UPDATE: Elon Musk claims X being targeted in ‘massive cyberattack’
Following two morning outages, a sustained outage that lasted at least an hour began at noon, with the heaviest disruptions occurring along the U.S. coasts.
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Top Twitter executives fired as Elon Musk takeover begins
Musk became Twitter’s owner late Thursday as his $44 billion deal to take over the company closed, marking a new era for one of the world’s most influential social media platforms.
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Twitter’s rebranding into X predicted to kill billions of dollars in brand value
It’s rare for corporate brands to become so intertwined with everyday conversation that they become verbs. It’s rarer still for the owner of such a brand to announce plans to intentionally destroy it.
UPDATE: Musk reveals new X logo to replace Twitter’s blue bird
The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday, but the bird was still dominant across the smartphone app.
Twitter threatens legal action against Meta over new rival app Threads
An attorney representing Twitter accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a “copycat” app.
Meta looks to target Twitter with rival app called Threads
Threads could be the latest headache for Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter last year for $44 billion and has been making changes that have unnerved advertisers and turned off users.
With new limits on tweets, users and advertisers could go elsewhere
Twitter owner Elon Musk has put new curfews on his digital town square, the latest drastic change to the social media platform that could further drive away advertisers and undermine its cultural influence as a trend-setter.
Musk imposes daily limits on reading posts on Twitter
Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the number of tweets that users can view each day—restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform.
Twitter accuses Microsoft of misusing its data, foreshadowing possible fight over AI
Twitter owner Elon Musk has previously accused Microsoft and its partner OpenAI of “illegally” using Twitter data to develop sophisticated AI systems such as ChatGPT.
Musk confirms Twitter’s new CEO is ad guru Linda Yaccarino from NBCUniversal
Yaccarino has worked at NBCUniversal for nearly 12 years—with her team generating more than $100 billion in ad sales since 2011, her company bio notes.
Twitter say parts of its source code leaked online
The leak creates more challenges for billionaire Elon Musk, who bought Twitter last October for $44 billion and took the company private. Since then, it has been engulfed in chaos, with massive layoffs and advertisers fleeing.
Twitter hit by glitches as links, images fail to load
The company experienced an uptick of instability and bugs in recent months after new owner Elon Musk cut its staff sharply.
Twitter scrambles to fix meltdown as many unable to tweet
It is not clear what caused Wednesday’s meltdown, but Twitter engineers and experts have been warning that the platform is at an increased risk of fraying since new owner Elon Musk fired most of the people who worked on keeping it running.
Twitter leak exposes 235 million email addresses from hack
While account passwords were not leaked, malicious hackers could use the email addresses to try to reset people’s passwords, or guess them if they are commonly used or reused with other accounts.
UPDATE: Twitter poll closes, users vote in favor of Musk exit as CEO
More than half of 17.5 million users who responded to a poll that asked whether billionaire Elon Musk should step down as head of Twitter voted yes when the poll closed on Monday.
Twitter suspends journalists who wrote about owner Elon Musk
Musk took to Twitter on Thursday night to accuse journalists of sharing private information about his whereabouts that he described as “basically assassination coordinates.”
Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety advisory group
The advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.
Many top advertisers skittish about Twitter under Musk
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.
Elon Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account
The move could help the platform’s once loudest, bluntest force regain online attention just as a new presidential election begins.
Twitter risks fraying as engineers exit over Musk upheaval
Elon Musk’s managerial bomb-throwing at Twitter has so thinned the ranks of software engineers that industry insiders and programmers who were fired or resigned this week agree: Twitter may soon fray so badly it could actually crash.
Hundreds said to have opted to leave Twitter over Musk ultimatum
Hundreds of Twitter employees refused Thursday to sign a pledge to work longer hours, threatening the site’s ability to keep operating and prompting hurried debates among managers over who should be asked to return, current and former employees said.