Minister of State (MoS) for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar met Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the global AI summit hosted by Britain. Sharing an interesting snippet of his activities at the summit, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said he “bumped” into Elon Musk, and got to know the Musk’s son’s middle name. Taking to microblogging site … Read more
Not content with trashing one treasured website this year, Elon Musk has turned his sights on another: Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia founded in 1999 that has come to represent the very best of what the internet has to offer. The world’s richest person and owner of X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, seems to … Read more
2023 seems to be the year of premium subscriptions in the social media space. Shortly after Elon Musk owned X (formerly Twitter) came out with paid verification through its X Premium subscription, Meta also introduced the Meta-verified program. But unlike X, these premium Meta users who shell out $11.99 on the web or $14.99 in … Read more
X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk recently put forth a surprising proposition for Wikipedia. In what he termed “in the interests of accuracy”, Musk expressed his willingness to donate $1 billion to the online encyclopedia if it consented to rename itself ‘Dickipedia’. The billionaire’s stipulation came with a further condition that the name change must … Read more
Elon Musk has confirmed two new premium subscription plans for X (formerly Twitter). While the billionaire hasn’t yet revealed the prices for these two subscription plans, he has detailed that one of these plans will be cheaper than the existing $8/month X Premium subscription, while the other will be more expensive and will enable users … Read more
Former Twitter Trust and Safety Head, Yoel Roth, who resigned last year after a run-in with billionaire owner Elon Musk, has issued a stark warning to X (formerly Twitter) about its precarious position concerning the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) as well as its safety policies. Speaking at the recent Code Conference 2023, Roth, … Read more
Billionaire Elon Musk, known for his online presence on X (formerly Twitter), is asking the general public, anyone with a smartphone, to make waves on the microblogging platform and thereby change the world for the better. Musk wants everyone to know that X is no longer just about text, that it’s evolving into an all-in-one … Read more
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and owner of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), has often had a love-hate relationship with Apple. Musk was found to be criticising Apple soon after taking over X, but later he also touted Apple’s continued advertising on the platform as proof that it was safe for others … Read more
On July 29, X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk rolled out Ads Revenue Sharing, a program that will share a portion of the money the company makes from the advertisers from the impressions on posts and profiles, back with the community and the content creators of the platform. Over the days, users in the US … Read more
Meta’s newest text-based app Threads has gone somewhat quiet in terms of new feature launches in the last week. The Instagram-powered platform enjoyed its moment of success when it hit the coveted 100 million user mark just a few days after its launch, but ever since then, it has failed to build upon that sudden … Read more