Business & Tech One Year Into the Musk Era, Twitter/X Has Fewer Users, Fewer Advertisers, Less Clout Whatever Elon Musk's ultimate vision for the platform he and almost no one else calls X may be, it is still slow to take shape, and one year into his tenure at the company, the results of his leadership aren't great.
SF Politics Preston Becomes Latest SF Supervisor to Quit Twitter/X SF Supervisor Dean Preston says he's deleting his Twitter/X account, two weeks after the company's owner, Elon Musk, tweeted that Preston should "go to prison," becoming the latest in a string of city supervisors to leave the platform.
Business & Tech As Misinformation About Israel-Hamas War Proliferates, EU Threatens X/Twitter With Fines The European Union's digital enforcer has sent an urgent letter to Elon Musk about the proliferation of misinformation on X regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, "reminding" Musk of the company's obligations under the EU's Digital Services Act, and CEO Linda Yaccarino has replied.
SF News Grimes Files Suit Against Elon Musk Over Parental Rights After Saying She Had Not Seen Her Son One of Elon Musk's baby mamas, Grimes, a.k.a. Claire Boucher, made a legal filing in San Francisco Superior Court Friday that may indicate all is not copacetic between the two parents, who now share three children together.
SF Politics Now Elon Musk Says SF Supervisor Dean Preston ‘Should Go To Prison’ Twitter/X owner Elon Musk continues his obsession with District 5 supervisor Dean Preston, on Friday tweeting that “Dean Preston should go to prison,” prompting the tech PAC in line for Musk’s promised $100k donation to defeat Preston to say they’ll refuse the money.
SF Politics Elon Musk Claims He’ll Spend $100,000 to Beat Dean Preston In 2024 Election Is it a blessing or a curse when perhaps the most widely loathed and cartoonish CEO in tech vows he’ll spend $100,000 to defeat you in an election? Supervisor Dean Preston will find out, as Elon Musk claimed in a tweet that he’ll pledge a hundred grand to beat the District 5 supervisor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter (X) May Start Charging Everyone Elon Musk says X may have to start charging everyone to use it, to combat bots; the CEO of Square is stepping down after that huge outage; and SF's Turtle Tower restaurant has closed after 23 years.
Business & Tech Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Has Friendly Live Chat With Elon Musk About AI, Antisemitism, and Judicial Power Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew overnight to San Francisco to have a public conversation with Elon Musk Monday morning about multiple subjects, including AI, antisemitism on Twitter/X, and the power of courts in a functioning democracy.
Business & Tech Tech Bigwigs Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman and Others Hold Private Meeting With Congress on Regulating AI In what seems like inviting the foxes to a forum on henhouse safety, the biggest names in AI held a secret meeting in Washington, D.C. yesterday to advise Senate leaders on how to regulate the fast-growing AI industry.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Is Now Suing California Over Its New Content Moderation Law In what seems like another ill-advised move from a PR and advertiser-comfort perspective, Elon Musk's X Corp. is now suing the state of California over a new law that requires social media platforms to make their content moderation policies and methods public.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Admits to Preventing Ukrainian Drone Strike on Crimea These are extraordinary times when a billionaire capitalist is able to singlehandedly intervene in an international conflict on his own whims. But that appears to be at least partly what happened in an incident last year that's described in a new book about Elon Musk.
Business & Tech X Rolls Out Its First Non-Tweet-Related Feature, and It's a LinkedIn Competitor Saying over the weekend that he can't bring himself to look at resumes on LinkedIn because "the cringe level is so high," Elon Musk rolled out a beta version of X Hiring, which will charge verified organizations a fee to post jobs.
Business & Tech Musk Says X 'May Fail' Amid Weekend of Glitches and Drama Elon Musk threatened to jettison the "block" feature on Twitter/X, which led to plenty of drama on the platform over the weekend, and meanwhile, something went awry with all photos and links from pre-December 2014.
SF Politics Trump May Do Interview With Tucker Carlson on X Next Week, Upstaging Republican Debate Donald Trump has reportedly made plans to do an online interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, on a platform still to be determined, in a middle-finger move to upstage the first Republican candidate debate.
Business & Tech Judge Asked Whether Elon Musk Wanted to 'Cozy Up' to Trump By Refusing Order In January 6th Case We just learned this week that Special Counsel Jack Smith definitely got Donald Trump's DMs from his defunct Twitter account, but now we're getting court transcripts showing how it went down.
Business & Tech As Quickly As It Went Up, the 'X' On Top of the Twitter Building Is Gone The defiance of Elon Musk seems to have some limits, as the X on top of what I guess we're now supposed to refer to as the X Building was removed on Monday morning, after a weekend of neighbor complaints.
SF News Elon Musk's Social Media Company Installs Giant 'X' Logo on HQ Roof, Prompting Another City Investigation San Francisco opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the installation, but city workers say they were denied access to the roof on-site to inspect it on Friday and Saturday.
Business & Tech Turning 'Tweets' Into 'Xs' Not Likely Happening In the General Lexicon Anytime Soon While Elon Musk can order all the graphics and signs swapped out that he likes, he actually doesn't have the power to erase a verb and a noun from our contemporary vocabulary.
Business & Tech Musk Is Sacrificing Billions In Brand Value and Recognition By Killing Off Twitter Name, Analysts Say What do we even call a tweet now?
Business & Tech Elon-Zuck Battle Heats Up With Musk Threatening Lawsuit Over Meta’s Copycat Product Threads Elon Musk’s lawyer sent Mark Zuckerberg a quasi-cease-and-desist letter complaining that Meta poached “dozens of Twitter employees” (whom Musk had fired!) to create the Twitter knock-off Threads, and even implies that Zuckerberg played a role in Twitter’s recent glitches.
Business & Tech Meta's 'Twitter Killer,' Called Threads, Launches Thursday It looks like Mark Zuckerberg and his crew at Meta wanted to fast-track their Twitter competitor just as other products like BlueSky are drawing away disgruntled Twitter users. And now the new app, called Threads, hits the App Store Thursday.
Business & Tech Musk's Move to Limit Tweet Views Looks to Be Another User- and Advertiser-Alienating Blunder Over the holiday weekend, Twitter users started getting messages about having "exceeded" their "rate limit" for viewing tweets, and it turns out this was non-CEO-CEO Elon Musk's latest effort to crack down on data scraping, which in turn pissed off a legion of loyal users.
Business & Tech Musk and Zuckerberg Are Play-Fighting Over Meta's 'Sanely Run' Twitter Competitor, Maybe Called Threads Meta is going to be rolling out its "answer to Twitter" sometime soon. The internet is chattering about it. And Elon Musk has challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a "cage match" over it.
SF Politics Tucker Carlson Debuts Painfully Low-Budget ‘Tucker On Twitter’ Show Incel messiah Tucker Carlson debuted his new Twitter streaming show this week, and it’s now two episodes in, with Elon Musk apparently gaming the Twitter platform to wildly over-inflate how many views the videos appear to be getting.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Is Hosting Ron DeSantis's Campaign Kick-Off Via Twitter Event Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reportedly plans to formally announce his candidacy for president in 2024 in a live Twitter audio conversation with none other than Elon Musk — signaling, we suppose, the DeSantis camp's bet that potential DeSantis voters can be found among Musk's fanboys.
