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Australia's eSafety commissioner has issued a legal notice to Twitter asking the company to provide information about how it is tackling the problem of online hate.

Will cancel culture be "cancelled" in Singapore, and will it prevail in Australia?

Performance marketing company NP Digital has launched its Southeast Asia regional office in Singapore, with the appointment of Manuel Denoual as Managing Director.

GUEST OPINION: The gains by Snapchat, TikTok, and Pinterest were actually more dramatic than the traffic losses for Twitter and Facebook.

GUEST OPINION: Some of this signup activity was apparently driven by Elon Musk’s proclamation that users who originally got their blue checkmark for free would be losing it unless they agreed to pay the US$8 per month fee. However, the mass disappearance of blue checks that was expected to happen over the weekend failed to materialise, with the notable exception of Musk ordering the checkmark for the New York Times removed.

GUEST OPINION: The latest news related to Twitter’s decision to disable, or in simple terms turn off, text-based 2FA (also known as SMS-based two-factor authentication) for non-paying customers could see an increase in cyberattacks targeting Twitter users who fail to take any action prior to the fast-approaching deadline on 20 March.

The short messaging service, Twitter, has announced it is cutting off free access to its APIs from 9 February 2023 as it looks for more avenues to monetise the platform. This could save the company - or it could drive the platform to irrelevance as your favourite Twitterbots disappear.

IT infrastructure monitoring company LogicMonitor has hired Taggart Matthiesen as the company’s new Chief Product Officer (CPO).

Yesterday, Twitter was against using its platform to link to other social media platforms. Today that policy has been obliterated, and Twitter now says it will poll user opinion before making policy changes.

Twitter has announced a new policy that links to other social media sites are now banned, and accounts that try to direct Twitter users to other platforms will be suspended.

Twitter has updated its privacy policy so accounts dedicated to sharing someone else's live location are no longer permitted; the first casualty of the new policy is the ElonJet account that posted where Elon Musk's personal jet was.

Forget the great resignation, it's the mass layoff. Experienced tech industry workers have long enjoyed being on the supply end of a demand-and-supply chain in their favour. Yet, a spate of mass terminations across industry giants is gaining momentum.

When politicians indulge in grandstanding on issues over which they have no control, the normal reaction is to ignore them and treat them with derision.

Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has assumed the same role at Twitter, after completing his US$44 billion (A$68.6 billion) takeover of the social media company.

Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk's bid for Twitter appears likely to go through by Friday US time, a deadline set for the proposal to take effect.

The reason why Google launches so many products and then abandons them is because only those who launch new products are in a position to chase promotions, an unnamed ex-employee and a current employee claim.

Rockstar Games has revealed that an attacker breached its network and accessed early development footage of the next version of its well-known video game Grand Theft Auto 6.

Quantum control infrastructure software specialist Q-Ctrl has appointed Alex Shih to the role of head of product.

Fifty percent of travellers use public Wi-Fi while on the road. However, only 20% of them use a VPN to protect themselves while being connected to a public network, according to a NordVPN survey.

Social media platform Twitter has revealed the biggest trends and conversations in Australia.