Twitter will introduce long-form tweets Beginning of February
The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, has announced that in early February, users will be able to post longer messages.
Mr. Musk stated in a tweet on Sunday that this is part of a “much larger” redesign of the user interface.
“Easy swipe right/left to move between recommended vs followed tweets rolls out later this week,” said Mr. Musk.
“First part of a much larger UI overhaul. Bookmark button (de facto silent like) on Tweet details rolls out a week later. Long form tweets early Feb.”
In an effort to turn around the money-losing social media network, Mr. Musk paid a whopping $44 billion to acquire Twitter last year.
Bloomberg claims that Twitter has reduced its already small trust and safety team responsible for global content moderation and the section dealing with hate speech and harassment.
The firm announced that at least a dozen more layoffs occurred at its Dublin and Singapore locations on Friday night.
Among them were newcomers like Analuisa Dominguez, Twitter’s senior director of revenue policy, and Nur Azhar bin Ayob, the head of site integrity for Twitter’s Asia-Pacific region.
Since Mr. Musk’s takeover in October, he has warned that Twitter is in risk of bankruptcy and imposed what he calls a “hardcore” work atmosphere after a significant reduction in employees.
Less than three months after joining Twitter, he has already managed to scare off advertisers, antagonise some of the platform’s most dedicated content providers, and make Twitter a subject of conversation.
The EU’s top privacy authority has begun looking into claims that 5.4 million Twitter users’ personal information was exposed in a data breach in 2021.
After hearing rumours that one or more data sets containing the personal information of Twitter users “had been made available on the internet,” the Irish Data Protection Commission said that it will launch an investigation of its own accord.
Concerns have been raised about the social media giant’s capacity to secure user data due to the elimination of crucial jobs regulating compliance with rules, even if the suspected breaches occurred before the billionaire’s acquisition.
An online hacker forum released a Twitter database holding roughly 235 million users, according to Israel-based cyber intelligence firm Hudson Rock.