Twitter Said to Consider Selling User Names to Boost Revenue
Twitter has considered selling user names to generate new revenue as its owner, Elon Musk, tries to resuscitate the company’s business, two people with knowledge of the plan said. Twitter employees have held conversations about selling some user names for the service since at least December, the people said. Engineers have discussed running online auctions […]
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What Are the Politics of Elon Musk? It’s Complicated.
On occasion, his remarks have raised concerns that he has planted himself firmly among right-wing conspiracy theorists. When he tweeted about the attack on Ms. Pelosi’s husband, he shared the unfounded claim that there was “a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.” He later deleted the tweet, which […]
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What’s Twitter’s Future? The Former Head of Trust And Safety Weighs In
Regulators have significant tools at their disposal to enforce their will on Twitter and on Mr. Musk. Penalties for noncompliance with Europe’s Digital Services Act could total as much as 6 percent of the company’s annual revenue. In the United States, the F.T.C. has shown an increasing willingness to exact significant fines for noncompliance with […]
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Twitter Rebuts Musk’s Fraud Claim in Dispute Over Fake Accounts
Twitter has accused Elon Musk, in a lawsuit, of abandoning his planned acquisition of the company because stock market turbulence made the deal more difficult for him. But firing back in a legal filing, Mr. Musk says it was Twitter that torpedoed the $44 billion acquisition. Mr. Musk argues that Twitter concealed the true number […]
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Twitter’s Earnings Falter as It Fights with Elon Musk
Twitter is embroiled in a grueling legal fight with Elon Musk as he tries to back out of a $44 billion acquisition of the company. It has slowed its hiring as it grapples with a flagging economy. Its stock price has slumped. On Friday, Twitter revealed the toll from those challenges. In an earnings report, […]
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Twitter Worker Accused of Spying for Saudi Arabia Heads to Trial
SAN FRANCISCO — While working at Twitter from 2013 to 2015, Ahmad Abouammo was responsible for helping celebrities, journalists and other notable figures in the Middle East promote their Twitter accounts. He handled requests for Twitter’s coveted blue verification badges and arranged tours of the San Francisco headquarters. But the Justice Department says he misused […]
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Elon Musk and Twitter to Go to Trial Over Deal In October
Twitter and Elon Musk will go to trial in October over whether the billionaire must complete his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, a Delaware judge ruled on Tuesday. The ruling was the first decision in a lawsuit that Twitter filed this month to force Mr. Musk, the world’s richest man, to go […]
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3 Ways Musk Can Support Free Speech
Way back in the Paleolithic age of April, Elon Musk seemed excited to buy Twitter and said that he wanted to transform the site by promoting free speech. A lot has happened since then: Musk says he no longer wants to buy Twitter, and the company is suing to force him to go through with […]
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Elon Musk Responds to Twitter’s Lawsuit Over $44 Billion Deal
Elon Musk accused Twitter on Friday of deceiving him about its service, obfuscating facts and not notifying him of executive changes, in his first formal response to the company’s lawsuit aimed at forcing him to complete a $44 billion acquisition of the social media service. Lawyers for Mr. Musk, who struck the blockbuster deal to […]
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