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Twitter, now X, has totally rebranded under Elon Musk, but it turns out the social media company’s advertising problems—namely that many brands don’t want to be seen on a site that gives space to neo-Nazi and white nationalist accounts—haven’t gone away. On Wednesday, two more brands—the NCTA, a television trade association, and the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences—suspended their advertising on the platform, spokespeople for the brands told CNN. The news followed a Media Matters report that found X had been placing ads from numerous high-profile advertisers, including the NCTA, Gilead, Adobe, and others, on a verified pro-fascist account.NCTA spokesperson Brian Dietz said in a statement to CNN that the association is concerned about its paid content appearing alongside “highly disturbing content.” He also said the NCTA had signed up for brand-safety features offered by X that purport to restrict ads to the “home feed of target audiences” and away from offensive keywords. “Brand safety will remain an utmost priority for NCTA, which means suspending advertising on Twitter/X for the foreseeable future and heavily limiting NCTA’s organic presence on the platform,” Dietz said.Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Gilead said the biopharmaceutical company will suspend advertising on X as it awaits an investigation

SpaceX founder Elon Musk gestures to the audience after being recognized by President Donald Trump at NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building following the successful launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center, May 30, 2020.Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | Getty ImagesAs part of a criminal investigation into Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a federal judge asked if the company formerly known as Twitter was trying to "cozy up" to the ex-president by refusing to hand over data related to his account.According to a court transcript that was made public Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell grilled Twitter's legal team during a hearing Feb. 7 over its delay in delivering the materials to special counsel Jack Smith, who had a search warrant for Trump's Twitter account.At the time, Twitter wasn't complying with the warrant, citing various legal arguments and its desire to notify Trump about the probe. Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchased Twitter late last year and soon reinstated Trump's account; the ex-president had been kicked off the site in January 2021 following the Capitol riot."Twitter has had quite some time to comply with the warrant and have everything

Since its acquisition by Elon Musk, a whole lot has changed at Twitter, including its official name which is now “X.” Another change that you might not have noticed is that profiles on Twitter now show posts, formerly known as tweets, as sorted by the count of likes rather than the order in which they were posted. Back in June and July, before the X rebrand, Twitter briefly blocked users without an account from accessing the site in any capacity. That came to an end pretty quickly, thankfully, but we have since noticed that profiles have been altered for logged out users. Profiles would now show all posts as sorted by their like counts. The change, which seems to have taken effect towards the last week of July based on some posts, sees all tweets in a user’s history sorted by how many likes they have received. This new sorting of Twitter profiles seems to be strictly based on likes, and not views. Posts that have more views but lower like counts show up lower in the feed. The inspiration for this change isn’t clear, and there’s no way for a logged-out user to see tweets in chronological order. That’s

Aug 16, 2023 11:20 PM IST BTS's RM faces backlash over sharing Frank Ocean's song on his Instagram story, fans split on perceived Islamophobia. A recent online uproar has sparked a heated debate surrounding BTS' RM, also known as Kim Namjoon, after he shared Frank Ocean's song 'Bad Religion' on his Instagram story. The tag "RM APOLOGISE TO MUSLIMS" began trending, leading to a flurry of opinions from fans on both sides of the argument. BTS's RM faces backlash over sharing Frank Ocean's song on his Instagram story, fans split on perceived Islamophobia.(Photo by Twitter/joonfanpage) Social media firestormCritics expressed their concerns about the song choice, accusing RM of being Islamophobic due to the perceived implications of the song's lyrics. One tweet read, "BTS’ RM shared an Islamophobic song on his IG story and I’m talking about me and all Muslims that this is shameful bcs he’s a @/UNICEF ambassador who is supposed to fight racism not to support and what is happening now is he insulting Islam openly?" Another tweet asked RM to remember his substantial Muslim fanbase: "It’s the biggest mistake he ever made, man you have a big Muslim fandom out there they always respect you as a

For about as long as today’s high school seniors have been alive, Twitter has served as a public square for the political discourse of the day. An oft-heard refrain is “Twitter isn’t real life.” And that was true to a degree. Twitter simply never had the reach of longtime heavyweights such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, or newcomers like TikTok. But it didn’t necessarily have to. There’s a reason former President Donald Trump was tweeting through his 2020 election loss right up until his account was banned on Jan. 6, 2021. Now known as X in the wake of its controversial takeover by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the website formerly known as Twitter has descended, by virtually every measure, into a bigger cesspool of misinformation than it has ever been. According to GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Index for 2023, X ranked the worst out of the major social media platforms when it came to fighting anti-LGBTQ hate. In GLAAD’s scoring mechanism, the site dropped 12 points, from 45% to 33%, between 2022 and 2023. And thanks to changes made by Musk, it’s become substantially more difficult for researchers hoping to uncover the networks behind disinformation or to study the scale

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has not only seen the bluebird logo go extinct—about half of Twitter users who regularly engaged in environmental discussions have flown the coop. A research team led by Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis at Pomona College, found that in the six months following Musk’s acquisition of Twitter—now known as X—nearly half of Twitter users identified as environmentally oriented had ceased being active on the platform. These active users, which the researchers called “Environmental Twitter,” were defined as posting on the topic at least once in a 15-day period. The research “directly builds on our previous work examining Environmental Twitter, where we found six different personas based on interests in biodiversity conservation, public lands or climate change mitigation,” Chang explains. “We saw that there was a vibrant community engaging in discourse around environmental topics. This then raised the question of how this community may be impacted by changes to Twitter’s governance.” The team compared Twitter use among 380,000 environmentally oriented Twitter users to a 458,000-user control group of those who used the platform to discuss the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Among these users, dubbed “Politics Twitter,” the drop-off was much less pronounced

Some people say Black Twitter is Twitter, and honestly, I would have to agree. So for anyone who wants a good cackle, please enjoy these hysterical tweets from Black Twitter this week.

The daily usage of Threads, Meta’s answer to Twitter, continues to slump after a strong start in its first weeks of existence.Engagement with the social media app is down 79% from a high of 2.3 million active users in early July to 576,000 as of 7 August, according to Similarweb, a digital intelligence platform.In addition to users jumping ship, large US companies like the fast food chain Wendy’s, the clothing store Anthropologie and Rare Beauty, a makeup line, have all decreased the number of posts they publish on Threads, Adweek reports.Within the first few hours of its launch on 5 July, Threads garnered an impressive 5m user registrations and within less than a week at least 100 million people had signed up for it, making it the most rapidly downloaded app.But it appears that the initial thrill has steadily waned. On its busiest day, the number of users of Threads was less than half that of Twitter, according to Similarweb data. Twitter averages more than 100 million active daily users.Threads was meant to capitalize on the chaos at Twitter since its takeover by Musk, and unseat the app as a go-to text-based social media platform.Since taking over Twitter in October

Tilak Varma was dismissed on 27 runs in the fourth T20I|(BCCI)Apart from bowling in tight areas, bowlers have the important task of being agile in the field as much as possible. Roston Chase proved that in the fourth T20I against India as he dived to his right to execute a sharp caught and bowled to dismiss Tilak Varma who was going strong.After choosing to bat first in the fourth fixture of the T20I series against West Indies, India managed to post 86/3 on the scoreboard by the end of 10 overs. India were 17/2 at one point but Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav formed a 49-run stand for the third wicket. Tilak who has already scoured a half-century in the tournament was continuing his form from the previous fixtures. However,it required a combination of athleticism and presence of mind from Roston Chase to get rid of the batter and he was praised by many as a result. Chase was bowling the eighth over of the innings and he bowled a full delivery on off-stump. Tilak tried to drive the delivery to long-off but jammed down the willow in the process. The ball hit the toe of the bat as a result

Aug 13, 2023 03:07 PM IST While making video calls, people will not have to give their phone number to anyone on the platform, she noted. X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, will soon get a video calling feature, company CEO Linda Yaccarino has revealed, adding that the feature will be a part of the platform's transformation into an ‘everything app.’ 'X' logo is seen on the top of the headquarters of the messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, California, U.S., July 30, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria(REUTERS) While making video calls, people will not have to give their phone number to anyone on X, Yaccarino further stated. Also Read: Twitter is now Elon Musk's ‘super app’ X. Blue bird logo dropped from website“Think about what's happened since the acquisition,” she told CNBC's Sara Eisen, referring to billionaire Elon Musk purchasing X in October last year, when the tech giant was still called Twitter. Yaccarino, who took over as the CEO in June this year and succeeded Musk in that role, then said: “You look at video, and you'll soon be able to make video chat calls without having to give your phone number to