Elon Musk has begun his takeover of Twitter Twitter could change dramatically under Musk’s leadership. Karissa Bell @karissabe After months of legal drama, Elon Musk has begun his takeover of Twitter, according to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. His first move was to fire CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal … Continue reading Twitter new user signups at an ‘all-time high,’ says Elon Musk
Elon Musk will offer ‘amnesty’ to banned Twitter accounts amid more layoffs One of the architects of the shift to 280-character tweets is gone from the company. The Washington Post via Getty Images Kris Holt|@krisholt Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk says a “general amnesty” for banned accounts will begin next week for … Continue reading Elon Musk will offer ‘amnesty’ to banned Twitter accounts amid more layoffs
Elon Musk bans Twitter employees from working remotely He enforced similar policies at SpaceX and Tesla. D. Cooper @danielwcooper Mark Leong for The Washington Post via Getty Images Elon Musk has banned Twitter employees from working remotely, saying they need to spend 40 hours a week in the office unless he gives his express … Continue reading Elon Musk changes Twitter’s remote work rules, again
Twitter will soon let organizations verify related accounts The announcement comes after the recent Twitter Blue disaster. I. Bonifacic @igorbonifacic Dado Ruvic / reuters Less than two days after Twitter’s first attempt to charge for account verification ended in disaster, Elon Musk announced the company is working on a new way to authenticate users. … Continue reading Elon Musk says Twitter Blue verification is coming back November 29th
Elon Musk has begun his takeover of Twitter Twitter could change dramatically under Musk’s leadership. K. Bell @karissabe Dado Ruvic / reuters After months of legal drama, Elon Musk has begun his takeover of Twitter, according to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. His first move was to fire CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief … Continue reading Twitter fired employees who publicly called out Elon Musk
By Chris Stokel-Walker November 14, 2022 Not content with laying off half of Twitter’s staff and alienating workers with an ominous introductory email, Elon Musk has taken his unique brand of management to new levels. The entrepreneur and new owner of Twitter has started calling out issues—publicly, on the platform he now controls—with the … Continue reading Twitter employees say Elon Musk is tanking morale by calling staff out publicly
By Katelyn Bourgoin November 11, 2022 Whatever you think of Elon Musk and his Twitter takeover, he appeared to have been using a classic sales technique last week. In late October, The Verge reported that Twitter was planning to charge users $20 for Twitter Blue and a coveted blue checkmark. The backlash was immediate: … Continue reading Did Elon Musk use a popular sales trick to convince people to pay up for Twitter?
By Talib Visram November 11, 2022 Effective altruism, we hardly knew ye. Following the collapse of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried’s crytocurrency exchange that was once valued at $32 billion and is now effectively worthless, the founders of the company’s philanthropic arm resigned Thursday. Reporter Teddy Schleifer tweeted the resignation letter cosigned by the FTX Future … Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried and Elon Musk just killed effective altruism
By Chris Stokel-Walker November 10, 2022 leadership now Elon Musk has made quite a first impression on his new employees. During his first few weeks as CEO of Twitter, he laid off some 3,700 workers. Since acquiring the company on October 27, Musk hadn’t formally spoken to the majority of staff who remain … Continue reading The email Elon Musk just sent to Twitter employees is a masterclass in how not to communicate
By Chris Morris November 03, 2022 It’s kind of hard to believe, but Elon Musk has owned Twitter for just one week. He certainly has had an impact, though. In terms of outward-facing changes, not a lot has happened yet, but Musk has issued a series of orders to employees that could result in … Continue reading A week of Musk mayhem: Here are all the Twitter changes since Elon took over
