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For those longing for more control over their tweets, your time has come. For more on Twitter, here’s how toavoid Twitter scams. Here’s how tostop Facebook from tracking you across the weband how tofind and delete your Google data now. What is Twitter Blue and what does it do? Twitter Blue is a subscription service that offers exclusive features for a monthly fee. Here’s how much a Twitter Blue subscription will cost per month:...

Circlecurrently in testinglets you chat with up to 150 hand-picked people, followers or not. And because so many people already use Twitter, its an easy sell to get friends and colleagues involved. Context One drawback of Twitteror any other public platformis that it lacks context. Pixabay By putting discussions into silos, we can have much more meaningful conversations. Edar / Pixabay But its not just about deeper discussions. Now, all Twitter has to do is not screw it up....

Social media platforms such asFacebook, InstagramandTwitterare rife withmisinformationthat can easily go viral. The study’s findings werepublished in the journal Naturelast week. By combining multiple measures, there can be a significant improvement in the results, the study found. Musk says he wants to make the platform more “free speech” oriented. Also effective is removing repeat offenders, people who regularly share misinformation. They can have their own standards and require users to follow them....

Jump over ads, avoid unwanted direct messages while opening the ones you do want, and so on. For those details, you’re better off going overthe updated website. The new privacy policy is in effect as of today, andTwitter Data Dashis publicly available now. Westend61 / Getty Images

The social networkannounced the updateson its official Spaces Twitter account on Thursday, according toThe Verge. Since then, Twitter has been expanding Spaces, including making the featureavailable on desktop and mobile browsersin May. Spaces would replace Fleets position there, which the social networkdiscontinued just this week due to lack of popularity. Either way, it looks likesocial media is moving into an era of audio.

There’s currently no specified date for when automated account labels will finish testing and become a set feature. Regardless, if these labels remain opt-in, they may not be as useful as Twitter is anticipating. shaunl / Getty Images Thomas Barwick / Getty Images

But it’s definitely not a Dislike button, uh-uh, no way Twitter has admitted that it’s testing out the idea of “upvotes” and “downvotes,” with a select number of iOS app users able to give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to tweet replies. After some Twitter users began noticing a new icon when looking at tweet replies, Twitter’s Support accountadmittedthat it’s testing a new idea (for Twitter): upvotes and downvotes. According to the announcement, this is being used as a way for the platform to better understand what kinds of replies they consider relevant to a conversation....

Twitter really has ramped up Spaces since it first announced it was testing the feature last December. In May, Spaces also became available on desktop and mobile browsers to make the feature more widely available.

The social networkannounced on Wednesdaythat users can access Spaces from their desktop or mobile web browsers. Before, you could only use the feature on the Twitter iOS or Android app. Spaces can have a maximum of 10 participants, but theres currently no limit to the number of listeners. Westend61 Twitter originally described the feature as a virtual “dinner party. Either way, it looks likesocial media is moving into an era of audio....

Twitter is working on a slate of privacy toolsaimed at helping users manage their interactions on the platform, according to a Thursday report from Bloomberg. The tools could include the ability to leave a conversation, hide likes, remove followers and archive older tweets. The report follows Twitter’s announcement earlier in the week introducingSafety Mode, a feature that can automatically impose a seven-day block on accounts tweeting potentially harmful language. In a statement, a Twitter spokesperson said the company is trying out new features based on feedback from a series of global research studies around “people’s perceptions of and needs for privacy....

Twitter on Wednesday introduced a new feature encrypting some direct messages between its users. But there are limitations to the plan. And some cybersecurity experts have criticized the feature itself. “Verified” no longer means what it once did on Twitter. Why would you want encrypted DMs? Twitter has faced privacy issues in the past. How do you send an encrypted Twitter DM? An icon of a lock will show up on the avatar of the user receiving the message....

Twitter says its bias bounty is an industry first and hopes other companies will follow suit. The competition is intended to help Twitter’s internal efforts. “We want to start cultivating and creating a community of ethical AI hackers.” Tackling algorithmic bias has become an increasingly important concern for technology. Twitter’s project is designed to solidify standards around ideas likerepresentational harm. That helps with messy tasks like understanding speech, screening spam and identifying your face to unlock your phone....

Twitter is teaming up with S&P Dow Jones Indices to give investors a broader view of opinions about companies they may be considering investing in. The S&P 500 Twitter Sentiment Index launched on Thursday to measure public opinion of companies in the S&P 500 stock market index. Through the Twitter API, S&P analyzes both bearish and bullish tweets in real time to score the level of positive sentiment surrounding each company....