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Elon Musk blames anti-defamation league for slump in X's US ad revenue

Ad sales are still down 60 per cent "primarily due to pressure on advertisers" mounted by the ADL, Musk said in a series of posts Monday

Parag Agrawal: Not the fire-breathing dragon Twitter needed, said Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson's biography reveals key insights into Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and subsequent firing of top execs, including CEO Parag Agrawal

Maui fire missing list falls to 385, Guv indicated it would be below 100

The number of people on the official list of those missing from the Maui wildfire stood at 385 on Friday, nearly unchanged from a week earlier. In a news release, the Maui Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said 245 people on the list of 388 made public the previous week were located and removed from the list. However, a nearly equal number of new names were added. The updated total was a startling departure from what had been expected a day earlier Governor Josh Green said he had expected the number would fall below 100. We think the number has dropped down into the double digits, so thank God, Green said in a video posted to his account on X, formerly known as Twitter. Authorities have said at least 115 people died in the fire, which tore through Lahaina in a matter of hours on August 8 the deadliest wildfire in the United States in more than a century. So far, the names of 50 people have been publicly released and five others have been identified

X, formerly Twitter, to collect biometric and job information of users

The changes are part of its new privacy policy

Video, audio calls soon to be made available for X, says owner Elon Musk

Elon Musk said that the feature will work on iOS, Android, Mac, and PCs

X, formerly Twitter, plans to collect user biometric, job, school data

X (Twitter) said it also intends to gather information about users' jobs and education histories

In a policy switch, X now allows political ads by US election candidates

Earlier in 2019, X, formerly called Twitter, had banned all political ads globally

'X' introduces job listing feature, to be available for verified users

The feature will be available to premium users for a monthly payment of $1,000 or Rs 82,300

Niger junta expels French Ambassador Sylvain Itte as tensions mount

France's ambassador was accredited by the foreign ministry under ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, Niger's Foreign Minister Hassoumi Massoudou said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday

Elon Musk reacts to DonaldTrump's comeback on X, says 'next level'

On his social media account X, Elon Musk reshared Trump's post and said, "Next-level"

Tesla investors to get about $12,000 apiece in Elon Musk's SEC deal

The Securities and Exchange Commission asked a judge for final approval of the plan in a court filing Wednesday evening

X Corp gets last chance from HC to show takedown order compliance proof

X Corp (formerly Twitter) has been given one more and last opportunity by the Karnataka High Court to submit material to show compliance of the blocking orders issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY). The counsel for X Corp informed the bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale and Justice M G S Kamal that he was awaiting instructions from the client and sought time for the same. The HC, while adjourning the case to September 15, made it clear that it was the last chance the company was being granted. Today counsel for appellant prays for adjournment on the ground that he is awaiting instruction, accordingly one more and last opportunity is granted. Appeal is adjourned to September 15, the HC recorded. Twitter (later changed to X Corp) had approached the HC against several blocking orders issued by the MeiTY. A single-judge bench had dismissed the petition and imposed a cost of Rs 50 lakh for approaching the court without complying with the Ministry'

Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatens new lawsuit over hate speech report

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, on Thursday, threatened new litigation against those asking for curbs on free speech or related to hate speech claims

X may remove headlines from tweets with links to news articles: Report

The primary objective of this move is to reduce the height of tweets, thus allowing more posts to fit within the portion of the timeline that appears on the screen

Here's why Meta's Twitter killer, Threads, needs a desktop version

It's unclear what other functionality the Threads product update will include. The company declined to comment

Instagram may roll out Threads web version to users this week: Report

Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg had posted on Threads that users can expect a web version in the 'next few weeks'

X to remove the ability for users to block other accounts, says Elon Musk

Musk, who acquired Twitter last year for $44 bn and has set about overhauling the site, said blocking will still be possible for direct messages, but that it would be deleted as a "feature"

How content creators who earn from Twitter's ad revenue will be taxed

. Influences, who somehow tweet for a living, on the other and will be able to show such incomes as part of profits and gains from business and profession

Elon Musk calls Indian-American Ramaswamy a promising candidate for US prez

Ramswamy has been quite straightforward with his agenda for the poll campaign

Environmentalists in bulk quit Twitter after Musk takeover, research finds

Nearly half the environmentalists active on Twitter, now X, left the platform in the 6-months following Musk's takeover, researchers found and say this could have serious implications for public discourse surrounding issues such as biodiversity, climate change, and natural disaster recovery. The researchers studied a group of 3,80,000 "environmentally-oriented users" on Twitter, that included people from the conservation community active in pro-environmental discussions on topics like climate change and biodiversity. Only 52.5 per cent of these environmental users were found to be actively using Twitter in the 6-month period after Musk took over the microblogging platform. Users were considered "active" if they posted on the platform at least once within a 15-day period. Twitter, purchased by Elon Musk in October 2022, had previously served as the leading social media platform for environmental discourse. "Twitter has been the dominant social media platform for diverse environmenta