🐦 Twitter announces paid Super Follows
🐦 Twitter announces paid Super Follows
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Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets. Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge their followers for access to additional content, and the ability to create and join groups based around specific interests. (Jacob Kastrenakes via The Verge)
Electronic Arts Removes Multiplayer Mode From Dragon Age Game in Big Pivot. Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. has made a major pivot on the next game in the popular Dragon Age series, allowing the developers to remove all planned multiplayer components from the game, according to people familiar with the matter. (Jason Schreier via Bloomberg)
More Than 100 Girls Kidnapped in Latest Nigerian School Abduction. Gunmen kidnapped 317 girls from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, police said in a statement Friday, the latest in a rising tide of high-school abductions across Africa’s most populous nation, where kidnapping for ransom has become a lucrative industry. (Joe Parkinson via Wall Street Journal)
Costco is raising its minimum wage to $16 an hour for its U.S. store workers. Costco is raising its hourly minimum wage to $16, putting its starting wage above many of its rivals such as Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy. (Katie Tsai via CNBC)
The estimated number of global crypto users has passed 100 million - and boomers are now getting drawn to bitcoin too, reports find. More than 100 million people around the world are now using cryptocurrencies - and a growing number of baby boomers and Gen Xers are becoming interested in bitcoin and other tokens, according to two separate reports. (Harry Robertson via Business Insider)
The iconic Mr. Potato Head gets a 21st-century rebrand. This fall, you’re cordially invited to Mr. Potato Head’s wedding. He’s marrying his partner of many years, another Mr. Potato Head. And I promise it’s going to be the party of the year, with—you guessed it—plenty of spuds on the menu (Fast Company)
Why does it cost so much to be an African MP?. Arinda gordon kakuuma had many reasons for running for office. It was his “passion”; he was keen to give back to his country, Uganda; and he wanted to help “my people”. (The Economist)
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