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Elon Musk has found his replacement as Twitter’s top boss. The tech mogul announced the big news Thursday afternoon, nearly five months after he confirmed his intentions to resign as the company’s CEO. Although he declined to identify the incoming executive, Musk said she will begin her duties sometime next month, as he assumes the role of executive chair […]
Fresh off being unceremoniously ousted by Fox News, Tucker Carlson is boasting about a resurgence. The right-wing pundit and amplifier of white nationalism said in a video tweeted on Tuesday, “Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world, the only one, is Twitter, […]
Since the 51-year-old mogul took majority ownership, he has made seemingly never-ending changes. Last week the billionaire threatened to move National Public Radio’s Twitter account to another company’s platform because a broadcaster halted posting content to NPR’s 52 official Twitter feeds in protest. According to NPR, the media org quit Twitter after Musk said the government influenced its […]
After Grimes gave her blessings to artists to use AI to replicate her voice in their future songs, the Canadian artist has now unveiled a new piece of software that will automatically convert people’s vocals into Grimes’. Grimes detailed how the program would work in a series of tweets titled “HOW TO MAKE MUSIC FEAT […]
The family of a teenager who was publicly groomed and ultimately abducted from his home last year have a slew of questions about how such a crime was even possible, including whether the still-chaotic takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk played a factor in slowing down the investigation. The troubling case out of Utah, as […]
Elon Musk wasn’t bluffing. After months of lead-up, the billionaire tech mogul and his Twitter platform began confiscating verified checkmarks from various legacy accounts, many of which belonged to celebrities, athletes, and prominent media figures. Musk announced the move back in February, saying anyone who wanted to obtain or keep their verified status would have to sign up for an $8-a-month subscription service. […]
Some celebrities are exasperated over Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue subscription policy. Akon took to Twitter recently, to lament the $5 program, writing, “Back in the day, Twitter was begging musicians to stay on ‘cause they didn’t have traffic. They came up with a verification process to protect accounts from fakes ones, now @elonmusk is taking that […]
Twitter is worth way less than Elon Musk initially paid for it. In an email to his employees, Musk revealed that Twitter workers would receive stock based on the company’s $20 billion net worth, seemingly revealing the company took a major hit compared to the $44 billion he paid for it. Despite the loss, Musk seems bullish […]
A Twitter employee and top exec who went viral last November after being pictured sleeping in the floor of the company’s offices amid the early days of Elon Musk’s takeover has been fired, according to multiple reports. Esther Crawford, Twitter’s Director of Product Management who also led the Twitter Payments division, was first reported by Platformer’s Zoë […]
In a tweet shared on Friday, Elon Musk confirmed his plans to get rid of blue checkmarks for “legacy verified” accounts. When a Twitter user tweeted at Musk to suggest that the verification checkmarks on the platform have “become a joke” now that anyone can get them by subscribing to Twitter Blue, Musk responded and […]
