Twitter Q4 Daily Active Users Hit 192M, Up 5M From Q3 And 27% From Year Earlier

The WGA East, decrying the “negative impact” the Big Tech giants are having on ad revenue for news organizations, has submitted written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Competition, Antitrust and Consumer Rights for its hearings on “Breaking the News – Journalism, Competition, and the Effect of Market Power on a Free Press.”

Nelly issued an apology on Tuesday after a sex tape he was in was posted to his Instagram Stories.'I sincerely apologize to the young lady and her family, this is unwanted publicity for her/them,' the Grillz artist, 47, told TMZ. 'This was an old video that was private and never meant to go public.'The clip involving the rapper, whose real name is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., was captured by a number of users before it was deleted.

Director Kenneth Branagh made Oscar history with three of his new film Belfast's seven nominations for his work as a writer, director and producer.Branagh, 61, became the first person ever to receive nominations in seven separate categories - Best Actor (Henry V), Best Supporting Actor (My Week With Marilyn), Best Adapted Screenplay (Hamlet) and Best Live-Action Short (Swan Song), adding another Best Director nomination for Belfast along with Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture.He also becomes just the third person ever - after George Clooney and Warren Beatty - to be nominated in all five major Oscar categories, with the multi-hyphenate opening up about the nominations to Entertainment Weekly. Historic:Director Kenneth Branagh made Oscar history with three of his new film Belfast's seven nominations for his work as a writer, director and producer History:Branagh, 61, became the first person ever to receive nominations in seven separate categories - Best Actor (Henry V), Best Supporting Actor (My Week With Marilyn), Best Adapted Screenplay (Hamlet) and Best Live-Action Short (Swan Song), adding another Best Director nomination for Belfast along with Best Original Screenplay and Best PictureBranagh earned his first directing Oscar for his 1989 feature directing debut, Henry V, revealing what still remains the same about the job after all those years.'I was 27 years old when I started directing that first picture that was nominated as Best Director.

Nelly has apologized after a sexually explicit video was shared on his social media account.  On Tuesday, the 47-year-old singer's Instagram Story had a video of him receiving oral sex from a woman. It wasn't long before the R&B crooner noticed the video and took the post down.The "Hot In Herre" singer issued a statement via his rep to Fox News Digital after removing the clip from his social media. "I sincerely apologize to the young lady and her family.This is unwanted publicity for her/them," he said.

Cutting out calls and endlessly buffering TikTok videos could be a thing of the past as more next generation phone masts are set to be bolted on to streetlights in Scotland as part of a scheme to boost connectivity.

Chris Willman Music WriterNot many bands can claim they’re having the best year of their career exactly 50 years into their run. All right — not any bands can make such a claim, historically, except for Sparks, which saw its star rise dramatically in 2021 due not to any recording or touring activity but as film creators and stars, with “Annette” and “The Sparks Brothers,” respectively.

according to South Carolina’s ABC 4 News.The country music singer was a Top 5 contestant on the reality contest but left after a social media scandal in 2020.In a post on Snapchat, Kennedy appeared next to a person wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood. He left the show shortly after.“Hey y’all, this is gonna be a bit of a surprise, but I am no longer gonna be on American Idol.

Kanye West and Julia Fox may be exploring what romance looks like between ’em here in the early going of 2022, but they’re also doing that with other people!

Texas Senator Ted Cruz abruptly took his family to Cancun, Mexico for a warm-weather vacation as millions of people in his home state continue to struggle with mass power outages, frozen pipes, a lack of safe drinking water, and other serious issues that have come up amid a powerful winter storm.

More than a month after he encouraged his followers to challenge the results of the presidential election and march on the Capitol, President Donald Trump is off the hook for citing a deadly insurrection on Jan. 6.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRapper-entrepreneur Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, teamed up to form a new Bitcoin fund, focused on developing the cryptocurrency’s adoption initially in Africa and India.The duo are investing 500 Bitcoin, currently worth about $24 million, in the project, according to Dorsey, with the mission of making Bitcoin “the internet’s currency.”“JAY-Z/@S_C_ and I are giving 500 BTC to a new endowment named ₿trust to fund #Bitcoin development, initially focused on teams in Africa & India,” Dorsey tweeted late Thursday.

UPDATE: Twitter chief financial officer Ned Segal said Donald Trump’s permanent ban from the service would remain permanent even if the former president ran for office and again and even if he won.

Donald Trump’s ban from Twitter is permanent - even if he decides to launch another bid to become the US President. Twitter chief financial officer Ned Segal said that anyone found to be inciting violence on the platform will ‘not be allowed back’.

Twitter wants to make its content moderation more transparent and its appeals process more robust, and to work some more on an open source initiative called Blue Sky that could relieve pressure on the company as a centralized curator of content.

An estimated 11.02 million viewers tuned into the opening day of the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump across five networks.

Donald Trump‘s ban from Twitter is permanent, not temporary, the platform revealed.

Twitter grew its monetizable daily user base by 5 million in the three-month period that marked the bitter final days of the Donald Trump presidency. The social media network, which would permanently suspend superuser Trump from its platform on Jan.

Melania Trump "loves" that her husband Donald has taken an enforced leave from Twitter and believes he's much happier now, it has been reported.Former US President Donald Trump had his Twitter account suspended on January 7 after his supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn November’s election result.Twitter said Mr Trump's account had been suspended due to "severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy" and that his account would be permanently blocked if the tweets were not removed.On January 8, Twitter then permanently suspended the account due to the "risk of further incitement of violence".Trump had told protesters online "I love you" as he advised them to go home at the same time repeating unverified claims about

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTwitter beat Wall Street earnings expectations for the fourth quarter of 2020, and netted a gain of daily users — though not as many as analysts were projecting — to close out a tumultuous year.The social-networking company reported a net gain of 5 million monetizable daily active users, to 192 million worldwide for Q4. That’s up from 187 million in Q3 and 152 million in the year-earlier period.Q4 revenue totaled $1.29 billion, an increase of 28% year over year, and Twitter posted net income of $222 million, representing diluted earnings per share of 27 cents.

Jen Psaki, 42, got the attention of many Twitter users when she addressed a question about Donald Trump‘s Space Force with a memorable answer during her White House press briefing on Feb. 2. The press secretary called the space service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, which was created by Congress during the Trump administration in Dec. 2019, “the plane of today” after a reporter asked if President Joe Biden and his administration were planning on “keeping” it.

Country music icon and philanthropist Dolly Parton has never received the Presidential Medal of Freedom — but not for a lack of trying on the White House’s part. Dolly, 75, revealed in an interview with TODAY that President Donald Trump‘s administration tried to award her the nation’s highest civilian honor twice, but she turned them down each time.