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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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| Kali Hays / Insider: |
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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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Tweets: @amazon, @matthewshaer, @ashleyrcarman, and @reckless
| 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 … | 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.
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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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| New York Times: |
Similar Web: Donald Trump's Truth Social has passed Gab, Parler, Gettr, and other right-wing social networks in unique visitors, largely thanks to Trump posting — The right-wing social network faces two federal investigations and an uncertain financial future. But it has still managed to outpace its rivals.
Tweets: @jaredlholt, @mattgoldstein26, @risj_oxford, and @fmanjoo
| 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 video| Washington Post: |
Twitter disrupts three China-based influence campaigns ahead of the US midterms, spanning nearly 2,000 user 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
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