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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 04, 2023
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=> ↺ Twitter says users must be verified to access TweetDeck
Charging for TweetDeck, which was previously free and is widely used by businesses and news organizations to easily monitor content, could bring a revenue boost to Twitter, which has struggled to retain advertising revenue under billionaire Elon Musk's ownership.
=> ↺ Twitter users will need to be verified to use TweetDeck; Elon Musk's company sets deadline
Social media giant Twitter on Tuesday announced that users will soon need to be verified to use TweetDeck. The company said the change will take effect in 30 days.
The announcement was made even as TweetDeck users, in particular, faced several problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load. The problem occurred soon after Twitter CEO Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day. Initially, Musk limited tweet reading to 6,000 posts for verified users per day and 600 daily posts for unverified users. Hours later, he increased these limits to 10,000 tweets and 1,000 tweets, respectively.
=> ↺ Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts
Reddit communities are still private in protest of new API rules. Twitter moved beyond a login wall and is rate-limiting users. Users are frustrated but still using these sites.
But — what will happen to the Google Index? Millions of search results are effectively dead links. Users that refined Reddit search results via Google are now out of luck (Reddit’s search is inferior). Tweets in the search engine results page (SERP) now lead to a login wall for many users.
=> ↺ Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets
Search Engine Roundtable found that Google had removed 52% of Twitter links since the crackdown began last week. Twitter now blocks users who are not logged in and sets limits on reading tweets.
According to Barry Schwartz, Google reported 471 million Twitter URLs as of Friday. But by Monday morning, that number had plummeted to 227 million.
=> ↺ Dutch advertisers: Twitter "certainly not more attractive" after Musk's latest step
Since Musk took over the company last year, chaos has reigned at Twitter. Musk wants to make Twitter a bulwark of free speech. However, critics have expressed concern that hate speech can be spread more easily due to his intervention. The well-known billionaire claims he has also cut over 6,000 jobs at the company, bringing their total number of full-time employees to about a thousand.
=> ↺ Twitter Accused of Ducking a Fight Over Musk’s Mass Layoffs
Twitter Inc. is refusing to engage in arbitration with ex-employees who were fired when Elon Musk took over the company after pushing them to use that process to resolve claims that they weren’t paid, didn’t get promised severance, or were discriminated against, according to a lawsuit.
=> ↺ 5 Top AWS Executives Who Resigned, Departed In 2023 | CRN
AWS executives who departed or resigned from Amazon in 2023 include presidents, vice presidents, data center and professional services leaders.
=> ↺ Microsoft Executive Gurdeep Pall to Retire
Gurdeep Pall, a long-serving corporate vice president at Microsoft, announced to his colleagues that he intends to retire from the company in September, The Information reported on Monday citing people with knowledge of the matter.
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