Twitter Archive

Elon Musk’s team is investigating to find out who was behind the FreeSpeechEnthusiast account, the New York Times reported, which was apparently publicly available for some time.

Twitter has reduced the amount of time your account needs to have existed before paying for Twitter Blue from 90 days to 30 days, according to a recently-updated support page highlighted by TechCrunch.

The bookmarks counter launched first on iOS last week, but some Verge staffers are now seeing it on their desktop browsers, too. The company said it planned to expand the feature, so its arrival on the web isn’t too much of a surprise. I’m still not happy about it; the counter is yet another metric cluttering up tweets.

Over the years, Mastodon has occasionally seen the number of incoming users shift from a flood to a trickle and back again.

The New York Times says Twitter has more-or-less ended negotiations with the big music labels for licensing deals that would have covered any music that was uploaded by users. Most social networks have agreements like this, but Twitter doesn’t.

Apparently some researchers are being told that they could have to pay at least $500,000 a year to access a tiny portion of Twitter’s data. I recommend being skeptical about anything this company says until it actually happens, but given all its shenanigans around API access, this wouldn’t exactly be surprising.

The company is in the early stages of creating a “standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates,” Platformer reports.