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Twitter To End Free Access To Its API

Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging website said as it looks for more avenues to monetize the platform, TechCrunch reported. In a series…

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Elon Musk Stakes His Leadership On A Twitter Poll

Elon Musk apologized and launched a poll asking whether he should step down as head of Twitter on Sunday night after the company launched a new policy that would suspend accounts linking to certain other platforms, a move that ignited…

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Twitter Wanted To Remove Tweets Promoting Other Social Media

Twitter Inc. said it would no longer allow “free promotion of certain social media platforms” on its sites, the latest change to its content-moderation rules under billionaire Elon Musk, The Wall Street Journal reported. “Specifically, we will remove accounts created…

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Musk Reinstates Suspended Journalists After Twitter Poll

Several high-profile journalists who were suspended from Twitter on Thursday evening were reinstated early Saturday, NBC News reported. According to NBC News, Twitter users voted in a poll posted by Musk to reinstate the accounts, which were cut off without…

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Twitter Pulls Spaces After Musk Run-In With Banned Journalists

Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation that included journalists that had been banned from the platform, TechCrunch reported. This happened after Twitter suspended several prominent journalists who…

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Twitter Suspended Mastodon’s Account

Twitter apparently suspended its open source competitor Mastodon from the service on Thursday afternoon. Just prior to its suspension, Mastodon (@joinmastodon) tweeted a link to the jet tracking account on its own service, according to archives, TechCrunch reported. TechCrunch also…

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