Technology

BudgIT Foundation, a leading civic-tech organization, pushing for fiscal transparency and accountability in Nigeria, has officially released the Tracka Mobile 2.0 Application to help with participatory governance at the subnational level.

Former Uber engineer Gergely Orosz, who has been writing about Twitter’s internal changes this week, says that Musk’s email describes a “Twitter 2.0” that will be driven by engineers, with “those writing great code” taking on a more important role inside the company.

Linktree is a popular tool that allows users to link to new social channels and websites. The company has announced that it will provide users a means to monetize the material they publish on their page.

When it comes to producing advertising money, Twitter may need help. According to Platformer and Digiday, GroupM, a subsidiary of WPP and the world’s largest advertising agency and Twitter’s largest advertiser, advises its clients that purchasing ads on the site is “high-risk.” After IPG and Omnicom Media Group both advocated halting advertisements on the site, this is the third advertising behemoth to advise large firms to look elsewhere for funding.