Getty Images | Chris Delmas reader comments 373 with Elon Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter as “X” wouldn’t be complete without a change to the company’s official Twitter account. The @X handle was already taken by a user who registered it over 16 years ago, but that wasn’t much of an obstacle—Twitter simply took over… Read More: Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since… »
Enlarge / Let’s look deep within. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 268 with I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey—I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here; purists can bite me) for over a year now and have been doing so full time for about six months, following Elon… Read More: Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out »
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 412 with Twitter’s value has reportedly dropped to about $15 billion, slightly more than one-third of the $44 billion that Elon Musk paid for it in late October 2022. The $15 billion valuation is based on Fidelity’s latest analysis of its stake in the company. “Fidelity Blue Chip Growth… Read More: Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third… »
Enlarge / A fake AI-generated image of an “explosion” near the Pentagon that went viral on Twitter. reader comments 49 with On Monday, a tweeted AI-generated image suggesting a large explosion at the Pentagon led to brief confusion, which included a reported small drop in the stock market. It originated from a verified Twitter account… Read More: Fake Pentagon “explosion” photo sows confusion on Twitter »
Getty Images reader comments 180 with Share this story The Microsoft Advertising platform will drop support for its Twitter integration starting on April 25, according to a recently updated support page. Microsoft allows advertisers to manage their campaigns, create posts, and view engagement data on multiple social sites via one centralized interface, and they’ll still… Read More: Musk vows to sue as Microsoft drops Twitter from its… »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “a cyborg Twitter bird logo composed of thousands of computer chips.” Midjourney reader comments 91 with Share this story Despite recently calling for a six-month pause in the development of powerful AI models, Twitter CEO Elon Musk recently purchased roughly 10,000 GPUs for a generative AI project within Twitter,… Read More: Elon Musk reportedly purchases thousands of GPUs for generative AI… »
Getty Images | Future Publishing reader comments 191 with Share this story Portions of Twitter’s source code recently appeared on GitHub, and Twitter is trying to force GitHub to identify the user or users who posted the code. GitHub disabled the repository on Friday shortly after Twitter filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown… Read More: Twitter source code was leaked on GitHub shortly after Musk’s… »
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 76 with Share this story Twitter’s revenue and adjusted earnings reportedly fell about 40 percent year over year in December 2022 amid an advertiser exodus following Elon Musk’s takeover. Twitter no longer reports earnings publicly since Musk bought the company and took it private in late October. But Twitter… Read More: Twitter revenue, earnings reportedly fell 40% shortly after Musk buyout »
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 217 with Share this story Twitter suffered an embarrassing technology failure today that temporarily broke links to outside websites and even to Twitter’s own webpages. The problem lasted for about 45 minutes or so. In our tests, clicking any link brought up this error message: {“errors”:[{“message”:”Your current API plan… Read More: Twitter API error broke the site today as Musk blames… »
reader comments 232 with Share this story Twitter announced Friday that as of March 20, it will only allow its users to secure their accounts with SMS-based two-factor authentication if they pay for a Twitter Blue subscription. Two-factor authentication, or 2FA, requires users to log in with a username and password and then an additional… Read More: Twitter’s two-factor authentication change “doesn’t make sense” »