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OCTOBER 9, 2023

The post Elon Musk Faces Lawsuit Over Refusal To Testify on Twitter Acquisition appeared first on Spiceworks. Musk has failed to appear for a testimony following an investigative subpoena by the SEC.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Experts opined that the leaker could be a disgruntled former Twitter employee. The post Twitter Asks Court to Subpoena GitHub Over Source Code Leak appeared first on Spiceworks.

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IT Toolbox

MAY 19, 2023

The Supreme Court dismissed cases against Twitter and Google that alleged they helped ISIS in terrorist activities. The post Supreme Court Dismisses Claims of Google and Twitter Aiding Terrorism appeared first on Spiceworks.

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IT Toolbox

JULY 4, 2023

Twitter, now known as X Corp., The post Twitter Faces Accusations of Avoiding Legal Battles Over Mass Layoffs appeared first on Spiceworks. has been accused of workplace and labor dispute violations and failing to pay laid-off employees.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

The post X (Twitter) Accused of Throttling Traffic to Competitor Websites appeared first on Spiceworks. Key victims of the issue included Facebook, Substack, Reuters, and Bluesky.

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IT Toolbox

JULY 3, 2023

Elon Musk has defended the move, blaming the impact of data scraping practices on the experience of individual Twitter users. The post Twitter Puts Strict Limits on Tweet Views, Aims to Combat Data Scraping appeared first on Spiceworks.

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IT Toolbox

APRIL 20, 2023

Elon Musk challenged Microsoft, announcing plans to release TruthGPT and threatening a lawsuit on the illegal use of Twitter data. The post Elon Musk Challenges Microsoft With TruthGPT and a Twitter Lawsuit appeared first on Spiceworks.

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IT Toolbox

MAY 12, 2023

The post Elon Musk Confirms Hiring New Twitter CEO appeared first on Spiceworks. Soon after the announcement, Tesla’s stock surged 1.95%.

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APRIL 12, 2023

Since purchasing Twitter for $44 billion last year, Elon Musk has made a number of major changes to the platform. The post Elon Musk Merges Twitter to X Corp., Raises Hopes for Everything App appeared first on Spiceworks.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Elon Musk fired almost half of the Twitter staff. The post Millions Vote for Elon Musk to Step Down as Twitter Chief appeared first on. Now the people want him out.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Twitter CISO Lea Kissner, chief privacy officer Damien Kieran, and chief compliance officer Marianne Fogarty have joined the exodus of about 3,700 former employees out of the company, albeit of their own volition. The post Twitter Security Executives Call it Quits Amid Concerns of Compliance Breach appeared first on.

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IT Toolbox

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The Twitter workforce could shrink to 2,000 employees, a reduction of three-quarters from its present headcount of about 7,500 people. The post Elon Musk is Reportedly Planning to Offload About 75% of Twitter Staff appeared first on Spiceworks.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

An API vulnerability in microblogging platform Twitter enabled the theft of at least 6.8 The post Twitter API Vulnerability Led to the Breach of Millions of User Data Records appeared first on. million user data records through multiple breaches.

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IT Toolbox

DECEMBER 28, 2022

An unknown hacker is trying to coerce Twitter into paying for the data of 400 million of its users to avoid a hefty GDPR fine. The post Hacker Demands a $200K Ransom From Twitter After Stealing the Data of 400M Users appeared first on.

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Summary: Elon has started a monthly $8 fee for verified twitter users. This thread from Matthew Yglesias concerning Twitter's decision to charge for the blue verification checkmark got me thinking. This thread from Matthew Yglesias concerning Twitter's decision to charge for the blue verification checkmark got me thinking.

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Vox

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey in 2007, a year after the company’s launch. Twitter is a disaster. Why is Twitter a disaster? Elon has definitely, demonstrably made Twitter worse. Twitter didn’t actually state what they were. But you know that already.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The outage message that Twitter users got last week could be read as a warning for big tech firms looking to slash their IT workforce. The post What Twitter outage says about (over) zealous downsizing appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Vox

MARCH 23, 2023

Fewer people also appear to be visiting Twitter’s website where advertisers create ad campaigns: The number of users visiting Twitter’s advertising portal page was down 18 percent in February compared to a year before, according to data from digital intelligence firm SimilarWeb. Twitter did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

. | Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images The broken Twitter everyone warned us about is finally here. If you were accustomed to a time when Twitter — while far from perfect — was a place where you could dependably digest a wide range of breaking news, politics, celebrity gossip, or personal musings, it’s time to accept a new reality.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Twitter is reportedly facing eviction at its Seattle office and is asking employees to work from home as the social media giant looks to cut costs under new owner Elon Musk. Twitter laid off 208 Seattle-based employees earlier this year amid widespread cuts that took place shortly after Musk acquired the company. (Bigstock Photo).

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Vox

APRIL 15, 2023

Dion Lee / Vox After an extraordinarily chaotic past few weeks, the slow death of Twitter seems to be speeding up. It’s been a year since Elon Musk initiated his takeover of Twitter. In other words, Twitter Inc. So Twitter isn’t dead. no longer exists. Musk painted a rosy picture in an April 12 interview with the BBC.

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Vox

MARCH 28, 2024

Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. For Snowden, this felt a bit like an invasion into a community that had so far survived the slow death of what was once Twitter by simply staying out of the spotlight. Baltimore Twitter, it’s usually not as bad,” Snowden said.

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TechSpot

MARCH 8, 2023

The Wall Street Journal reports that the FTC has sent 12 letters to Twitter and its lawyers since Musk took over on October 27. The crux of the matter relates to the FTC's $150 million fine it handed Twitter last year over deceptive ad practices that used email addresses and. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JULY 6, 2023

Shortly following the massive rush to Threads, Twitter's legal team sternly warned Meta that it would aggressively protect its intellectual property rights. The fear is that Meta poached "dozens" of former Twitter employees, including some who "had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets." Read Entire Article

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Image: Twitter. If you’ve seen the option to downvote replies on Twitter, you’re not alone. The experimental feature, which Twitter started testing last year , is now being shown to a global audience, says the company. Twitter’s downvote tallies are private. link] — Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) February 3, 2022.

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The Verge

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s a feature that Twitter users have been requesting for so long that it’s become a meme, but now the mythical “edit button” is actually becoming a reality. Twitter has announced that it’s working to allow users to edit their tweets after posting them. pic.twitter.com/I13wE3eLdn — Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) April 5, 2022.

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Vox

JULY 24, 2023

Twitter headquarters is seen in San Francisco, California, on November 18, 2022. It may be hard to comprehend, but Twitter has been in its death throes for a full nine months now. And now, finally, there is this: The end of Twitter itself, erased in the form of a rebrand. After all, Twitter is “just” a social media platform.

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is making his “best and final” offer to buy 100 percent of Twitter in an updated 13D filed Thursday with the SEC. Twitter’s market valuation is about $37 billion. Musk’s offer values Twitter at about $43 billion, according to CNBC. The proposal was delivered in a letter to Twitter on April 13th.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump on Friday, days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol leaving five dead. link] — Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021. Twitter permanently suspending President Donald Trump’s Twitter account Friday evening.

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TechSpot

APRIL 30, 2023

Jack Dorsey's decentralized social media platform was established in 2019 as a Twitter-funded project designed to establish a decentralized social media standard. Bluesky's original goal was to create and bring Twitter onto a new, decentralized platform.

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Dataconomy

JULY 25, 2023

After the latest Twitter rebrand, Elon Musk changed the company’s logo to the letter “X.” According to the post, the Twitter help center changed “how to tweet” to “how to xeet.” ’ Elon Musk, who last year paid $44 million to acquire Twitter, just announced his resignation as CEO. .”

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, former head of security at Twitter, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on data security at Twitter, on Capitol Hill, September 13, 2022, in Washington, DC. In a congressional hearing, new details emerged on how thousands of Twitter employees can allegedly access users’ information.

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TechSpot

APRIL 14, 2022

A US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing shows Musk made his offer in a letter to Twitter board chairman Bret Taylor. He wrote that since becoming Twitter's largest shareholder, Musk has realized "the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to.

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Vox

JULY 7, 2023

Meta Instagram’s new copycat app is nowhere near as fun as Twitter. All of the Twitter alternatives thus far have suffered from their own plagues — Mastodon is confusing and unwieldy, Bluesky is still stingy with invite codes, and the others are too niche and unpopulated to recreate the liveliness of Twitter. Can anything be?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Halloween may have just passed, but things are getting spooky for Twitter users that are being scammed by cybercriminals taking advantage of Elon Musk's purchase of the social media behemoth. With all of the changes—namely, increasing the cost of the Twitter Blue subscription service from $4.99 October 31, 2022.

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Mass layoffs at Twitter released a sizeable amount of talent into the tech ecosystem. Will it trigger a wave of new tech players?

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MAY 15, 2021

Twitter has previously confirmed that it’s exploring a paid subscription model for some features, and app researcher Jane Manchun Wong tweeted Saturday that she’s discovered how much it will cost and what it will be called. Twitter Blue, Wong says, will cost $2.99 Twitter Blue, Wong says, will cost $2.99

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