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War in Ukraine to tech layoffs: A look at 10 events that defined 2022

2022 will be remembered for a plethora of things but these 10 events will perhaps be on top of the list

Fidelity slashes its Twitter stake value by 56% as Musk face challenges

Top global investment firm Fidelity has slashed the value of its stake in Twitter by 56 per cent during the first month of Elon Musks ownership, as the micro-blogging platform navigates through issues

Anonymous Twitter user leaks API keys of crypto trading service 3Commas

More than 10,000 of the keys were released by the leaker who the rest "will be published full [sic] randomly in the upcoming days", CoinDesk reported

New Twitter will aim to optimise unregretted user minutes, says Elon Musk

Elon Musk on Friday said that the new Twitter under him will aim to optimise every minute that a user spends on the micro-blogging platform, and does not regret it

As outage hits thousands of users globally, Twitter says 'let's try again'

During the outage, some users were unable to log in to their Twitter account via desktops or laptops

For tech industry, 2022 was a year of mass layoffs; 2023 likely to be worse

The tech layoffs this year have exceeded the job cuts the sector faced globally during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 triggered by the Lehman Brothers' collapse

Significant backend server changes behind Twitter outage, says Musk

As Twitter went down for several users globally including in India, Elon Musk on Thursday said the outage was because of backend changes to make the micro-blogging platform faster

'Prune your follows' tool lets users trim their Twitter follow list

Users can unfollow accounts accordingly that they think are not worth following anymore, also it lets users see all accounts they unfollowed through the app via a side menu

New Twitter policy to follow and question science, says Elon Musk

Talking to Social media, Elon Musk on Wednesday announced that the new Twitter Policy will not only follow science but also question science, reasonably."New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science," Musk tweeted.Musk stated, "Anyone who says that criticising them is doubting science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist," in a follow-up tweet to his initial policy statement.No further details of the plan are released as of yet.Since Elon Musk has taken charge of Twitter as its CEO, he has been under the spotlight for his social media presence.The Twitter CEO has finally spoken up about his promised resignation from his post after Monday's poll. Taking to the microblogging site, Elon Musk tweeted, "I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!"The multi-billionaire added that subsequently, he will only run 'the software & servers teams'.The post garnered a number of reactions from

Tesla touches a 2-year low: Twitter may not be Elon Musk's biggest trouble

Tesla share price: The prices fell rapidly on Tuesday after a Reuters report said that the company is planning to reduce its production at the Shanghai plant in January

IT rule tweaks, Musk's snap at Twitter, social media hits reset in 2022

Many spend a good part of their day on social media but what has become an integral part of one's lives went through future-altering twists and turns through the year. The world's town square Twitter was taken over by 'free-speech absolutist' Elon Musk, amended rules for digital platforms set the stage for grievance appellate panels and more accountability, work started on new norms for data protection, and employees got fired from what was once touted as dream jobs. Meta said it will cut 13 per cent of its global workforce, more than 11,000 employees, marking one of the biggest tech layoffs of the year as fabled companies wobbled under slowdown headwinds, soaring costs and a sluggish advertising market. While Musk continued to experiment with paid verifications, takedowns, lifting life bans and Twitter polls, social media users, in general, changed the way they posted online. Posting blurry photos on Instagram became a fad, and Gen Z happily traded picture perfection for unfiltered

Open to buying Substack to take on corporate media, says Elon Musk

Reacting to a user who asked him if it would make sense for Twitter to buy Substack and more tightly connect the two platforms, Musk replied: "I'm open to the idea"

Fixing relevance: Twitter restores suicide prevention after backlash

"We know they are useful and our intent was not to have them down permanently"

Twitter suppressed Covid-19 info, suspended top experts: Twitter files

According to David Zweig, both Joe Biden and former Donald Trump administrations pressured Twitter and other tech giants like Google, Facebook and Microsoft to disseminate Covid information

Mastodon to Substack: Who all are in the fray to become the new Twitter

As Twitter treads through uncertainty, here are the alternatives for those seeking a Plan B, and how they stack up against the Twitter

Data of 400 mn Twitter users stolen by hacker, put for sale on dark web

The stolen data includes information about the WHO, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and American singer Charlie Puth, among others

Five essential reads on consequences of Musk's takeover of Twitter in 2022

The microblogging platform has seen a rise in hate speech and technical problems as media reports say up to 75% of the staff has been cut since he took over

Firefox, Tumblr team up to support Mastodon open-source social network

The company announced that it would begin to run a Mastodon "instance", one of the decentralised servers upon which the social network rests

Luck is the greatest superpower, Twitter CEO Elon Musk responds to user

Musk's response came to a query from a user who asked: "What if skill is just a different kind of luck?"

Indian-American MIT scholar asks Musk how to apply for Twitter CEO post

Before Ayyadurai, YouTuber MrBeast expressed his interest in taking on the position of Twitter CEO after Elon Musk