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Sur Twitter, il faudra bientôt payer pour que les gens voient vos tweets
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 11:00
Elon Musk l'avait promis, il faudra désormais payer pour que ses tweets soient vus sur Twitter. Même chose pour le droit de vote.
Sur Twitter, il faudra bientôt payer pour que les gens voient vos tweets
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Un ennui de plus pour Twitter : du code source a fuité sur Internet
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Yesterday - 08:45
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Twitter to un-verify people who don’t pay $8/month starting on April Fools’ Day
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 4 days ago - 17:02
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Four and a half months after the chaotic rollout of paid checkmarks , Elon Musk's Twitter is following through on a plan to remove verification from individual accounts that don't pay $8 per month for a Twitter Blue subscription.
"Starting April 1, we'll be winding down our legacy Verification program and accounts that were verified under the previous criteria (active, notable, and authentic) will not retain a blue checkmark unless they are subscribed to Twitter Blue," a Twitter FAQ says. Twitter also stopped accepting applications for verification checkmarks under the old criteria.
"To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here ," Twitter said yesterday. "Organizations can sign up for Verified Organizations here ."
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Malgré le fiasco de Twitter Blue, Elon Musk persiste et annonce la mort des badges hérités
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 4 days ago - 13:00
Le milliardaire américain reste sur sa lancée, en annonçant la fin de certains badges de certification sur Twitter.
Malgré le fiasco de Twitter Blue, Elon Musk persiste et annonce la mort des badges hérités
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Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 7 days ago - 13:26
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In the days after Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, the social media platform saw a “surge in hateful conduct,” which its then safety chief put down to a “focused, short-term trolling campaign.” New research suggests that when it comes to antisemitism, it was anything but.
Rather, antisemitic tweets have more than doubled over the months since Musk took charge, according to research that I and colleagues at tech firm CASM Technology and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue think tank conducted. Between June and October 26, 2022, the day before Twitter’s acquisition by Musk, there was a weekly average of 6,204 tweets deemed “plausibly antisemitic”—that is, where at least one reasonable interpretation of the tweet falls within the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of the term as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews.”
But from October 27 until February 9, 2023, the average was 12,762—an increase of 105 percent. In all, a total of 325,739 tweets from 146,516 accounts were labeled as “plausibly antisemitic” over the course of our study, stretching from June 1, 2022 to February 9, 2023.
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Inside Elon Musk’s cost-cutting drive at Twitter
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 17 March - 13:15
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From a secretive “war room” at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters last month, Elon Musk’s trusted lieutenants pored over a list of employees, showing how much they cost the social media company.
The billionaire owner’s “transition team,” headed by Steve Davis, who leads the Musk-owned Boring Company, then began to phone staffers. Some were asked to justify their role; others to recommend which colleagues to retain.
Those deliberations informed Musk’s latest layoffs at Twitter, as part of his efforts to bring the lossmaking company to financial health while also battling an advertiser exodus and unwieldy debt servicing bill.
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Amazon lance sa grande offensive contre les Starlink d’Elon Musk
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 17 March - 07:30
Le géant du e-commerce ambitionne de déployer son vaste réseau de satellites en 2024, et veut produire 3 à 4 engins par jour pour tenir la cadence.
Amazon lance sa grande offensive contre les Starlink d’Elon Musk
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Des hackers menacent Elon Musk après le piratage d’un partenaire de SpaceX
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 14 March - 14:58
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Musk apologizes for mocking and firing Twitter exec with muscular dystrophy
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 8 March - 18:25
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After a tweet exchange where Twitter CEO Elon Musk questioned a fired former Twitter executive’s disabilities and work performance, Musk has issued a rare apology and offered to rehire former Senior Director of Product Design Haraldur “Halli” Thorleifsson.
Thorleifsson joined Twitter in 2021, saying on the podcast Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast that he decided to let his successful design agency Ueno get acquired by Twitter because he really believed that, much like Musk, Twitter had “never lived up to its potential.” Until his exit from Twitter, Thorleifsson led an innovation team at Twitter, but Musk apparently was not familiar with the meaningful contributions Thorleifsson made to the company until after he let Thorleifsson go. Now Musk apparently regrets dismissing Thorleifsson.
“I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation,” Musk tweeted. “It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful.”
