


Straight after taking over the site, the CEO fired several top executives at Twitter and half of its workforce.

Musk has also banned – and then unbanned – several journalists who wrote stories about him, stopped the platform’s COVID misinformation policy, and seen the use of antisemitic, homophobic, racist and transphobic language on the platform spike. Under that iteration, Twitter Blue users could pay $7.99 (£6.61) monthly for a blue tick – meaning that their profiles were indistinguishable from existing legitimate pages.

The latter came after earlier plans for the verification system were scrapped due to a flood of impostor accounts appearing on the site. Since Musk took over in October, Twitter has undergone several changes, including a new view count feature, a revamped Twitter Blue subscription package, and an overhaul of the verified badge system for public figures, government accounts and companies. “Twitter will continue to recommend brevity in tweets.” “The goal is to allow people to publish long-form natively on Twitter, rather than forcing them to use another website,” he explained. Musk also revealed more features that will be rolled out soon, including “simple formatting features like bold, underline & font size later this quarter”. Users can currently share posts with a maximum of 280 characters, doubled from the 140 limit that was in place until 2017. Y'all literally apologized for this 10 months ago when everyone hated it the last time you tried to push it: Įarlier today (January 11), Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk announced that the platform will introduce 4,000-character tweets next month. Now switch the tabs so that “Following” is the default and then it’ll be perfect. I only ever want to see latest tweets in chronological order! The removal of this feature on Facebook was one of the reasons I leftĬan I just see tweets from the ppl I’m following plz we didn’t ask for none of this other crap, ads included. “The removal of this feature on Facebook was one of the reasons I left.” “I only ever want to see latest tweets in chronological order!” another said.
