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Retail Asia08/06/2023

The new Twitter Blue, rebranded and relaunched upon Elon Musk’s takeover of the popular social networking site, launched late last year with some exclusive features for its subscribers. One of these features is the ability to edit your sent tweets, albeit only for a limited time, a limit which has now been increased. Previously, the amount […]

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Retail Asia02/12/2022

Elon Musk now officially owns Twitter, and the move caused a big splash in the industry. The tech billionaire started his reign as head of the popular network by laying off staff “en masse” and then trying to rehire some of the valuable assets lost in the process. One such asset seems to be Yoel […]

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Retail Asia30/11/2022

These days you have to wonder just exactly what is going through the mind of multi-billionaire Elon Musk. After spending $44 billion to buy Twitter, Musk is acting like someone who never made a major decision in his life. He says one thing, reverses direction in a day and reverts back to his original thought […]

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Retail Asia02/09/2022

Did you ever post a tweet and realize that you’ve made a huge mistake? Without an edit button, there is nothing that Twitter users can do except delete the post and write it again. However, most Twitter members aren’t interested in having to re-type a tweet. But Twitter posted a blog today in which it says […]

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Retail Asia22/06/2022

A few months ago, Elon Musk surprised the internet (as the billionaire likes to do) with a $44 billion bid to buy out Twitter after earlier joining, and then shortly after, leaving, the Twitter board. However, the deal came to an unexpected halt when Musk doubted officially published Twitter statistics about fake accounts on the platform. […]

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Retail Asia16/05/2022

Elon Musk might have put his acquisition of Twitter on hold temporarily, but that hasn’t stopped the social media platform from continuing to make changes to spruce up the app. People discovered a new label on the Android Twitter app that surfaces when the author of a tweet “likes” a response to his message. TechCrunch says that […]

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Retail Asia05/04/2022

Billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, has recently acquired a three billion dollar Twitter stake, which equates to about 9.2% of the social media company, or 73,486,938 Twitter shares. The news comes from a US securities filing, and according to the BBC, the acquisition, which reportedly happened on March 14, has now resulted in Twitter’s shares […]

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Retail Asia16/03/2022

If you were one of the people who were upset by the recent change to Twitter’s timeline and were angry that you couldn’t easily see all of the latest tweets, you canrelax now because Twitter has restored its timeline to what it was before. Yes, Twitter ditched its latest timeline change, which displayed algorithm-based suggestions […]

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Retail Asia23/02/2022

Ever had a very annoying conversation on Twitter that you really wanted to forget and were not able to, because of constant tagging and notifications? Well, Twitter seems to be working on a feature that will allow you to just leave a conversation you no longer find productive or fun with a single button. We […]

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Retail Asia18/02/2022

Twitter is making all sorts of changes to its app almost on a weekly basis. Some of them are less important, while others are really useful even though they don’t get under the spotlight too often. After delivering the so-called “Good Bots” labels for all bot developers earlier this week, Twitter announced a much more important feature is making […]

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Retail Asia17/02/2022

Twitter is expanding the beta testing of its Safety Mode feature to more of its users. In a tweet, Twitter announced that it is extending Safety Mode, a feature that enables Twitter users to temporarily block accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets, to ‘several new English-speaking markets.’ The goal is, of course, for Twitter […]

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Retail Asia10/02/2022

Twitter is ending its business relationship with the company that sends its two-factor authentication messages to its users. In a disclosure to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Twitter wrote that it is ‘transitioning’ from working with Mitto AG, a tech company based in Zug, Switzerland, and backed up its decision with some reports from the media. […]

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Retail Asia10/02/2022

Twitter announced that it is testing a new option for changing the playback speed of a video, which is just like the playback option on YouTube, Netflix, and other video platforms. In the tweet from Twitter, we see that the new playback option may appear as a gear icon on top of the currently playing […]

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Retail Asia08/02/2022

Downvoting on Twitter has been in testing since summer last year, and the feature is now finally expanding for testing to more users. The button will be available to a select group of users around the world, as the company seems to have received positive feedback about the feature since the initial testing performed last July. […]

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Retail Asia26/01/2022

Last year, Twitter showed an early concept of a feature called Trusted Friends. As the name suggests, this feature allows you to tweet to a close group of friends, instead of spamming all your followers. This pre-announced feature now has a new name – Flock. Reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi has dug up parts of the feature and […]

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Retail Asia30/11/2021

Jack Dorsey, who co-founded the popular Twitter social media site back in 2006, is stepping down as CEO of the company effective immediately. Replacing Dorsey will be Twitter chief technology officer Parag Agrawal. In a statement, Dorsey said, “I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to move on from its […]

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Retail Asia01/11/2021

Twitter announced it has begun testing a new monetization feature aimed at Twitter iOS users in early September. The so-called Super Follows feature is meant to allow Twitter users with more than 10,000 followers to earn a monthly revenue by offering an extra level of content and interaction as a monthly subscription. Initially, Super Follows was only […]

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Retail Asia29/10/2021

If you’ve been using Spaces on Twitter, you’ll be happy to know that the feature has just been improved with the addition of the ability to record and share them. For the time being, the new and improved Spaces are available for some Twitter users on iPhone, but the new enhancements will slowly expand to all […]

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Retail Asia26/08/2021

Twitter Spaces is a fairly new addition to the popular bird-themed social media platform and was launched a few months ago in competition with the exploding Clubhouse app. Its function is very similar to Clubhouse: to provide voice chat rooms which people can host and join to have discussions about anything and everything. From music, […]

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Retail Asia19/08/2021

Twitter’s Twitter Safety account sprung to life on Tuesday to announce that starting yesterday, Twitter users in the U.S., South Korea, and Australia can flag a tweet as misleading. To do so, you need to click on “Report Tweet.” That can be found by tapping on the three-dot menu found to the right of the screen in […]

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