Business & Tech Now Elon Musk Won’t Join the Twitter Board, Tech World Wonders What His Deal Is Wait, something about a “background check?” Elon Musk suddenly relinquishes his proffered seat on the Twitter board of directors, which could be a nefarious Elon plot, or a sign of his very short attention span.
Business & Tech Twitter is Adding an Edit Button Now That It’s the Elon Musk Era There Typo committers rejoice! The long-requested edit button is coming and has been secretly in the works at Twitter for awhile, just as it turns out Elon Musk’s ascension to the Twitter board of directors had been secretly in the works too.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Buys a Nearly 10% Stake in Twitter, What Could Go Wrong? The flamboyant Tesla CEO is now Twitter’s largest shareholder, as Elon Musk has scooped up more than 73 million shares of Twitter, valued at nearly $3 billion Friday, but now worth a lot more since the sale went public and the stock went booming.
Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Attempt to Stifle Russian Propaganda Campaign; Russia Turns to Chinese-Owned TikTok Social media is again being used as a battleground by Russia as it continues to try to "sell" its invasion of Ukraine to the Russian people, and to sympathizers abroad.
Business & Tech The Trump vs. Twitter Lawsuit is Happening in San Francisco, And It’s Not Going Well for Trump In a lawsuit literally named Trump v. Twitter, the former president is suing Twitter to allow him back on the platform, but his arguments are going fruitlessly in a San Francisco district court.
Business & Tech Trump's Twitter-for-Bigots, Truth Social, Launches Without a Working App Remember how Trump's new media company was launching its own social network, dubbed Truth Social, and Devin Nunes left his job in Congress to help lead this company and this new thing they imagine will go toe to toe with Twitter?
Arts & Entertainment Karl the Fog Twitter Account Comes Back Alive, Says He's Been Living With His Parents During the Pandemic The famed Twitter account for San Francisco's famed fog, Karl the Fog, dormant lo these several years, came back to life Thursday morning just as some seriously dense fog came to envelop the city and wreak havoc.
Business & Tech Twitter Now Says You Can’t Share Other People’s Images Without Their Consent, Confusion Abounds The new post-Jack Dorsey Twitter immediately freaked people out with a “more robust” privacy policy update, and they’re still posting threads to unspool exactly what this all means.
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO, Gives Little Reason A year after an attempted ouster by a major investor, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down from his role at the company, and longtime CTO Parag Agrawal will take the helm in his place.
Business & Tech Instagram and Facebook Experience Second Outage In a Week; Twitter Is Gleeful It may not be the worldwide meltdown of Monday, but Instagram and Facebook were not loading properly for some users on both coasts of the U.S. today, and the company has confirmed there's a problem.
SF Politics Trump Is Now Suing All the Tech Companies Who Banned Him Donald Trump is busying himself with a new crusade that is likely to fail, and it's a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Business & Tech Twitter Launches Subscription Service That Will Allow Users to 'Undo' Tweets Twitter just announced the launch of its Twitter Blue product, a new subscription service with extra perks for avid users that is rolling out today in Australia and Canada ahead of a wider launch.
SF Politics ROFL: Trump Shuts Down His Blog After One Month Because No One Is Reading It In an entirely predictable turn of events, our former president has abruptly shut down his "From the Desk of Donald Trump" weblog, barely a month after it launched.
Business & Tech Facebook, Twitter, and Google Face Angry Lawmakers In First Congressional Hearing Since Biden's Inauguration The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were testifying before Congress on Thursday for the first time in the post-Trump era, and for possibly the last time before lawmakers begin debating sweeping changes to how they're allowed to do business.
Business & Tech LOL: Trump Is Going to Launch His Own Version of Twitter Oh this should be fun and embarrassing. Serial shyster Donald Trump, who used to hold some kind of government job, is reportedly planning to launch his own social media platform now that he's been banned from Twitter and Facebook.
Business & Tech Twitter Will Let Influencers and Adult Performers Charge to See 'Premium' Tweets Twitter just announced two big new features on Thursday, one that allows users to create a "Super Follower" status in which followers can pay for premium content, and one that creates Facebook-esque groups based on shared interests.
Business & Tech Twitter Insists Trump Is Permanently Banned, Even If He Runs Again Trump cannot ever return to Twitter again and his deleted tweets are truly gone forever, but those very tweets are haunting him bigly at today’s impeachment trial proceedings.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Thomas Keller Flees Twitter After Series of PR Gaffes, Criticism Over Huge PPP Loans and Trump Ties It's been a rough year, PR-wise, for French Laundry chef and restaurant empire-builder Thomas Keller, and it looks like he's finally decided to abandon Twitter on account of the fact that he can't stop saying things there that piss off large swaths of the American public.
Business & Tech Pro-Trump Protest at Twitter HQ Fails to Materialize There was much ado about nothing Monday morning outside Twitter headquarters, where police and journalists waited for a deluge of pro-Trump protest chaos that never came.
Business & Tech Boom — President Trump Has Been Permanently Banned From Twitter With only 12 days left in his presidency, the sitting American president has been permanently removed from his favorite late night, all-caps messaging platform.
Business & Tech Facebook Locks Trump's Account Indefinitely; Will Twitter Be Next? Following temporary locks on Donald Trump's Twitter and Facebook accounts that began Wednesday night, Facebook has escalated its crackdown on the president's lies and decided to suspend his access to the platform indefinitely.
Business & Tech Twitter Locks Trump's Account, Facebook and YouTube Remove Video After His Continuing Lies Fail to Discourage Rioters Twitter has stepped in to lock President Trump's account for 12 hours and blocked access to several tweets from Wednesday citing risks of violence, and along with Facebook and YouTube they have removed a video Trump posted from the Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon.
Business & Tech Twitter is Testing ‘Humanization Prompts’ in Hopes That We Won’t Be Such Trolls to One Another Twitter figures that if we are informed that someone also likes dogs or soccer, maybe we will tone down our death threats and online harassment.
Business & Tech Twitter Acquires Group Video-Chat App Squad, Will Shut It Down This Weekend Squad, an app that allows users to video-chat and screen-share with groups of friends in a more "fun" way than Zoom, has been acquired by Twitter, and the Squad app will have its sunset on Saturday, December 12.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg and Dorsey Return to Testify Before Congress About Misinformation, Liberal Bias Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey were once again taking part in the political theater of a congressional hearing on Tuesday, this time testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Ted Cruz got a chance to yell and Dianne Feinstein got to frown at them both.
