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Elon Musk closed a $44 billion deal to take over Twitter, after trying to pull out in between but facing a lawsuit. Since then, the microblogging platform, which has been rechristened X, has been on a roller-coaster ride, with few ups and lots of downs, losing money, advertisers and trust. To mark the one-year anniversary, X chief executive Linda Yaccarino penned a lengthy, glass-half-full blog about the platform under its new ownership and management.

(Reuters) — Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, said on Tuesday it will test a new subscription model under which it will charge $1 annual fee for basic features.

The European Commission has made a formal, legally binding request for information from Elon Musk’s social media platform X over its handling of hate speech, misinformation and violent terrorist content related to the Israel-Hamas war

Adam Mosseri stated that Threads has no intentions of actively promoting hard news or political content on its platform. He reiterated this stance during a recent Instagram creator event, as reported by TechCrunch. Mosseri emphasized the platform's commitment to empowering creators without leaning heavily into news, clarifying that they are not against news content.

X Corp (formerly Twitter) banned a record 5,57,764 accounts in India between August 26 and September 25, mostly for promoting child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity. The micro-blogging platform, going through a churning under Musk who has recently appointed a new X CEO Linda Yaccarino, also took down 1,675 accounts for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country.

X on Tuesday said it has removed newly-created Hamas-affiliated accounts and purged tens of thousands of posts for sharing graphic media, violent speech, and hateful conduct amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas violence, as its CEO Linda Yaccarino cancelled her appearance at a key tech conference next week. The platform said it is also continuing to proactively monitor for antisemitic speech. «We have taken action to remove several hundred accounts attempting to manipulate trending topics. Community Notes are now live on posts and new accounts are being enrolled in real time to propose and rate notes,» said the social media network.

X users now see «unlabeled ads in their feeds» while scrolling. When users tap on those ads they take them to third-party websites, with no way to block or report them.

Elon Musk to charge ‘small’ monthly payment from X users to combat bots, falling revenue According to a Bloomberg report, the new three-tiered subscription plan will the social media giant generate more revenue from users who would not have been likely to pay the full price of the premium subscription. Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels :rocket: Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! More recently, Elon Musk had hinted in a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that X will start charging a small monthly payment from all users in order to eliminate the problem of bots.

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Paris Hilton's memoir for an upcoming TV series adaptation, as per a report in Deadline. The project will be produced by Hilton's entertainment company, 11:11 Media, in collaboration with Dakota and Elle Fanning's Lewellen Pictures and David Bernad's Middle Child Pictures. Currently, no writers have been officially attached to the project. The production team will include 11:11 Media's Slivington Manor and A24, with executive producers including Paris Hilton, Bruce Gersh, the Fanning sisters, Brittany Kahan Ward representing Lewellen Pictures, and David Bernad. While specific details about the series are being kept confidential, Hilton's memoir, «Paris The Memoir,» which was published earlier this year by HarperCollins, offers a deeply personal account of her life, including her experiences with ADHD, her ascent in pop culture, and her ventures in branding. Earlier this week, Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, entered into a groundbreaking partnership with celebrity Paris Hilton, focused on live shopping and exclusive content, in an effort led by CEO Linda Yaccarino to rejuvenate the platform's prospects. This unique two-year agreement entails collaboration between the American socialite and X to develop four original video programs annually, including content for its emerging live shopping platform.

US Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York sent a letter Thursday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and X CEO Linda Yaccarino expressing “serious concerns” about the emergence of AI-generated political ads on their platforms a...

₹around 166 crore) to our creator community. In a move to retain more users on its platform, X started sharing ad revenue with creators from July this year. “Create.

Code 2023 that the company noted a 3.7 percent drop compared to Musk's figures from the previous year, resulting in a loss of nearly 15 million users. She further mentioned that X's goal is to achieve profitability by 2024 and highlighted that 90 percent of the top 100 advertisers have returned to the platform in the past 12 weeks. Reportedly, Yaccarino emphasized that she has been in her role at X for just 12 weeks.

Elon Musk: Traditional automakers like General Motors and Ford could go ‘bankrupt’ if… Speaking about the roadmap of profitability for X, Yaccarino said, "Now that I have immersed myself in the business, and we have a good set of eyes on what is predictable, what's coming is that it looks like in early '24, we will be turning a profit," Prior to the announcement on Thursday, Yaccarino and Musk had earlier stated that the social media company is close to ‘breaking even’. Yaccarino also noted that 90% of the top 100 advertisers have returned to X in the last 12 weeks and the time spent by users on the platform has gone up since June.

X could turn a profit in early 2024, Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino said on Wednesday, during a wide-ranging interview in which she defended the company's progress under billionaire owner Elon Musk. The appearance at Vox Media's Code conference comes as Yaccarino marked 100 days as CEO of the platform formerly known as Twitter. She has faced questions over her autonomy in the role and the company's ability to court advertisers who have been wary of the rapid changes on the platform and Musk's controversial persona.

Intrigue is swirling after X's inaugural Client Council event provided insight into the platform's ambitions to evolve into "The Everything App," with many in crypto circles dissecting hints about potential peer-to-peer payment options.

Kanye West reached out to his friend Elon Musk early this year for a favor: Let me back on Twitter. The social-media platform had suspended West in December for violating its rule against hate speech after he posted an image of a swastika merged with a Star of David. The musician and designer, who goes by the name Ye, has been considering a 2024 presidential run, according to people familiar with his plans, and his campaign advisers wanted him back on.

Twitter), tech billionaire Elon Musk has shared that the features will soon be coming to the micro-blogging platform, putting it in direct competition with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. These upcoming features will work on iOS, Android, Mac and PCs, Musk stated. He clarified that no phone numbers would be needed to access the features. Taking to X, he wrote, «Video & audio calls coming to X. Works on iOS, Android, Mac & PC. No phone number needed. X is the effective global address book.» The new Twitter feature has been teased several times in the past, and it is now likely to finally make its debut in an upcoming update.

Elon Musk led social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has led to the disappearance of photos and other media posted before 2014. Some angry users on X claimed that the recent glitch on X could be part of the cost-cutting measures enacted by Elon Musk's company.

The new CEO of the company formerly known as Twitter says she’s spent much of the past eight weeks trying to get big brands back to advertising on the social media platform that’s been in upheaval since it was bought last year by Elon Musk

Elon Musk taking over the control. In an interview with CNBC, the CEO of X said, "I get to come in and shift from this cost discipline to growth and what does growth mean? Growth means hiring." Yaccarino became part of X earlier this year. She mentioned that the social media platform’s operational performance is close to reaching a break-even point.