Business & Tech Oof: Trump's Twitter Account Is Back Online After Millions Vote in Poll About Its Reinstatement After Elon Musk's posted a Twitter poll that showed around eight million votes in favor of allowing former President Donald J. Trump back on the platform, Musk tweeted "the people have spoken" Saturday night.
Business & Tech On Day of 1,200 More Departures at Twitter, Activist Projects Insults to Elon Musk On Side of Building Thursday was another day of chaos at Twitter as Elon Musk continues his master class in how not to take over a company. And of course someone began projecting a scroll of insults directed at Musk on the side of Twitter headquarters.
Business & Tech As Deadline Passes For Twitter Employees to Commit to Being 'Hardcore,' Some Wonder If It's All a Trap Elon Musk's erratic behavior and flippant comments since taking the helm as Chief Twit two weeks ago have some Twitter employees worried that he might be setting them up to fail — or that he might not follow through on his severance offer.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Musk Gives Twitter Employees New Ultimatum Elon Musk has given all Twitter employees until 5 p.m. tomorrow to commit to being "hardcore" or leave, a beloved community activist and urban farmer was brutally beaten in the Tenderloin, and Matt Mahan's lead grew in the San Jose mayor's race.
Business & Tech Twitter Has Already Paused Those $8 Checkmark Subscriptions Amid Fakes Once again proving that Musk et al have not thought any of this through, they've paused the $8 Twitter Blue subscription thing two days after launching it, because, yes, there are a lot of nitwits and bad actors out there who want to pose as celebrities.
Business & Tech The Musk Era of Whack-a-Mole With Fake 'Verified' Accounts at Twitter Has Begun, and More Execs Are Resigning If a verified, blue-checkmarked LeBron James account is tweeting at you, don't be alarmed. It's probably not LeBron James. Also, several key Twitter executives in charge of safety and privacy just resigned. WHAT COULD GO WRONG.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Loren Taylor Extends Lead In Oakland Mayor's Race Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor remains poised to be the city's new mayor, Musk makes it clear that remote work is over at Twitter, and all this rain has meant that fire season is probably over.
Business & Tech During Wild Disinformation Election Day, Twitter Rolls Out (Then Quickly Cancels) New ‘Official’ Check Marks The twin traps of election disinformation and Elon Musk’s own impulsiveness both bit Twitter’s rear end over the last 24 hours, and unsurprisingly, advertisers are not exactly clamoring to buy ads on the platform.
SF Politics Elon Musk Says Vote GOP, Right As GOP Vows Boycotts Of Advertisers Who Leave Twitter It’s not surprising that Elon Musk continues his right-wing turn by tweeting that people should vote Republican in the midterms. What’s surprising is that people think he’s doing so out of principle rather than self-interest.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Twitter Begs Some Laid-Off Employees to Return, Amidst Botched, Delayed $8 Blue-Check Rollout The Elon Musk era stumbled out of the gate and stepped on a few rakes this weekend, as the skeleton crew still around was forced to delay the new $8 blue check system, and management are begging some freshly canned staff members to return.
SF News [Update] Twitter Rolls Out, Then Delays Its $8-a-Month Subscription for Blue Check Marks Twitter began quietly offering its contentious $7.99-a-month subscription model Saturday for blue check marks, citing that users who are willing to pay will enjoy additional niceties like the ability to post longer videos and see half the ads they typically would.
SF News At Least 890 Bay Area-based Twitter Employees Were Laid Off Friday Friday was a dark and anxiety-ridden day for tweeps as about half of the workforce was terminated in a Thanos-like snap. And, according to state filings, 784 employees laid off from Twitter worked in San Francisco, while another 106 were based in San Jose.
Business & Tech Twitter Building Shuttered Until Monday as Employees Get Emailed Pink Slips; Lawsuit Filed Over Layoff Notification Twitter employees in San Francisco, New York, Dublin and elsewhere got their emails Thursday night and into Friday morning informing them whether or not they still had jobs with the company.
Business & Tech AOC Says Her Twitter Account Was ‘Bricked’ After Musk Criticism, Possibly the Shape of Things To Come While Twitter employees are working 12-hour days under the threat of termination, their boss Elon Musk is engaged in trolling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and possibly limiting features on her account.
Business & Tech Musk Reportedly Laying Off 50% of Twitter Staff, Layoffs to Begin Friday Black Friday is coming a few weeks early at Twitter, as reports come in that Elon Musk will lay off 50% of the company starting Friday, which hardly bodes well for the new paid blue-check system which is supposed to launch Monday.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Had a Zoom Meeting Last Night With Nonprofits About Hate Speech Chief Twit Elon Musk apparently had a hastily planned meeting with seven nonprofits via Zoom on Tuesday night, and it left them feeling some type of way about how hate speech and elections will be handled, going forward, at Twitter.
Business & Tech Musk Said to Be Demanding 12-Hour Shifts In First Week at Twitter; Has Set Up 'War Room' of Cronies to Lead Transition It can't be very fun to be inside Twitter HQ this week — and dad jokes aside, new Chief Twit Elon Musk is apparently presenting himself as a taskmaster seeking to test employees' devotion to the company, their skills, and their work ethic right out of the gate.
Business & Tech Twitter to Charge $20/mo Subscription For Blue Checkmarks; Musk Polls Users About Bringing Back Vine As we await word on how swift and widespread layoffs may be at Twitter, Chief Twit Elon Musk is making moves and hinting at others — and still acting like a child with a new toy he may break any second.
SF News Of Course, Musk Tweeted Out an Anti-LGBTQ Conspiracy Theory About Attack on Paul Pelosi Leave it to Elon Musk to post a since-deleted tweet that contained misinformation about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband. And no surprise here: The conspiracy theory first appeared on the Santa Monica Observer — a fringe website dominated by right-wing conspiracies.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Promises Facebook-Style 'Moderation Council' to Make Content and Ban Decisions at Twitter New Chief Twit Elon Musk announced Friday that he will be allowing some content moderation to happen at Twitter after all — but it won't be staff doing it, it will be an independent "content moderation council" like Facebook has.
SF News Will Trump Be Allowed to Mouth Off on Twitter Again Before the Midterms? We're counting down the minutes or days before Donald Trump is welcomed back on Twitter by new Chief Twit Elon Musk. Because what's a 246-year-old democracy worth when you'd rather be "saving humanity" through unfettered dialogue and free speech.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Top Twitter Execs Fired as Musk Takes the Helm The Elon Musk Era at Twitter has officially begun, a second fatal pedestrian crash happened in the Sunset, and 41 of the 47 Alameda County sheriff's deputies put on leave over their psych evaluations are now back on active duty.
Business & Tech Aww, Elon Musk Says He Bought Twitter For the Good of Humanity, Doesn't Want It to Become a 'Free-For-All Hellscape' Elon Musk says his intentions are really pure and selfless in deciding to buy Twitter for $44 billion and take it private, and he's doing this "to help humanity, whom I love."
Business & Tech Elon Musk Shows Up at Twitter HQ With a Porcelain Sink, Which Is His Way Of Saying He’s Serious About Closing Deal Unfunny prankster Elon Musk is in town, making a show of symbolic moves that indicate that he really is going to acquire (and probably ruin) Twitter in the next few days.
Business & Tech Now Elon Musk’s Proposed Twitter Takeover May Be Subject to a National Security Review Musk’s Twitter takeover is largely financed by Saudi and Qatari money, and given Musk’s curious pro-Putin turn, national security officials are wondering what these international oligarchs might be getting in return here.
