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San Francisco: As Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk puts pressure on the board of Twitter to let him acquire the micro-blogging platform for $43 billion, its Co-founder Jack Dorsey has finally broken the silence, labelling the board as “consistently the dysfunction of the company”. Dorsey, who left Twitter in November last year — handing […]

When the world’s richest person goes shopping, one would expect that all the things that are desired would find a place in the shopping cart. But it’s a delicious irony that the world appears to be conspiring against its richest person, Elon Musk, to prevent him from buying Twitter, the popular microblogging site. It only […]

San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said that the Board of Twitter should be more concerned about other potential bidders than him who has made a fair offer to acquire 100 per cent of the micro-blogging platform for $43 billion. He was reacting to a follower who said that the Twitter […]

New Delhi: Twitter is working on the edit button, as requested by its users as well as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, but the micro-blogging platform is reportedly going to keep a digital trace of your earlier tweets. App researcher and reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong said in a tweet that the edit button may have […]

Orlando: According to a new study, parents who share photos of their children on social networking sites tend to have a more friend-like parenting style and allow their kids to use social media at younger ages. The findings of the study were published in the journal, ‘Computing Machinery’. These parents also tend to share posts […]

San Francisco: As Twitter adopts the ‘poison pill’ strategy to stop Elon Musk from forcefully buying it, the Tesla CEO is reportedly speaking to investors who could partner with him on acquiring the micro-blogging platform. According to a report in The New York Post citing sources, “a new plan that includes partners could be announced […]

New Delhi: Twitter users want Tesla CEO Elon Musk to acquire Sri Lanka instead of the microblogging site for $43 billion, as the country faces its worst economic crisis since its Independence. Many users on the platform shared their views and asked the tech billionaire to bail out the debt-ridden country. “Elon musk, if you […]

San Francisco/New Delhi: Treating Elon Musk’s $43 billion offer to buy Twitter as an “unwelcome” step, the board of the company is reportedly considering a “poison pill” strategy to make it more difficult for Musk to acquire a larger stake in the micro-blogging platform and avoid a hostile takeover. According to The Information, Twitter’s board […]

San Francisco/New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday took a jab at Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a major Twitter investor who rejected Musk’s hostile offer to acquire 100 per cent of the micro-blogging platform for $43 billion. Questioning Saudi Arabia’s own media laws, Musk tweeted: “Just two questions, if I may. […]

San Francisco: After Elon Musk made a hostile bid to acquire Twitter for nearly $43 billion, its Indian-origin CEO Parag Agrawal has tried to convince employees that the micro-blogging platform would follow a “rigorous process”. In a meeting with employees late on Thursday, Agrawal said the board is still evaluating Musk’s offer and will make […]

Washington: Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday offered a “best and final” bid to purchase 100 per cent of microblogging site Twitter for USD 41.39 billion with $54.20 per share in cash. The world’s richest man made the offer in an updated 13D filing on Thursday and follows an announcement by Twitter that […]

San Francisco: A Twitter investor has sued Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk for failing to disclose his stake in the micro-blogging platform as sought by the US laws. The lawsuit has been filed in Manhattan federal court by Marc Bain Rasella on behalf of “all investors who sold or otherwise disposed of Twitter, Inc. […]

San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk would not be joining Twitter’s Board of Directors but he may still engage with the social media company’s management on a variety of discussions, an amended regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has clarified. According to Teslarati, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO would be able […]

Chandigarh: The official Twitter handle of the Punjab Congress was hacked on Monday. Punjab Congress’s official Twitter handle was hacked on Monday. The hackers removed the profile picture and posted a tweet that read, “In celebration of the reveal of the Beanz Official collection, we have opened up an airdrop to all active NFT traders […]

Washington: Microblogging site Twitter on Monday announced that Tesla CEO Elon Musk will not be joining the company’s board of directors. The announcement was made by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. “Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here,” tweeted Agrawal sharing the […]

San Francisco/New Delhi: TikTok’s meteoric rise has baffled Meta (formerly Facebook) as the Chinese short-video app is set to overtake the global advertising share of micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing platform Snapchat this year. Moreover, TikTok is predicted to catch up with Google-owned YouTube by clocking $23.6 billion in ad revenue by 2024, reports The […]

New Delhi: The India Metrological Department’s (IMD) Twitter handle was hacked on Saturday evening and efforts were on to restore it, officials said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the hacking. This comes at a time when the IMD handle has been attracting a lot of traffic due to the ongoing intense heatwave […]

Lucknow: The official Twitter handle of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s Office was hacked briefly in the early hours of Saturday, a senior officer said, asserting that strictest action will be taken against those responsible. A case was registered in this connection at the Cyber Crime police station in Lucknow. “The account was hacked for […]

San Francisco: In a bid to make it easy to add alt text to image uploads, micro-blogging site Twitter has announced that its new accessibility features, ALT badge and improved image descriptions, are now available globally. The company said that image descriptions, also called alternative text, are an easy way to make Twitter accessible to […]

San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has made a small but significant change to how deleted tweets are shown when they are embedded in third-party websites. Since at least the end of March, the social media network has started showing a blank box on external sites when an embedded tweet has been deleted, reports The Verge. […]