by Beth Holmes | Feb 13, 2023 | Companies, Social Media
Gold checkmarks are Twitter’s newest verification distinction, and they’ll cost $12k a year to any business that wants one. Twitter established their blue checkmarks in 2009, as a quick way for readers to know if the twitter handle they were using belonged...
by Beth Holmes | Nov 7, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media
The Twitter board of directors have all been fired as Elon Musk takes control, after nearly a year of will-he-won’t-he from the erratic billionaire. Musk took over Twitter as its new owner this week, after his $44 billion purchase was pushed through against his...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 10, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Musk wants Twitter again, he says, and Twitter is willing to give him another chance, for $44 billion. It’s hard to tell if Elon Musk wants Twitter, or wants Twitter’s social buzz, as he reverses course yet again on his decision to buy the massive social...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 3, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Meta has disabled a Russian propaganda network which has targeted European social media users, spreading Kremlin-approved stories about the invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, announced that they have identified and disabled the...
by Admin | Sep 19, 2022 | Companies, Social Media, Technology
Ireland has fined Instagram 405 million euro for poor data security practices concerning children. GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulation, is a set of regulations in the European Union about protecting the information of individuals using websites, especially...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 29, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media
Twitter whistleblower Pieter Zatko has raised concerning questions about the social media platform’s security and integrity. On Tuesday, a letter of complaint from Twitter’s former head of security was made public. The letter was an account of his 14-month...
