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Twitter first announced their interest in giving people a downvote button in July of 2021. At the time, it was a test for research purposes. Twitter clarified “this is not a dislike button”, and pointed out that your downvotes will only be visible to you. On February 3, 2022, @TwitterSupport tweeted: “We learned a lot about the types of replies
Twitter has added video captions. It posted a tweet on December 14, 2021, that said: “ Where are video captions when you need them? They’re here now automatically on videos uploaded starting today.” The same tweet explains that for Android and iOS, auto-captions will show on muted Tweet videos; keep them on when unmuted via your device’s accessibility settings. Those
Twitter has acquired Quill, a company that TechCrunch described as “a business-focused messaging service meant to compete against the likes of Slack and keep people, well, more focused”. Quill put a blog post on their website titled: “Twitter + Quill”. We started Quill with the goal of increasing the quality of human communication. We believe the tools we use to
Twitter posted information on their blog titled: “Expanding our private information policy to include media”, on November 30, 2021. This policy was an update to the previous version, in which publishing other people’s private information, such as phone numbers, addresses, and IDs was already not allowed on Twitter. How did this policy work out? Not very well at all. The
Sometimes, Twitter auto-refreshes your feed while you are in the middle of reading a tweet. As you might expect, some people find this to be annoying. Twitter is aware of this problem and intends to do something to fix it. In a short thread of tweets, @TwitterSupport tweeted the following: “Let’s talk about Tweets disappearing from view mid-read when the
Twitter has introduced Twitter Blue. Earlier this year, Twitter introduced its new subscription required feature in Australia and Canada. It is now available in the United States and New Zealand across iOS, Android, and the web. The subscription costs $2.99 a month for those in the US, and 4.49 for those in New Zealand. Here is a list of Twitter
Twitter posted information about an in-depth analysis of whether its recommendation algorithms amplify political content. The study examined Tweets from elected officials in seven countries: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The study included analysis of millions of Tweets from April 1 to August 15, 2020. The study examined algorithmic amplification of political content