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The biggest beneficiary of this move in the long term will be Tesla shareholders, considering the firm is the only publicly listed entity tied to Elon Musk The shares of American multinational technology company Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) are seeing an impressive uptick as investors appear elated that the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk is setting his priorities right. As reported earlier by Coinspeaker, the iconic entrepreneur and founder said he is stepping down from his...

Bluesky allows users to use domain names as handles to help achieve decentralized verification and give users more control over their identity. Bluesky, a social media platform created by former Twitter Inc boss Jack Dorsey, has gained significant traction even before its official launch. The official Bluesky Twitter account has more than 252k followers without a solid protocol to showcase to the users. Nevertheless, the Bluesky application has been downloaded more than 245k times by...

Lemon8 growth in the US could also get the attention of US regulators, especially due to its relationship with ByteDance. Chinese tech giant and TikTok developer ByteDance is pushing another social media app, Lemon8, into the US market as TikTok faces a possible ban. The popular short video app is under pressure in the US due to concerns over the handling of users’ data. Already, more than 24 states in the country have banned TikTok on government-issued devices. US lawmakers have referred...

For the Twitter Blue subscription, only individuals retain the Blue Check while organizations that subscribed to the service will be given a yellow tick. Yesterday was a historic day for American multinational micro-messaging platform Twitter Inc as it striped its previously verified users of their Blue check marks. While the move has been tagged by many critics as a rude and dangerous precedent to set, the removal of the Blue Checks has been lauded by proponents in one of the hottest...

The Twitter-eToro stock-trading initiative is a milestone under Musk’s watch as the Tesla CEO strives to transform Twitter into a super-app.  Twitter is partnering with Israeli financial services facilitator eToro to bring stock trading to users of the social media giant. According to reports, starting today, Twitter users can buy and sell stocks and securities via eToro. The Twitter-eToro partnership is a rare deal for the microblogging platform’s owner Elon Musk since he assumed control...

The move comes as a surprise, considering that Musk was recently at the forefront of another movement that raised concerns about the development of AI. Billionaire businessman Elon Musk has reportedly made some new buys in line with Twitter’s artificial intelligence (AI) project. According to a Business Insider report, Musk is forging ahead with his plans to create an AI infrastructure for Twitter and has bought almost 10,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) to this effect. Interestingly,...

Meta intends to bring together its teams working on generative AI across the company into one group to build “delightful experiences around this technology” into all of its different products. Meta Platforms Inc (NYSE: META) has shared its plans regarding the future progress in artificial intelligence (AI) development. As Meta has revealed, it will start employing its generative AI tools to create ads for companies before the end of this year. Advertising as a unit has long been generating...

The Twitter community has taken it up to express their stances on the new rule by Elon Musk, noting that giving more power to only verified users could be dangerous. Twitter users have reacted to the latest news by Elon Musk to strictly allow tweets from verified users to appear in the For You tab. The billionaire announced the decision to let only messages from Twitter users with the blue tick pop in the For You recommendation feed from April 15. Musk began to charge for verification...

In addition to the news that only tweets from verified users will appear in the For You tab, the Twitter boss also declared that unverified users would no longer be able to vote in polls. Popular billionaire and Twitter owner Elon Musk said that only verified users would pop on the “For You” recommendation feed moving forward. This is the latest change the CEO is making to the social media platform since he acquired the company and assumed the top position in October 2022. One of the major...

As per court filing, Twitter has issued a subpoena and asked GitHub to disclose “name(s), address(es), telephone number(s), email address(es), social media profile data, and IP address(es)” linked to the handle behind the source code theft. As per a legal court filing, some parts of Twitter’s source code have been leaked as Elon Musk‘s Twitter is now seeking information about the responsible person. Last week on March 24, Twitter issued a subpoena to the software collaboration platform...