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Social media app TweetDeck has begun going behind a paywall on, with users of platform X, formerly known as Twitter, being diverted to a paid-subscription sign-up page when they tried to access it.

The tweet prompted a storm of amusing responses, including one post which implored Elon ‘bring it back’

Fifteen years ago Jack Dorsey typed out a banal message - "just setting up my twttr" - which became the first-ever tweet, launching a global platform that has become a controversial and dominant force in civil society.

The short tweet on March 21, 2006, by the Twitter CEO is now being sold at auction, with bidding reaching $2.5 million.

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey is selling his first tweet at auction, with bidding on March 6 reaching $2 million in a sign of the appetite for virtual objects authenticated through blockchain technology.

"just setting up my twttr," Dorsey tweeted on March 21, 2006.

"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," the company said in a tweet.

The tweets were often presented as supporting evidence of the unpopularity of Vucic's opponents; others were picked up by both Serbian and Russian media as proof of the popularity of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the time of his red-carpet visit to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, in January 2019.

Gordan Duhacek, a journalist from Croatian website Index.hr, was fined around 100 euros at Zagreb's Misdemeanour Court on Monday for posted a Twitter message in July last year, which discussed police treatment of arrested people and contained the anti-police acronym 'ACAB' ('All Coppers are Bastards').

The prime minister of the provisional Pristina institutions has become the butt of the joke online thanks to a tweet he posted on April 20, ahead of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election.

Two Greek servicemen who had been detained in Turkey since early March for accidentally crossing the border in bad weather have been released from jail pending trial, Anadolu agency reported on Tuesday evening.

According to Anadolu, a court examined the request for their release and ruled there are no reasons to keep them behind bars.

The winner of Miss Turkey 2017, who was previously dethroned over a tweet she posted about the July 2016 coup attempt, was acquitted of all charges on May 3.