It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and Tesla is in trouble. Share prices for the electric carmaker are down more than 50 percent since the beginning of the year. And now, the company’s mercurial CEO, Elon Musk, is distracted by his shiny new $44 billion toy: Twitter. Tesla has long benefited […]
Musk plans Twitter check mark feature again, but with more colors
Comment on this story Comment Elon Musk said Twitter will launch a verification feature with multicolored check marks, just weeks after the botched rollout of its paid-for blue check model, which had to be scuttled when impersonation accounts ran rampant. Musk tweeted Friday that “Verified” will launch in a week, […]
Key advertisers no longer are on Twitter
Comment on this story Comment More than a third of Twitter’s top 100 marketers have not advertised on the social media network in the past two weeks, a Washington Post analysis of marketing data found — an indication of the extent of skittishness among advertisers about billionaire Elon Musk’s control […]
Will Twitter be the next MySpace?
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Ever since billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter in October, an impending sense of doom has been hovering over the social media platform and its users. From issuing an ultimatum to his (remaining) employees to launching a paid verification feature which […]
Musk says Twitter will offer “amnesty” to suspended accounts • TechCrunch
Elon Musk said Thursday Twitter will grant “a general amnesty” to accounts that had been suspended from the platform beginning next week. The CEO posted a poll the day earlier over whether the platform should restore affected accounts. The news comes within a week of Musk also ending former president […]
Elon Musk to give ‘amnesty’ to more suspended accounts on Twitter
Concerns have also been raised around Twitter’s ability to comply with EU rules after the closure of its Brussels office. Elon Musk plans to offer “amnesty” to suspended accounts on Twitter starting next week. In a poll on the platform, Musk asked if he should “offer a general amnesty” to […]
Donald Trump returns to Twitter thanks to Elon Musk
Donald Trump is allowed back on his longtime social media app of choice: Twitter. While many conservatives are cheering Twitter’s decision under new owner Elon Musk to lift its ban on the former president, other folks aren’t happy. Civil rights groups like the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League, and Color of […]
Twitter CEO Elon Musk says verified checkmarks are making a comeback, again
Bottom line: Elon Musk announced the latest iteration of Twitter’s verification system earlier this morning. The new system is tentatively scheduled to roll out next Friday and will provide gold, gray, and blue verification checks depending on the type of account and user being verified. Musk also said that all […]
Elon Musk Says He Might Launch A Tesla Phone If Google Or Apple Ban Twitter From Their App Stores
Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk says that he might consider launching a phone to compete with Google and Apple, especially if Twitter finds itself kicked off the App Store and Google Play Store. Both Apple and Google could potentially find that Twitter has become in breach of App Store […]
Twitter trolls are back with racist, bigoted posts
Comment on this story Comment An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network, raising fears that his pledge of unrestricted free speech could fuel a new wave of online hate. The […]
Twitter To Be Like TikTok With The New Video Feature
Twitter has rolled out plans to make it easier for users to watch and discover new videos to make the platform more friendly and enjoyable. The social giant is planning to launch a scrollable video feed like other competitors such as Snapchat and Instagram who have followed the trend set […]