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San Francisco: Elon Musk has started testing $7.99 Twitter Blue subscription plan for Apple iOS users, which provides verification and other benefits. According to The Verge, the microblogging platform has updated its application on iOS to support the monthly Blue subscription. The applications latest update on App Store mentioned that the users have to pay […]
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By Amit Mishra Last week brought the closure of one of the much-awaited acquisitions in tech history, touted as one of the largest buy-outs of all time in the technological arena. Elon Musk’s $44-billion takeover of the social media platform Twitter buzzed the global mindspace with notes of excitement and agony. The week’s upheaval saw […]
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Several memes obviously flooded the micro-blogging site soon after the conversation went viral.
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Elon Musk on Saturday said that there is no choice other than brutally firing half of Twitter's workforce as the company is losing over $4 million a day.
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Elon Musk has axed entire departments at Twitter in his exercise to deeply trim its workforce by half and human rights, accessibility, AI ethics and curation and communications teams were hit the hardest.
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The billionaire owner of Tesla tweeted that "activists" raising concerns about how Twitter is moderated are "trying to destroy free speech in America".
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Twitter began widespread layoffs Friday as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the social platform.
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Some of the employees who lost their jobs at Twitter India and did not wish to be named told IANS that when they logged in to their systems from home (Twitter is still in the work-from-home mode) on Friday, they were denied access.
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He finally closed his $44billion takeover of the social media platform last week, and promptly set about announcing a string of changes, reports metro.co.uk.
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Employees were set to receive an email by 9 a.m. PST (9.30 p.m. India time) confirming whether they have been laid off or not, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge.
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Despite the outrage on the internet regarding the pay, Musk has maintained that the move was reasonable
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Ever since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, things feel different on the platform. From $8 for the blue tick to his savage replies to anyone who opposes it, a change in the way the site works seems to be on the cards. If as users we feel the shift, imagine the plight of the […]
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Elon Musk, who is officially the new CEO of Twitter, has earlier announced that the users will need to pay $8 (approximately Rs 650) to keep their blue ticks. Adding that the service would include other perks such as an option to edit tweets, post longer audios or videos, and fewer ads, apart from the […]
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Musk met his advisors, including former PayPal executive David Sacks, to finalise a plan to fire about 3,800 workers, the Verge quoted its deputy editor Alex Heath as saying in the report.
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"Twitter's current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is b******t," he said in a tweet.
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In just the last three days, Musk has dissolved Twitter board and made himself the sole director, signalling more layoffs ahead.
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Hyderabad: After Elon Musk became the ‘Chief Twit’ of the micro-blogging site Twitter, top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, were fired. While social media platforms were rife with reactions and memes, one LinkedIn user had a whole different experience. A banker, who is the former CEO’s namesake and whom some may call his doppelganger, has […]
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Hyderabad: Pranay Pathole, a software engineer from Pune who is famously known for his unlikely friendship with Elon Musk, took to Twitter on Monday to defend the Tesla CEO. He stated that the hate that comes Musk’s way is “unfair” and called the tech giant an “inspiration”. “The hate @elonmusk receives is unfair. Elon is […]
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San Francisco: Chief Twit Elon Musk is officially the new CEO of Twitter as the micro-blogging platform braces for deeper layoffs under him. Musk earlier tweeted that he has “no idea” who the CEO of Twitter is, the latest US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed that Musk is now the sole “reporting Person” […]
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When the world’s richest person goes shopping and buys the world’s most influential platform for public conversations, the consequences could be quite disruptive. Add to this weak regulatory scrutiny, then things could go awry, raising questions about the future of social media. After closing the $44-billion acquisition deal, Elon Musk, the maverick billionaire who often […]
