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New Twitter navigation tools arriving in Jan: Elon Musk

Elon Musk on Saturday announced that new navigation features will arrive on Twitter in the New Year, as he aims to rejig the whole experience to make the platform faster.

Dec 31, 2022

Significant backend server architecture changes behind Twitter outage: Musk

As Twitter went down for several users globally including in India, Elon Musk on Thursday said the outage was because of backend changes to make the micro-blogging platform faster.

Dec 29, 2022

Twitter web version faces major outage across US

Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Thursday faced a major outage across the US on the web version.

Dec 29, 2022

Elon Musk says open to buying Substack to take on corporate media

After purchasing Twitter for a whopping $44 billion, Elon Musk on Wednesday said he is willing to acquire Substack that lets independent writers and podcasters publish directly to their audience and get paid through subscriptions.

Dec 28, 2022

Musk restores Twitter accounts of journalists banned over 'Doxxing'

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has started lifting suspension of some journalists on the micro-blogging site after running a poll on the platform, asking if he should "Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time".

Dec 17, 2022

Elon Musk defends his decision after suspending accounts of prominent journalists

Twitter boss Elon Musk has defended his decision after suspending accounts on the micro-blogging platform of more than half a dozen journalists from outlets including CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post following their reporting on an account related to him.

Dec 16, 2022

Musk sells Tesla stock worth $3.5 bn amid Twitter overhaul

Elon Musk has sold over 20 million more Tesla shares worth about $3.5 billion and did not provide any reason for selling more stock in the electric car company.

Dec 15, 2022

Next Fed rate hike will amplify recession: Elon Musk

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Saturday said that the next US Federal Reserve rate hike will amplify the recession

Dec 10, 2022

Apple 'fully resumed' advertising on Twitter after Musk, Cook make peace [details]

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that the tech giant Apple has "fully resumed" advertising on the micro-blogging platform.

Dec 4, 2022

Sachin Pilot's video on 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' a hit on social media [Watch]

Rajasthan Congress is all set to welcome Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo yatra' into the state at Jhalawar on Sunday. In view of this, former Deputy CM Sachin Pilot on Saturday released a video on his social media platforms, which soon started trending on Facebook and Twitter.

Dec 3, 2022

Twitter bans over 44K accounts for policy violations in India [Details]

Twitter banned 44,611 accounts promoting child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity in India between September 26 and October 25, as Elon Musk took over.

Dec 1, 2022

5.4 mn users' data exposed online as Musk reveals Twitter 2.0; includes phone numbers, email IDs

As Elon Musk goes gaga over Twitter 2.0 which will be the 'Everything App', at least 5.4 million Twitter user records, stolen via an internal bug, have been leaked online on a hacker forum.

Nov 28, 2022

Elon Musk may produce 'alternative' smartphones

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Saturday said that he will produce "alternative" smartphones to compete with Apple and Android devices, if the micro-blogging platform gets removed from the application stores.

Nov 26, 2022

Musk has great news for content creators; video gets top priority, faster upload time promised

Twitter Boss Elon Musk has said that the company will work on speeding up the upload time on the micro-blogging platform, in which videos will be given top priority.

Nov 21, 2022

"My firstborn child died in my arms, I felt his last heartbeat": Elon Musk; says no mercy

Reacting to calls to reinstate American far-right radio show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Elon Musk on Monday categorically denied Jones' return to Twitter, saying he has no mercy for those who use the "deaths of children to gain fame" and fulfil their political ambitions.

Nov 21, 2022

Musk reinstates some celebrity accounts on Twitter, says 'no decision' on Trump yet

Elon Musk has said there is still "no decision" on reinstating former US president Donald Trump's account on Twitter, as he reinstated some controversial accounts banned earlier.

Nov 19, 2022

Twitter manager vomits after Musk ordered to fire employees: Report

Elon Musk reportedly gathered several human-resource executives in a "war room" in the company's offices and told them to prepare for widespread layoffs.

Nov 13, 2022

'Captain Sully' quits Twitter as Musk makes drastic changes

Sully Sullenberger aka 'Captain Sully', who is known for landing a airplane on the Hudson River in the US has announced to take a step back from the Elon Musk-owned Twitter.

Nov 11, 2022

I will remove all legacy Blue badges in coming months: Musk

Elon Musk on Friday said that there are too many corrupt and fake legacy Blue "verification" checkmarks on Twitter and he is going to remove all of them in the coming months.

Nov 11, 2022

Twitter alternative Mastodon gains maximum traction after Musk takeover; founder shows off stats

As Elon Musk takes over Twitter and begins massive changes, those who do not like his ideology are migrating to other platforms and Mastodon, a decentralised open-source alternative to Twitter, is gaining maximum traction.

Nov 10, 2022