Tag: Twitter
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Elon Musk Reportedly Wants His X App To Replace Your Bank Account
Elon Musk has big plans for the X app, formerly Twitter. In an all-hands call last week, Musk talked about new features aimed at making X your financial hub are expected to launch by the end of 2024. An audio recording of the meeting was obtained by The Verge. “When I say payments, I actually…
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Is the Age of Free Twitter Over? Elon Musk Teases New Premium Tiers
Elon Musk on late Thursday teased the introduction of two new premium tiers for X (formerly Twitter), hinting at an end to the era of free access to the social media platform. The first, lower tier will come with all of the features of the platform, but won’t see a reduction of ads, while the…
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Elon Musk Says He Will Start Charging All X (Twitter) Users “A Few Dollars” a Month
X, formerly Twitter, may soon be more expensive to use, if an Elon Musk teases is to be believed. Musk raised the idea of charging all users of X in the middle of a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bloomberg reporter Dave Lee first tweeted on Monday (You can see the full conversation,…
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Musk Plans To Kill X (Twitter) Headlines For “Esthetics”
X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk plans to remove headlines and description text from posts on the social media site, according to a report from Fortune, leaving only the article’s main image. Musk later confirmed the news in a reply to X News Daily. “This is coming from me directly,” Musk wrote. “Will greatly improve…
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Twitter Slaps Meta’s Threads With a Cease & Desist Letter
After launching yesterday, Threads has become the fastest growing social media app ever netting over 10 million new users on day one and reaching over 70 million members since. It also appears to be one of Meta’s fastest apps to be threatened with a possible lawsuit. Twitter has already sent Meta a sternly written cease…
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Twitter Faces Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
Twitter is being sued over copyright infringement for letting users post music without the proper licensing. On Wednesday, 17 music publishers filed a lawsuit against the social media platform in a Nashville federal court, alleging Twitter committed “countless infringing copies of musical compositions” and has increased since Elon Musk took over last fall. Sources report…
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Peacock Executive Leaves NBCUniversal to Become Twitter’s New CEO
NBCUniversal announced it lost Chairman of Global Advertising and Partnerships, Linda Yaccarino, who is taking over as Twitter’s CEO.
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The NFL and Twitter Extend Partnership to Use New Twitter Feature
The NFL and Twitter announced today that they have entered a multi-year partnership extension. With the deal, exclusive content will be made for Twitter Spaces, Twitter’s new live audio feature. This is the first time that a professional sports league has partnered with Twitter to offer sponsored Twitter Spaces. The Twitter Spaces will be available…
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NBCUniversal and Twitter Have Renewed their Global Partnership
Twitter and NBCUniversal have renewed their media collaboration deal from 2013. The social media platform and entertainment conglomerate have had positive effects from the partnership and are expanding it in a new multi-year deal. “We’re proud that our partnership with Twitter has grown to this global scale,” said Maggie McLean Suniewick, President, Business Development and Partnerships,…
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Twitter and WNBA Renew Partnership to Stream Regular Season Games
The WNBA and Twitter announced today that they have renewed a deal for 10 live regular season games to stream on Twitter during the 2020 season. This will be the fourth consecutive year that WNBA games will stream on the platform. Along with lie coverage, the WNBA will broadcast commentary from basketball analysts including LaChina…