Tag: Fake accounts
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X considers monthly fee for all users as a countermeasure against fake accounts
Renowned technology billionaire Elon Musk hinted on Tuesday that users of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, may face a monthly fee. Musk stated, “We’re moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the system,” during a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Twitter halts $8 subscription program after fake accounts abuse service to impersonate major brands
After users started misusing it to impersonate major companies and known personalities, Twitter appears to have suspended its $7.99/month Blue membership service, which allowed customers to pay for a verification check mark. This week, Twitter introduced a feature that lets users purchase a checkmark that had previously been used to denote a verified or official…
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Twitter blames Musk for $270 million Q2 loss
The social media company’s latest quarterly earnings figures offered a glimpse into how the social media business performed during months-long negotiation with billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk over whether he will take over the company. The company lost $270 million in the April-June period after revenue slipped 1 per cent to $1.18 billion, reflecting advertising industry…
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Musk says no Twitter deal without clarity on bot accounts
The tech mogul Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal are arguing about bots, which Musk has made a core issue in his acquisition of the microblogging site. On the other hand, Agrawal outlined Twitter’s approach to spam accounts and the obstacles it faces in dealing with them in a series of tweets on May…
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Shahid Afridi clarifies his daughters have no social media accounts
Former Pakistan captain and legendary cricketer Shahid Afridi has said that his daughters do not have any social media accounts. Taking to Twitter, Afridi said that all the Facebook, Twitter and other social media identities and accounts in his daughters’ names were fake. “I would like to clarify that none of my daughters have any…