Elon Musk sent an email to his remaining Twitter employees on Monday, Feb. 27 to inform them that after another round of sudden layoffs over the weekend, those who remain will receive “very significant” stock bonuses as early as March 24, 2023. Last week, we completed a complex organizational overhaul...
Twitter top manager Esther Crawford is the victim of another wave of layoffs, as first reported by Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer. Crawford has led various projects at Twitter, including the paid subscription Twitter Blue, as well as the future payment platform Twitter. Alex Heath of The Verge confirmed that Crawford and...
Elon Musk, who drew criticism after he smoked marijuana during an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, has confirmed rumors that his acquisition of Twitter will make the social network more “friendly” to marijuana. Twitter changed its policy this week to allow American cannabis (marijuana) companies to advertise on its platform,...
Elon Musk said it could take him all of 2023 to clean up Twitter before handing over the company to a new CEO. “I need to stabilize the organization and just make sure it is in a financially healthy state and the product roadmap is clearly laid out,” Elon Musk...
American billionaire Elon Musk, who leads Twitter, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and The Boring Company, finds time to regularly post a variety of serious and humorous messages on Twitter. So, in a series of recent posts, he introduced the new CEO of Twitter, which turned out to be his Shiba Inu...
Elon Musk said he had already saved Twitter from bankruptcy, and now the company is aiming to break even. The billionaire tweeted on Sunday that the past three months have been “extremely difficult.” He had to balance saving the social media platform with duties at Tesla and SpaceX. “Wouldn’t wish...
Twitter is expecting another innovation – its own payment system that will support both fiat and cryptocurrencies. The company has already filed registration documents with the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Service. This indicates the imminent launch of the payment system. The new system is expected to...
The head of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company, Elon Musk, said that a more expensive subscription will appear on Twitter, which will have a noticeable advantage. “There will also be a more expensive subscription without ads,” the billionaire wrote on his Twitter page over the weekend. So he...
Twitter has about 2,300 employees, according to Elon Musk in a tweet posted on Saturday. Earlier media reported that Twitter’s staff had been reduced to around 1,300 active employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title. About 75 of the company’s 1,300 employees are on vacation, including about 40...
CNBC, citing internal documents from Twitter, reported that after the arrival of Elon Musk, about 80% of employees left the company. Twitter currently employs 1,300 people. At the same time, about 75 of them are currently on vacation, of which 40 are engineers. So the number of active workers is...
Recently it became known that applications Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Birdie, Echofon and others have lost access to the social network. And now Twitter confirmed that this is not a mistake. These and other programs purposefully denied access to the Twitter API for violating some “long-standing rules”. What those rules are is...
Twitter wants to follow the path of Telegram – since December last year, they have been developing the ability to organize auctions where usernames can be sold. According to The New York Times (NYT), citing sources, this will improve monetization and get a new source of income. At the moment,...
SpaceX and Twitter founder and head of Twitter Elon Musk has announced the imminent launch of various new features on the social network, including the appearance of long posts and a massive update to the interface. A simple right/left swipe to switch between featured and followed tweets is coming later...
Twitter and Elon Musk’s company of the same name announced that they are easing the ban on political advertising and will start posting ads to “promote public discussion of important topics.” Twitter banned some forms of political advertising in 2019. At the time, the company argued that political influence was...
According to court documents filed last week in the state of San Francisco, Twitter was sued for failing to pay $136,260 in rent for an office. The building’s owner, Columbia Reit – 650 California LLC, warned Twitter as early as Dec. 21 that the company had defaulted on its rent...