It is three months since Elon Musk swept into Twitter's San Francisco headquarters - and the company has barely been out of the headlines.

Let's talk about how using the platform day-to-day has changed for its 237 million monthly active users.

1. Blocking alternative ways to view Twitter.

The most recent change appears to be Twitter suspending access to its API, which is what other platforms use to communicate with it. So if, for example, you are using a social media manager to view your account rather than the Twitter app or website, you may find that Twitter is currently not working with it.It is unclear whether the move was deliberate, although many experts believe it was.

2. Curation.

Perhaps the most obvious change has been the order in which people see tweets that appear on their timeline. A new tab invites you to choose between the latest tweets from people you follow, and tweets recommended by Twitter.If you are using the platform on an iPhone you will see two columns at the top, "for you" and "following" - if you are on an Android device you have to hit a star icon on the top right-hand side of the screen.

3. Controversial accounts reinstated.

Mr Musk started with some high-profile accounts which had been banned under the previous regime for violating Twitter's rules. They included Ye (the rapper Kanye West) who was banned for sharing antisemitic posts, the influencer Andrew Tate (who is currently being held in Romania on charges of people trafficking) and former US president Donald Trump, whose tweets were accused of fuelling the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.

4. Twitter Blue

After a few false starts, Twitter's subscription service Twitter Blue rolled out at the end of November. The $8/$11 (£6.50/£9) monthly fee promises access to bonus features including an edit button, boosted visibility and fewer ads. Anecdotally it looks like it has attracted a reasonable number of subscribers but not loads - although as ever there has been no official news released about its success so far.

5. Silver and gold ticks.

Twitter's "blue tick", now the sign of a subscriber, used to be a symbol of a verified account. It was awarded by Twitter itself to the account of hand-picked celebrities, journalists and brands to indicate that they were not fakes.

Those who acquired a blue tick under the old regime still have them, along with a message explaining that it is a "legacy" and "may or may not be notable". So seeing a blue tick next to an account does not necessarily give that account any badge of authority.

It has been replaced by a gold or silver tick for brands and government figures - so Coca-Cola is now gold, with an explainer saying that it is an "official business", while the account of Rishi Sunak, the UK's prime minister now has a silver badge.

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