Twitter announces blue check subscription service for $7.99 monthly fee
It was not immediately clear when the subscription service would go live.
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It was not immediately clear when the subscription service would go live.
Human rights groups are pressing companies to ditch Twitter as hate speech on the platform spikes after Musk's takeover.
General Mills and Audi are the latest big advertisers to pull back amid questions about how the platform will moderate content.
Employees at the social media company are girding for mass layoffs as its new billionaire owner moves to slash costs.
The number of hate speech-filled tweets increased by 4.7 times an hour immediately following Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, researchers found.
Musk is in charge of the social media platform and has fired its CEO and other executives, numerous reports say. Musk tweeted, "the bird is freed."
Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and fired at least three top executives including its CEO, according to numerous reports. Jonathan Vigliotti is at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco.
The world's richest man has reportedly completed his Twitter takeover and Elon Musk already fired several top executives shortly after the $44 billion deal was finalized tonight.
Musk faces a Friday deadline to complete his on-again, off-again acquisition of the ailing social media company.
Elon Musk plans to lay off most of Twitter's workforce if and when he becomes owner of the social media company.
Tom Cruise's next mission is looking all the more possible — a studio executive says he's going to be "taking the world to space" in his upcoming film.
Tesla CEO had faced long odds of convincing a court to let him walk away from his $44 billion acquisition.
38-year-old Anna Kikina is the only active-duty female in Russia's cosmonaut corps.
Elon Musk is trying to back out of buying Twitter and end his $44 billion deal.
