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Twitter relaunches paid blue ticks – as Musk reveals enormous increase to character limit | Science & Tech News
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Twitter has restarted its premium membership after a disastrous launch which saw the platform flooded with imposters. Elon Musk made expanding the Twitter Blue service a focus after his takeover in October, and chief among the changes was granting members the profile checkmark previously reserved for verified accounts. But the move quickly descended into farce,…
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New time-lapse shows how Earth has changed since iconic ‘Blue Marble’ | Science & Tech News
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Fifty years after Apollo 17 astronauts sent back an iconic image of Earth, capturing the awe of the cosmos and fragility of our planet like never before, time-lapse images have been released to mark the anniversary. The Blue Marble, as it came to be known, was snapped on 7 December 1972, and at the time…
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Twitter to launch gold and grey verification ticks alongside blue check mark, in ‘painful, but necessary’ move, says Elon Musk | Science & Tech News
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Twitter will roll out gold and grey verification check marks when it relaunches the delayed blue tick service next week, owner Elon Musk has announced. The move was “painful, but necessary”, the billionaire chief executive said in a post on the social media platform. All verified accounts will be manually authenticated before the tick is…
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Twitter pauses new blue tick verification system after being flooded with imposters | Science & Tech News
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Twitter has suspended its newly relaunched blue tick verification system after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts. The premium “Twitter Blue” service is available to anyone for £6.99 a month in the UK ($8 a month in the US) – having previously been used to authenticate the accounts of…
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Paying up for Twitter’s blue tick? Here’s what else you get for your money | Science & Tech News
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Twitter is to charge users for the famous blue tick – the first big change since Elon Musk’s controversial takeover. An update to its iOS app on Saturday said the feature was live in the handful of countries that have been testing the premium Twitter Blue service – which originally launched last year. However, the…
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Twitter’s blue tick will cost $8 a month, says Elon Musk, giving ‘power to the people’ | Science & Tech News
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Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk has announced the platform’s coveted ‘blue tick’ will now cost users $8 (£7) a month, and criticised the current system as “bulls***”. In a tweet himself, Musk said: “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bulls***. “Power to the people! Blue…
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Blue Origin rocket grounded after first launch failure for Jeff Bezos’s space company | Science & Tech News
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The rocket company owned by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has suffered its first launch failure – with an escape system flinging the crew capsule to safety. Pictures show flames shooting from the engine about a minute into flight and the capsule firing off from the rocket’s nose. It later landed in the Texan desert…