Twitter’s France Head Serves Resignation Amid Mass Layoffs, Tweets Exit Message

Twitter’s France Head Serves Resignation Amid Mass Layoffs, Tweets Exit Message

Twitter’s head of French operations, Damien Viel, said he was quitting the social media platform, whose new owner Elon Musk recently fired top executives and enforced steep job cuts at the company. “It’s over,” Viel tweeted on Sunday, thanking his team in France, which he led for the last seven…

Twitter to Close Office Buildings, Disable Employee Badge Access Till Monday: Report

Twitter to Close Office Buildings, Disable Employee Badge Access Till Monday: Report

Twitter fell into a pitless chaos under its new owner Elon Musk after several employees appeared to have quit following a deadline by the billionaire entrepreneur and the company sent messages it was closing its “office buildings” for the next few days. The New York Times (NYT) said in a…

Twitter Blue to Be Relaunched on November 29 to Ensure ‘Rock Solid’ Release, Elon Musk Says

Twitter Blue to Be Relaunched on November 29 to Ensure ‘Rock Solid’ Release, Elon Musk Says

Elon Musk said on Tuesday that Twitter’s sought-after blue check subscription service will be relaunched on November 29, a minor delay from his initial tentative timeline to bring back the service on the social media platform. “Punting relaunch of Blue Verified to November 29th to make sure that it is…

Sen. Ed Markey tells Elon Musk to stop ‘Wild West’ Twitter
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Sen. Ed Markey tells Elon Musk to stop ‘Wild West’ Twitter

WASHINGTON – Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is asking Elon Musk to stop Twitter from becoming the “Wild West of social media” after the billionaire changed his newly acquired social media site’s verification process to allow anyone with $8 to obtain the sought-after blue check mark. “Your Twitter takeover, rapid and…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Buys Advertising Package for Starlink on Twitter

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Buys Advertising Package for Starlink on Twitter

SpaceX has bought an advertising package on Twitter for its satellite internet service Starlink, said Elon Musk, who owns the rocket company and the social media platform that is seeing an exodus of advertisers. “SpaceX Starlink bought a tiny – not large – ad package to test effectiveness of Twitter…

Twitter’s Outsourced Content Moderators Face Layoffs After Elon Musk Takeover

Twitter’s Outsourced Content Moderators Face Layoffs After Elon Musk Takeover

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job. Twitter and other big social media firms have relied heavily on contractors to track hate and enforce rules against…

Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Work to Push Citizen Journalism, Criticises ‘Media Elite’

Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Work to Push Citizen Journalism, Criticises ‘Media Elite’

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has criticised “media elite” and stated that the increased competition from citizen journalism will lead the mainstream media’s “oligopoly on information” to be disrupted. On Friday, Musk took to Twitter and shared a couple of tweets that reflected his thoughts on the current state of journalism….