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X is the spot for Trump’s social media return
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has announced that he will be returning to the microblogging platform Twitter. In a statement, Trump said, “In the past, I resisted the urge to join Twitter…I look forward to continuing with Twitter in my role as US President.” Trump had left Twitter in August 2017 and was later…
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This is the period of horror on the internet
Twitter’s South Korean-American account (@X) has been shut after CEO Elon Musk renamed the microblogging site to ‘X’. Users are being directed to a page on the Twitter app that reads, “No longer active.” “Elon had been kind of tweeting about X previously,” a user said, adding, “This is the first time I have lost…
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The deal was signed by Musk and the social media company
A Twitter executive, who was suspended for sharing court-related documents on the microblogging platform, said she was suspended after posting a message on Twitter tagging Tesla CEO Elon Musk and requesting an interview. The woman added she had posted court-related documents to Twitter that included a 2018 Musk email address. She said it also included…
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Musk has fired an engineer who was complaining about it on the social networking site
Twitter’s Co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey took to Twitter’s official account to share a video showing the microblogging platform’s API failures. “A small API change had massive ramifications,” Musk said in the video. The video, posted on Twitter’s feed, was part of Dorsey’s response to a Twitter user who questioned Twitter’s plans to promote free…
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The verification line is between order and chaos
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that he is buying the microblogging platform to “help humanity” and doesn’t want it to become a “free-for-all hellscape”. “I don’t want to make Twitter an app that people are afraid to use,” he further said. Earlier this year, Musk had told Twitter employees to build a “super-app” that…
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It was an opinion that Musk is running a social networking site like a dictator.
While taking to Twitter on Sunday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk called India’s lawsuit against the microblogging platform a threat to Twitter’s presence in its third-largest market, India. Musk said it would be a “great victory” for the Indian government. In August, he had filed a countersuit alleging that journalists had shared his “exact real-time” location…
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He learned a lot by logging on to the top topics on the social network.
A Twitter user has been sharing screenshots of trending topics on the microblogging platform to highlight “b******t” that users encountered this year. The screenshots were taken by Adam Feldman, who said it serves as a reminder of some of the “b******t” that we endured this year and a tribute to the people who “powered” it.…
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A day of chaos raises the prospect of a collapse on social media.
Several Twitter employees spoke out against the company’s new microblogging service Twitter Blue, saying that it’s discriminatory for people with verification checkmarks and could lead to abuse of social media. “Twitter’s current lords and Peasant system for who has or doesn’t have a Blue Checkmark is bullshit,” an employee said. Another employee said, “I don’t…
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As the takeover continues, employees are bracing for layoffs.
Ex- Twitter employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the microblogging platform for not giving them enough notice of mass firings. The lawsuit alleged that Twitter violated the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires companies to give employees at least 60 days’ notice before mass firings. It also alleged that the workers…
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How high will interest rates go?
Two Twitter employees who worked at the microblogging platform’s HQ in Bengaluru have said the move to charge users for verification is a “risk” to Twitter. “The risk is that within a month or so, there’s just going to be way more misinformation, confusion, hoaxes, and scams on Twitter, because nobody knows who’s who,” one…