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Google Calendar Bug Reported To Create Incorrect Events on Android, iOS Devices
Google Calendar users are reportedly experiencing a bug that is causing the app to create random events based on messages from the user's Gmail inboxes. However, these events do not relate to any real event, and hence are bogus, according to a report by 9to5Google. Several users took to Twitter to share their concerns. However, Google hasn't offici...
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Elon Musk Relaunches Review-Backed Twitter Blue Service, Businesses to Get Gold Check Marks
Elon Musk on Monday relaunched Twitter Blue, the company's subscription service that gives users a blue verification check mark. The relaunch of the service comes weeks after the first attempt to introduce the service saw several fake accounts impersonate celebrities and brands on the platform. Twitter will now verify users' identities before a blu...
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Twitter Community Notes Feature Rolling Out to All Users Globally: How to Join
Twitter is rolling out its much-awaited Community Notes feature to all its users across the world. It’s a renamed version of crowdsourced fact-checking feature ‘Birdwatch’ introduced in January 2021 to deal with the spread of fake news. The feature is now live for all allowing Twitter users from anywhere in the world to see and rate notes as ...
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Elon Musk Polls Users on 'General Amnesty' for Suspended Twitter Accounts
Elon Musk on Wednesday floated the idea of a 'general amnesty' for suspended accounts on the platform, polling users to ask if they should be unbanned. Polls on Twitter are open to all users and are unscientific and potentially targeted by fake accounts and bots. Former US President Donald Trump's Twitter account was reinstated last week after a na...
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Twitter Blue Verification Subscription 'Probably' Coming Back End of Next Week, Elon Musk Says
Twitter Blue, the company's verification subscription service will probably "come back end of next week", new owner Elon Musk said on Saturday. The company recently paused its $8 (roughly Rs. 650) blue check mark service, days after several fake accounts masquerading as public figures and well-established firms signed up for the service and posted ...
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Twitter to Soon Enable Organisations to Identify Their Associated Accounts, Elon Musk Says
Twitter will soon enable organizations to identify twitter accounts associated with them, Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday. The microblogging service paused its recently announced $8 (roughly Rs. 650) blue check subscription service on Friday as fake accounts mushroomed, and new owner Elon Musk brought back the "official" badge to some users of the soci...
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Did Firms Lose Billions Due To Fake Twitter Accounts With Blue Tick? Theories Fly
Amid Elon Musk's change overdrive, some Twitter users say "policy" tweets by impersonators led to share price fall for major companies; other argue "not everything is about Twitter"
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As Fake Pepsi Account Tweets "Coke Is Better", Concerns Grow Among Users
Some users have misused the new feature to impersonate brands, ranging from a verified but fake Nestle account to a fake Pepsi account.
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Twitter Restores 'Official' Label; $8 Blue Check Mark Option Vanishes
Elon Musk's Twitter on Friday brought back the "official" badge to some accounts, just days after doing away with it, while several users reported the new subscription option for the blue verification check mark had disappeared. The move follows a surge in fake accounts on the platform after new boss Elon Musk allowed users to pay $8 (nearly Rs. 6...
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Twitter Suspends $8 Subscription Program After Fake Accounts Boom
Twitter Inc. suspended the $8 subscription program it launched earlier this week to combat a growing problem of users impersonating major brands, a person familiar with the move said.
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"Waiting For Santa": Blue Tick For "Jesus Christ", Twitter Users In Splits
From a verified yet fake account of American basketball player Lebron James to a fake Nintendo of America account with a blue tick, some users have been misusing the new feature to impersonate others
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Elon Musk Said to Prepare to Charge Users for Twitter Verification as Soon as Next Week
Elon Musk is said to aim to start charging users for blue verification badges on their profiles by next week, as the company's new owner attempts to reduce fake or spam accounts and raise revenue to run the microblogging service. Twitter users who already have a blue verification badge will have a multi-month grace period before they will either ne...
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Elon Musk To Start Charging For Twitter Blue Tick Next Week: Report
Twitter Inc. aims to start selling blue verification badges for user profiles as soon as next week, part of a plan by new owner Elon Musk to fight fake accounts and squeeze revenue from the company he bought for $44 billion.
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Meta Disrupts Chinese Propaganda Operation Across Facebook, Instagram Ahead of US Midterm Elections
Meta on Tuesday said that it had disabled a China-based propaganda operation that was aimed at users in the US ahead of the upcoming midterm elections in November, serving them political content on the company's platforms. The firm said that the propaganda network had fake accounts on both Facebook and Instagram, as well as on rival service Twitter...
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Disney Found Substantial Number of Twitter Users Fake in 2016, Says Former CEO Bob Iger
Former Disney CEO Bob Iger made remarks regarding the fake accounts on Twitter while talking at the Code Conference on Wednesday. He claimed that Disney had found that Twitter had a ‘substantial portion’ of fake users on its platform.
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Google Calendar Bug Reported To Create Incorrect Events on Android, iOS Devices
Google Calendar users are reportedly experiencing a bug that is causing the app to create random events based on messages from the user's Gmail inboxes. However, these events do not relate to any real event, and hence are bogus, according to a report by 9to5Google. Several users took to Twitter to share their concerns. However, Google hasn't offici...
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Elon Musk Relaunches Review-Backed Twitter Blue Service, Businesses to Get Gold Check Marks
Elon Musk on Monday relaunched Twitter Blue, the company's subscription service that gives users a blue verification check mark. The relaunch of the service comes weeks after the first attempt to introduce the service saw several fake accounts impersonate celebrities and brands on the platform. Twitter will now verify users' identities before a blu...
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Twitter Community Notes Feature Rolling Out to All Users Globally: How to Join
Twitter is rolling out its much-awaited Community Notes feature to all its users across the world. It’s a renamed version of crowdsourced fact-checking feature ‘Birdwatch’ introduced in January 2021 to deal with the spread of fake news. The feature is now live for all allowing Twitter users from anywhere in the world to see and rate notes as ...
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Elon Musk Polls Users on 'General Amnesty' for Suspended Twitter Accounts
Elon Musk on Wednesday floated the idea of a 'general amnesty' for suspended accounts on the platform, polling users to ask if they should be unbanned. Polls on Twitter are open to all users and are unscientific and potentially targeted by fake accounts and bots. Former US President Donald Trump's Twitter account was reinstated last week after a na...
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Twitter Blue Verification Subscription 'Probably' Coming Back End of Next Week, Elon Musk Says
Twitter Blue, the company's verification subscription service will probably "come back end of next week", new owner Elon Musk said on Saturday. The company recently paused its $8 (roughly Rs. 650) blue check mark service, days after several fake accounts masquerading as public figures and well-established firms signed up for the service and posted ...
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Twitter to Soon Enable Organisations to Identify Their Associated Accounts, Elon Musk Says
Twitter will soon enable organizations to identify twitter accounts associated with them, Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday. The microblogging service paused its recently announced $8 (roughly Rs. 650) blue check subscription service on Friday as fake accounts mushroomed, and new owner Elon Musk brought back the "official" badge to some users of the soci...
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Did Firms Lose Billions Due To Fake Twitter Accounts With Blue Tick? Theories Fly
Amid Elon Musk's change overdrive, some Twitter users say "policy" tweets by impersonators led to share price fall for major companies; other argue "not everything is about Twitter"
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As Fake Pepsi Account Tweets "Coke Is Better", Concerns Grow Among Users
Some users have misused the new feature to impersonate brands, ranging from a verified but fake Nestle account to a fake Pepsi account.
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Twitter Restores 'Official' Label; $8 Blue Check Mark Option Vanishes
Elon Musk's Twitter on Friday brought back the "official" badge to some accounts, just days after doing away with it, while several users reported the new subscription option for the blue verification check mark had disappeared. The move follows a surge in fake accounts on the platform after new boss Elon Musk allowed users to pay $8 (nearly Rs. 6...
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Twitter Suspends $8 Subscription Program After Fake Accounts Boom
Twitter Inc. suspended the $8 subscription program it launched earlier this week to combat a growing problem of users impersonating major brands, a person familiar with the move said.
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"Waiting For Santa": Blue Tick For "Jesus Christ", Twitter Users In Splits
From a verified yet fake account of American basketball player Lebron James to a fake Nintendo of America account with a blue tick, some users have been misusing the new feature to impersonate others
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Elon Musk Said to Prepare to Charge Users for Twitter Verification as Soon as Next Week
Elon Musk is said to aim to start charging users for blue verification badges on their profiles by next week, as the company's new owner attempts to reduce fake or spam accounts and raise revenue to run the microblogging service. Twitter users who already have a blue verification badge will have a multi-month grace period before they will either ne...
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Elon Musk To Start Charging For Twitter Blue Tick Next Week: Report
Twitter Inc. aims to start selling blue verification badges for user profiles as soon as next week, part of a plan by new owner Elon Musk to fight fake accounts and squeeze revenue from the company he bought for $44 billion.
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Meta Disrupts Chinese Propaganda Operation Across Facebook, Instagram Ahead of US Midterm Elections
Meta on Tuesday said that it had disabled a China-based propaganda operation that was aimed at users in the US ahead of the upcoming midterm elections in November, serving them political content on the company's platforms. The firm said that the propaganda network had fake accounts on both Facebook and Instagram, as well as on rival service Twitter...
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Disney Found Substantial Number of Twitter Users Fake in 2016, Says Former CEO Bob Iger
Former Disney CEO Bob Iger made remarks regarding the fake accounts on Twitter while talking at the Code Conference on Wednesday. He claimed that Disney had found that Twitter had a ‘substantial portion’ of fake users on its platform.
