Elon Musk Buys Twitter

X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims that the company formerly known as Twitter is almost breaking even. “I’ve been at the company eight weeks,” Yaccarino said in her first broadcast interview…

X says it has “delivered a decade’s worth of innovation focused on creating an engaging and healthy environment” since Elon Musk’s acquisition. Sure! Everyone knows that when you think about…

In another sign of shifting forces in the social media universe, the U.K.’s national public service broadcaster, the BBC, is dipping a toe into the fediverse by setting up its…

Update August 1, 2023, 10:50 PM IST: Late Monday, X (formerly Twitter) posted that it is suing The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for allegedly asserting “false and misleading…

Elon Musk is the best thing that could have ever happened to Mark Zuckerberg. As Musk begins to change Twitter’s branding to X, Facebook’s rebrand to Meta doesn’t seem all…

Twitter was even messier than usual this weekend. On Saturday, owner Elon Musk tweeted that Twitter would combat “extreme levels of data scraping,” by limiting accounts that don’t subscribe to…

Now that Twitter’s API access is locked behind a tall paywall, long-beloved third-party apps are shutting down. The latest to bite the dust is Block Party, an anti-harassment tool that…

The rumors are true: Elon Musk has chosen NBCU leader Linda Yaccarino as the next CEO of Twitter. Musk confirmed Yaccarino’s new role in a tweet this morning, a day…

Linda Yaccarino, the woman hotly tipped as the next CEO of Twitter, has not made any statements confirming or denying the rumors. But she is definitely open to work: today,…

Not every new blue check on Twitter is a fan of Elon Musk. As Twitter’s iconic blue check shifts from a badge of legitimacy to a signal that you pay…

Jumpscare alert: There is currently a bug on Twitter wherein legacy blue check holders can update their bio and briefly get their badge of (dis)honor back. It doesn’t seem to…

Elon Musk tweeted a photo on Monday night that shows him logged into his Twitter account, advertising to content creators how they can activate monetization features on Twitter. Unfortunately for…

After weeks of truly stupid antics, Twitter has removed “government-funded media” labels on all accounts, from NPR to the Chinese state-affiliated Xinhua News. Twitter even appears to have deleted its…

Twitter updated its content moderation guidelines regarding hateful content, removing a policy that prohibited the targeted deadnaming or misgendering of transgender people. Enacted in 2018, the policy explicitly stated that…

NPR will no longer update its 52 Twitter accounts, including the primary @NPR handle, which has nearly 9 million followers. These accounts include NPR’s topic-specific feeds like NPR Politics, as…

Twitter, Inc. is now called X Corp., according to a court filing in California. Since Twitter is no longer a public company, it does not have to report updates like…

PSA: Do not post your deepest darkest secrets on your Twitter Circle. Numerous Twitter users are reporting a bug in which Circle tweets — which are supposed to reach a…

So much for “free speech absolutism.” Twitter is censoring Substack links by making the posts impossible to reply to, like or retweet. While quote-tweeting works, simply pressing the retweet button…

Twitter has introduced a new check mark label that makes it impossible to separate between legacy and paid verified accounts.

It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called Twitter. The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled…

This article has been updated to reflect the growing number of laid off employees, which now includes Haraldur Thorleifsson and Leah Culver.  Twitter has laid off more than 200 employees,…

European data protection regulators are “engaging” with Twitter following a series of complaints from users that it’s ignoring requests to delete their direct messages, TechCrunch has learned. Concerns over the…

As more Twitter features break and glitch, users are becoming increasingly concerned about the platform’s stability. We’re about three months into Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter, and a number of…

Despite already cutting thousands of employees, the layoffs at Twitter continue. According to posts on Twitter and LinkedIn from a former public policy employee, Twitter cut half of its public…

Tesla shares fell 8.12% Tuesday after Wall Street downgraded price targets on the electric vehicle maker’s stock. Analysts fear that CEO Elon Musk is distracted by his hostile takeover and micromanagement…

For a social media platform that staked its claim on championing free speech, it’s been a remarkably swift turn of events.

The stories behind Dropbox, Slack and now Twitter moderation showcase the massive complexity of building and running digital services.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold more than 20 million shares of the company stock between Monday and Wednesday. The sale is worth about $3.5 billion, according to a regulatory filing.…

Twitter will remove all legacy blue checkmarks “in a few months,” according to a tweet from CEO Elon Musk. “The way in which they were given out was corrupt and…