Tweet about your favourite film of the year to get a chance to attend the Oscars in 2023

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While it's not considered a formal Academy Awards category, you can vote for your favourite film of the year even if it wasn't nominated for an Oscar. You can share your favourite through Twitter using the hashtag #OscarsFanFavorite. The film that receives the most fan votes by March 3 will be acknowledged during the awards broadcast on March 27. Three Twitter users who cast their votes between the February 14 and March 3 period will be picked to present an Oscar award at next year's ceremony. The trip will be all-expenses-paid, allowing you to bring a guest.

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5 ways Twitter Canada celebrates Black History Month 2022

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Countries like Canada celebrate Black History Month each February to highlight the achievements of Black communities around the world. In honour of this annual event, Lade Ogunsanya, Twitt'ers global co-chair of @Blackbirds, has written a post on Twitter Canada's blog highlighting how the social media company is celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth. If you're unfamiliar with @BlackBirds, it's Twitter's business resource group for Twitter's Black employees and allies.

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Twitter expands downvote replies experiment worldwide

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Twitter wants more users to try out its new downvote replies feature by rolling it out globally. The company is testing it out with more users on the web, with plans to bring it to mobile soon. Unlike downvoting on sites like Reddit, the tallies aren't made public. Instead, Twitter uses it to tweak what replies to show users.

According to the company, the experiment so far resulted in users downvoting replies that they found offensive or irrelevant. "This experiment also revealed that downvoting is the most frequently used way for people to flag content they don't want to see," said Twitter. It could be seen as a replacement for muting or flagging a conversation as spam or irrelevant, which you have to dig through dropdown menus to access.

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Twitter finally brings Communities to Android

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After four months since its debut on iOS and the web, Twitter Communities are finally available on Android. The topic-based groups let you chat and see what other like-minded Twitter users are tweeting. You can't set up your own Communities for now, but you can suggest new ones you'd want to create and moderate. Twitter says it'll keep these in mind as they add more communities. 

Other plans Twitter has for Communities include adding a third type of membership that lets users request to join a Community, ranked timeline, Q&As, and ways for mods to highlight some of a community's best content.

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