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After reinstating Trump, Musk seeks general amnesty for Twitter accounts

Twitter CEO Elon Musk took to the micro-blogging site and addressed the question that whether the site should offer a general amnesty to other suspended accounts

Musk refuses to reimburse 'millions of dollars' owed to Twitter vendors

This comes amid, several cost-cutting measures by Musk to make Twitter more profitable, including layoffs across Twitter offices around the world

India's requests to Meta for user data up slightly at 55,497 in H1 of 2022

Requests from governments across the globe for user data were up 10.5% to 237,414

Wasn't Twitter supposed to die by now: Elon Musk takes a dig at trolls

Twitter CEO Elon Musk took a dig at the trolls who prophesied the end of Twitter, soon after his controversial takeover

Twitter adds 1.6 million daily active users in 1 week, says Elon Musk

Shutting down his detractors further, Musk shared another tweet today morning, announcing that the site has reached its highest daily active users

Musk's top-down approach will harm Twitter, says Manish Maheshwari

Large platforms can also go into exponential decay if the network effect stops working in their favour, Maheshwari said

Meta is India's largest media company: A look at the ten big firms in 2022

A look at the ten big media firms in the financial year ending 2022

A banker turned tech maven: Meet Sandhya Devanathan, Meta India head

Devanathan takes over the India operations after the previous incumbent, Ajit Mohan, resigned to join social media company Snap Inc

Thinking of breaking up with Twitter? Here's the right way to do it

Musk has now begun reinstating high-profile users - including Donald Trump, Alex Jones and Kanye West - who had been removed for repeated violations of community standards

Elon Musk pauses relaunch of Twitter's $8 plan till impersonation stops

The introduction of Twitter's $8 per month blue tick verification plan by Elon Musk earlier this month led to the creation of various fake accounts on the platform

India Inc wants to 'wait and watch' before responding to $8 Twitter plan

The companies are currently wary of adopting an aggressive marketing strategy on Twitter and want to first see where the new leadership takes the micro-blogging platform

Elon Musk's Twitter reinstates account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Elon Musk's Twitter has reinstated the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, which was banned in January for violating the platform's COVID misinformation policies at the time. Greene's reinstatement comes after Musk over the weekend reinstated the account of former President Donald Trump, who was banned in the aftermath of the deadly January 6 riots on the Capitol in 2021. Twitter at the time feared there was a risk of further incitement to violence if Trump was allowed to remain on the platform. Trump himself has said he won't return to Twitter and as of Monday had not yet tweeted since the reinstatement, although he also hasn't deleted his account. Musk apparently based his decision to allow Trump back on the site on an unscientific Twitter poll he posted on his timeline. There appeared to be no such poll for Greene's account. Earlier, Musk said he won't make major decisions about content or restoring banned accounts before setting up a "content moderation

Twitter France head Damien Viel quits amid mass layoffs, says 'It's over'

Damien Viel, who confirmed his departure in a separate message to Bloomberg, had led the region for about seven years

Meta introduces new privacy features for protecting its young users

All those under age 16 (or under 18 in some countries) will be defaulted into more private settings when they join Facebook, Meta says

Elon Musk to speed up Twitter upload time, live video top priority

Twitter account, "Tesla Owners Silicon Valley", which is an official Tesla recognised club, on Monday tweeted in which it asked Musk "to make Twitter live video better".

Is Elon Musk mismanaging Twitter?

Over 3,500 Twitter employees have been sacked from Twitter. It looks like the chaos introduced by Elon Musk is taking a toll on the company. Take a peek at what's happening in Twitter headquarters

New Twitter boss Elon Musk takes a late-night deep dive with coders

Amid the internal mayhem and mass resignations, Elon Musk has posted some images of him taking a deep dive with coders at Twitter headquarters late at night

Twitter's mass exodus of employees under Musk spurs fear site will decay

Multiple teams that were critical for keeping the service up and running are completely gone, or borrowing engineers from other groups, according to people familiar with the matter.

Elon Musk's 'hardcore' ultimatum sparks exodus, leaving Twitter at risk

So many employees decided to take severance that it created a cloud of confusion over which people should still have access to company property.

Here's why old social-networking site Orkut is trending on Twitter

Hashtags "GoodbyeTwitter" and "Orkut" started trending on twitter hailing an end to the microblogging website. Orkut is an old social networking site which got shut down in 2014