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SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Twitter announced Tuesday it's relaunching its public application program for verified status, marked by a blue check. The program was paused in 2017 after Twitter granted the verified blue check-mark to one of the organizers of the white supremacist Charlottesville rally, sparking outrage. Twitter has now proposed a set of new policies for the program, which include the possibility that accounts have their blue check-marks taken away if they repeatedly break Twitter's rules. This means President Donald Trump, who will in January lose his "world leader" protections for rule violations in January, could be in danger of losing his verified status if he continues to tweet the way he has done in the past. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Twitter is rebooting its verification system, and the proposed new guidelines could see persistent rule-breakers stripped of their coveted blue check-marks.Twitter gives "verified" status to selected accounts belonging to public figures and organizations, signified by a blue check mark next to their account name. The system has been on ice for three years, but the company announced Tuesday its application process for verified status would relaunch in early 2021.The company is asking for user…

San Francisco, In partnership with UN Women and the UN Human Rights Office, Twitter is launching custom emojis to spread awareness on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Wednesday, and Human Rights Day on December 10. The emojis will appear when people tweet with the hashtags #GenerationEquality, #OrangeTheWorld, #16Days, #HumanRightsDay, and other localised hashtags, Twitter said on Tuesday. Twitter said it is also supporting local nonprofits across the world by providing "Ads for Good" grants to several partners to ensure that they can use the power of Twitter's advertising platform to reach more people. Throughout the next #16Days, the microblogging platform will also amplify various regional campaigns and messages about the importance of gender equality and combatting violence against women to increase engagement and awareness. "We have seen the whole world respond to the coronavirus pandemic with all hands on deck, and with responsive investment and protocols backed by determination. Violence against women is also a pandemic -- one that predates the virus and will outlive it," Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women, said in a statement. "As we face COVID-19's devastation, there has never been a more important moment to put our combined resources…

Elon Musk memes flooded social media as the Tesla CEO became the world's second richest person.Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has added $100.3 billion to his net worth this year, surpassing  Bill Gates to become the world's second-richest person. The 49-year-old Tesla Inc. co-founder has the electric vehicle and clean energy company to thank for the staggering increase in his wealth. About three-quarters of his net worth is comprised of Tesla shares, which are valued more than four times as much as his stake in Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX. As Tesla's market value approached $500 billion, Elon Musk had a one-word reaction that was 'liked' over 16,000 times on the microblogging platform Twitter."Wow," he wrote in response to a tweet about a surge in Tesla's share price.Wow— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2020While Mr Musk may have responded with only a monosyllabic "wow", his fans flooded social media with memes as news of him overtaking Bill Gates as the world's second richest person spread. Mr Musk's milestone is only the second time in the index's eight-year history that Bill Gates has ranked lower than number two. Take a look at how Twitter users reacted to the news:After becoming 2nd richest person…

Rudolph Giuliani said on Twitter that Mr. Dinkins, his predecessor as New York City’s mayor, had given “a great deal of his life in service to our great City.”Mayor David N. Dinkins and Mayor-elect Rudolph W. Giuliani on the steps of New York’s City Hall in November 1993.Credit...Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesNov. 24, 2020Updated 6:09 a.m. ETRudolph W. Giuliani, who defeated David N. Dinkins in New York City’s 1993 mayoral election, was among the first public figures to commemorate Mr. Dinkins in the hours after his predecessor died late Monday at 93.Mr. Dinkins, a barber’s son, became New York City’s first Black mayor in 1990. He died at his home in Manhattan, less than two months after the death of his wife, Joyce.Mr. Giuliani was once among Mr. Dinkins’s severest critics. But early Tuesday morning, he said on Twitter that his predecessor had given “a great deal of his life in service to our great City.”“That service is respected and honored by all,” Mr. Giuliani added.Mr. Dinkins won office on a pledge of racial healing, and he had plans to build housing, improve health care and respond to the concerns of marginalized groups. After his death, several prominent New…

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz set conservative Twitter on fire as he tore into Jack Dorsey, the platform’s CEO, during a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, creating the sort of viral moment senators crave from such high-profile exchanges. “Facebook and Twitter and Google have massive power. They have a monopoly on public discourse in the online arena,” Cruz told Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whom the Texas Republican and other GOP members of the committee had subpoenaed to address what they view as “censorship” and “suppression” by Big Tech during the 2020 election. “Your policies are applied in a partisan and selective manner,” Cruz said, demanding that Dorsey and Zuckerberg produce data showing how often they flag or block Republican candidates and elected officials as opposed to Democrats. “What a moment,” right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza tweeted, sharing a clip from the hearing with his 1.9 million followers. “This is almost TOO GOOD,” tweeted Dan Bongino, another conservative commentator, urging his 2.7 million followers to “Watch Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey absolutely squirm in his chair as Ted Cruz goes full trial lawyer on him.” IN-DEPTH: Cornyn, Cruz not holding out much hope for Trump to pull off re-election As…

Journalist Tavleen Singh has withdrawn the civil defamation suit filed by her against social media user Shashank Singh alias @pokershash for a satirical tweet posted by him on Twitter. The District and Sessions court in New Delhi dismissed the case against Shashank as Tavleen Singh took the case back. Civil defamation suit by Tavleen Singh against @pokershash withdrawn Twitter user says resourceful people should not use their privilege to threaten people Speaking to OpIndia, Shashank said that when Tavleen threatened him with a defamation suit, he thought she was simply pressuring him to remove the tweet. Later, he came to know that Tavleen had indeed filed a suit against him for a satirical tweet. Though, he added that he hadn’t received any summons till date. Shashank welcomed Tavleen’s decision to withdraw the lawsuit and opined that people with financial resources and knowledge of the law should not exploit it to threaten common citizens. He added that courts are already hard-pressed with work and cases like this which are filed only to burnish one’s ego should be avoided. Tavleen Singh filed a defamation suit against @Pokershash for his satirical tweet After waxing eloquent on the need for absolute freedom of speech…

by: Mikayla Newton Posted: Nov 22, 2020 / 04:47 AM EST / Updated: Nov 22, 2020 / 04:47 AM EST (ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP via Getty Images) ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) Twitter prepares to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts. Twitter says they are actively preparing to change the president of the United States, First Lady of the United States, and Press Secretary accounts, just as they did in 2017. The process is being done in close consultation with the national archives and records administration. The NRAA has historically played a role in appropriately preserving records following administration transitions. The Twitter transition will switch over on January 21, 2021.

Beyond the challenges of the pandemic, the year 2020 has brought a whole host of wacky events, both big and small. One on Saturday night at Rice-Eccles Stadium was certainly on the small end in the grand scheme of things, but it was weird nevertheless. Late in the third quarter of the Utah Utes’ season opener against the USC Trojans — an eventual 33-17 Utah loss — ESPN’s television cameras literally went out, leaving fans and even commentators Dave Flemming and Rod Gilmore, who were working the game from their homes, unable to see the action on the field. As you might expect, Twitter users had some great reactions as the whole deal was unfolding. We really waited a year since the pac 12 championship to watch 28 turnovers and then have cameras cut out before the fourth quarter hahahahahaha— Riley Gisseman (@rgiss11) November 22, 2020 ON SECOND THOUGHTGOOD JOB HIDING THE CAMERAS UTAH FOOTBALL STAFF— Guy Incognito (@StaircaseWhitt) November 22, 2020 ESPN has lost their cameras. How fitting is this!— Utah Football Fans (@UtahFBFans) November 22, 2020 I’m watching a screen of two guys analyzing a game from their own basements. We can’t make this up.....— Steve Tate (@tate28) November 22, 2020 I think right now, Dave Flemming and Rod Gilmore are just like you and me, refreshing the ESPN GameCast.— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) November 22, 2020 QUICK! ADD POINTS TO UTAH’S SIDE WHILE NO ONE IS LOOKING!— DontWantThisSmokeDaddy (@utedaddy) November 22, 2020 Just show Harry Potter. That's what usually happens in this situation.— Brett Borg (@BBorgUteZone) November 22, 2020 ESPN lost their cameras?! Are we being punked? Even the MTN never “lost their cameras”. Do better @espn— Steve Tate (@tate28) November 22, 2020 1280 The Zone radio host Hans Olsen has become known for breaking down game film,…

President-elect Joe Biden will secure control of Twitter’s official @POTUS account and others associated with the White House on Jan. 20 — regardless of whether Donald Trump has, by then, conceded that he lost the election. In addition to @POTUS, the Biden team on Inauguration Day also will take over accounts including @WhiteHouse, @VP, @FLOTUS and @PressSec. Twitter’s plans were first reported by Politico. “Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021,” a Twitter rep said Friday. “As we did for the presidential transition in 2017, this process is being done in close consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration.” In the nearly two weeks since major news outlets projected Biden had won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Trump and his cohorts have continued push conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud without any credible supporting evidence (including on Twitter, which has flagged numerous tweets by Trump as disputed or misleading). After Trump leaves office, he will lose the special exemption that Twitter extends to political leaders under which the social network flags (but does not remove) posts that would be considered policy violations for regular users, CEO Jack Dorsey said at a Senate hearing this week. “If an account suddenly is not a world leader anymore, that particular policy goes away,” Dorsey said. Currently, @POTUS has 32.8 million followers on Twitter while Trump’s personal @realDonaldTrump account has 88.9 million. After Barack Obama left office in 2017, tweets from his administration on the @POTUS account were archived on a new account, @POTUS44, and Vice President Biden’s tweets from @VP were moved to @VP44, both of which are maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). A @POTUS45 account on Twitter, which presumably will house Trump’s official tweets during…

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