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What’s TikTok Live Subscription and when can you sign up? What’s TikTok Live Subscription and when can you sign up? As of this writing, the beta for TikTok Live Subscription isn’t widely available. It’s still invite-only. But it will be widely available on May 26, with plenty of creators piloting the program right out of the gate. More creators will gain access as the rollout broadens. With global availability expected in the “coming months....

According to The New York Times, the Chinese company reportedly tracked journalists’ IP addresses to see if they were in proximity with TikTok employees suspected of leaking the company’s information. In an email to employees, ByteDance CEO Rubo Liang complained their public trust is undermined due to the “misconduct of a few individuals” and said he is “deeply disappointed.” TikTok general counsel Erich Andersen also reported that the company’s Internet Audit and Risk team was restructured to prevent similar incidents....

Twitter Blue is not available for new accounts Twitter Blue is not available for new accounts Twitter launched a revamped Twitter Blue service yesterday, throwing the coveted verification checkmark as an added perk. Perhaps, Elon Musk launched it, as the change was his plan. “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit,” he had tweeted days after taking over the company last month....

It seems weird, but companies often purchase other smaller companies to help boost one aspect of their product. In Twitter’s case, it wants to give people the right notifications at the right time. Other than that, the company didn’t provide any more information about this acquisition. Twitter’s head of consumer product tweeted about the venture, but didn’t mention anything about what will actually change; we’ll just have to wait. What is this company, and how will it help make Twitter notifications more relevant?...

Twitter announces a new “Official” label for select verified accounts Twitter announces a new “Official” label for select verified accounts Since the checkmark was previously only available to verified accounts, it was a sign of genuineness on Twitter. The badge showed an account holder is a genuine person, organization, or company that the social network has verified. As such, anything they say or post on the platform could have implications outside it as well....