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[Sushubh]

on the other hand they were offering gold checkmark for organizations. not sure what he is expecting. are they really charging for gold checkmark?

About profile labels

help.twitter.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

Gold checkmarks is for verified Organizations right? So he probably is. Maybe they handed it to large ones for free? And only charging them for adding employees?

 

[Navjot Singh]

Source

 

[Sushubh]

hiding checkmark would be a useful feature once only paid blue checkmark would remain lol.

 

[Sushubh]

Twitter blocked 122 accounts in India at the government’s request

Last year, before Elon Musk took over as CEO, Twitter pushed back against such requests from the government.

restofworld.org

 

[Navjot Singh]

Twitter Blue relaunch has made just $11M on mobile in its first 3 months | TechCrunch

Twitter Blue has helped the microblogging network generate around $11 million globally from mobile users since its relaunch in December.

techcrunch.com

 

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[Sushubh]

no surprises there. the whole concept of monetizing service by making users pay does not work for a platform like twitter. they can probably make more per day by charging for inclusion into the default list of people they recommend to new users to follow.

 

[Sushubh]

Source

 

[Sushubh]

Twitter Offers New Equity Grants to Staff

Compensation has been one of many questions facing employees since Elon Musk’s tumultuous acquisition of the company last year.

www.wsj.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/twitter-canada-india-rupi-kaur-jagmeet-singh-1.6787760

 

[Navjot Singh]

Elon Musk now says Twitter is worth $20 billion, or less than half of what he paid

He paid $44 billion for the company last year.

www.theverge.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/twitter-source-code-leak.html

 

[Sushubh]

Source

Genius.

 

[Sushubh]

The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else

Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron?

www.platformer.news

 

[Navjot Singh]

Daily Crunch: Twitter tells GitHub to remove proprietary source code and help them ID who posted it | TechCrunch

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

techcrunch.com