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Elon Musk has killed Twitter, but not in the way everyone expected

Twitter is going away with Elon Musk renaming the social media platform to X.

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Here's how Twitter Blue's 'half ads' feature works (and how it doesn't)

Twitter Blue's showing "approximately 50% fewer ads" to Blue subscribers. And even then, not all the time.

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Why has the Twitter logo been replaced by Doge?

Twitter changed its logo to the doge meme and nobody knows why.

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Twitter's For You page will soon only recommend verified accounts, Elon Musk says

Twitter is making changes to the way its For You page works.

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Twitter will revoke your verified checkmark if you don't pay by April

Starting 1 April, Twitter will begin "winding down" its legacy verified program and removing blue checkmarks if you don't subscribe to Twitter Blue.

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Twitter shows people how many times their tweets were bookmarked

Twitter is now showing people how many times their tweets have been bookmarked.

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Meta ready to take on Twitter with a decentralised rival app

Meta is working on a decentralised app that would reportedly work with Mastodon, giving Twitter even more unwanted competition.

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Jack Dorsey’s Twitter competitor, Bluesky, is now in the App Store - but there’s a catch

You can now download Jack Dorsey's Twitter competitor from the App Store, but you probably can't actually use it.

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Twitter back after major outage - main feed working again

The Twitter social network went down for more than an hour on Wednesday.

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Twitter is making people pay for the worst kind of two-factor authentication

Twitter is making people pay for the worst kind of two-factor authentication

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Is your Twitter timeline full of Elon Musk? He says there's a fix on the way

If your timeline is full of tweets by Elon Musk, you aren't alone.

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Twitter reportedly took so long to fix a huge outage because Elon Musk decimated the team responsible for it

People couldn't tweet for 90 minutes before Twitter acknowledged something was wrong, but it took even longer to fix.

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You can now tweet up to 4,000 characters, but only if you pay for Twitter Blue

Twitter Blue subscribers in the US no longer need to use threads to post an essay.

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Twitter's merciful fix for a persistent 'For You' timeline rolls out to mobile

Be gone, pesky "For You" timeline! Twitter now shows the timeline you last had open.

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Mastodon use falls as some people return to Elon Musk's Twitter

People switched to Mastodon once Elon Musk started making changes at Twitter - but many are going back.

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Twitter is (sort of) ditching its terrible 'For You' feed

Twitter says that it is going to start remembering which timeline you want to see.

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Elon Musk says Twitter ads suck, will charge you more to get rid of them

Elon Musk says Twitter is adding a new subscription tier to get rid of ads for good.

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Twitter makes it easier to bookmark tweets you don't want to favourite

Twitter's bookmarking feature has been tweaked to make it possible to bookmark a tweet right from its details page.

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Twitter's brand-new-long-standing developer rules block third-party apps

Twitter finally added new rules to its developer terms that ban third-party apps days after saying they'd always been there.

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Twitter Blue comes to Android but it's still a bad deal

Twitter has finally rolled its Twitter Blue subscription service out to its Android app.

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