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Twitter can witness reduction in number of Indian users after introducing subscription rule

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3 mn readElon Musk recently took over the Twitter with a not so agreeable change on the platform. New CEO of concerned social media platform looked super charged after holding the position and immediately introduced multiple changes in handling it. According to the information, Twitter Inc. will charge $8 on its blue tick users as its monthly subscription. They have decided to provide their ‘verified’ badge to only the users who are ready to pay the price. Musk’s tweet read, ‘Twitter’s current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month’. In addition to his tweet, he cleared that charges will be adjusted as per the country proportionate to purchasing power parity.

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Work from home is a new lifestyle Indians are happy to adapt despite in rise of physical health issues

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3 mn readWork from home is a new way of living people are adapting. Since the pandemic hit, we have replaced the way we use to conduct our lives with alternatives. Be it virtual grocery shopping or attending online school, wearing masks in public area or maintaining social distancing. Work from home is also one of them, that has been imposed by workplaces from last two years. Firms like HP, Apple Inc., Google, Twitter are already following work from culture whereas others are planning to make it permanent. Tata Steel, Facebook/Meta, Quora, Twitter are some of them.

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Elon Musk becomes the largest shareholder of Twitter and Donald Trump’s new social platform is difficult to produce

Posted in US News

3 mn readA filing by Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shows that the world’s richest man, worth about $273 billion, purchased nearly 73.5 million shares, making him Twitter’s top shareholder. Twitter Inc. subsequently appointed Elon Musk to its board of directors. Conservatives are excited by the news that Musk will suspend Twitter’s “speech censorship” of users. However, this incident will not make former President Trump happy. His new social platform, Truth Social, is delayed, and conservative users who would have joined Truth Social may return to Twitter.

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Research shows Twitter and Facebook algorithms both amplify right-leaning politicians

Posted in US News

4 mn readTwitter shared its own research this week about the platform’s algorithmic amplification of political and news content. A post on Twitter’s blog revealed that the social media platform promotes right-leaning content more often than left. As a result, conservative posts on Twitter successfully spark more outrage causing amplification, similarly to Facebook’s algorithm.

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Trump creates new sites to replace his blocked social accounts, can he maintain influence?

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5 mn readFormer U.S. President Donald Trump has been blocked by Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media sites since January for being accused of inciting his supporters to participate in Capitol Hill riots. After the incident, the emerging social platform Gab helped back up Trump’s original Twitter account @realDonaldTrump. Recently, Trump launched the Office of Donald J. Trump’s website and his personal website to launch the “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” platform. Does Trump’s strategy allow him to retain influence?