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Elon Musk says he could replace Twitter's blue bird logo by Monday - as he pushes ahead with plans to rebrand the social network as X.In a series of posts on his account, the billionaire said he planned to "bid adieu" to the Twitter brand and "gradually, all the birds". The Tesla and SpaceX boss also shared an image of him making an X sign with his hands, and a short promotional video of a flashing X logo.It will be Mr Musk's most significant change to the social media site since he bought the platform for $44bn (£38bn) in October last year. Image: Musk entered Twitter's HQ in San Francisco holding a sink before his takeover But the switch has been a long time coming from the entrepreneur, who touted his plans for launching "X, the everything app" even before purchasing Twitter. His idea is to combine messaging, social media, payments and a lack of reliance on ad revenue, into one super app, similar to the Chinese WeChat.Teasing the launch of X in a series of posts on Twitter, he wrote: "And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds."If a good enough X

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Twitter Celebrates Robin Williams’ Birthday With His Best Clips If I tried to round up all of Robin Williams’ touching, hilarious and immensely entertaining clips floating around on the internet, I’d be watching Williams videos until his next birthday. Which, honestly, sounds pretty sweet.Seventy-two years ago today, Robin McLaurin Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a senior Ford executive father and a former model mother. Williams, of course, would create one of the most cherished, iconic and influential comedy careers of all time, rising to fame as the star of Mork & Mindy and appearing in films such as Good Will Hunting, Good Morning Vietnam, and, my favorite, Flubber. While his loss in 2014 is felt year round by his friends and family, his birthday gives us fans an opportunity to celebrate the joy he brought into countless lives during his long career. To honor the life and laughs of the late, great Williams, Comedy Twitter has spent much of today posting their favorite behind-the-scenes clips, interview segments, stand-up bits and movie scenes that showed Williams’ sincerity, energy and endless sense of fun. Here are a few of their favorites: Scroll down for the next article MUST READ

Patrick Mahomes, LeBron James and many others were amazed by Messi's magical moment By Eric Mullin • Published July 22, 2023 • Updated on July 22, 2023 at 1:51 am NBC Universal, Inc. They call him the GOAT for a reason. Lionel Messi's highly anticipated debut with MLS club Inter Miami on Friday night featured a storybook ending. Locked in a 1-1 battle against Mexican side Cruz Azul in the Leagues Cup, Inter Miami won a free kick from roughly 25 yards out during stoppage time. Messi, who entered the game as a sub in the 55th minute, lined up for the free kick and showed exactly why there was so much hype around his move from France's Paris Saint-Germain to the States. The 36-year-old unleashed a beauty into the top left corner of the net for the game-winning score. The world-class strike sent the sellout crowd at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, into an absolute frenzy. Messi's magical moment even left fellow GOAT Serena Williams, who was at the game, in awe. Williams wasn't the only one who couldn't believe what she just witnessed, either. From Patrick Mahomes to LeBron James and more, here's a look at

“Good job Linda for probably influencing that decision,” read one tweet in response to the change, referring to former NBCUniversal sales chief Linda Yaccarino, who was named Twitter’s CEO in May. The seasoned executive will be key to building relationships and strategies with advertisers, Twitter’s main source of revenue. Yaccarino herself tweeted two clap emojis in response to the news. Progress at Twitter. Inquiries from members of the fourth estate to the company’s official press email are no longer receiving an automatic poop emoji in response. Instead, Musk said, the company “is now changing the auto reply to “a ‘We will get back to you soon’ infinite loop.” The Tesla and SpaceX founder instituted the poop emoji communications regime in March. He reluctantly acquired Twitter for $44 billion last fall, ushering in a chaotic period marked by massive layoffs, technical bugs, advertising woes as well as jabs at the press, including suspending some journalists’ accounts. At the same, Musk decided to release the so-called “Twitter Files,” a tranche of internal documents to journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss purporting to show how the social media platform’s prior management censored speech. Musk’s previous Twetter press response: The new policy:

Jahnvi Kapoor- Varun Dhawan’s ‘Bawaal’ has gotten involved in another controversy. The film caused quite an uproar on Twitter when one user pointed out that at one point in the film, Kapoor’s Nisha compares a troubled conjugal relationship to the horrors experienced by Jews and other persecuted minorities at the concentration camps in Auschwitz, during Nazi Germany. “An unhealthy relationship is the same as The Holocaust and anyone who is greedy is like Hitler. 'Har relationship apne apne Auschwitz se guzar ta hai. Tab jakar hume use ristey ki ahmiyat samaj mein aati hai. Ye bawaal ki story hai. I am deeply disturbed,” wrote one Twitter user.— IndieKnopfler (@IndieKnopfler) — jagishaarora (@jagishaarora) Another wrote, “Comparing tribulations and problems in a marriage to Auschwitz mass genocide is the lowest a Bollywood movie has ever stooped to. If a Hollywood movie, it would have been cancelled forever. Wtf were the Amazon people smoking when they green-lit this?”“What I really can't wrap my head around is that Amazon is hosting #Bawaal. I get that regular Bollywood producers don't think a film that trivializes the horrors of Nazi Germany is problematic but an international platform like Amazon should know better, “ ranted another user.Directed

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French authorities ban Twitter Blue for political candidates ahead of elections French authorities ban Twitter Blue for political candidates ahead of elections - Copyright Gregory Bull/Copyright 2022 The AP. All rights reserved By Oceane Duboust  •  Updated: 20/07/2023 - 15:03 French political candidates will not be allowed to have a blue tick on Twitter six months ahead of an election, campaign financing authorities said. France’s commission for campaign accounts and political financing, the CNCCFP, said in a thread on the social media site that the blue check would be considered a form of “sponsored advertising”.French law bans candidates from any form of commercial advertising in the press or any means of audiovisual communication in the six months preceding an election.“Twitter Blue makes it possible, in particular, to increase the visibility of an account and the reach of the messages broadcast,” the French campaign accounts authority added in a tweet.“This paid subscription, by its operation and its purpose, is a new method of advertising sponsorship”.A blue check on Twitter previously certified the authenticity of an account on the social media platform and had been widely used by political figures, institutions, media and celebrities.But since billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter last year, he deployed a new system in which

Skip to content Technology Musk claps back at Ocasio-Cortez over Twitter criticism Twitter owner Elon Musk pushed back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) criticism of the platform’s safety measures with a nod to a popular line from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”  Twitter Safety claimed Tuesday that over 99 percent of the content users and advertisers see on the social media platform is “healthy,” adding that “the reach of hate speech on Twitter continues to represent an extreme small fraction of the overall conversation.”  Ocasio-Cortez responded to the tweet, writing she has “never experienced more harassment on this platform than I do now.” She argued people are paying to give their own harassment more visibility.  “The de-verification of journalists, civic orgs, and figures has made it impossible to follow conversations,” she continued. “I wish it could be usable again.” Musk clapped back at the lawmaker, tweeting Tuesday night, “Methinks somebody doth protest too much…” Methinks somebody doth protest too much …— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 19, 2023 According to Twitter Safety, they partnered with Sprinklr, a unified customer experience management platform, to assess and reduce hate speech on the the social media platform using Sprinklr’s artificial intelligence (AI) model. “Sprinklr’s independent model

Twitter “Notes” quietly got a rebrand to “Articles” this week, a feature that was first teased in 2022 with its primary offering being the ability to publish long-form content. When the concept was first introduced, the average tweet was still limited to 280 characters, however, since then, Twitter has made it to where Blue subscribers can write tweets containing up to 25,000 characters. This has put “Notes” in a position for a complete rebrand and revamp of its potential features. While not much has officially been shared on the capabilities of the “Articles” feature, Elon Musk did comment in a tweet that “This will allow users to post very long, complex articles with mixed media. You could publish a book if you want.” As for what we know about “Notes,” it was first slated to be released in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Ghana. Although, based on the competition with Instagram‘s Threads, it is likely the revamped “Articles” feature will see a broader release to all users or at the very least Blue subscribers — although, nothing is confirmed at the time of writing. With personal subscription features being enabled, creator ad share programs being launched, larger media