#Twitter owes $13 billion, and it is expected to make its first payment against that debt this week, Bloomberg reports.
#ElonMusk's cost cutting measures include mass layoffs, skipping rent payments, and slashing employee benefits. But even those measures weren't enough to keep Musk from turning to penny-pinching.
Twitter held an auction last week that was essentially a #GarageSale, selling off equipment no longer needed by Twitter's drastically reduced staff.
Lawsuit: Twitter stopped paying rent at headquarters after Musk took over
The lawsuit, filed Friday by SRI Nine Market Square LLC, says Twitter leases 462,855 square feet on eight floors of the 1355 Market Street building but failed to pay $3.36 million in rent due in December 2022. Twitter also failed to pay rent of $3.43 million in January 2023, according to the complaint filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco County.
#Twitter #ElonMusk
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/twitters-landlord-sues-for-millions-in-unpaid-rent-at-firms-us-headquarters/
Musk blows off Dems in first Capitol tour as Twitter CEO
Elon Musk's whirlwind Washington trip left off Democrats from his calling card, but the minority party still wants to hear from him.
#ElonMusk #Twitter #Democrats
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/31/elon-musk-republicans-capitol-twitter-00080516
#ElonMusk locked his #Twitter account and went private for a bizarre test.
One of Elon Musk's favorite right wing Twitter users, Ian Miles Cheong, reported that he had experienced an engagement boost after locking his account.
The theory is that this changes how "the algorithm" behaves and increases impressions.
Musk: "Made my account private until tomorrow morning to test whether you see my private tweets more than my public ones"
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-locked-private-elon-musk-account
Nick Fuentes Twitter account suspended less than 24 hours after reinstatement
Twitter has suspended the account of white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes less than 24 hours after his reinstatement on the platform. Fuentes posted a picture of his suspended account on Telegram on Wednesday morning, with the caption “Well it was fun while it lasted.” The 24-year-old leader of the “America First” movement had…
House Speaker McCarthy spoke with #ElonMusk about making #Twitter 'fair on all sides'
Musk discussed how to make the social media site "fair on all sides" in a meeting with #KevinMcCarthy, the lawmaker told reporters, according to NBC News.
McCarthy also confirmed to reporters he had convened a meeting in his office that day with Musk and several top Republicans.
"He's really defending the First Amendment. And we had a really good discussion," McCarthy said of Musk.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/27/mccarthy-spoke-with-musk-about-making-twitter-fair-on-all-sides.html
Elon Musk says bots with 'good content' can use Twitter's API for free
#Twitter #TwitterAPI #GoodContent #ElonMusk
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/5/23586577/elon-musk-bots-good-content-twitters-api-free
America’s top cybersecurity diplomat Nate Fick said his personal Twitter account was hacked, calling it part of the "perils of the job."
Fick tweeted the news from his personal account Saturday evening.
It was not clear who was responsible for the hack or if they had made any unauthorized posts on Fick’s account. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.
There did not appear to any broader fallout from the hack.
#CyberSecurity #Twitter #Diplomat
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/politics/nate-fick-twitter-hack-cybersecurity/index.html
Paying Twitter subscribers made up less than 0.2% of monthly users in the US 2 months after Elon Musk introduced Blue, report says
#Twitter #TwitterBlue #ElonMusk
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-subscribers-less-users-pay-months-launch-blue-2023-2
Twitter is telling users that they've reached their daily limit for posts
Twitter was down for about 90 minutes Wednesday, telling users they’d hit their daily limit on posts
#Twitter #LimitedTweets #ElonMusk
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/twitter-daily-limit-error-prevents-users-from-posting.html
Twitter's official developer account tweets a 🧵:
We have been busy with some updates to the Twitter API so you can continue to build and innovate with us.
We're excited to announce an extension of the current free Twitter API access through February 13.
Here's what we’re shipping then:
Paid basic access that offers low level of API usage, and access to Ads API for a $100 monthly fee.
A new form of free access will be introduced as this is extremely important to our ecosystem – limited to Tweet creation of up to 1,500 Tweets per month for a single authenticated user token, including Login with Twitter.
Also on February 13, we will deprecate the Premium API. If you’re subscribed to Premium, you can apply for Enterprise to continue using these endpoints.
This is a new chapter for the Twitter API to increase quality, reduce spam, and enable a thriving ecosystem. We appreciate your patience as we implement these changes and we can’t wait to see what you build next!
Stay tuned for more information on continued Twitter API access.
“This is a new chapter for the Twitter API to increase quality, reduce spam, and enable a thriving ecosystem. We appreciate your patience as we implement these changes and we can’t wait to see what you build next! Stay tuned for more information on continued Twitter API access.”
Twitter suspended 400K for child abuse content but only reported 8K to police
Child safety advocates told The New York Times that after Elon Musk took over, Twitter started taking twice as long to remove CSAM flagged by various organizations.
#Twitter #CSAM #ElonMusk
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/twitter-only-reported-2-of-accounts-suspended-for-child-abuse-content-org-says/
Twitter's official developer account tweeted about the API changes that were planned to be active Valentine's day.
TLDR; The cutover to the updated API has been extended by "a few more days".
#Twitter #TwitterAPI
https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1625234161010343941
“There has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API. As part of our efforts to create an optimal experience for the developer community, we will be delaying the launch of our new API platform by a few more days. More information to follow…”
Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon’s tweets now
For many of still using Twitter its "For You" section is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk.
Not everyone is getting the Elon-first feed, but on Monday afternoon, more than a few people noticed something was different.
#Twitter #ElonMusk
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/13/23598514/twitter-algorithm-elon-musk-tweets
Want to Delete Your Twitter DMs? Good Luck With That
People in Europe are making GDPR requests to have their private messages erased, but Elon’s team is ignoring them.
#GDPR #Twitter #ElonMusk #DirectMessages #Privacy
https://www.wired.com/story/delete-twitter-dms-gdpr/
#ElonMusk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
After his #SuperBowl tweet performed statistically worse than President #Biden's, Musk ordered major changes to the #algorithm.
Biden's tweet, in which he said he would be supporting his wife in rooting for the #PhiladelphiaEagles, generated nearly 29 million impressions. Musk also tweeted support for the Eagles, generated around 9.1 million impressions before deleting the tweet in frustration.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets-algorithm-changes-twitter
After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm. Twitter engineers built a system designed to ensure that Musk benefits from previously unheard-of promotion of his tweets to the entire user base.
#Twitter announced that it would become the #weed-friendliest social platform & start allowing some previously restricted cannabis #ads to appear in the feeds of users in states that have legalized it.
Weed delivery services could be #advertising on Twitter feeds soon.
This new policy sets Twitter apart from other ad giants like #Meta, which bans both CBD and THC ads, #Google, which allows some CBD ads but bans #marijuana ads, including instructional content.
#Cannabis
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/twitter-allows-weed-ads-the-move-could-alienate-its-top-advertisers/
Elon Musk says Twitter will open source its algorithm next week after supporting the idea for months
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-will-open-source-its-algorithm-next-week-2023-2
Some #Twitter employees stopped working after the company's #Slack went down, report says
Twitter's company Slack went down on Wednesday and Thursday, Platformer reported.
Employees were told that it was because of routine maintenance, per the publication.
A Slack employee told #Platformer, however, that there was no such thing as routine maintenance.
https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-employees-slack-elon-musk-went-down-work-2023-2
Elon Musk slams Dilbert backlash as 'racist' against whites
#ElonMusk #Dilbert #Racism
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-dilbert-backlash-racism/
Twitter CEO Elon Musk is slamming the fallout over Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams' comments bashing Blacks as "racist" against whites.Newspapers across the nation have dropped the Dilbert comic strip since Adams unleashed a tirade Wednesday on his YouTube program saying that white people should "get...
#Twitter Payments chief is out as layoffs cut 10% of Twitter staff, report say
Twitter now has fewer than 2,000 employees, The New York Times reported.
Elon Musk says remaining Twitter employees will soon receive 'very significant' stock awards
In an internal memo, he calls the company's most recent round of layoffs 'a difficult organizational overhaul focused on improving future execution.'
#ElonMusk #Twitter #StockAwards
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/27/23616933/elon-musk-twitter-employees-stock-awards-march-after-more-layoffs
Twitter Outage Prevents Users From Visiting Links, Seeing Images
The message 'Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint' is popping up for users. Twitter now says it 'made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.'
The outage has since been resolved with #ElonMusk tweeting "The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite".
#Twitter #TwitterAPI
https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-outage-prevents-users-from-visiting-links-seeing-images
How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday
The high cost of cutting expenses
The change in question was part of a project to shut down free access to the Twitter API, Platformer can now confirm.
“This is what happens when you fire 90 percent of the company,” another current employee says.
https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-down
Twitter Revenue, Adjusted Earnings Drop Around 40% in December
The company is battling with a massively reduced pool of advertising revenue, and lower-than-expected subscribers to Twitter Blue.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/twitter-revenue-adjusted-earnings-drop-around-40-in-december
Thousands of pro-#Trump #bots are attacking #RonDeSantis, #NikkiHaley
Researchers have uncovered a network of tens of thousands of fake #Twitter accounts created to support former president #DonaldTrump and attack his critics and potential rivals
#Election2024
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/digital-foot-soldiers-pro-trump-bots-swarm-desantis-97652880
#ElonMusk has apologized after publicly scoffing at a #Twitter employee's uncertainty about whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts & speaking dismissively of the employee's disability in a series of tweets Monday night.
"I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful," Musk tweeted Tuesday. "He is considering remaining at Twitter."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/tech/elon-musk-twitter-employee-disability/index.html
#EuropeanUnion tells #ElonMusk to hire more staff to moderate #Twitter
Regulators are concerned that platform aims to use more volunteers and #AI for #moderation.
Twitter's $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone
Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets.
Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.
#Twitter #TwitterAPI
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-nearly-everyone/
"There are no guidelines. There's no respect. There's absolutely zero transparency. It's awful," staff at Twitter told i as the dramatic instability at the social media company grows each day
Managers were recently told to provide a list of people who ought to be promoted, says one former staff member still in touch with some who remains working. Many of those managers were subsequently fired and replaced by those they'd recommended.
#ElonMusk #Twitter
https://inews.co.uk/news/pressure-cooker-elon-musk-twitter-2196309
How Elon Musk's tweets unleashed a wave of hate
Elon Musk did not formally respond to the BBC investigation, but did reply on Twitter
His tweets then unleashed a torrent of abuse against Marianna Spring, BBC Disinformation and social media correspondent, from other users.
Musk says Twitter value is down to $20 billion, calls firm an "inverse startup"
Musk email to staff: "I see a clear, but difficult path" to $250 billion value.
#Twitter recently obtained a subpoena compelling #GitHub to provide identifying information on a user who posted portions of the social network's source code, giving the company until April 3 to provide details on user "FreeSpeechEnthusiast".
#Privacy #Anonymity
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/twitter-obtains-subpoena-forcing-github-to-unmask-source-code-leaker/
Scoop: #WhiteHouse won't pay for #Twitter verification
Official White House staffers rely on their verified accounts to inform the public on behalf of the administration. Verification, combined with the designated Twitter profiles, helped to ensure the public could trust those messages.
#ElonMusk announced earlier in March that Twitter will begin removing legacy verified check marks on April 1
#AprilFoolsDay2023
https://www.axios.com/2023/03/31/twitter-verification-white-house-biden-check-mark
#Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why
Posted algorithm code includes "is_democrat," "is_republican," and "is_elon."
#Twitter's blue ticks disappear as #ElonMusk attacks the #NewYorkTimes
The New York Times, along with several other organizations and celebrities, said they would not pay for the tick.
It prompted Elon Musk to launch a volley of insults at the newspaper.
#TwitterVerified
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65156216
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