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It started with a user asking Musk if the character count is being increased, to which he said 'yes'
Elon Musk has reportedly threatened to sue Twitter employees who leak company information to the media and has told them to sign a pledge indicating they've understood him clearly
Twitter CEO Elon Musk created a stir among the microblogging site's users with yet another cryptic series of tweets.
Twitter is once again attempting to launch its premium service, a month after a previous attempt failed. The social media company said on Saturday it would let users buy subscriptions to Twitter Blue to get a blue checkmark and access special features starting Monday. The blue checkmark was originally given to companies, celebrities, government entities and journalists verified by the platform. After Elon Musk bought Twitter for USD 44 billion in October, he launched a service granting blue checks to anyone willing to pay USD 8 a month. But it was inundated by imposter accounts, including those impersonating Musk's businesses Tesla and SpaceX, so Twitter suspended the service days after its launch. The relaunched service will cost USD 8 a month for web users and USD 11 a month for iPhone users. Twitter says subscribers will see fewer ads, be able to post longer videos and have their tweets featured more prominently.
After Elon Musk revealed that Twitter spends $13 million a year on food service at its San Francisco headquarters, the company is selling at least 265 kitchen appliances and office furniture online
"Election interference by social media companies obviously undermines the public's faith in democracy and is wrong," said Elon Musk
Veteran musician Elton John has decided to no longer use Twitter citing "misinformation" as the reason. The singer-songwriter shared the news in a statement posted on the microblogging site. "All my life I've tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world," John tweeted. "I've decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked," he added. The platform had announced around two weeks ago that it will no longer enforce a policy to combat misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic. In response to John's post, Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he hopes the singer returns to the platform soon. "I love your music. Hope you come back. Is there any misinformation in particular that you're concerned about?" Musk wrote. John's departure comes as Twitter continues to remain at the centre of a number of controversies, most notably antisemit
The Tesla boss has sold $20 billion of Tesla shares since April to fund the Twitter buyout
"If the Fed raises rates again next week, the recession will be greatly amplified," he said in a tweet
New Twitter owner Elon Musk on Friday said the company will delete and free names of 1.5 billion accounts that have been inactive for years on the platform
'Controversial decisions were often made without getting Jack's approval and he was unaware of systemic bias. The inmates were running the asylum. Jack has a pure heart,' said Elon Musk
Twitter employees build blacklists and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts that shed light on the company's hidden practices of the previous management
Twitter employees build blacklists and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts, according to the second installment of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files"
SpaceX launched internet satellites for a competitor Thursday, stepping in to help after the London-based OneWeb company halted its flights with Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. The Falcon rocket blasted off at sunset with 40 mini satellites bound for polar orbit. They will expand OneWeb's constellation to just over 500, nearly 80% of the planned total of about 630 satellites. Elon Musk's SpaceX has more than 3,200 Starlink satellites in orbit, providing high-speed, broadband internet to remote corners of the world. Amazon plans to launch the first of its internet satellites early next year from Cape Canaveral. With the market for global internet service growing exponentially, there's room for everyone, said Massimiliano Ladovaz, OneWeb's chief technology officer. SpaceX agreed to launch satellites for OneWeb after the British company broke ties with Russia in March. Russian Soyuz rockets already had launched 13 batches of OneWeb satellites, beginning in 2019. India picked up
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Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took over are suing the company in federal court, claiming that last month's abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected female employees. The discrimination lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal challenges over Musk's decimation of Twitter's workforce through mass layoffs and firings. Days after the world's richest man bought the social media platform for $44 billion, the company told about half of employees on Nov. 4 that they no longer had a job but would get three months severance. The lawsuit filed in a San Francisco federal court this week alleges that 57% of female employees were laid off, compared to less than half of men, despite Twitter employing more men overall before the layoffs. The cutbacks continued throughout November as Musk fired engineers who questioned or criticized him and gave all remaining employees the choice to resign with severance or sign a form pledging extremely hardcore work a
Elon Musk's first big conflict with the city of San Francisco could result in the company fleeing the city
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The company said that the existing Moments will stay on the platform but users will not be able to create new ones