Elon Musk on Friday suggested he was putting his acquisition of Twitter on hold to try to figure out if Twitter is underreporting the number of fake accounts it has. Musk said his team was picking the Twitter official account and looking thro...
but he also adopted them himself. Many of us who don’t follow right-wing sources found those people appearing on our Twitter feeds. We had to unfollow to get rid of them. Mr. Musk has himself X-ed conspiracy theories and antisemitic slurs. ...
Twitter is owned by Elon Musk,the world’s richest individual. Muskadvocates for right-wing— and inat least onecase,far-right— political candidates, which is his right, but also makes him a partisan activist who owns a platform for digital communication. Rather than treading carefully in lig...
Why is Musk limiting how many tweets users can see?Musk said the new rate limits are temporary and meant to “address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.” If you believe this, then it seems that despite Twitter’s API crackdown, people are finding other ways to ac...
In this unedited conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Elon Musk digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, how his brain works, the future he envisions for the world and a lot more....
Elon Musk told the United Nations he would give them $6 billion to end world hunger if they showed him a detailed plan of how they would use the money. They called his bluff and gave him their plan— and then they never got the money. Now he’s buying Twitter for $45 billion. ...
Elon Musk's latest (bad) idea for X: Remove headlines and other context from links that are shared on the platform. Credit: Harun Ozalp/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Another day, another Elon Musk-requested change to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that everyone seemingly ...
Twitter stops defending against Musk's hostile bid and formally announces it has accepted Musk’s offer. The deal locks Musk in, stipulating he will pay a penalty of $1 billion if he walks away. May 13, 2022 Musk pauses the deal. Reason? He complains Twitter has too many spam accounts,...
Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is considered a technological visionary and has over 44.7 million Twitter followers. We analyze to what extent Musk's Twitter activity affects short-term cryptocurrency returns and volume. Based on six recent cryptocurrency-related Twitter activities, we ...
But then I gained followers (not many) and it started to make some kind of sense. In the pandemic, isolated people around the world took to Twitter, for news and company. In its letter to shareholders, the social media site said its active users increased 27 per cent in 2020. It ...