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 Layoffs Cut Across Many Divisions; Musk Is Whining About Activists Whom He Blames For Advertiser Exodus The layoff sweep at Twitter was nothing if not chaotic and cruel, and after months of speculation and hollow denials about what was to come, employees are left either holding the bag or waiting to find out what their severance packages look like.
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.
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.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Now Says He'll Buy Twitter At His Original Price, But He May Still Be Negotiating Ugh, the stupid saga drags on, and late Monday, Elon Musk did an about-face and said 'No, no, JK! Forget about the last four months, I actually do want to buy Twitter.'
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Musk Gets Deposed By Twitter Thousands of motorcyclists gathered on Saturday in Stockton for a massive funeral for Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger, Elon Musk is getting deposed today by Twitter's attorneys, and temps in SF will cool off before warming back up by the weekend.
Business & Tech Twitter Whistleblower Testifies About Breaches, Vulnerabilities on the Platform Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower and former security exec there who surfaced three weeks ago to tell the world that all is not well within Twitter's security systems, testified before a Senate Committee today.
Business & Tech Yes Indeed, Twitter Is Finally Getting That Edit Button Starting Today (For Some) The long-demanded, recently rumored edit button is finally a reality on Twitter, though it’s going to roll out slowly, and you’ll only be able to edit the tweet within the first 30 minutes after you post it.
Business & Tech Twitter’s Ex Head of Security Blows Whistle On ‘Egregious’ Security Flaws, Possible Spies on Company Payroll Twitter has much bigger problems than bots, according to its former head of security, who just dropped a bomb in claims to the federal government that the site’s security is so lax it’s a risk to national security, and the company allegedly has foreign intelligence agents on the payroll.
