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A phone displays the Twitter account for Elon Musk, showing the new logo for Twitter (Yui Mok/PA) (PA Wire)A brand new setting on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will prevent those who are not verified from replying to tweets.The feature was announced by the platform’s official account with a post that said: “You can now limit replies to verified users.”The owner of X, Elon Musk, retweeted the announcement, adding: “This should help a lot with spam bots.”The screenshot shared with the announcement shows a dropdown menu of options, with the tweeter getting to decide who can reply to their posts.The instructions within the setting explain: “Pick who can reply to this post. Keep in mind that anyone mentioned can always reply.”The options provided in the image are: everyone, verified accounts, accounts you follow, and only accounts you mention.The new feature comes amid a series of changes to the platform, including Circles being scrapped and the Twitter Blue subscription service being introduced.Recently, in late September, Musk revealed that users may soon have to pay to use the social media platform.During a streamed conversation with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the entrepreneur said users might be charged “some

On October 9, an FIR was filed at the Juhu police station against a Twitter user in the name of Dr Nimo Yadav whose twitter handle is @NiravModi, for spreading fake news about Ashoke Pandit. This user often has some really nasty things to say about many celebrities. But recently, his tweet left filmmaker Ashoke Pandit's friends and family worried. He had spread false news about his health while Pandit was quite healthy.At that point itself, directorHansal Mehta had replied to his tweet and said, "You might have your disagreements with him. Ignore him. But stop this fucking rumour mongering. Reporting you for fake news.Ashok Pandit is hale and hearty. To spread such nastiness about anybody’s health even if it is your worst foe is vile."Now an FIR has been filed against him at the Juhu Police station. Pandit made an appeal to the CM Eknath Shinder, and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis against this user and the Police Commissioner to file an FIR against him. His tweet created a huge panic amongst his family members and friends. Yadav also created a fake account in the Brahmin Ashoke and tweeted a response to his fake tweet.Film bodies like I.M.P.P.A (Indian Motion

Cambridge police haven’t given up on Twitter, but don’t have control of department account Tuesday, October 10, 2023 The Cambridge Police Department page on the site formerly known as Twitter, where it would normal have a distinctive presence and timely new updates. Cambridge police are trying to get back control of their account on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said spokespeople who were asked Tuesday about its odd current look: Instead of department logos there is a generic gray background and icon; instead of a name, there’s just a period. The last Cambridge Police Department post on the social media service renamed X was Sept. 20, congratulating the state’s Latino police award recipients. The account went astray sometime between the move of spokesperson Jeremy Warnick to City Hall on June 26 and the arrival Oct. 3 of new department public information officer Robert Goulston – an Emmy Award-winning reporter last with the Boston 25 news channel. “It’s unclear what happened” to the account, said Goulston, who’s been kept busy since his arrival, which coincided with the release of an inquest into a fatal Jan. 4 police shooting in Cambridge. The past weekend saw dueling protests over warfare

End-to-end data processing framework involving data collection/storage via the Twitter API, data preparation and preprocessing, training, evaluation, and classification using the final model and postclassification analyses. Credit: Health Data Science (2023). DOI: 10.34133/hds.0078 Social media platforms like Twitter (now X) offer valuable insights into self-reported chronic pain, according to a recent study by multiple institutions. The researchers have automated the process of establishing a chronic pain cohort, setting the stage for future data mining and causal association studies. The study was published in Health Data Science. "We aimed to detect large-scale discussions related to chronic pain on Twitter, develop methods for automatic detection of self-disclosures, and collect and analyze longitudinal data," said Abeed Sarker, associate professor at Emory University. Chronic pain and subsequent opioid use pose significant health and economic challenges. Gathering public knowledge and experiences could guide alternative therapies for specific pain types. The team collected data via Twitter's academic API, followed by manual annotation and classification. For instance, posts mentioned therapies like meditation and chiropractic, and sentiment analysis revealed varying public opinions on these therapies. "Social media is a rich source for chronic pain-related information. Methods like NLP and machine learning can extract key insights from this large

Getty Images Charlotte Hornets big man Kai Jones, who is currently away from the team, took to social media on Monday afternoon to issue a public trade request in his latest social media incident this offseason. "I have officially requested to be traded from the Charlotte Hornets. #GOATLIFE," Jones wrote. Here is a screenshot in the event that Jones later deletes the comment. Kai Jones' trade request Twitter.com/242_jones The Hornets announced on Sept. 30 that Jones would not report to training camp for "personal reasons" and would remain away from the team indefinitely. Scott Fowler of the Charlotte Observer reported on Sept. 26 that the team "seem concerned" about Jones, who has displayed erratic behavior on social media in recent weeks. Among other incidents, Jones has been critical of teammates, including fellow big men Mark Williams and Nick Richards, and said he was better than LaMelo Ball and No. 2 overall pick Brandon Miller. Reached by the Observer on Monday, the Hornets declined to comment. Jones could be subject to a fine or suspension for publicly requesting a trade, based on the current collective bargaining agreement, which states, "Any player (or, for clarity, any player representative or person acting with authority on behalf of a player) who

X’s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict has come under scrutiny after a “deluge” of fake posts and Elon Musk’s recommendation of war coverage from accounts that have made false claims or antisemitic comments.The owner of X, formerly Twitter, recommended two accounts on Sunday. He wrote: “For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors and @sentdefender are good. It is also worth following direct sources on the ground. Please add interesting options in the replies below.”The @WarMonitors account told a user in June “go worship a jew lil bro” while both accounts helped to spread a false claim in May that an explosion had occurred at the Pentagon. Emerson T Brooking, a researcher at the Atlantic Council’s digital forensic research lab, said the @sentdefender account regularly posted “wrong and unverifiable things”.Musk has since deleted his post and disputed a War Monitor post describing Gaza fighters as “martyrs”. He wrote: “While reporting both sides is fair, please use maximally accurate words or I must withdraw my recommendation to follow your account.”Fake social media accounts are spreading false information about the Israel-Hamas conflict, with X and TikTok among the affected platforms, according to disinformation specialists.One in five social media accounts participating in online conversations

It’s been almost a year since Elon Musk took over the social media service formerly known as Twitter, and boy has he made some big changes. That important verification system? Gone. Those once-banned anti-Semites and former presidents? Unbanned. The robust team that sought to zap dangerous misinformation? Gutted. Many of the features that made Twitter popular, including its own name, have now been removed or sanded down. Soon another popular thingmagig — Twitter/X Circles — will vamoose as well. But how long will it remain? As per The Verge, fans of the Circles feature will bid it adieu on October 31. After this date, you will not be able to create new posts that are limited to your Circle, nor will you be able to add people to your Circle,” reads a post on the X help center. “You will, however, be able to remove people from your Circle,” with instructions on how to do that. Launched in August of 2022, Circles allowed users to share posts exclusively with a limited group of people of their choice. Need to post something spicy or controversial or secretive but only for people you trust? Then you only have till month’s end to

1 min US Department of Justice rejects appeal by social network to end 2022 agreement requiring regular FTC monitoring. On September 11, 2023, the United States Department of Justice ordered San Francisco courts to reject a request by Twitter concerning its personal data policy. The case dates back to a suit filed against the social network by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC accused X of concealing its use of subscriber personal data for targeted advertising, between 2013 and 2019. In May 2022, the social network settled the lawsuit, paying a 150 million USD fine (140 million EUR) and agreeing to regular monitoring by the FTC in regard to its data management policy. In July 2023, X appealed to San Francisco courts, in order to have the decision overturned or at least revised. “Today X wants to get rid of the agreement and reduce monitoring of its data practices. This request is unfounded and must be denied,” declared the DOJ. The DOJ also recommended that the FTC carry out detailed analysis of Elon Musk’s acquisition of X in October 2022 and its consequences on the company data protection policy. Finally, the DOJ put pressure on San Francisco to deny Elon

Hamas said it had taken “dozens” of Israeli soldiers hostage and moved them to the Gaza Strip as footage emerged appearing to show gunmen in military fatigues leading a group of mostly barefoot women down a street in Israel.The announcement and video verified by NBC News came hours after Hamas launched a deadly land, air and sea attack and fired a huge barrage of rockets at Israel.   Follow along for live coverageThe military captives were being held in “safe places and resistance tunnels,” said Abu Ubaida, a spokesperson for Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades. Video also showed what appeared to be armed militants with rifles driving a pickup carrying several bloodied and bound-up men lying in the back.In a Saturday afternoon address, President Joe Biden said "entire families" were among those taken hostage by Hamas. A spokesperson for the Israeli military confirmed to NBC News that “Hamas took hostages and captives,” but he did not say whether they were soldiers.Footage from a video verified by NBC News shows what appears to be an Israeli being taken hostage by a Hamas fighter in a Gaza border town on Saturday.via TwitterThe spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, added that there were “hostage situations” in the southern

Elon Musk is plotting more changes to X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — less than a year after purchasing the platform for $44 billion. Musk on Friday said he wants to make likes, retweets and reply counts harder to see. “Next, we’ll remove all the action buttons with their superfluous interaction counts from the main timeline,” Musk tweeted. “Just view count will show, unless you tap into a post.” PREVIEW: X will remove the interaction counts (likes, reposts) from the main timeline, leaving only view counts. You will be able to see these numbers when you tap into a post. The intent of this is to improve readability. pic.twitter.com/RMbypx3bwh — X News Daily (@xDaily) October 6, 2023 Twitter users are not at all excited about the proposed change, which will prevent them from quickly seeing the engagement and popularity of a post. “Is he shorting his own company?” asked one poster, who received nearly 25,000 likes. Though Musk said the change would “improve readability,” he still plans to keep view counts, his pet metric, visible on the main timeline. Analysts are confused by Musk’s motive for the change, though the mercurial multibillionaire has been hard