![]() Historically, the wider public would not necessarily know if a tweet had been moderated in this way. Typically, when tweets violate Twitter’s policies, one of the actions the company can take is to limit the reach of those tweets - or something it calls “visibility filtering.” In these scenarios, the tweets remain online but become less discoverable, as they’re excluded from areas like search results, trends, recommended notifications, For You and Following timelines, and more. It did not say when exactly the system would be fully rolled out across its network. Twitter plans to “soon” begin adding visible labels on tweets that have been identified as potentially violating its policies, which has impacted their visibility. Twitter to label tweets that get downranked for violating its hate speech policy ![]() Enacted in 2018, the policy explicitly stated that it violated Twitter’s rules to repeatedly and purposefully call a transgender person by the wrong name or pronouns. Twitter updated its content moderation guidelines regarding hateful content, removing a policy that prohibited the targeted deadnaming or misgendering of transgender people. Twitter quietly removes policy against misgendering trans people ![]() They trained illegally using Twitter data. Twitter owner Elon Musk threatened to take legal action: The moves mean users will no longer be able to access their Twitter account, or create, schedule or otherwise manage tweets through Microsoft’s free social media management service. Microsoft is dropping Twitter from its advertising platform starting on April 25, nearly two months after Twitter announced that it will begin charging a minimum of $42,000 per month to users of its API, including enterprises and research institutions. ![]() Now if a user sees a blue check mark and clicks on it, the label reads: “This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.” Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform With the legacy checks gone, Twitter will have verification marks only for paid users and businesses, as well as government entities and officials. Twitter officially kills legacy blue checkmarks on 4/20 WOW… Twitter is now telling advertisers it MUST subscribe to Twitter Blue or Verified Organisations to continue running ads! /4DrDu82Zi0 Several Twitter users have posted screenshots of an email reportedly sent by Twitter, which states that starting from April 21, verified checkmarks are required to continue running ads on the platform. Here’s an ongoing timeline of the notable Twitter updates and changes since Musk’s takeover, starting with the most recent news: April 2023 Twitter sends an email seemingly requiring advertisers to have a verified checkmark If you’re just catching up, here’s a complete timeline of what’s going down at the bird app. Since Musk bought Twitter and took the company private, the news around the microblogging platform has been a whirlwind, rife with verification chaos, API access shakeups, ban reversals and staggering layoffs. After a truly chaotic legal discovery process, which even included some embarrassing texts, Musk was forced to seal the deal. A month later in May, he tried to kill the deal, claiming that Twitter had more bots than its public filings let on. Despite his fervent declarations about expanding “the scope and scale of consciousness” through public discourse, the billionaire got cold feet. “I don’t care about the economics at all.”Įven for one of the richest men in the world, $44 billion is a lot of money to cough up to buy a middling social platform. “This is just my strong, intuitive sense that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization,” Musk said at a TED conference on the day he made his offer. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
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