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?
SF News Twitter's Name Change to 'X' Gets Botched at SF Headquarters, Which Now Has a Sign That Says 'Er' When Elon Musk announced Twitter's name change to "X" Sunday and tried to remove the "@twitter" sign at its Market Street headquarters Monday, he got caught in a classic SF permitting snafu and cops halted work mid-removal.
Business & Tech Threads Beats ChatGPT to 100 Million User Milestone; Twitter Traffic Allegedly 'Tanking' Meta's Threads app, which just went live last Wednesday evening, already reached 100 million users on Sunday, handily beating ChatGPT's recently set record for achieving that many users in a brief span of time.
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 Gets Cease-And-Desist Letter From Fox News, Hires Former SF GOP Chair As Lawyer It was already going to be massively entertaining to watch Fox News wage legal war on Tucker Carlson over his Twitter show, but now add to the mix that Carlson’s attorney is former SF GOP chair Harmett Dhillon, who’s facing her own set of financial impropriety allegations.
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.
