2022-11-23
Now for some actual numbers: one-third of Twitter advertisers have paused campaigns, per the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Pathmatics: over a third of Twitter's top 100 clients, including Mars and Jeep, as well as 14 of the top 50, haven't advertised on Twitter in the past two weeks
all in the name of some grade-school version of free speech — enables amplification of hate, incitement, the old twitter cesspool. Seth Abramson / @sethabramson : (MORE) Musk canno...
2022-11-06
Good luck to the Twitter Blue team, which will soon discover how auto-recurring payments work in India. https://twitter.com/...
9to5Mac
Twitter appears to roll out its new Blue subscription, offering a blue checkmark for $8/month, on iOS in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK
Twitter is officially rolling out its new Twitter Blue subscription service, which offers “blue check” verification to everyone for $8/month.
2022-10-21
India price still seems to be ₹189 a month (~$2.28/mo), which is like 10% of the US price. Really goes to show just how little value Indian per user ad revenue is. https://twitter.com/...
9to5Google
YouTube announces YouTube Premium's first major price hike, increasing the family plan from $17.99/month to $22.99/month, or $29.99/month in the App Store
YouTube Premium is getting its first major price hike as the service will now charge $22.99 per month for its family plan.
2022-10-11
Meta and the Indian government have a logic-defyingly cozy relationship, even at a time when WhatsApp is in court suing the government. There are a lot of bodies buried to facilitate that relationship, and this is the latest shocking one. https://twitter.com/...
The Wire
Source: Instagram removed 705 posts without oversight in India in September, after being flagged by Amit Malviya, the head of BJP's IT Cell, as part of XCheck
Meta and the Indian government have a logic-defyingly cozy relationship, even at a time when WhatsApp is in court suing the government. There are a lot of bodies buried to facilitate that relationship, and this is the latest shocking one. https://twitter.com/...
@andymstone
Meta says documentation in The Wire's article alleging Instagram removed posts flagged by a BJP member in India without oversight “appears to be fabricated”
@JeffHorwitz Where to even begin with this story?! X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, ...
2022-06-24
Sounds like such a suffocating society. https://twitter.com/...
South China Morning Post
China issues new rules for live streamers, including requiring influencers to have relevant qualifications to discuss topics such as law, finance, and medicine
Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post :
2022-04-24
Big Tech and established unicorns are swooping in to acquire social commerce platforms in India, co-opting them before they become significant competitors. Here's how Amazon's acquisition of GlowRoad fits into that pattern (and more). https://entrackr.com/...
The Economic Times
Amazon acquires GlowRoad, an Indian social commerce startup focused on women, which has 6M+ resellers in 2,000 cities and has raised ~$31M from Accel and others
- Amazon has acquired Glowroad in an all-cash deal. — Glowroad's team will join Amazon, but will continue to run as an independent unit for now.
2021-04-26
BREAKING: As the second wave raged, the government ordered Twitter to take down tweets criticising its handling of the pandemic. Twitter took down tweets by a sitting MP, MLA, an actor, and two filmmakers, among many others: https://twitter.com/...
MediaNama
Twitter complies with an emergency order from India and hides 50+ tweets, some of which were critical of Modi's handling of COVID-19, from users in the country
BREAKING: As the second wave raged, the government ordered Twitter to take down tweets criticising its handling of the pandemic. Twitter took down tweets by a sitting MP, MLA, an actor, and two filmmakers, among many others: https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
India's government says it ordered Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to take down dozens of posts critical of its handling of the pandemic; companies complied
New York Times :
2021-04-25
BREAKING: As the second wave raged, the government ordered Twitter to take down tweets criticising its handling of the pandemic. Twitter took down tweets by a sitting MP, MLA, an actor, and two filmmakers, among many others: https://twitter.com/...
MediaNama
Twitter complies with an emergency order from India and hides 50+ tweets, some of which were critical of Modi's handling of COVID-19, from users in the country
You're reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised India's handling …
2020-09-06
So now we have an OTT self-regulation code (again) for Indian streaming platforms. - Companies need to take complaints on content - They need to have an appellate body that has one independent advisor and two of its own execs - No industry-level committee or ombudsman https://twitter.com/...
MediaNama
To pre-empt government censorship, 15 OTT services in India, including Disney Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and MX Player adopt a self-regulation code
https://twitter.com/... @aroondeep : So now we have an OTT self-regulation code (again) for Indian streaming platforms. - Companies need to take complaints on content - They need t...
2020-08-21
And here I was wondering why YouTube took so long to get rid of 480p limits. They were aware of a critical security issue for 137 days, and only acted now to patch it. Garden variety textbook apathy. https://www.zdnet.com/...
ZDNet
Google fixed a bug impacting Gmail and G Suite email servers, which allowed attackers to spoof SPF and DMARC rules, months after being alerted by a researcher
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :