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Twitter Confirms It Really is Working on an Edit Button

Kellen April 6, 2022 31

On April Fools' Day, Twitter mocked the world by suggesting that they are working on an edit button. We got the joke, might have made an inappropriate comment in response, and then moved on. Today, Twitter came back and said that it wasn't actually a joke. In...

Twitter Blue Available in US for $3/Month, If You’re a Sucker

Tim November 9, 2021 20

Twitter Blue, the platform's $2.99/month subscription service, is now available widespread across the US, looking for any potential Android suckers who forget that Twitter is actually a free thing to use and want essentially zero return on money spent. Twitter...

Twitter is Testing Downvotes on Tweets, and Dammit, Stop Calling It a Dislike Button

Tim July 21, 2021 6

Twitter says a small group of iOS users should begin seeing a new voting system on tweet replies, designed to help the platform decide on what types of replies users feel are relevant to the conversation. Twitter is very clear that this is not a dislike button...

Twitter Yeets Fleets

Kellen July 14, 2021 5

Fleets are no more. The disappearing Tweets that Twitter first launched a little over a year ago never caught on and the company is ending their run. In a blog post announcing the news, Twitter said that they "haven’t seen an increase in the number of new...

Twitter Turns Your Audience Into Fresh Cash Stream for You and Them

Tim June 22, 2021

Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces are rolling out to Twitter, with a select few now able to apply to feature these new monetization options on their accounts. You see, not everyone will be willing to pay for my or Droid Life's tweets, but actual celebrities...

Twitter Blue Arrives in Canada and Australia With a Few Paid Features

Kellen June 3, 2021 2

Twitter announced Twitter Blue today, a subscription version of Twitter that adds a couple of extra features onto your experience. For now, Twitter Blue is limited to Canada and Australia, but I'd imagine the plan is to roll this out quite widely over the...

Twitter Brings in the Big Tips

Kellen May 6, 2021 8

Twitter really is going to let you pay people for their sweet, sweet Tweets. Today, the social network announced the Tip Jar as a way to both send and receive tips. The Tip Jar on Twitter will live in profiles in a shortcut that could give people multiple ways...

Twitter Brings in the Big Pics

Kellen May 5, 2021 5

Twitter is rolling out its "bigger and better images" feature to all users on iOS and Android this week. I'd attempt to describe to you what this means, but the image above says it all. You know how Twitter tends to crop the images that show up in your...