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Twitter admits to ‘security incident’ involving Circles tweets

A privacy breach at Twitter published tweets that were never supposed to be seen by anyone but the poster’s closest friends to the site at large, the company has admitted after weeks of stonewalling reports.

The site’s Circles feature allows users to set an exclusive list of friends and post tweets that only they can read. Similar to Instagram’s Close Friends setting, it allows users to share private thoughts, explicit images or unprofessional statements without risking sharing them with their wider network.

by Blazingcatfur•May 6, 2023May 6, 2023•0•Cybercrime, Twitter

Far-right Britain First party given Twitter gold tick

Twitter has given a gold tick to Britain First, the far right political organisation, after a shake-up of its verification system under new owner Elon Musk.

The party’s leader, Paul Golding, has also received a blue tick for his account, which means that his posts will be boosted in conversations and will be ranked higher in user searches. Golding was jailed in 2018 for religiously aggravated harassment.

Twitter’s gold tick designates a verified organisation that is a business or non-profit entity, according to the platform’s website. Twitter is charging UK entities £1,140 a month for official gold tick status, while personal accounts are being charged £9.60 for a blue tick.

by Blazingcatfur•April 24, 2023April 24, 2023•0•"far right", Twitter

Twitter removes policy against deadnaming transgender people

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” raising concerns that the Elon Musk-owned platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups.

Twitter enacted the policy against deadnaming, or using a transgender person’s name before they transitioned, as well as purposefully using the wrong gender for someone as a form of harassment, in 2018.

by Blazingcatfur•April 19, 2023April 18, 2023•0•Big Tranny, Twitter

‘Free Speech Absolutist‘ Elon Musk‘s Twitter Debuts Shadowbanning Policy

Twitter has announced plans to label and limit the visibility of tweets it considers “hate speech.” Self proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk’s company claims that the shadowbanning policy supports a “freedom of speech vs. freedom of reach approach.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 18, 2023April 18, 2023•0•Twitter, Twitter is Evil

Elon Musk makes bombshell claim that US govt could access Twitter users’ private messages

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has claimed the U.S. government had access to users private messages on Twitter.

In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, set to be broadcast on Monday and Tuesday night, Musk made the startling claims noting how he was shocked to learn that the government had full access to private communications on the platform.

The billionaire tycoon told Carlson how unaware of the fact until he joined the company and expressed surprise at the degree to which government agencies were able to monitor social media.

I wonder if this is true of Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•April 17, 2023April 17, 2023•0•"Surveillance Society", Twitter, Twitter is Evil

‘Twitter Files’ Reporter Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter in Protest Over Throttling of Substack Links

Journalist Matt Taibbi, who broke the sensational “Twitter Files” story that exposed the inner workings of the social media giant’s censorship machine, has announced he’s leaving Twitter in protest of apparent changes that have made the platform unusable for him.

Taibbi, who posts his articles on Substack and is one of the most popular contributors on the platform, made the announcement in a post titled “The Craziest Friday Ever” and a series of tweets, in which he said that he had just learned that Substack links were being blocked on Twitter.

by Blazingcatfur•April 8, 2023April 8, 2023•0•Twitter, Twitter is Evil, WTF?

Twitter Code Included ‘Government Requested’ Intervention Tool

After Twitter CEO Elon Musk released some Twitter source code on March 31, tech researcher and developer Steven Tey released a thread with some key points he uncovered. These included what appears to be a “Government Requested” intervention tool.

by Blazingcatfur•April 7, 2023April 7, 2023•0•Twitter, USA

Musk says the NYTimes’ ‘propaganda isn’t even interesting’ and their Twitter feed is the ‘equivalent of diarrhea’ as he takes a swipe at the Gray Lady after it declined to pay $8 monthly verification fee

Elon Musk has launched yet another attack on The New York Times just as Twitter removed the publication’s verified check mark.

In multiple tweets he said the publication was guilty of publishing boring ‘propaganda’ and said its feed was like ‘diarrhea’ because it put out too many tweets.

‘The real tragedy of [The New York Times] is that their propaganda isn’t even interesting,’ wrote Musk early on Sunday morning. ‘Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It’s unreadable,’ he added.

by Blazingcatfur•April 2, 2023April 2, 2023•0•New York Times, Twitter

Twitter Will Never Stop Censoring Conservatives. It’s Broken Beyond Repair

A year ago, I was locked out of my Twitter account. On Friday morning, with no explanation, my account was unlocked. For a journalist, losing access to Twitter and to one’s followers is no small thing. I don’t have a huge following, but Twitter is an important platform in my industry, and losing my access to it limited my ability to do my job effectively.

I was locked out for saying that Rachel Levine, a high-ranking official in the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, is a man. Levine is “trans.” He identifies and dresses as a woman, but he is a man.

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2023March 31, 2023•0•Twitter, Twitter is Evil

AOC, LeBron James, Ben Shapiro get VIP treatment from Twitter: report

Twitter has a list of some three dozen “VIP users” that includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), basketball superstar LeBron James and Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro, according to a report.

Elon Musk, the site’s new owner, who grew unhappy that his tweets were generating less engagement, ordered his software engineers to carve out a special category of “power users” whose tweets consistently remain visible, according to the Platformer tech news site (pay wall).

Twitter isn’t shittier just not much better.

by Blazingcatfur•March 29, 2023March 28, 2023•0•Twitter, Twitter is Evil

Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online

Parts of Twitter’s source code, the underlying computer code on which the social network runs, were leaked online, according to a legal filing, a rare and major exposure of intellectual property as the company struggles to reduce technical issues and reverse its business fortunes under Elon Musk.

Twitter moved on Friday to have the leaked code taken down by sending a copyright infringement notice to GitHub, an online collaboration platform for software developers where the code was posted, according to the filing. GitHub complied and took down the code that day. It was unclear how long the leaked code had been online, but it appeared to have been public for at least several months.

Several months?

by Blazingcatfur•March 26, 2023March 26, 2023•0•Twitter, Twitter is Evil

The Twitter Files hearing was disastrous for the Democrats

Today’s left looks to Silicon Valley as a tool to shut up people they dislike

Ever since the shock of the 2016 election, there has been an explosion of handwringing in Washington about the danger of information silos. This moral panic took on a newly aggressive character in the age of fake news and Covid — and has expanded to target Fox News, social media and even newsletter businesses like Substack as culprits in a world segregated by news sources.

by Blazingcatfur•March 11, 2023March 10, 2023•0•Twitter, Twitter is Evil

Twitter sucks and Justin Trudeau is a whore

Well today I learned I am suspended by twitter for a week

Calling that whore Justin Trudeau a whore is verboten.

Twitter Canada seems to be operating as Twitter of old, a backwater unnoticed by Musk,

Shadow banning or throttling or whatever they’re calling it now is worse for my account now than even under old Twitter management.

I have twice contacted support to have my old account restored and have yet to hear back.

I suspect that like most of our media Twitter has a Liberal party insider hard at work protecting Junior.

by Blazingcatfur•March 10, 2023March 10, 2023•0•Twitter, Twitter is Evil

Twitter’s Revenue Takes A Massive Nosedive After Advertisers Ditch The App: REPORT

Twitter’s revenue dropped by nearly 40% in December after advertisers fled in the aftermath of CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the situation.

Twitter reported the year-over-year drop in both revenue and earnings in a message to the app’s investors, the sources said, according to the WSJ. The company is currently working to pay off the nearly $13 billion in debt stemming from Musk’s initial purchase, with yearly interest payments totaling approximately $1 billion.

by Blazingcatfur•March 5, 2023March 5, 2023•0•Twitter

‘Where’d You Go to Medical School?’: GOP Rep Rips Ex-Twitter Official for Censoring Stanford Doc’s Covid Opinions

Representative Nancy Mace (R., S.C.) blasted former top Twitter official Vijaya Gadde during a Wednesday hearing for presiding over the company’s censorship of alternative medical perspectives.

Gadde, former general counsel and head of legal, policy, and trust at Twitter, admitted under questioning that no one at the company had the medical standing to assess claims about Covid-mitigation strategies and vaccines so they instead deferred to CDC guidance and censored information that contradicted the agency’s guidance.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2023February 9, 2023•0•Twitter