Look out for the account purge
Sorry if that sounds scary. It’s not… we don’t think. Elon Musk said Twitter is “purging” inactive accounts on the platform to free up a large number of desired usernames and handles. Which accounts, exactly? Musk said Twitter will remove accounts that have had no activity for several years, so recently idle accounts won’t be touched. … Yet….
Pay up, advertisers
Want to make bread? Then you better give up some dough… Blues for the views: As you probably know, Twitter dropped blue verification check marks from legacy accounts last Thursday. On Friday the company announced that if advertisers want to run ads, they have to pay for Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations. What that means for you: If you want…
Tweets are about to become long, Super Follows become Subscriptions, and more…
Sounds like it’s time to clip the “micro” out of Twitter’s “microblogging platform” tag… The bird just introduced 10.000-character-long tweets for Blue subscribers to encourage more long form content on the platform… probably so users don’t flock to a rival like Substack. Super subs: Twitter is also rebranding its Super Follows feature—which allows users to subscribe to creators for…