Social Trends
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Twitter Source Code Leaked and Shared Online, Giving Hackers Access to User Data
Code appears to have been public for at least a few months, the New York Times reports
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Trump’s YouTube Account Restored After 2-Year Ban
The video-sharing platform said Friday it will monitor the channel for “continued risk of real-world violence”
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TikTok Launches ‘Series’ Feature, Where Creators Sell Access to Videos Up to 20 Minutes Long
Eligible creators will be able to post up to 80 videos and set their own prices
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Elon Musk Mocks BBC Report Saying Trolls Have Gotten Worse Since His Twitter Takeover: ‘Trolls Are Kinda Fun’
The Twitter owner even said he was “rolling on the floor laughing my ass off” at the BBC investigation – and his followers, naturally, followed suit
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White House Sets 30-Day Deadline for Removing TikTok From Federal Phones, Computers
Government agencies must ensure the Chinese social video app is purged as Congress sets vote to give president broader ability to ban app in U.S.
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TikTok Banned in Canada From All Government Mobile Devices
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suspects private citizens and businesses will make their own choices about the safety of data on the app
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Elon Musk Has ‘Gone Fully Nutso’ Pulling All-Nighters at Twitter HQ, Staff Says (Report)
The billionaire will “rage fire” people not working hard enough while no new CEO is in sight
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Twitter Chokes: Users Hit With Widespread ‘Daily Limit’ Error Messages
Problem affected normal user tweets but not, for some reason, via API or scheduled tweets
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Twitter Blue Is Floundering: Just 0.2% of Active Users Subscribe to the Elon Musk Service (Report)
Report indicates that the social media platform’s elite subscription tier counts 180,000 paying users in its ranks
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Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Now Share Ad Revenue With Blue-Check Creators
Monetization will be attached to ads inserted into reply threads
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Pope Francis Commits Cardinal Sin With ‘Middle Finger’ Tweet
The pontiff deleted and reposted the message, part of a thread drawing spiritual significance to each finger
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Twitter Ends Free Access to API, Limiting Tools, Bots and Research Projects That Use Platform’s Public Data
The social media platform posted the announcement late Wednesday on the official Twitter Developer account
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Reddit Rewards Ad Sales Ace Harold Klaje With a Promotion to the C-Suite
The social media platform’s global advertising expanded across Europe and Australia under Klaje’s leadership
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Elon Musk Teases Ad-Free Subscription Tier For Twitter
He also hyped a new feature in which “epic” foreign tweets would be translated into English and recommended to users
