Twitter rolls out auto captions for voice tweets after accessibility backlash

“We took your feedback and we’re doing the work. To improve accessibility features, captions for voice Tweets are rolling out today,” Twittersaid in a tweet. “Now when you record a voice Tweet, captions will automatically generate and appear. To view the captions on web, tap the ‘CC’ button.” We took your feedback and were doing the work. “It was a miss to introduce this experiment without this support. Accessibility should not be an afterthought....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 97 words · Angela Willis

Twitter Rolls Out Edit Button to Subscribers in Canada, Australia, New Zealand

Thesocial media companyhas been testing the highly requested feature and says the experiment “went well.” Last week,Twittersent out its first edited tweet from the Twitter Blue account. Twitter users will know that a tweet has been edited because the tweet includes a pencil icon. Users will also be able to see what was edited by clicking on the icon. About 4.4 million Twitter users voted and 74% of those who responded to the poll said yes....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 90 words · Thomas Cruz

Twitter Rumored to Make TweetDeck a Subscription Service

Twitter is filling in the new@TweetDecksignup page that theyre working on. These options don’t appear on the current TweetDeck homepage. A subscription costs $3 a month. Any changes to TweetDeck haven’t been corroborated or acknowledged by Twitter.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 37 words · Christopher Adams

Twitter Said to Be Re-examining Elon Musk's $43B Takeover Bid

The entrepreneur, who runsTesla, SpaceX and other companies, already owns more than 9% of Twitter. A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on the report.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 24 words · Anthony Stokes

Twitter says it mistakenly suspended accounts after new policy spurred 'malicious reports'

“According toThe Washington Post on Friday, those reports targeted anti-extremism researchers and journalists. A Twitter representative told the publication there were “a dozen erroneous suspensions.” It’s not clear how many reports were filed in total.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 35 words · Carl Bradshaw

Twitter Seeks to Curb Misinformation During Periods of Crisis With Warning Notices

Twitter users will still be able to click through the notice to view the tweet.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 15 words · Erin White

Twitter sees surge of demands to remove posts by journalists, news outlets

The social data pipe said this was a 26% increase over the previous reporting period. The company removed content in response to 29% of these demands. India was the largest source of government information requests, followed by the United States.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 40 words · Susan Evans

Twitter sells mobile ad network MoPub to AppLovin for $1.05 billion in cash

Last year, MoPub generated around $188 million in annual revenue, according to the release.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 14 words · Steven Bishop

Twitter Sends First Edited Tweet for All to See

When viewing edited tweets in a feed, the pencil icon will sit next to the time-since-tweeted time stamp. Twitter users surely still want the capability to edit tweets. Users will have 30 minutes after posting a tweet to edit it. Perhaps the pencil icon will supersede the blue checkmark as a sign of Twitter status.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 55 words · Matthew Rodriguez

Twitter Shareholder Sues Elon Musk Over Share Acquisition

However, Musk didn’t file a Schedule 13 until April 4, thecomplaintalleges. Musk ended upacquiring a 9.2% stake in Twitter. Twitter declined to comment. Musk couldn’t be reached for comment.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 29 words · Emily Williams DVM

Twitter shows off privacy concepts to help you switch accounts, settings with ease

Twitter’s design team is working to make privacy configs easier to understand and access. She asks for feedback in the thread as well, as each piece is in flux. These are just ideas and not being built (yet? Another concept will show a warning if you reply to a tweet while your account is protected. Protected and public profiles could also be grouped under a privacy check-in label. Finally, Emara tweeted a concept for controlling how others can find your profile....

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 81 words · Jeremy Smith

Twitter Spaces adds ability for some hosts to create ticketed gatherings

The company opened upapplications for content monetizationon Spaces in June. we want to help people creating cool Spaces make $$$. The companyrolled out Clubhouse competitor Spacesin May, after launching abeta testof the feature last year.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 35 words · Anita Cox

Twitter Spaces filled with hate speech, extremism, report says

Twitter also uses software to detect offensive keywords in the titles of Spaces. “This left harmful conversations prominently visible and was a mistake.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 23 words · Charles Moore