Ex-Twitter CEO Gets 30,000 Beta Users for New Social Media Platform

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former chief executive of Twitter, announced that his social media platform, Bluesky Social, is accepting beta users as it prepares for a global launch. The announcement made on Tuesday, 18 October 2022 coincides with Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, which Dorsey co-founded and ran for several years. Bluesky Social was conceived in 2019. Dorsey had tweeted that Twitter was funding a team of “architects, engineers, and designers to develop a decentralized standard for...

Verified Twitter Users Express Willingness to Lose ‘Blue Tick’ as Elon Musk Announces $8 Monthly Charge for Verified Accounts

Multiple Twitter users with verified accounts have said they would be happy to lose their ‘blue ticks’ after Twitter’s new boss, Elon Musk, announced an $8 monthly charge for verified accounts. This is coming days after Musk’s plans to charge for Twitter verification had leaked, with Daily Mail reporting that it would cost $20 per month. “Twitter’s current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue...

Twitter to Charge $20 Per Month for Verified Accounts

Twitter has announced plans to charge $240 (N192,000) yearly for verification (blue tick). This is coming a few days after Elon Musk sealed the $44 billion Twitter acquisition deal and took over the ownership of the company. According to Daily Mail, Musk wants to launch a pay-for-play verification system in which verified users are charged $20 per month. It was gathered that Musk had communicated the project to employees of the micro-blogging platform on 30 October....

Peter Obi, Buga, AFCON 2022 Emerge Top Google Searches In Nigeria

Google released its list of the top searches for the first half of 2022 on Thursday. The top searches highlighted personalities, music, musicians, movies, high-profile deaths, actors, moments, sports, as well as sportsmen. Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Communications and Public Relations Manager, Google West Africa, said in a statement that the first half of 2020 had been eventful with high-profile deaths, politics, and personalities among others. Kola-Ogunlade noted that such trends and searches were as a result...

Twitter Sues Elon Musk For Backing Out Of $44bn Acquisition Deal

Twitter has sued Elon Musk to compel him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company. The company sued Musk in Chancery Court in Delaware on Tuesday to push the Tesla CEO to follow through with the acquisition agreement. Musk had agreed to buy the micro-blogging platform in April but backed out of the deal last Friday. Noting that Musk was exercising his right to terminate the merger agreement and abandon the...

Elon Musk Calls Off $44bn Twitter Bid, Battles With $1bn Breakup Fee

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, has backed out of his $44 billion Twitter takeover deal, setting the stage for an epic court battle over a billion-dollar breakup fee and more. This is according to a letter sent by a lawyer on Musk’s behalf to Twitter’s Chief Legal Officer on Friday. In the letter, disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Skadden Arps attorney, Mike Ringler, said Tesla’s Chief Executive Officer was exercising his right to...

Nigerians Troll Politicians Based on Viral Obama Video

A video with the inscription “We were practicing and suddenly Obama turned up” has surfaced online.  The Former President of the United States, Barrack Obama, was seen standing at a spot, with his gaze fixed on a group of singers singing a melodious song. The expression on his face was that of admirability and pleasantness. He appears to have exited a building about to enter his car as one of the men around him is...

Online Voting Does Not Amount To Actual Physical Votes-Adeyanju

Despite the renewed social media movement ahead of the 2023 general elections, socio-political commentator Deji Adeyanju believes that online voting does not amount to actual physical votes in Nigeria. The Abuja-based rights activist who spoke to DAILY POST, said the PDP and the APC do not take the online clamour for votes seriously, saying most of those clamouring for votes online do not have their Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs. “Contrary to the clamour online, both...

Sen. Binani Fake Facebook Accounts Uncovered

Following her emergence as the APC governorship flagbearer in Adamawa State some unscrupulous persons have opened fake Facebook accounts bearing Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani’s names. In a verified Facebook account of a legislative aide to the Senator, Adamu Ibraheem Jimeta noted that the number of fake accounts is on the increase.  Jimeta wrote: “While we are making efforts to get to the people behind this impersonation, we call on the general public to kindly...

Stop IPOB From Using Your Platform To Destabilise Nigeria — FG Cautions Facebook

ABUJA — The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has cautioned Facebook and other social media platforms operating in the country to stop allowing the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to use their platforms to incite violence and instigate ethnic hatred in Nigeria. The Minister made the appeal in Abuja on Tuesday at a meeting with a team from Facebook. According to him, since IPOB had been proscribed and classified as a...

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