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Twitter spending $13 million every year on meals at San Francisco HQ: Musk

Replying to former vice president of Work Transformation Tracy Hawkins' claim that the attendance at HQ was between 20-50 per cent, Elon Musk said that the average occupancy was below 10 per cent

Elon Musk touches on Twitter criticism, workload at G-20 business forum

It's not easy being Elon Musk. That was the message the new Twitter owner and billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX had for younger people who might seek to emulate his entrepreneurial success. Be careful what you wish for, Musk told a business forum in Bali on Monday when asked what an up-and-coming Elon Musk of the East should focus on. I'm not sure how many people would actually like to be me. They would like to be what they imagine being me, which is not the same, he continued. I mean, the amount that I torture myself, is the next level, frankly. Musk was speaking at the B-20 business forum ahead of a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies taking place on the Indonesian resort island. He joined the conference by video link weeks after completing his heavily scrutinised takeover of Twitter. He had been expected to attend the event in person, but Indonesian government minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, who's responsible for coordinating preparations for the summit, said Mus

Fix your companies or Congress will: US Senator Markey warns Elon Musk

US Senator Ed Markey has warned Elon Musk for mocking him on Twitter, telling him to "fix your companies, or Congress will".

Outsourced content moderators sacked in fresh job cuts at Musk's Twitter

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job. Twitter and other big social media firms have relied heavily on contractors to track hate and enforce rules against harmful content. But many of those content watchdogs have now headed out the door, first when Twitter fired much of its full-time workforce by email on Nov. 4 and now as it moves to eliminate an untold number of contract jobs. Melissa Ingle, who worked at Twitter as a contractor for more than a year, was one of a number of contractors who said they were terminated Saturday. She said she's concerned that there's going to be an increase in abuse on Twitter with the number of workers leaving. I love the platform and I really enjoyed working at the company and trying to make it better. And I'm just really fearful of what's going to slip through the cracks, she said Sunday. Ingle, a dat

Twitter to enable organisations to identify their associated accounts: Musk

"Rolling out soon," Musk in a tweet on Sunday said. "Twitter will enable organizations to identify which other Twitter accounts are actually associated with them."

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Laid-off tech employees find it hard to get jobs amid global slowdown

Most of those who lost their jobs at Big Tech companies recently are struggling to get jobs as there is a freeze on new hirings at nearly every top firm amid recession fears

Top headlines: Twitter Blue likely to be back soon, Nawaz may return to Pak

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Twitter Blue 'probably' coming back end of next week, Musk says

Twitter Blue will probably "come back end of next week", billionaire owner Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday.

Twitter drama too much? Mastodon, clubhouse, and others emerge as options

Twitter has been a bit of a mess since billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the helm, cutting the company's workforce in half, upending the platform's verification system, sparring with users over jokes and acknowledging that dumb things might happen as he reshapes one of the world's most high-profile information ecosystems. On Thursday, amid an exodus of senior executives responsible for data privacy, cybersecurity and complying with regulations, he warned the company's remaining employees that Twitter might not survive if it can't find a way to bring in at least half its revenue from subscriptions. While it's not clear if the drama is causing many users to leave - in fact, having a front-row seat to the chaos may prove entertaining to some - lesser-known sites Mastodon and even Tumblr are emerging as new (or renewed) alternatives. Here's a look at some of them. (Oh, and if you are leaving Twitter and want to preserve your tweet history, you can download it by going to your profi

Tumblr, Mastodon see meteoric rise amid shakeup at Twitter, shows data

Tumblr saw more growth in the US than globally, where the app saw adoption climb 96 per cent to 92,000 from 47,000 when comparing the two periods

Musk hits out at mainstream media, hails citizen journalism on Twitter

'Mainstream media will still thrive, but increased competition from citizens will cause them to be more accurate, as their oligopoly on information is disrupted'

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Here's what led Elon Musk to talk of bankruptcy for Twitter: Timeline

With $1.2 billion of annual interest payments from the acquisition coming due, and possibly higher with rising interest rates, Musk is in a rush to shore up cash

World's biggest democracies sound warning on Twitter blue checks

From India to Brazil and the US, officials are warning of a proliferation in fake accounts, with some saying the new system in which a blue check mark can be bought for $7.99 a month is ripe for abuse

Twitter pauses $8 subscription plan after fake accounts proliferate

Twitter Inc. suspended the $8 subscription program it launched earlier this week to combat a growing problem of users impersonating major brands, a person familiar with the move said

Twitter bankruptcy possible if cash burn doesn't stop, Musk tells employees

Confidence in the company has eroded so rapidly that, even before Musk's bankruptcy comments, some funds were offering to buy the loans for as little as 60 cents on the dollar

Twitter's hectic overhaul under Musk puts world's regulators on alert

In a rare intervention on Thursday, the US Federal Trade Commission said that it was tracking developments with "deep concern" and said that "no CEO or company is above the law"

Pandemic boom to season of layoffs: How big tech and startups got it wrong

It is not just Meta which is looking at becoming capital efficient. Alphabet, the parent company of Google and Microsoft have already sent messages that focus will be on increasing productivity