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Elon Musk is offering more incentives for Twitter Blue sign-ups. The billionaire tech mogul announced on Friday that the platform would start sharing ad revenue with eligible users. Musk said those who are subscribed to Twitter Blue Verified will receive a cut of the revenue from ads that appear in their reply threads, but failed to provide […]
Meta is preparing to reinstate Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. The tech giant announced the move in a news post Wednesday, more than two years after the former president was unceremoniously kicked off the platforms. The suspension was handed down in wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, which were fueled by Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election had been […]
As made clear in the early days of the Elon Musk era of Twitter, the platform’s unique status among social media offerings is changing rapidly, with many longtime users expressing mounting frustrations over looming changes. This has been coupled, of course, with a shared feeling of grief brought on by the realization that Twitter (or […]
Hours after Elon Musk shared a poll on Twitter asking if he should step down as head of the company, Snoop Dogg hopped on the platform to ask his followers the same question. “Should I run Twitter?” Snoop tweeted. The poll, which was posted Sunday night, has since received nearly three million responses, with 81 percent of […]
Elon Musk asked Twitter if he should “step down as head of” the company in a poll shared Sunday, adding that he would “abide by the results” of the final vote. More than 17 million Twitter users ultimately participated in the poll, which has since closed. As seen below, over 57 percent of those who […]
Twitter has taken aim at prominent journalists. According to CNN, the social media platform has suspended the accounts of well-known reporters who have provided critical coverage of the company and its new CEO Elon Musk. The removals reportedly took place on Thursday afternoon, shortly after Twitter banned the account of Jack Sweeney, a Florida college student who used publicly available […]
On Wednesday, Elon Musk disclosed that he sold $3.58 billion worth of Tesla stock this week, per the Associated Press. The Tesla CEO sold the shares from Monday to Wednesday, according to a filing that was posted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This brings the total amount of Tesla stock he’s sold this […]
It appears Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” has suspended an account that monitors his private jet. CNBC reports @ElonJet was removed from the platform on Wednesday morning, just days after its owner, 20-year-old college student Jack Sweeney, claimed the account had been limited and restricted. Sweeney reportedly created the account in summer 2020, using publicly available, open-source data to track the […]
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that Twitter plans to increase its character limit for tweets from just 280 to 4,000. On Sunday, a Twitter user asked Musk if it’s true that the company plans to increase the character limit “from 280 to 4000,” “Yes,” Musk responded. The move would mark a dramatic change to the […]
Dave Chappelle took a break from peddling transphobia over the weekend to pass off dunking on fired Twitter employees and those less privileged than him as “comedy,” all while a crowd hurled boos at Elon Musk. In footage from a stand-up show that’s been making the rounds, Chappelle is seen welcoming Musk to the stage. […]
