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Elon Musk has announced that Twitter will begin paying creators for ads served in their replies. The first block of payments will total $5 million. To be eligible for payments, creators must be verified and only ads served to verified users will count. This means that creators will need to have a blue checkmark next to their name and the ads will need to be...

We all know about Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter and his ambition to remove bots from the platform, however, not all bots are created equal. Today, Musk announced that the Twitter deal was on hold, while they investigate the amount of the Twitter user base that are spam/fake accounts. Along with Twitter's Q1 2022 earnings results, the company announced it had 229 million Monetizable Daily...

After joining Twitter in 2008, techAU has just passed a major milestone, 10,000 followers. I want to take some time to thank each and every one of you that have found value in the content we publish, followed, retweeted and favourited. Thankyou most to those who’ve helped spread the message that there’s an independent technology publisher out of regional Victoria, competing and punching above...

  Managing social accounts, especially for popular accounts can be a challenging task. To help manage a large account, you’ll want multiple people to respond to users, this is particularly useful if the account is used for customer support. TweetDeck Teams is a simple way to share access to Twitter accounts without sharing passwords across a number of users. The feature is...

It’s a new day and the recently public Twitter is launching a new feature. Custom Timelines allows you to move past a single timeline of tweets from people you follow to create a custom timelines. In TweetDeck, this process is pretty straight forward, just click Add Column, then grab the move icon in the bottom right of each tweet and drag over to...

Great news for Windows Phone users this morning, Twitter has updated their app on Windows Phone to version 3.0. One of the biggest changes in this release is the ability to set Twitter as your lockscreen agent. This means if you have peek enabled, you can simply wave your hand over the device to wake the lockscreen and see the latest tweet.  ...

It’s official, Twitter has filed an S-1, the required paperwork required by Wall Street to go public. The filing for IPO does not make the company public, but indicates their intention to. Following in the footsteps of Facebook’s IPO, tech companies are clearly gaining confidence again in going public. Obviously this was in the works for quite some time, but yesterday at TCDisrupt,...

Twitter has rolled out a new feature overnight on their website. Conversation view works by joining tweets together with a line to simplify the display of conversation threads. This has been a long standing issue with twitter in following the conversation if you enter mid-way, the new view allows you to catch up and contribute easily. The new view is rolling out on http://twitter.com, as...