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Elon Musk's Surprise BBC Interview Gets a Little Weird

He swung from the serious to the bizarre

(Newser) - Elon Musk sat down for a surprise interview with the BBC on Tuesday night, during which he addressed a wide range of topics related to Twitter. He swung from the serious to the bizarre:
  • The pain: Musk acknowledged that he went through with his purchase of Twitter only because a
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Twitter's Ex-CEO, Ex-CFO, and Ex-CLO Sue

They say their legal fees must be reimbursed

(Newser) - Twitter's ex-CEO, fired as well as ousted from the board of directors by Elon Musk after Musk's takeover of the social media company, is now suing his former company. Parag Agrawal and two of his fellow, also-fired-by-Musk ex-executives—former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde and former chief financial...

Goodbye, Twitter Inc. Hello, X Corp.
Goodbye, Twitter Inc.
Hello, X Corp.
Apr 11, 2023 10:20 AM CDT

Goodbye, Twitter Inc. Hello, X Corp.

Parent company of social media platform has been absorbed by new Elon Musk firm, per court filing

(Newser) - Twitter the social media platform is still up and running ( last we checked , anyway), but Twitter Inc. the parent company is no more. That's per a court filing from last week that indicates the company has been absorbed into Elon Musk's X Corp., with the news pointed...

Elon Musk: Landlord Doesn't Like New Sign at Twitter HQ

CEO covered up 'w,' apparently got flak for it

(Newser) - Last week, photos started to emerge showing the sign outside Twitter's San Francisco headquarters with an odd alteration: The "w" in "Twitter" looked like it was covered up with a small tarp, so that the company name read instead as "Titter." Now, CEO Elon Musk...

Matt Taibbi Picks Substack Over Twitter

Journalist objects to new restrictions on links and tweets

(Newser) - A journalist once chosen by Elon Musk to help write the " Twitter Files " project has broken with the platform and its owner. Matt Taibbi said the issue is Twitter's new restrictions on links and tweets about Substack, Forbes reports. The rules were enacted after the announcement of...

Musk Admits Move on NPR 'Might Not Have Been Accurate'

Organization stopped tweeting after 'state-affiliated media' label was added

(Newser) - NPR journalists looking into the site's new "state-affiliated media" label on Twitter have managed to get more than a poop emoji auto-reply out of the company. In emails to NPR, Twitter CEO Elon Musk acknowledged that giving the media organization the same label seen on outlets like...

Twitter Makes a 'Disturbing' Change to NPR's Account

Public broadcaster labeled 'state-affiliated' media

(Newser) - A surprise change from Twitter suggests the social media platform sees National Public Radio as a network more akin to state-controlled Russian or Chinese media than the BBC. Twitter has labeled the public broadcaster's account as "state-affiliated media," a move NPR says happened without warning Tuesday night....

Musk Replaces Twitter Bird With Doge Dog (for Now)

Nobody seems to know why, or whether the move is a joke or permanent

(Newser) - A little more Twitter weirdness: Elon Musk has replaced its famous blue bird with an image of the dogecoin dog on the Twitter website . Is it a joke? Is it permanent? Nobody is quite sure, and as the Verge notes, press queries to Twitter now get an automatic reply of...

Twitter Strips a Prominent First of Its Blue Checkmark

Tweets Musk after 'NYT' refuses to pay for Twitter Blue: 'Oh ok, we’ll take it off then.'

(Newser) - Twitter said it was going to start removing the blue "verified" checkmarks on accounts that aren't paying for Twitter Blue—and on Sunday, it did so, at least for one account. The New York Times' Twitter account has been stripped of the blue badge that used to denote...

Merriam-Webster Sees Elon Musk's Twitter Blue, Taunts With Red

Dictionary cheekily discontinues its M-W Red within hours

(Newser) - Merriam-Webster likes to get cheeky every once in a while, and Elon Musk and his Twitter Blue are the latest target. As Insider reports, the dictionary powerhouse used Musk's own forum to mock Twitter Blue, in a tweet that's currently clocking north of 4 million: "People who...

MTG Runs Afoul of Twitter, Again
Twitter Restricts MTG's Account
Mar 29, 2023 6:39 AM CDT

Twitter Restricts MTG's Account

Congresswoman shared deleted graphic for event organized by transgender activists

(Newser) - Twitter has restricted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's congressional account for repeatedly sharing a graphic referencing a "Trans Day of Vengeance." The congresswoman said she shared a graphic for Saturday's event in Washington, DC, before Twitter " temporarily limited " some of her account's features, to...

Some of Twitter's Source Code Apparently Leaked Months Ago

But execs were just notified and had it taken down

(Newser) - In what the New York Times calls "a rare and major exposure of intellectual property," Twitter claims in a legal filing that portions of its source code were leaked online. Executives at the social media company believe a former employee who left sometime last year is responsible for...

Twitter: Get Ready to Lose Blue Checkmarks on April 1

Company says it's going to start removing them from 'legacy' verified accounts

(Newser) - Changes at Twitter—including the poop emoji auto-response for press inquiries—can be hard to distinguish from practical jokes, but the company is apparently serious about revoking blue checkmarks for some users on April Fool's Day. "On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program...

Elon Musk Has a Blanket Response to All Press Inquiries

And it is the poop emoji

(Newser) - In today's edition of What's Happening at Twitter, Deadline reports that all email inquiries from the media sent to the social network's official press email are receiving an automated reply that includes simply ... a poop emoji. CEO Elon Musk has long had an adversarial relationship with the...

New Meta App Could Be Rival to Twitter, Mastodon

Sources say decentralized text-based app is codenamed P92

(Newser) - After apparently imitating Twitter's pay for verification plan , Meta is now working on its own Twitter-like service. Facebook's parent company has confirmed a report from MoneyControl that it is in the early stages of creating an app that could be a rival to Twitter and other competitors. "...

Musk Does Rare 180, Apologizes for 'Surreal' Twitter Feud

He had called well-liked Twitter employee 'the worst,' among other things

(Newser) - Elon Musk found himself apologizing to a (possibly now former) Twitter employee after a bizarre exchange between the two on the social network went viral. It started when Haraldur "Halli" Thorleifsson mentioned Musk in a tweet, asking him to weigh in on Thorleifsson's employment status. "9 days...

Twitter Learns One Engineer Isn't Enough for a Major Project

Engineer's 'bad configuration change' broke the system, Platformer reports

(Newser) - Twitter CEO Elon Musk was "furious" Monday as the platform experienced its "sixth high-profile service outage " of the year, per Platformer . In an "embarrassing technology failure," photos wouldn't load and links led to an error message reading "your current API plan does not...

Twitter Has Major Glitch as Musk Complains, Too

For about an hour on Monday, the platform was down for many

(Newser) - The phrase "Twitter API" was trending on Twitter Monday—ironically because so many people couldn't tweet. The platform went down, or at least slowed down, for many people in what CNN calls one of the biggest outages since Elon Musk took over. Those who were unable to log...

Meta: Give Us Money, ID and We'll 'Verify' Your FB, IG

You'll get a special badge for that $14.99 you're forking over ($11.99 for the web)

(Newser) - Last year, Elon Musk's Twitter launched its Twitter Blue subscription service , a paid verification that offers users a blue check mark next to their name, as well as other perks, like being able to edit your tweets. Now Meta is following suit with something similar: CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced...

Musk Artificially Boosts His Own Tweets—to Uproar

Twitter CEO seems to acknowledge users are now force-fed his content

(Newser) - Elon Musk's tweets are now stationed at the top of many Twitter users' feeds—and that's no accident, according to Platformer , which reports the Twitter CEO threatened to fire his team of engineers unless they built a system that would better promote his tweets to all users. "...

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