Twitter

• Twitter’s new view counts show the gap between eyeballs and engagement
• Musk-ified Twitter banned Linktree. Then unbanned it (we think). Here’s what Linktree has to say.

  The blacklisted platforms included Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Donald Trump's Truth Social, Tribal, Post, and Nostr (a startup that recently got a Bitcoin investment from Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey).

  
• Tumblr is selling “important blue checkmarks” that “may turn into a bunch of crabs at any time”

  People are going back to their old stomping grounds or making brand-new accounts, returning to the platform that gave the world SuperWhoLock, sexymen, and a lot of niche drama.

  
• Paywalled videos are coming to Twitter, apparently

  According to the Washington Post, Twitter engineers are working on a feature that would let users charge people to watch videos they upload to the site.

  
• Twitter’s Elon Musk-ified account verification system will be pay-to-play
• The age of tweet editing is upon us
• Podcasts? On Twitter? More likely than you think
• Twitter, seeking more bang from Blue, hikes the price to $4.99
• Twitter lost money last quarter–and it’s blaming Elon Musk
• Twitter goes long-form with new feature Notes
• Twitter’s letting brands ping users about their products
• Twitter’s NewFronts presentation pitches it as “the second screen and the first scroll”