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Elon Musk to remove light mode on 'X' platform
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Twitter post limit could undermine new CEO, ad experts warn

Alex Omenye Elon Musk’s decision to temporarily limit the number of messages that Twitter users may view on the social media platform could jeopardize the company’s efforts to draw in advertisers under its new CEO Linda Yaccarino, marketing industry experts warned. In an effort to prevent “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Musk […]

Elon Musk sues law firm over Twitter buyout charges
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BREAKING: Musk announces new restrictions, limits to Twitter accounts

Twitter owner, Elon Musk, has announced new restrictions for users on the social media platform after thousands noticed their personal feeds were not refreshing.   Many logging on were met with a message that read “Rate limit exceeded”.   While some have specilated that the platform was experiencing a technical glitch, the Twitter boss has […]

X to introduce video calls for verified users - Report
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Linda Yaccarino assumes duty as Twitter CEO

About a month after Elon Musk selected Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter, Yaccarino tweeted late on Monday that she had started working for the social media business. According to Reuters, she tweeted: “It happened – first day in the books!” without providing any specifics. At a time when Twitter has been attempting to reverse […]

Elon Musk's Twitter halts non-subscriber ads
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Elon Musk’s Twitter halts non-subscriber ads

Twitter, a microblogging website, has announced that as of Friday, April 21, 2023, users who do not subscribe to Twitter Blue will no longer be able to run advertisements on the platform. This came after millions of accounts on the network had their legal blue checks removed as Elon Musk kept up his aggressive campaign for […]

X to offer paid users xAI chatbot - Musk
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Twitter cuts workforce to 1500 – Elon Musk

The CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk stated that the social media company is “roughly breaking even” in term of revenue having cut employees to 1500. He said this during an interview wirh BBC and broadcasted live on Twitter Spaces. He attributed this to the return of most of its advertisers and the success of its […]

X to offer paid users xAI chatbot - Musk
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Turkish board fines Elon Musk over Twitter purchase

The Turkish Competition Board has on Monday said Elon Musk will be fined over Twitter’s takeover without the board’s permission. Reuters reported that Turkey’s board decided to fine Musk an estimated value of 0.1 percent of Twitter’s gross income in Turkey in 2022. This publication recalls that the Billionaire, Elon Musk purchased Twitter on October […]

Elon Musk's X platform hits milestone
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Elon Musk becomes world’s richest man again

Tesla Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, has regained his title of the richest man in the world, after losing it for 82 days.   He had lost the title to French billionaire, Bernard Arnault, CEO, of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury goods company, on December 8, 2022, steming from controversies surrounding […]

Mark Zuckerberg beats Elon Musk in billionaire rankings
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Meta copied Twitter with Facebook, IG subscription plan – Users

Some users of Facebook and Instagram have said the Chief Executive Officer of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has copied Musk’s Twitter ads free paid subscription plan. This followed the announcement of the CEO on Sunday about its plan to begin a paid subscription service that allows users of Instagram and Facebook to verify their accounts. Recall […]

Elon Musk sues law firm over Twitter buyout charges
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Elon Musk hints at Twitter sale by end of 2023

Twitter chief executive, Elon Musk, has hinted about a possible succession for his role in the company towards the end of the year.   In a tweet on Wednesday, Musk hinted that towards the end of this year would be a “good time” to find someone to succeed him as the chief executive of Twitter. […]

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Over 5.4 million Twitter accounts compromised, expert says

More than 5.4 million Twitter users’ records including personal phone numbers and email addresses have been reportedly hacked and made available on the dark web as part of a massive data dump.   The data dump was identified by the founder of cyber security awareness company Habitu8, Chad Loder, who shared the news in a […]

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Musk sells $3.9bn Tesla shares after Twitter deal

Tesla boss and new Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, has sold another 19.5 million shares of the electric car maker worth $3.95bn.   This is coming less than two weeks after the world’s richest man completed his $44bn takeover of Twitter.   BBC reported that Tesla’s share price has fallen by more than 50% since the […]