Elon Musk responds to companies that pulled ads from X: ‘Go fuck yourself’ X CEO and former advertising executive Linda Yaccarino reportedly sat “stone-faced” during the tirade. Karissa Bell Thu, Nov 30, 2023 Slaven Vlasic via Getty Images Elon Musk, facing the fact that an already financially-precarious X could be poised to lose another … Continue reading Elon Musk responds to companies that pulled ads from X: ‘Go fuck yourself’
Elon Musk makes changes to headline displays on Twitter/X Sam Shedden / Last Updated: Nov 23, 2023 Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), has announced another change to headline displays on the popular social media platform. Well, less a change and more a reversion. The network will reintroduce headlines in preview cards … Continue reading Elon Musk makes changes to headline displays on Twitter/X
By Michael Grothaus November 18, 2023 Elon Musk seems to be everywhere, so why not on the big screen, too? That’s where audiences will find him, or at least a version of him, now that arthouse studio and critical hit maker A24 has acquired the film rights to adapt Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography, … Continue reading Elon Musk biopic: Darren Aronofsky is the perfect director for A24’s film, but now comes the hard part
SpaceX workers face above-average injury rates as Musk prioritizes Mars over safety, report finds A Reuters investigation found hundreds of previously unreported injuries. Cheyenne MacDonald Sun, Nov 12, 2023 Veronica Cardenas / reuters A Reuters investigation into unsafe working conditions at SpaceX has uncovered more than 600 injuries going back to 2014 that have … Continue reading SpaceX workers face above-average injury rates as Musk prioritizes Mars over safety, report finds
By Allan Sloan November 03, 2023 If you’re a fan of financial fiascos, you’ve probably been having a great time reading stories marking the recent one-year anniversary of Elon Musk’s troubled Twitter takeover. By my math, which is based on the value that Fidelity places on the X shares owned by its mutual funds, … Continue reading Elon Musk isn’t the only one who lost a ton of money on X this year
By Emily Price October 05, 2023 When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October of last year, he made headlines for his abrasive management style. The takeover, described by The New York Times as “two weeks of chaos,” resulted in widespread layoffs and employee lawsuits, and reportedly caused managers to vomit into trash cans. … Continue reading Leadership experts on why Elon Musk contagion is a nightmare scenario for workers
X marks the spot where birds once tweeted. Kim Davis on July 24, 2023 Overnight, the iconic blue bird icon was removed from the desktop version of Twitter and replaced by a stark, monochromatic letter X. The same change will shortly be made on the mobile version, the company confirmed. The change is also said … Continue reading Elon Musk kills the Twitter brand: Welcome to the age of X
By Anne D’Innocenzio—Associated Press July 23, 2023 Elon Musk said Sunday that he plans to change the logo of Twitter to an “X” from the famous blue bird, marking what would be the latest big change since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year. In a series of posts on his Twitter … Continue reading Elon Musk says Twitter is scrapping its bird logo in favor of the ‘X’
Twitter finally begins paying some of its creators Will Shanklin Twitter’s ad-revenue sharing program for creators has officially launched — and it’s reportedly already begun paying eligible Blue subscribers. Elon Musk announced the initiative in February, but with scant details about how it would work, nobody knew quite what to expect. However, some high-profile … Continue reading Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue has dropped by 50 percent
AI Data Scraping Prompts Musk To Put Limits On Twitter Reads by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 2, 2023 Twitter owner Elon Musk has placed limits on the number of posts that users could read in a temporary move that targets “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation” by other companies. In tweets during the … Continue reading AI Data Scraping Prompts Musk To Put Limits On Twitter Reads
