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From Cricketer And Celebrities To Politicians, Many Lost Twitter Blue Tick

Posted on by Sudeshna Mishra

Twitter, the microblogging site, removed the historically verified blue ticks from all accounts on Thursday.

The verified blue checkmarks are only available to individual Twitter users who pay the $8 monthly fee for Twitter Blue through the web and the $11 monthly fee for Twitter Blue via in-app payment on Android and iOS.

A number of Bollywood celebrities, including Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, and Alia Bhatt, and politicians, including Rahul Gandhi, CM Yogi Adityanath, Priyanka Gandhi, and sports personalities such as PV Sindhu, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Dhoni, and many others have lost their verified blue tick mark from their Twitter accounts due to the latest changes.

As per the previous announcement, Twitter will no longer show the verified checkmark next to any accounts that were recognised as VIPs before Elon Musk acquired the company unless those accounts subscribed under Twitter Verified Organisations subscription, according to a report of Variety.

The main cause for using the blue tick was to safeguard famous people from imitation and combat misleading information.

Twitter said earlier in March that they would remove legacy verified checkmarks on April 1. People can sign up for Twitter Blue to keep their blue mark on Twitter.

The blue tick mark concept was launched on Twitter in 2009 to help users determine whether celebrities, politicians, firms and brands, news organisations, and other accounts “of public interest” were authentic, not imitators or parody accounts. Before this time, the company never ask a verification charge.

Within two weeks of the company’s acquisition last year, Musk introduced Twitter Blue, which included the checkmark badge as one of the premium facilities.

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Elon Musk Allowed Vote In Twitter Polls Only To Verified Accounts From April 15

Posted on by Sudeshna Mishra

Elon Musk has declared that from the beginning of April 15, only verified Twitter accounts will be able to vote in polls or appear on the platform’s “For You” recommendations page. He referred to it as the “only realistic” solution to the problem of AI bots overrunning the platform.

 Musk, who became the new CEO of Twitter after buying the company in October, last week declared that users with “legacy” verified accounts would no longer receive blue ticks from April. As a result, only users who pay $8 per month for Twitter Blue will be able to access blue tick verified accounts. His most recent declaration gives these verified accounts additional power.

Musk tweeted on Twitter, “Starting April 15, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations. This is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle. Voting in polls will require verification for the same reason.”

The announcement was received with heavy criticism, which Musk dismissed. One Twitter user claimed that the company needed to spend money on AI technology to identify bots on the platform. He also opined that restricting voting to verified accounts would damage the platform’s reputation.

Elon Musk replied, “My prediction is that this will be the only platform you can trust.”

The Twitter user responded, appealing to Musk to change his mind, “I admire your work, but essentially shadow banning those who don’t wish to pay for Twitter Blue could really hurt the platform in the long run.”

Others commented that the move would effectively make their “For You” recommendations meaningless. One commenter wrote, “The for you is not actually for me.” Another commented, “Just delete the whole website, man; you clearly had zero understanding of why it was valuable in the first place.”

Musk announced last year that voting on policy-related polls will be limited to paid Twitter Blue subscribers.

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SpaceX Launched Crew-6 To International Space Station

Posted on by Sudeshna Mishra

On March 2, 2023, Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched Falcon 9 rocket carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a UAE astronaut, to the International Space station for NASA.

The SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission blasted off at 12:34 am from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

All four astronauts are Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoberg from NASA, Andrey Fedyaev from Russia, and Sultan Al-Neyadi from United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The mission is focused on scientific research and is expected to spend six months on the orbiting station.

Monday’s launch was canceled just minutes before liftoff due to a clog in the filter supplying the ignition fluid to start the rocket engine.

The US space agency tweeted on Thursday that the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor “lights up the skies as the crew heads into orbit.”

On the top of a Falco 9 rocket, SpaceX launched its Dragon crew capsule called Endeavour. Interestingly, both the capsule and rocket are reusable and can be used for flying for further missions.

The current dragon crew is the sixth to be carried by a SpaceX rocket to the ISS. The Endeavor capsule has flown to space three times before.

Approximately every six months, NASA pays SpaceX to fly astronauts to the ISS.

Now the agency expected to get Crew-6 handover by Space X for several days with the four members of Crew-5 that have been on the ISS since October. Crew-5 will then return to Earth.

The next mission from the Space Coast will be the launch of Relativity Space’s Terran rocket from Launch Complex 16 pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The company is aiming for the first launch of its Terran rocket no earlier than March 8, 2023, which is mostly 3D printed and can be built in weeks instead of months or years using fewer parts.

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Adani dropped out of world’s 25 richest list

Posted on by Sudeshna Mishra

Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani Group, is no longer among the list of the world’s 25 wealthiest billionaires, according to Forbes and Bloomberg indices, after his net worth dropped to $43.4 billion on February 22. The decline comes over a month after US short-seller Hindenburg Research, the Gujarat-based conglomerate, was implicated in stock manipulation and accounting fraud.

Adani, who grabbed the title of Asia’s richest person and the world’s third-richest person till now, recently faced a drop in his net worth, making him the 30th richest billionaire according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

However, according to Forbes’s rich list, Adani carried the 38th position, which is far behind the third position.

Adani begins the year with a $121 billion net worth that makes him the third wealthiest person in the world. He was assumed to overtake Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and inch toward the top two. However, according to the Forbes Real-Time Billionaire List for 2023, on February 1, Adani slipped to the 10th spot as his net worth slipped below Reliance Industries tycoon Mukesh Ambani, who was the world’s richest Indian.

On February 3, Adani was out of the top 20 list as his net worth fell further to $58 billion. However, earlier this week, another round of market volatility pushed Adani to the 25th spot on the Forbes and Bloomberg Real-Time Billionaires list.

Adani has acquired the position of India’s richest person since February 2022. He saw an increase in wealth during the COVID-19 pandemic with an upsurge of $42.7 billion in assets, making it the fifth largest wealth increase in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He was the second richest person on the planet, with a net worth of $156.3 billion in September 2022.

The downgrade comes aftermath of the Hindenburg Report, published on January 24, which claimed the group manipulated stocks and improperly used tax havens. Adani repeatedly rebuffed the report’s allegations and threatened legal action against the short seller. But market confidence remains low due to concerns about the speed of growth and ability to finance debt. According to Bloomberg, the market capitalization of the Adani group has lost over $135 billion since January 24.

On February 22, Adani flagship Adani Enterprises plunged 10.4% on the BSE following reports that an employee manipulated information on Wikipedia about the Adani Group.

The combined value of 10 Adani Group companies, including Adani Green Energy and Power, and Adani Ports, fell below the $100 billion mark earlier this week.

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Twitter: How To Enable Two Factor Authentication Without Paid Subscription

Posted on by Sudeshna Mishra

After taking ownership of Twitter, Elon Musk charges its users for various features. At first, he introduced paid subscription for the blue tick, which means users need to pay for a verified blue badge, post long videos, and other. Now, he restricted the use of text message (SMS) based Two Factor Authentication feature from March 20 only to the users who have purchased the monthly subscription. Unfortunately, it means users who protect their accounts using the text message feature will lose the security until they take the paid subscription service.

Twitter discloses the reason for this step is, unfortunately, the Two Factor Authentication requires a phone number for verification and be used and “abused by bad actors,” so the text message (SMS) method for Two Factor Authentication will be only available up to Twitter Blue subscribers. But the company says, “disabling text message Two Factor Authentication does not automatically disconnect your phone number from your Twitter account.”

It is considered that the reason for Twitter’s move for limitation is only after a microblogging platform mentioned in a blog post that text message (SMS) based Two Factor Authentication can be “abused by bad actors.”

However, you do not need to worry; one can still enable and use the Two Factor Authentication feature for free.

Two Factor Authentication is an important feature that provides the social media account additional security by allowing for a second verification process along with the passwords. The verification code is sent through SMS to log in. Even if the password is hacked or stolen, this helps to keep the account secure because the code number is essential to access the account on any device.

While text message (SMS) verification is no longer available, you can still perform the verification using a reliable third-party authentication app from the play store, such as the Google Authenticator app, Microsoft Authenticator app, or Authy app.

To enable two-factor authentication on Twitter, follow the below mentioned steps:

Step-1: Open Twitter and go to “settings” (For android users, click on “profile picture” and go to “settings and privacy option”).

Step-2: Click on “Security and Account access.”

Step-3: Then click on Security and Two-factor authentication.

Step-4: Enable the Authentication app option and click on Get started. You will now find a QR code on your screen.

Step-5: Now open the third-party authentication app that you have downloaded and scan the QR code you get on the Twitter app.

Step-6: Now enter the code you get in the authentication app.

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