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What We Know About Twitter&#39;s New CEO
Musk's Pick for Twitter CEO
Signals His Main Priority
the rundown
May 12, 2023 1:15 PM CDT

Musk's Pick for Twitter CEO Signals His Main Priority

That would be advertising, and Linda Yaccarino was well regarded on that front at NBCUniversal

(Newser) - The advance reports were correct: Elon Musk confirmed Friday that he has picked NBCUniversal exec Linda Yaccarino to be the new CEO of Twitter. However, Musk himself will continue to play a role at the company: He wrote that Yaccarino "will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus...

Musk Announces He&#39;ll Step Aside as Twitter CEO
Musk's Chosen
Successor
at Twitter
Revealed
UPDATED
May 12, 2023 2:00 AM CDT

Musk's Chosen Successor at Twitter Revealed

Sources say it's NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino

(Newser) - The person who is in what's being described as "advanced talks" to take over as CEO of Twitter has been revealed: Sources tell the Washington Post , the Wall Street Journal , and other outlets that it's NBCUniversal’s head of advertising, Linda Yaccarino. Elon Musk on Thursday said...

Feds: Twitter Hacker Left 'Impressive Trail of Destruction'

UK man pleads guilty to scheme that targeted accounts of 130-plus names, including Musk, Biden

(Newser) - A UK man arrested in Spain two summers ago and accused of hacking into the Twitter accounts of some big names—including the current owner of the platform himself—has pleaded guilty to the plot, which also involved the theft of a hefty amount of crypto. On Tuesday, the US...

Musk Announces Twitter DM Change With Notable 'Acid Test'

He won't be able to see others' encrypted messages, 'even if there was a gun to my head'

(Newser) - Elon Musk says users of his social media platform will very soon be able to send private direct messages to each other that no one else can ever see—including Musk himself. In a Tuesday evening tweet , the Twitter CEO announced the launch of encrypted DMs, a feature that could...

Tucker Carlson Says He's Bringing His Show to Twitter

He says relaunch will happen 'soon'

(Newser) - Tucker Carlson has found a new home after being fired by Fox News. Carlson announced in a tweet on Tuesday that he's going to relaunch his show on Twitter, Politico reports. "Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for...

Musk Is Expanding His Vegas Tunnel Network

It's not quite as futuristic as it sounds

(Newser) - Elon Musk's Boring Company has received approval to expand its "Vegas Loop" system, adding 18 stations to bring the total to 69, per the Verge . The goal of the tunnel system is to alleviate road traffic. Unfortunately, it's not as futuristic as it sounds. Instead of high-speed...

Musk Makes 'Extraordinary Threat' to NPR

CEO warns he'll give media organization's Twitter handle to someone else if it doesn't start tweeting

(Newser) - NPR has stayed firm in not tweeting since Elon Musk's Twitter first labeled its account "state-affiliated media" last month, then "government-funded media." Those labels are now gone, but NPR has continued to stay silent online. Now, the news organization is reporting that Musk is threatening to...

More Fallout for SpaceX's Rocket Launch

Environmental groups aren't happy and are suing the FAA over Starship's launch

(Newser) - Wildlife and environmental groups sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday over SpaceX’s launch last month of its giant rocket from Texas. SpaceX’s Starship soared 24 miles high before exploding over the Gulf of Mexico on April 20. The rocket's self-destruct system caused the nearly 400-foot rocket...

Jack Dorsey Isn't Happy With Elon Musk's Twitter

Dorsey believes Musk should've backed out of the deal

(Newser) - Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey once believed Elon Musk was on a "mission to extend the light of consciousness" through the Tesla billionaire's purchase of the social media giant. In recent comments made on his Bluesky Twitter clone, reports the Washington Post , Dorsey executed a sharp pullback. TechCrunch excerpted...

Twitter&#39;s Blue Check Strategy Turning Into a Fiasco
Twitter's Blue Check Strategy
Turning Into a Fiasco
the rundown
Apr 24, 2023 9:12 AM CDT

Twitter's Blue Check Strategy Turning Into a Fiasco

Prominent users are making clear they did not pay and do not want it

(Newser) - Among the big names who have confirmed their phone number and paid $8 to have a blue checkmark on their Twitter account, at least according to Twitter, are Anthony Bourdain, Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, Mac Miller, and Jamal Khashoggi. As the Hill notes, that's a little confusing considering that...

Elon Musk's No Good, Very Bad, $13B-Loss Day

Perfect storm involving 3 of his firms leads to financial fallout for CEO

(Newser) - It's been a challenging few days for Elon Musk: Tesla had a disappointing earnings call on Wednesday, his SpaceX rocket exploded minutes after takeoff on Thursday, and Twitter continues to ... go through some things . The CEO took a big financial hit amid these struggles from all of his three...

Musk Paying for Blue Checkmarks for LeBron, Stephen King

But not the Pope, 'NY Times'

(Newser) - Twitter's original blue checkmarks were first said to be going away starting April 1, but after that date came and went with little movement on the blue check front , Elon Musk gave April 20 as the new date. And, indeed, quite a few big names said goodbye to their...

Elon Musk: I'll Create 'TruthGPT' to Fight AI 'Bias'

Says ChatGPT 'is being trained to be politically correct'

(Newser) - Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is again sounding warning bells on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity—and claiming that a popular chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with his own AI creation, the AP reports. Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a...

SpaceX Scrubs Launch of World's Biggest Rocket

Elon Musk's company delays test flight of Starship

(Newser) - SpaceX still plans to launch a behemoth into space—the world's largest and most powerful rocket known as Starship—but it's not happening Monday as planned. The nearly 400-foot-tall rocket was on the launch pad at the company's facility in Boca Chica, Texas, but the company called...

Musk Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claim About Twitter

CEO says US government had 'full access' to users' DMs in interview with Fox News' Carlson

(Newser) - Elon Musk has been making the interview rounds , and on Monday and Tuesday, he'll grace Fox News in prime time. The network announced that the Twitter CEO recently sat down with host Tucker Carlson for a "wide-ranging" discussion" that will air in two parts, and which covers everything...

Musk Offers Reward for Proof of Emerald Mine

He mentioned father's share in mine in 2014 interview

(Newser) - Elon Musk is offering a reward of 1 million Dogecoin—the equivalent of almost $90,000—to anybody who can prove that he owned an emerald mine. He made the offer in response to a tweet from the DogeDesigner account, which has posted dozens of pro-Musk tweets in recent days,...

NPR Is First Major US News Outlet to Dump Twitter
Another Name Joins
NPR in Fleeing Twitter
UPDATED
Apr 13, 2023 1:18 PM CDT

Another Name Joins NPR in Fleeing Twitter

PBS has stopped tweeting since it was labeled 'government-funded media' on Saturday

(Newser) - PBS has joined NPR in getting the heck away from Twitter. Like NPR, the Public Broadcasting Service was recently labeled by the social platform as "government-funded media," meaning Twitter would not amplify its tweets. The label was initially "state-affiliated media," a phrase applied to propaganda outlets...

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
...

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...

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