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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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| New York Times: |
Twitter Chief Customer Officer Sarah Personette resigns; sources: top ad company IPG recommended that 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out Primetime Channels in the US, offering 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 Music VP Steve Boom on offering Prime users the company's ~100M song catalog without ads, running the unit, the 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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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony reports PlayStation Plus subscribers fell from 47.3M in Q1 to 45.4M in Q2 despite its revamp as PlayStation Network MAUs fell from 103M in Q1 to 102M in Q2 — PlayStation Plus subscribers have dropped by nearly 2 million users since the revamped service launched in June.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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| Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Intel now says next-gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon chips are slated for January 2023, after a spate of delays dating back to 2021, another boon for AMD's server chips — x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips — Intel said its next-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs will launch … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Tumblr updates its community guidelines to allow nudity, mature subject matter, and sexual themes, but retains its limits for sexually explicit acts — Tumblr has made an update it hinted at in September, changing its rules to allow nudity — but not sexually explicit images — on the platform.| Ewen Callaway / Nature: |
Meta researchers develop a LLM to predict the structures of 617M+ metagenomic proteins; the model is less accurate than DeepMind's AlphaFold, but ~60x faster — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — When London-based Deep Mind unveiled predicted structures …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google starts rolling out Search shopping features for finding deals, including copyable coupon codes directly in 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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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Uber tests showing ads for other companies in push notifications for its iOS app; Uber says users can “manage their mobile notification settings” in the app — Uber recently launched its new advertising division and in-app ads. Apparently, those ads aren't staying within the app.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Twilio will sunset Zipwhip's business texting service on December 1, 2023, after acquiring the Seattle startup last year for $850M in cash and stock — Twilio will sunset Zipwhip's software after acquiring the Seattle startup for $850 million last year. — According to the latest update …
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| Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb Q3: record net income of $1.2B, up 46% YoY, record revenue of $2.9B, up 29% YoY, vs. $2.85 est., and ~100M Nights and Experiences Booked, up 25% YoY — Home-sharing company logs longer stays despite inflation challenges — Airbnb Inc. ABNB 2.00%increase; green up pointing triangle posted …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $5.57B, vs. $5.62B est., net income down 93% YoY to $66M, client segment revenue down 40% YoY due to weak PC market — - Advanced Micro Devices issued fiscal third-quarter results that missed expectations. — The chipmaker warned about weakening PC sales affecting … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Amazon's stock closed down 5.52% on November 1, down for the fifth straight day, its lowest close and below a $1T market cap for the first time since April 2020 — - Amazon's stock closed down Tuesday for a fifth straight day, falling to the lowest since April 2020.| David Cohen / Adweek: |
Meta receives Media Rating Council accreditation for content-level context and brand safety guidelines on Facebook, after committing to an MRC audit in 2020 — It covers content monetization and partner monetization policies on Instant Articles, in-stream videoSponsor Posts
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