Twitter is testing a new feature designed to help slow you down before you retweet an article. At least now well get a little reminder to actually open it first. Via:The Verge Learn More About Twitter Pixabay
Twitter said the features would be available broadly in the coming months. Twitter
Twitter Blue currently costs $5 per month but doesn’t include a verified check mark as a perk. The company has tried to revamp itsverification system, and has also mistakenly verified fake accounts. Twitter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Prior to Musk’s Tuesday tweets, there’d been various reports about Twitter potentially charging for verification. Executives spent the weekend talking about the idea and making plans about the measure, unidentified sources told Newton....
Twitter said the issue seems to happen most often when the timeline auto-refreshes. The background: a tweet would move up the timeline as replies were added to the ongoing convo. One specific feature many users have wanted for a long time is the ability toblock someone without unfollowingthem altogether. Getty Images/Chesnot The platform also is working onemoji reactions to tweets, instead of simply liking a tweet.
Twitter is having a hard timekeeping the interest of its most active users, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing internal Twitter research. Twitter’s “heavy tweeters” have been declining since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, using the platform less frequently, the report said. These users, which constitute around 10% of the platform’s monthly users, and are tweeters who enter to Twitter at least six days per week and tweet around three to four times per week, generate 90% of all tweets and half of the social media company’s global revenue, according to Reuters....
Change is never easy, and Twitter users aren’t afraid to complain. Almost immediately, users began to complain – with many saying the new font gave them headaches. (This writer is getting them too.) We’re listening to feedback about the font and will continue to improve it." “like like like let us change the font back,” said one Twitter user. Said another, “It looks like the letters are doing the wave, I hate it....
But several experts are already pointing to potential problems that could impact the usefulness of such a badge. “It’s very easy to attain phone numberseven using numbers with zip codes specific to a certain area. That’s led some experts to question the motives behind the new badges. Pixabay Musk believes it to be more. He wonders whether people will trust Twitter with their information. I believe this would help them, too....
Twitter isfinallyworking on an edit button for tweets. “The edit button will allow users to fix embarrassing typos and grammatical errors. Fancy Editing Despite the official announcement, there’s no timeline for Twitter’s edit button. ersinkirsacik / Getty Images “Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.” “The record of the public conversation” is the important part here. Twitter isn’t just for baby goat gifs....
Twitter is the drive-by of social platforms. But what Twitter is not is a place to get deep into something without distractions. It’s like settling in to watch a Paul Thomas Anderson movie in a McDonald’s bathroom. ConvertKit / Unsplash Wongs Twitter account hassince been deleted, which may or may not have something to do with the discovery. But what might Twitter plan for podcasts? If Twitter plans to go deep into podcasting, then itll have some work to do....
The US Food and Drug Administration announced a recall last week for two medications made by Lupin Pharmaceuticals that treat high blood pressure (also known as hypertension). The medications,tablets of Irbesartan and tablets of Irbesartan and Hydrochlorothiazide, are being pulled over concerns they may contain unsafe amounts of N-nitrosoirbesartan, aprobable carcinogen. According to the FDA, Lupin hasn’t received any reports of illness, but the company is recalling the medication out of an “abundance of caution....
From March 2020 through October 2023, federal student loan payments were paused in response to the pandemic. Starting in October, missing payments could lead to default, collections and damage to your credit report. If your loans are in bad standing due to missed payments, you have until 3 a.m. This deadline was previously Sept. 30. Here’s what these changes mean if you hold student loans. Loan servicers were also instructed not to report missed payments to the credit bureaus during this window....
What we like aboutPresidents Daysales is the plethora of deals available. This has seen not only one of thebest wireless earbudsbut multiple from JBL. The first one is the JBL Live Beam 3, which has been reduced to $160. That’s a 20% price drop representing a saving of $40. Available at bothAmazonandJBL, the model is now only $10 away from the lowest-ever cost we’ve seen. Then the earbuds themself can run for 10 hours alone with ANC and 12 hours without....
Some 9 billion light-years away, two gargantuan black holes are revolving around one another – and rather ominously. This dance won’t last forever. Around 10,000 years from now, the pair will collide. Each supermassive void is so unfathomably huge, our minds can barely comprehend their heft and reach. And as it appears, the black holes' spectacle is paralleled by an equally dramatic chronicle of discovery. An artist’s conception of the binary black hole system revolving around one another....
