Twitter has locked the account of Indian National Congress, the South Asian nation’s largest opposition party, for violating its rules. The Indian National Congress wrote about the Twitter episode on Facebook Thursday. “When our leaders were put in jails, we were not scared then why would we be afraid of closing our Twitter accounts now. […]
インド政府、Twitter が 2021年 IT 規則を順守したと認める
headless 曰く、インド政府は 10 日、Twitter が 2021 年 IT 規則で任命が義務付けられる 3 つの役職の要件を満たしたとみなされるとデリー高等裁判所で証言した(The Economic Times の記事、 The Indian Express の記事、 The Hindu BusinessLine の記事)。
2021 年 IT 規則ではインド国内での苦情処理受付などの連絡先担当者としてインド在住者を任命する必要があり、要件を満たさなければ仲介者としての免責特権を失う。…
Twitter Algorithm Prefers Slimmer, Younger, Light-Skinned Faces
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A Twitter image-cropping algorithm prefers to show faces that are slimmer, younger and with lighter skin, a researcher has found. Bogdan Kulynyc won $3,500 in a Twitter-organized contest to find biases …
Twitter Now in Compliance With India’s New IT Rules, Government Says
Twitter is now complying with India’s new IT rules, New Delhi told a court Tuesday, in a move that is expected to ease months-long tension between the American social media network and the government of the key overseas market. From a report: A lawyer …
Student proves Twitter algorithm ‘bias’ toward lighter, slimmer, younger faces
Company pays $3,500 to Bogdan Kulynych who demonstrated flaw in image cropping softwareTwitter’s image cropping algorithm prefers younger, slimmer faces with lighter skin, an investigation into algorithmic bias at the company has found.The finding, whi…
Twitter now in compliance with India’s new IT rules, government says
Twitter is now complying with India’s new IT rules, New Delhi told a court Tuesday, in a move that is expected to ease months-long tension between the American social media network and the government of the key overseas market. A lawyer representing the Indian government told the Delhi High Court that Twitter’s recent steps — appointment […]
超党派の米下院議員、著作物の無断使用が Twitter のビジネスモデルの一部だと指摘
超党派の米下院議員 22 人が Twitter CEO ジャック・ドーシー氏に送った書簡の中で、著作物の無断使用が Twitter のビジネスモデルの一部のようだと指摘している(TorrentFreak の記事、 書簡: PDF)。
書簡は大量の著作権侵害が発生しているにもかかわらず問題を解決しようとしない Twitter の姿勢を問いただすものだ。他の多くのプラットフォームと異なり、Twitter は音楽の使用についてレコード会社などとライセンス契約を結ばず、クリエイターに適切な対価を支払ってい…
Twitter Spaces now let you invite co-hosts
Fleets weren’t long for this world, but Twitter’s product teams aren’t slowing down on bringing new stuff to Spaces, the company’s own take on audio rooms. Twitter introduced Spaces in a limited test last year, expanding the Clubhouse copycat feature more broadly to anyone with at least 600 followers in May. Now, Twitter is giving […]
Cent, the platform that Jack Dorsey used to sell his first tweet as an NFT, raises $3M
Cent was founded in 2017 as an ad-free creator network that allows users to offer each other crypto rewards for good posts and comments — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, but with Ethereum. But in late 2020, Cent’s small, San Fransisco-based team created Valuables, an NFT market for tweets, and by March, the small […]
Zola review – pulp-factual viral tweet becomes an icily slick urban thriller
Aziah ‘Zola’ Wells’s viral story of her crazily dangerous 2015 trip to Florida in search of pole-dancing money is brought to the screen with seductive comedyIn 2015, a part-time dancer from Detroit called Aziah “Zola” Wells went viral with a cheeky Tw…