NEW YORK—Service alerts for New York City’s subway, commuter trains and buses were back on Twitter on Thursday, a week after transit officials balked at paying to provide the information. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority lost access last week to Twitter’s application programming interface to send out automated alerts about service changes and emergencies. The MTA…
Twitter Alerts Back on Track for NYC Subway After Week Off
Elon Musk Says Censorship Enthusiasts Are ‘Less Than Thrilled’ With Twitter’s User-Sourced Fact-Checks
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has praised the platform’s Community Notes feature for “ending censorship in guise of virtue” and handing control of the “narrative” back to ordinary people. Musk made the comments in a tweet responding to Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon, who wrote on the platform that Twitter was previously “a place where false narratives were…
CBC President Previously Asked Twitter to Remove ‘Flow of Hate’ on Platform: Internal Documents
Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) President and CEO Catherine Tait previously asked Twitter in a private letter to remove certain content on its platform in order to “stop the flow of hate,” according to internal documents. Tait sent the letter, labelled “Confidential,” in May 2021 to then-Twitter Canada’s managing director Paul Burns concerning what she called…
Twitter Excludes Government and Public Services Agencies From API Charges
Government organizations and publicly owned services will not be required to make payments to access Twitter’s Application Programming Interface (API), the social media network said in a recent announcement. Twitter’s API access will allow public service firms to send automated alerts. “One of the most important use cases for the Twitter API has always been…
Jack Dorsey Responds Elon Musk’s Twitter Leadership
Twitter’s former CEO, Jack Dorsey, criticized Elon Musk’s leadership and taking over of Twitter of the company in a series of social media posts last week. Users of the social media platform Bluesky asked Dorsey a question about whether Musk was the right owner. His response was, “No.” “No. Nor do I think he acted…
Jack Dorsey Responds to Elon Musk’s Twitter Leadership
Twitter’s former CEO, Jack Dorsey, criticized Elon Musk’s leadership and taking over of Twitter of the company in a series of social media posts last week. Users of the social media platform Bluesky asked Dorsey a question about whether Musk was the right owner. His response was, “No.” “No. Nor do I think he acted…
Media Publishers Could Charge Users Based on Article Click Soon: Elon Musk
Media publishers could charge users based on article click as soon as next month, Twitter Inc. CEO Elon Musk announced on Saturday. “Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click,” the billionaire stated in a Twitter post. The purpose of the new…
Media Publishers Could Charge Users Based on Article Clicks: Elon Musk
Media publishers could charge users based on article click as soon as next month, Twitter Inc. CEO Elon Musk announced on Saturday. “Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click,” the billionaire stated in a Twitter post. The purpose of the new…
Elon Musk Reacts to Tucker Carlson’s Video Surpassing Cable News Ratings
Elon Musk has provided his insight into a video message posted on Twitter by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson after the clip netted more views than the media personality’s old primetime show. Musk commented on the matter during an interview Friday night with “Real Time” host Bill Maher, who asked the Tesla CEO about…
Twitter Files: Tucker Carlson Op-ed About COVID Vaccines for Children Targeted as ‘Misinformation’
Tucker Carlson returned to Twitter following the announcement he and Fox News had parted ways—his first comment made in a video had already garnered nearly 22 million views in two days. Emails found in the “Twitter Files” show the same platform, under the previous leadership, worked to label information Carlson published in an opinion article,…
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