Twitter Managers Told Staff to Work 12-Hour Shifts, 7 Days a Week: CNBC
Twitter managers have told some staff work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, CNBC reported. Some managers told The New York Times they slept at Twitter’s office on Friday and Saturday nights. Staff are trying to prove themselves amid the looming threat of layoffs under new owner Elon Musk. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for …
Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs
Aurich Lawson Elon Musk completed the $44 billion purchase of Twitter today, capping a months-long saga that resulted in Twitter suing Musk to force him to honor their merger agreement. Musk’s first course of business was to fire top executives. “Musk fired Chief Executive Parag Agrawal and Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal after the deal …
Twitter will let you edit your tweet up to five times • TechCrunch
Twitter announced a much-anticipated feature last week — the ability to edit tweets. The company said that once the feature is available users will be able to edit their tweets for up to 30 minutes from posting. However, there’s a catch: users can only edit their tweets five times within this period. While this limit …
Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal On Hold Until More Clarity on Fake Accounts
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Probing political bias on Twitter with drifter bots
Our latest paper “Neutral bots probe political bias on social media” by Wen Chen, Diogo Pacheco, Kai-Cheng Yang & Fil Menczer just came out in Nature Communications. We find strong evidence of political bias on Twitter, but not as many think: (1) it is conservative rather than liberal bias, and (2) it results from user …
Right-Wing Figures Attack Journalist Taylor Lorenz For Revealing Creator Of ‘Libs Of TikTok’
Topline A host of right-wing figures—including Fox News personality Tucker Carlson—took aim at Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz on Tuesday after the reporter uncovered the creator of “Libs of TikTok,” a Twitter account with more than half a million followers that shares anti-LGBTQ+ content and has become influential in conservative media. The TikTok app is …
Elon Musk Makes $43 Billion Bid for Twitter, Says ‘Civilization’ At Stake
A week into his rolling clash with Twitter Inc., Elon Musk went full-on corporate raider, offering to buy the company and warning he might sell his stake in the service if rebuffed. The Tesla Inc. chief on Thursday morning made a $43 billion bid for Twitter, the latest in a will-he-or-won’t-he saga between the world’s …
Tesla Stock Drops After Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter. This Is Why.
Text size Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla. Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered to buy the social- media platform Twitter on Thursday, sending shares of the car maker lower. Investors might be worried about distraction for Musk as Tesla (ticker: TSLA) ramps up production at new plants, but there are other …
Elon Musk says he will not join the Twitter board after all : NPR
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022 near Gruenheide, Germany. Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Pool/Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022 near Gruenheide, …
Elon Musk Says Bill Gates has a $500 million short position in Tesla
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is irked at Bill Gates. He doesn’t see how Gates, a leading proponent of sustainable energy, could possibly sell Tesla’s stock short. And Musk says Gates is doing just that. In a tweet on Friday night. Musk said he believes Gates has sold short $500 million shares of Tesla (ticker: TSLA), …