Twitter’s top advertisers leave en masse following Musk entrance November 23, 2022 Twitter’s top advertisers are leaving the social media firm en masse, as Elon Musk’s grand plans scare away marketeers. More than a third of Twitter’s top 100 marketers have not advertised on the Elon Musk site in the last two weeks, according to analysis from the Washington Post. The analysis from Pathmatics data reckons that [...]
Twitter HQ in chaos as mass exodus of staff picks up after Musk sets ‘hardcore’ deadline November 18, 2022 After Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk gave workers a choice to pledge to “hardcore” work or resign with severance pay, the social platform is bleeding engineers. Some took to Twitter to announce they were signing off after Musk’s deadline to make the pledge. A number of employees took to a private forum outside of the [...]
A little birdwatching: Are tech firms like Musk’s Twitter ready for regulation? November 16, 2022 ELON MUSK’s dramatic takeover of Twitter – complete with firing the entire management team and half the staff – has been the talk of, ahem, Twitter for the past week, as well as much of the rest of the world. It has also divided opinion amongst the most strongly politically engaged. Many on the right [...]
Musk defends $56bn Tesla pay package saying he was focusing on the company’s execution November 16, 2022 Elon Musk took the stand to defend his $56bn (£47.7m) Tesla pay package from 2018, saying the EV maker was his sole focus at the time. “I was entirely focused on the execution of the company,” he told a US tribunal on Wednesday. Musk was taken to court by a company shareholder who accused the [...]
Musk to defend astronomical £47.7bn Tesla pay package in US court November 14, 2022 Elon Musk is set to appear in a US court as soon as tomorrow as he is bound to take the stand and defend his astronomical $56bn (£47.7bn) pay package. The serial entrepreneur was taken to court by a company shareholder who argued that Tesla’s board – and consequently investors – was made to approve [...]
Twitter’s blue tick ‘probably’ coming back next week as fake accounts boom November 13, 2022 Twitter’s $8 (£6.99) blue tick feature will “probably” come back at the end of next week, according to chief executive Elon Musk. The serial entrepreneur announced the decision earlier today after being asked about it by Paul Jamil, chief executive of SEO platform Whatsmyserp. Twitter – which announced the paid feature’s introduction days after Musk’s [...]
Musk sends remaining Twitter staff back to office November 10, 2022 Elon Musk has ordered all Twitter staff back into the office, ending an era of remote working for the social media firm. The new chief exec told employees in an email late on Wednesday that they would need to prepare for “difficult times ahead”, according to reports from Bloomberg. Musk had already made his views [...]
Musk uses UK as test market for blue verification badges as £6.99 feature on Twitter goes live across Britain November 10, 2022 Twitter’s new social media platform’s subscription service has gone live across Britain. The service allows users to buy a blue verification badge for the first time. Twitter users on Apple’s iOS can now sign up and pay for the Twitter Blue service, which will give them the blue-tick badge next to their profile name on [...]
Twitter pauses paid blue-tick launch for US midterms November 8, 2022 Twitter confirmed that it would be delaying the rollout of its paid-for verification until after the US midterm elections, temporarily abating fears about fake account misinformation campaigns. As the new social media chief, Elon Musk has laid out plans to allow users to purchase blue-tick verification for their profiles – a privilege that is usually [...]
Twitter lay-offs begin as Elon Musk warns of ‘massive drop’ in revenues November 5, 2022 Elon Musk has begun laying off thousands of Twitter workers after warning the social media company is losing more than $4m a day due to a “massive drop” in advertising revenues. The tech billionaire began pushing forwards with plans to lay off around half of Twitter’s 7,500 staff, just more than a week after completing [...]