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Top advertising agency GroupM has told its clients that it no longer considers Twitter "high-risk" and is "cautiously optimistic" about the appointment of Linda Yaccarino as its new chief, the Financial Times reported on Friday.Yaccarino will take over the social media platform beset with challenges and a heavy debt load, after she spent several years modernizing the advertising business at NBCUniversal. WPP-owned GroupM had last year labelled Twitter as a "high risk" platform for advertising following Elon Musk's…

There is no escaping Elon Musk. Having thrust himself, uninvited and often unwanted, into public consciousness, he is everywhere at once - an omnipresent, Orwellian Big Brother whose smirking visage is inescapable, a jokester, entertainer, troll, provocateur. Commenters lampoon his antics and question his business acumen, even his sanity, but what they don't recognize - or perhaps what they don't care to admit to themselves - is that there is a method to his clownish madness.Mr. Musk has become one of the world's richest…

On Friday, Elon Musk announced that NBC Universal's Linda Yaccarino will serve as the new CEO of Twitter. Yaccarino is a longtime advertising executive credited with integrating and digitizing ad sales at NBCU. Her challenge now will be to woo back advertisers that have fled Twitter since Musk acquired it last year for $44 billion.Since taking ownership, Musk has fired thousands of Twitter employees, largely scrapped the trust-and-safety team responsible for keeping the site free of hate speech, harassment and…

A Twitter engineer named Foad Dabiri has claimed that WhatsApp was using his phone’s microphone to eavesdrop on him. Dabiri shared a screenshot of his device indicating a privacy breach, which raised concerns for WhatsApp users who heavily rely on the app for their daily conversations. According to Dabiri, WhatsApp was running in the background even while he was asleep, leading him to question the app’s intentions. WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6AM…

Elon Musk on Wednesday announced a slew of new features coming to the Twitter app. The latest version of the Social media giant's app will come with support for DM replies, meaning users will…

Tracking down accurate information about Philadelphia's elections on Twitter used to be easy. The account for the city commissioners who run elections, @phillyvotes, was the only one carrying a blue check mark, a sign of authenticity.But ever since the social media platform overhauled its verification service last month, the check mark has disappeared. That's made it harder to distinguish @phillyvotes from a list of random accounts not run by the elections office but with very similar names. The election commission…

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in October, users irked by the platform's new regime have vowed to move their online presence elsewhere, though this has proved harder than some had banked on.Here is a list of some of the contenders to dethrone Twitter as the go-to website for the media, officials and celebrities. - Bluesky, Dorsey's Twitter clone -Bluesky was created by Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey and is now the talk of Silicon Valley, leaving those in the know scrambling to secure an invite to join the app that…

Elon Musk on Saturday announced a plan for his Twitter platform to allow media publishers to charge users on a per-article basis with a single click. "This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article," the billionaire entrepreneur said on Twitter, adding, "Should be a major win-win for both media orgs & the public." He said the plan would begin next month, but provided no details on exact pricing or what cut Twitter…

An interesting and revealing thing happened on Twitter in recent weeks. The infamous blue check mark, once a status symbol among people in media and others who spend time too much time online, took on a negative connotation. There are even hashtags shaming subscribers to the new fee-based “Twitter Blue.” On its face it's not clear why; There should be no shame in paying for a better Twitter experience — especially if you spend many hours consuming it. The drama revealed many of our behavioral biases and why they pose a…

Twitter Inc CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that the social media platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click, calling it a win for both the public and media organizations.The feature, to be rolled out in May, will enable users who do not "sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article," billionaire owner Musk tweeted.On Friday, Musk had said that Twitter will take a 10% cut on content subscriptions after…