The end of blocking on X (except for DMs)

X, the social media platform that Elon Musk bought and renamed from Twitter, will eliminate the option to block other users, except for DMs. Musk, who has wanted to remove the feature for a while, said blocking "makes no sense" and that users should mute instead. The mute option will remain available.

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Twitter threatens to sue Meta, accuses of poaching employees and copying its platform with Threads app

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Meta may face legal action from Twitter over its new text app Threads, which Twitter says is a "copycat" of its platform. Twitter claims Meta hired former Twitter employees who used Twitter's trade secrets and intellectual property to develop Threads. Meta denies the allegations and says none of the Threads engineers are ex-Twitter staff. Threads is a text-based companion to Instagram that resembles Twitter and other text-based social platforms. It launched on Wednesday and attracted 30 million users in one day, posing a serious challenge to Twitter's dominance. Twitter's owner Elon Musk accused Meta of "cheating" and vowed to protect his intellectual property rights.

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How Twitter is locking out users from reading tweets

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Twitter has imposed strict limits on how many tweets users can read per day, citing data scraping and system manipulation issues. However, a developer claims that a bug in Twitter’s web app is causing the problem. Users who exceed their quota will see a “Rate limit exceeded” error and cannot view any more tweets. 

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Linda Yaccarino takes over as Twitter CEO

Linda Yaccarino, the former head of global advertising and partnerships at NBC Universal, is now officially the new CEO of Twitter. She starts her new role along with Joe Benarroch, a former colleague and executive vice president at NBC Universal. Benarroch will focus on business operations at Twitter, according to a memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

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