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Twitter expands Blue to Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and plans to launch a new Spaces tab with curated spaces and podcasts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
on February 3, 2023 at 06:55
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter expands Blue to Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and plans to launch a new Spaces tab with curated spaces and podcasts — Twitter is in a hurry to make money, and in another step that might lead to some revenue it has expanded the Twitter Blue subscription to six new countries.
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Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital sold 1,500 BTC in January, amid a rallying crypto market, to cover some of its expenses; Marathon still holds 11,418 BTC (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)
on February 3, 2023 at 05:35
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital sold 1,500 BTC in January, amid a rallying crypto market, to cover some of its expenses; Marathon still holds 11,418 BTC — The bitcoin miner sold 1,500 bitcoins in January. — Feb 3, 2023 — Crypto Software Firm President: We're Trying to Make California's DMV More Efficient With Blockchain
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Apple removes decentralized social networking app Damus from China App Store, two days after debut, per CAC's demand as it includes content "illegal in China" (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
on February 3, 2023 at 04:55
Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Apple removes decentralized social networking app Damus from China App Store, two days after debut, per CAC's demand as it includes content “illegal in China” — Damus, one of the fastest-growing Twitter alternatives, has been pulled from China's App Store just two days after the app was approved by Apple.
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YouTube Shorts has surpassed 50B daily views, up from 30B in April 2022; YouTube began sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators starting February 1 (Thomas Maxwell/Insider)
on February 3, 2023 at 03:20
Thomas Maxwell / Insider: YouTube Shorts has surpassed 50B daily views, up from 30B in April 2022; YouTube began sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators starting February 1 — - YouTube Shorts now sees more than 50 billion daily views, up from 30 billion the year prior. — The short-form video format was launched in 2021 as a response to TikTok.
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Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of effectively killing off many useful bots like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, and more (BuzzFeed News)
on February 3, 2023 at 02:55
BuzzFeed News: Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of effectively killing off many useful bots like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, and more — “I'm not paying a dime to Elon lol.” — Pranav Dixit — One of the most popular bots on Twitter is @MakeItAQuote, which has more than 565,000 followers.