernment-funded media\u201d labels.<\/p>\n Several users<\/a>\u00a0have posted screenshots of an email reportedly sent by Twitter, which states that starting from April 21, verified checkmarks are required to continue running ads on the platform.<\/p>\n WOW\u2026 Twitter is now telling advertisers it MUST subscribe to Twitter Blue or Verified Organisations to continue running ads! pic.twitter.com\/4DrDu82Zi0<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) April 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n With the legacy checks gone<\/a>, the app will have verification marks<\/a>\u00a0only for paid users and businesses, as well as government entities and officials. Now if a user sees a blue check mark and clicks on it, the label reads: \u201cThis account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.\u201d<\/p>\n Microsoft is dropping the bird app from its advertising platform starting on April 25, nearly two months after Twitter announced that it will begin charging a minimum of $42,000 per month to users of its API, including enterprises and research institutions. The moves mean users will no longer be able to access their account, or create, schedule or otherwise manage tweets through Microsoft\u2019s free social media management service.<\/p>\n Twitter owner Elon Musk threatened to take legal action:<\/p>\n They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time.<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Twitter updated its content moderation guidelines regarding hateful content, removing a policy that prohibited the targeted deadnaming or misgendering of transgender people. Enacted in 2018, the policy explicitly stated that it violated Twitter\u2019s rules to repeatedly and purposefully call a transgender person by the wrong name or pronouns.<\/p>\n Twitter plans<\/a> to \u201csoon\u201d begin adding visible labels on tweets that have been identified as potentially violating its policies, which has impacted their visibility. It did not say when exactly the system would be fully rolled out across its network.<\/p>\n Typically, when tweets violate Twitter\u2019s policies, one of the actions the company can take is to limit the reach of those tweets \u2014 or something it calls \u201cvisibility filtering.\u201d In these scenarios, the tweets remain online but become less discoverable, as they\u2019re\u00a0excluded from areas<\/a>\u00a0like search results, trends, recommended notifications, For You and Following timelines, and more.<\/p>\n Historically, the wider public would not necessarily know if a tweet had been moderated in this way. Now Twitter says that will change.<\/p>\n Twitter\u2019s new feature will let Blue subscribers post 10,000-character-long posts \u2014 as if the social network is trying to compete with a rival newsletter platform<\/a>. Twitter has also added support for bold and italic text formatting.<\/p>\n Long-form writing is also not entirely new. Last June, the company introduced a program called\u00a0Twitter Notes for select writers<\/a>. However, that program was shut down under Musk. After taking over the company\u00a0he also killed newsletter tool Revue<\/a>, a startup Twitter had acquired in 2021.<\/p>\n A PBS spokesperson\u00a0confirmed<\/a>\u00a0to Axios that PBS had \u201cno plans to resume tweeting\u201d after Twitter gave it a murky \u201cgovernment-funded media\u201d label over the weekend. A few\u00a0other news entities<\/a>\u00a0appeared to have followed suit, including the prominent Boston NPR affiliate\u00a0WBUR<\/a>, Hawaii Public Radio and LA-based local news source\u00a0LAist<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC Australia), Australia\u2019s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), New Zealand\u2019s public broadcaster RNZ, Sweden\u2019s SR Ekot and SVT, and Catalonia\u2019s TV3.cat a were labeled \u201cgovernment-funded media\u201d<\/a> weeks later.<\/p>\n This expands upon the social network\u2019s Cashtag feature, which provided info about\u00a0a limited number of stocks and crypto coins through TradingView data<\/a>.<\/p>\n The new partnership with eToro goes beyond just displaying information. It also redirects users to the eToro site where they can engage in trading. If you search for a stock on Twitter, you will see a button saying \u201cView on eToro,\u201d which redirects to the site.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udf89Very excited to be launching a new $Cashtags partnership with @Twitter<\/a> which will enable Twitter users to see real-time prices for a much wider range of stocks, crypto & other assets as well as having the option to invest through eToro. @elonmusk<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/Iv2q9iNxbf<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 eToro (@eToro) April 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Elon Musk gave a rare interview to an actual reporter late on Tuesday, speaking to BBC reporter James Clayton on Twitter Spaces. During the\u00a0interview<\/a>, Clayton pressed Musk on whether his purchase of Twitter was, in the end, something he went through with willingly, or whether it was something he did because the active court case at the time in which Twitter was trying to force him to go through with the sale was going badly.<\/p>\n The answer was that Musk did indeed only do the deal because he believed legally, he was going to be forced to do so anyway.<\/p>\n This is the \u201cfinal date,\u201d he said in a tweet. If the move goes through, Twitter will have\u00a0verification marks<\/a>\u00a0only for paid users and businesses, and government entities and officials.<\/p>\n Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4\/20<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Twitter, Inc. is now called X Corp., according to a\u00a0court filing<\/a>\u00a0in California.<\/p>\n Since Twitter is no longer a public company, it does not have to report updates like name changes to the SEC. But in any case, the new name was spotted in an April 4 document related to far-right activist Laura Loomer\u2019s\u00a0lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0against Twitter and Facebook.<\/p>\n \u201cTwitter, Inc. has been merged into X Corp. and no longer exists,\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n The\u00a0lawsuit<\/a>, filed in Delaware Chancery Court, alleged that Twitter has to pay more than $1 million to the former executives for legal bills they incurred while at the company to respond to requests by the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n Numerous Twitter users reported a bug on April 10 in which Circle tweets are surfacing on the algorithmically generated For You<\/a>\u00a0timeline. That means that your supposedly private posts might breach containment to reach an unintended audience, which could quickly spark some uncomfortable situations.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019re just catching up, here\u2019s a complete timeline of what\u2019s going down at the bird app, starting with the most recent news:<\/h2>\n
August 2023<\/h3>\n
X lowers requirements for its creator payout program<\/a><\/h3>\n
X CEO claims the company formerly known as Twitter is almost breaking even<\/a><\/h3>\n
Video calls are coming to X<\/a><\/h3>\n
X expands its partnership with Integral Ad Science<\/a><\/h3>\n
X takes over @music handle, hinting at future music plans<\/a><\/h3>\n
X streamlines Community Notes<\/a><\/h3>\n
TweetDeck is renamed to XPro<\/a><\/h3>\n
X now allows paid users to hide their checkmarks<\/a><\/h3>\n
July 2023<\/h3>\n
Want to change back to the old Twitter app icon on iOS? Here\u2019s how:<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Apple accepts Twitter app\u2019s rebrand to X in the app store<\/a><\/h3>\n
X opens up its ad revenue sharing program globally<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter is now X<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Twitter preps a job listing feature\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter Notes is back\u2026kinda<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter shares ad revenue with verified creators<\/a><\/h3>\n
With the announcement of new DM settings, Twitter admits to having a Verified spammer issue<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter blocks links to Threads<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over its new Threads app<\/a><\/h3>\n
June 2023<\/h3>\n
Only verified users will be able to access TweetDeck after 30 days from now<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter limits the number of tweets users can read in a day<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter requires an account to view tweets<\/a><\/h3>\n
Subscribers can now post 25,000-character-long tweets<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter faces a $250 million lawsuit filed by major music publishers<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office<\/a><\/h3>\n
Window to edit tweets is increased to one hour for Blue subscribers<\/a><\/h3>\n
Linda Yaccarino is officially Twitter CEO<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Trust and safety lead resigns<\/a><\/h3>\n
May 2023<\/h3>\n
Twitter launched Community Notes for images in posts<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter\u2019s new API tier costs $5,000 per month<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter Blue users can now upload two-hour videos<\/a><\/h3>\n
The rumors are confirmed: NBCU\u2019s leader Linda Yaccarino as the next CEO of Twitter<\/a><\/h3>\n
Elon Musk tweets that he has found a new CEO\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter released its first version of encrypted DMs<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter now allows you to react to DMs with emojis<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter is purging old accounts and freeing up desired usernames, according to Elon Musk\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Twitter is contemplating a cheaper verification plan for organizations<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Twitter confirmed Circle tweets were temporarily not private\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter makes its API free for public announcement accounts\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
A bug on Twitter causes legacy blue checks to reappear by updating your bio<\/a><\/h3>\n
April 2023<\/h3>\n
EU warns Twitter over disinformation<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter now shows labels on tweets with reduced visibility<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter restored Blue verification mark for top accounts, even if they didn\u2019t pay for Twitter Blue<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter removes \u2018government-funded\u2019 news labels<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter sends an email seemingly requiring advertisers to have a verified checkmark<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Twitter officially kills legacy blue checkmarks on 4\/20<\/a><\/h3>\n
Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Twitter quietly removes policy against misgendering trans people<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter to label tweets that get downranked for violating its hate speech policy<\/a><\/h3>\n
10,000-character-long tweets for Blue subscribers<\/a><\/h3>\n
NPR, PBS and a handful of other news organizations bail on Twitter as Musk meddles with account labels<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter partners with eToro to show real-time stock and crypto information<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Elon Musk says he only bought Twitter because he thought he\u2019d be forced to\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
Elon Musk says Twitter will officially remove legacy checkmarks on 4\/20<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Twitter, Inc. is now X Corp.<\/a><\/h3>\n
Ex-Twitter CEO and other execs sue firm over unpaid legal bills<\/a><\/h3>\n
Twitter Circle tweets aren\u2019t very private<\/a><\/h3>\n