Twitter to no longer only promote paid-for accounts after backlash

Twitter to no longer only promote paid-for accounts after backlash

Elon Musk says he ‘forgot to mention’ other users would be visible on ‘for you’ timeline as well

Twitter has reversed course on plans to limit presence on its “for you” timeline to paying users only, with Elon Musk claiming he “forgot to mention” that other users would be visible as well.

When the company’s owner first announced the plan on Tuesday he said it would limit the tab that algorithmically curates tweets for users to only display accounts who had paid £8 a month for “Twitter Blue” and linked their account to a working phone number.

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