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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Musk says the current blue check system is “bullshit”; Twitter Blue to cost $8/month with half as many ads, priority in replies, mentions, and search, and more — Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Twitter is planning to end the ability of Twitter Blue subscribers to access ad-free articles from hundreds of publishers — Move comes as company's new owner, Elon Musk, continues to make changes to social-media platform — Twitter Inc. is ending the ability of subscribers …
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The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Softpedia News, Engadget, Reuters, and WinBuzzer
Tweets: @llsethj, @carnage4life, @morqon, @bplewis, @wsj, @markmilian, and @wongmjane
| James Ball / New Statesman: |
Elon Musk's plan to monetize Twitter verification would generate little revenue, even at $20/month, and could create myriad issues, including enabling spammers — Elon Musk's latest brainwave risks alienating the users Twitter depends on and would expose it to lawsuits.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter froze some staff access to content moderation and policy enforcement tools, raising worries about a misinformation spike before the US midterms — Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used …
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| New York Times: |
Twitter's chief customer officer has resigned; sources: IPG, a top advertising company, recommended clients pause spending on Twitter over moderation concerns — At least three Twitter executives have left in recent days, as one of the world's largest ad companies said clients should pause spending on the social media platform.
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| Kali Hays / Insider: |
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
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| Financial Times: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out Primetime Channels in the US, with shows and movies from 35 partners, including Paramount+ and Epix, and plans to add NBA League Pass soon — Streaming services are coming to YouTube. The company is rolling out a new feature called Primetime Channels that will bring shows …
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Tweets: @reckless, @mignano, @davidiadeleke, and @rltsports
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Amazon VP of Music Steve Boom on making its ~100M song library available to Prime users without ads, running the unit, music industry, labels, and more — Apple Music raised its rates. Will Amazon Music follow suit? … Steve Boom is the VP of Amazon Music, and he has a great name for the music business.
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Tweets: @matthewshaer and @ashleyrcarman
| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony reports PlayStation Plus subscribers declined to 45.4M in Q2, down from 47.3M in Q1, and PlayStation Network MAUs dropped to 102M in Q2 from 103M in Q1 — PlayStation Plus subscribers have dropped by nearly 2 million users since the revamped service launched in June.
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Protocol, PCMag, Kotaku, Thurrott, OnMSFT.com, Digital Trends, Android Central, Wccftech, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Polygon
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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Tweets: @zhugeex, @serkantoto, @firstadopter, and @_tom_henderson_
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Uber tests showing ads for other companies in push notifications for its iOS app — Uber recently launched its new advertising division and in-app ads. Apparently, those ads aren't staying within the app. — Instead, ads from other companies are being sent out as push notifications, much to the chagrin of some Uber users.| Washington Post: |
Twitter disrupts a China-based influence campaign ahead of the US midterms, spanning nearly 2,000 accounts; two networks skewed right and another left — A fake China-based account called MAGA ‘Hot Babe’ was among nearly 2,000 that sought to influence America's midterms and were removed by Twitter
Tweets: @drewharwell, @jeltts, @petestrzok, @maxboot, @josephmenn, and @dfrlab
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Morgan Stanley and six banks plan to hold $12.7B in debt from Elon Musk's Twitter buyout until early 2023, pending a clearer business plan from Musk — Lenders concede they will struggle to drum up demand until Elon Musk unveils detailed strategy — Banks that lent $12.7bn …
Tweets: @henryfarrell, @samthielman, @schwarz, and @maxrothbarth
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Search shopping features to help users find deals, including copying coupon codes directly from results and side-by-side comparisons on mobile — Google's rolling out a handful of new shopping features that should make it easier to find good deals directly from search.
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, and Search Engine Land
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Uber reports Q3 revenue rose 72% YoY to $8.34B, beating $8.1B estimates; gross bookings rose 26% YoY to $29.1B, including $13.7B from Uber Eats; UBER jumps 15%+ — Uber Technologies Inc. rose after reporting revenue that beat analysts' expectations as gains in ridership assuaged investor concerns …
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Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1 and @thestalwart
| CoinDesk: |
Sources: Galaxy Digital, the digital assets financial services company run by Michael Novogratz, plans to cut 20%+ of its workforce; its stock is down ~80% YoY — CoinDesk estimates that around 11,700 crypto jobs had been lost as of mid-October as a result of the crypto winter.Sponsor Posts
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