Twitter’s new boss, Elon Musk, has allowed the addition of ‘live tweeting’ feature on Saturday, the feature is currently activated on the micro-blogging platform.
Earlier, he tweeted, “We’re double-checking some facts, so probably start live tweeting in about 40 mins.”
We’re double-checking some facts, so probably start live tweeting in about 40 mins
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
‘ Griftopia’ writer followed his first tweet which reads, “Thread: THE TWITTER FILES”, “What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.”
He added, “The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.”
Twitter’s new boss is also working on “purging a lot” of spam/scam accounts.
On Thursday, Musk took to his Twitter account and shared the word limit update with everyone.
He tweeted, “Twitter is purging a lot of spam/scam accounts right now, so you may see your follower count drop.”
Musk is also planning to up Twitter’s character limit from 280 to 1000.
A few days ago, a social media user tagged Musk and tweeted, ” Idea on explanding character limit to 1000.”
In response, Musk wrote, “It’s on the todo list.”
On the other side, a research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate revealed that, an average of 1,282 tweets with slurs against Black people appeared daily on Twitter before Musk took over and that number jumped to 3,876 after he acquired the company.
To counter it, Musk replied “hate speech impressions (# of times tweet was viewed) continue to decline, despite significant user growth”.
“@TwitterSafety will publish data weekly. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach. Negativity should and will get less reach than positivity,” he mentioned.
“There are about 500 million tweets per day and billions of impressions, so hate speech impressions are less than 0.1 per cent of what’s seen on Twitter,” Musk further argued.
(inputs from ANI)