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.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: New Twitter CEO Starts Today Linda Yaccarino takes over as CEO at Twitter today, and we'll see how that goes; hundreds marched on the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to protest gun violence; and Sup. Stefani may be the swing vote on the Castro Theatre seats.
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.
Business & Tech 'Verified' Account on Twitter Shares AI-Generated Image of Explosion at Pentagon, Briefly Roiling Stock Market In a first major example of a piece of misinformation from a phony yet blue-check "verified" news account on Twitter since the Musk-era change, an account purporting to be Bloomberg News posted an AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon.
Business & Tech Twitter Exec Says He Quit After Being Ordered to Make Illegal Building Changes, According to Lawsuit Brought By Six Former Employees The fallout from Elon Musk's great shakeup-and-layoff spree at Twitter in late 2022 continues this week with a new lawsuit filed in Delaware's Court of Chancery by six former employees who claim they are still owed severance, and that they were ordered by Musk's team to break laws.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Hands Big Tech a Big Win In Content Moderation Cases Two separate lawsuits against tech companies Google and Twitter both went in favor of the tech titans Thursday, as the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that neither were responsible for terrorist acts that were linked to content on their platforms.
Business & Tech After Hiring Ad Exec as Twitter CEO, Musk Says He's Still 'Adamant About Defending Free Speech' Over the weekend Musk defended his CEO-hiring choice, telling fans not to judge too quickly and saying he's not afraid to lose some money over the defense of "free speech."
Business & Tech New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Comes From Media/Broadcast Ad World It's not clear how long Elon Musk has known Linda Yaccarino, or how long he's been courting her to be the new CEO of Twitter. But it's pretty clear from the hiring decision that Musk knows advertising is going to be key to Twitter's future viability.
Business & Tech [Updated] Elon Musk Hires New CEO For Twitter, and She's an Ad Sales Exec In typical fashion, Elon Musk made a major announcement about Twitter via tweet on Thursday without providing complete details — which, again, might have been handled differently if he had a PR department.
Business & Tech Guess What Tucker Carlson's New Broadcast Platform Is! Lest you think that Elon Musk might have been reconsidering his recent decision to go on Tucker Carlson's now canceled Fox News show to talk about his concerns for the future of artificial intelligence... he's now doubling down on his apparent love for Carlson.
Business & Tech Musk Is Now Threatening to Take NPR's Twitter Handle From Them and Reassign It In the latest of many childish moves that show Elon Musk's downright Trumpian disdain for the media, the billionaire owner of Twitter has reportedly been threatening National Public Radio over the news org's decision to stop using its Twitter account.
Business & Tech A Year Later and After Launching Open-Source Twitter Alternative, Jack Dorsey Says Elon Musk's Takeover Was a Mistake Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has changed his tune quite a bit since this time last year, when he seemed to fully endorse the sale of the company to fellow billionaire Elon Musk.
Business & Tech Twitter Relaxes Cannabis Ad Rules, Becoming First Platform to Allow Them Twitter made a big announcement that they’ll allow cannabis ads on the platform, but surprise surprise, companies can only do so if they’ve bought a blue-check subscription.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Elected Officials Can Block People On Twitter Our current, staunchly conservative and largely older Supreme Court is going to show the world how much they understand about social media next term, taking up a case about who can block whom on social media.
Business & Tech Musk Plays Favorites With Blue-Check Purge, Says He's Paying for Stephen King, LeBron James, and William Shatner to Keep Theirs Elon Musk's plan to remove "Verified" blue checkmarks from all the celebrities who've had them for a decade unless they coughed up $8 likely wasn't that well thought-out.
Business & Tech Twitter Bug Is Allowing People to Post Tweets That Are 84,000 Characters Long Bug-finding enthusiast Jane Manchun Wong found on Thursday night that she could post a series of a's in a tweet, 84,000 of them, without triggering a new extended character limit for Twitter Blue subscribers.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Gives Interview to BBC, Says Running Twitter Is 'Painful,' Hints That He'd Sell to the Right Buyer Since Twitter currently lacks a communications or PR department, it's not surprising that a BBC reporter just showed up at Twitter HQ after a casual and likely insincere invitation and corralled Elon Musk into a new interview.
SF News Humpday Headlines: NPR Has Quit Twitter Accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape was supposed to get a trial date but did not; NPR has quit Twitter over being labeled "state-affiliated media" by Musk; and PG&E is being blamed for cost overruns at affordable housing developments in SF.
Business & Tech Something Else Is Happening With Twitter as Musk Sets Up New Company Called X Corp., Based In Nevada Perhaps it's a way of navigating Twitter's legal liabilities, perhaps it's a step toward creating a WeChat-esque "everything app," or perhaps it's a bit of both. But Elon Musk's lawyers now say that Twitter "no longer exists," and he tweeted just the letter "X."
Business & Tech Elon Musk Gets More Juvenile, Paints Over 'W' On Twitter Sign So It Reads 'Titter' Perhaps to create another distraction so we pay less attention to other troubling behavior, Elon Musk has had the sign painted outside Twitter HQ on Market Street so that it looks like it says "Titter."
Business & Tech Twitter Labels NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’ In Musk's Latest Taunt at Mainstream Press The Twitter account for NPR has been labeled with the “state-affiliated media” designation used for Russian and Chinese propaganda, but Musk’s critics point out that his companies get a hell of a lot more federal subsidies than NPR does.
Business & Tech Twitter Fails To Remove Blue Checks For People Who Didn’t Pay, Only Removes the NY Times’ Check The Twitter D-Day for removing verification blue checks came and went without any noticeable blue check removal, with only the New York Times getting their check removed, and now Elon Musk has replaced the blue bird logo with a crypto meme.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Twitter Restricts Marjorie Taylor Greene's Account (Again) Twitter has restricted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account over comments about the Nashville shooter; the feds have charged two more alleged Tenderloin drug dealers; and state economists have put a price tag on statewide reparations.
Business & Tech Disgruntled Former Employee Allegedly Leaked Twitter's Source Code on GitHub Twitter executives were scrambling late last week after the revelation that the platform's source code had been live and publicly available for download on the developer collaboration platform GitHub.
Business & Tech Another Glitchy Day at Elon Musk's Twitter, Snafu Breaks Several Features Across the Platform Twitter had a roughly 90-minute meltdown for thousands of users Monday morning, and while the platform is back up and running, these things seem to be happening more frequently in the wake of Musk's mass layoffs.
