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Inside Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter
Mr. Musk ordered immediate layoffs, fired executives by email and laid down product deadlines, transforming the company. Source
Agrawal, Parag
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On Twitter, Who Needs a Check Mark When You Can Have a Rat?
On Twitter, if users change their avatar photo and display name — this is different from a user’s Twitter handle, the name that begins with an @ — it’s already fairly easy to trick other […]
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How Twitter Will Change as a Private Company Under Elon Musk
SAN FRANCISCO — In August 2018, Elon Musk called Michael Dell for advice. Mr. Musk, who was trying to take Tesla, his electric car company, private, quizzed Mr. Dell, who had done that very thing […]
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be a Wild Ride
The 2024 election, though, will be a different story. By then, if the deal is consummated, Mr. Musk will have been able to more fully mold Twitter in his own image. The platform could look […]
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Twitter executives push back against whistle-blower complaint.
Executives at Twitter pushed back on Wednesday against what they said was a “false” narrative being created around a former executive’s allegations about the company’s security practices. At its weekly companywide meeting, Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s […]
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How Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off
Mr. Musk swooped in and exposed Twitter’s lack of business and financial prospects. After criticizing the company’s weaknesses, he now wants to back out of buying it. Source
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What Are Spam Bots and Why They’re an Issue in Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal
Bots can tweet at people, share tweets, follow and be followed by other people. And there are good bots and bad. Source