"Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit," he wrote. "Power to the people! Blue for $8/month." Power to the people, but only if they can afford it. Tweet may have been deleted In follow up tweets, Musk said Twitter ...
Elon Musk's 25-year obsession with 'X' explains what he did to Twitter Given that Musk wasinitially selling the idea of a blue check as bringing "power to the people", it feels a little ironic that he's now rolled out an option to hide the very thing he was suggesting people give ...
Still, some of his controversial comments remain on the site. For example, Musk didn't delete one of his weekend tweets asking if Twitter is "dying." In the post, he pointed out that some of Twitter's most popular users, including Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber, ...
During an all-hands meeting with Twitter employees today, Musk said that the company is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales and that employees are encouraged to make referrals, according to two people who attended and a partial recording obtained byThe Verg...
As soon as Musk’s acquisition of Twittter was finalized, Shonda Rhimes quit Twitter. “Not hanging around for whatever Elon has planned,” shewrote. “Bye.” TheGrey’s Anatomycreator’s account still exists, but Rhimes has not tweeted or liked any tweets since Oct. 29. ...
Once we scraped a decade worth of Elon Musk tweets, we dug through the data and sorted the information to answer two main questions: What are Elon Musk’s most tweeted topics? How has his Twitter activity changed over the years? To answer the first question, we sorted Elon’s tweets into...
WhenElon Muskwas forced to buy Twitter two years ago, hesaid his goal was to turn the platform into two things: the “digital town square” and the “everything app.” He has failed at both goals. X isn’t something that is upsetting“the far right and the far left equally,”Instead...
Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday night that he will step down as CEO of Twitter once he finds a replacement. It was not immediately clear if Musk was serious, and no formal announcement beyond the tweet had been made. "I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to...
Musk is one of, if not the,most prolific users on Twitter today, maintaining a prominent presence on the platform through his steady stream of tweets about a variety of subjects and thoughts. Musk’s follower count has seen steady growth, though his acquisition of Twitter last year likely acc...
You’d be forgiven for failing to remember every twist and turn — every controversial post, weird office update, legal threat and policy rollout (and, sometimes, rollback) — that took place during Elon Musk’s first year owning Twitter.