Twitter users briefly unable to tweet, send messages
Twitter users on Wednesday briefly encountered various issues with the platform, including the inability to tweet, send direct messages or follow new accounts.
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Twitter users on Wednesday briefly encountered various issues with the platform, including the inability to tweet, send direct messages or follow new accounts.
In simple terms, this means the site's innumerable automated accounts will grind to a halt, unless the person in charge of them decides to pay for access. It also means researchers who leverage Twitter's API to collect public data from the site will lose a key resource -- again, unless they pay.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was back on the stand this morning defending his 2018 tweets. Musk claimed to have secured funding to take the company private.
Sell-off comes as Twitter owes nearly $140,000 in overdue rent on office space it occupies in San Francisco.
Elon Musk has urged a federal judge to shift a shareholder lawsuit trial out of San Francisco. He says negative media coverage has biased potential jurors against him.
Elon Musk is trying to slash expenses at Twitter as close to zero as possible while his personal wealth shrinks — and this apparently has included falling behind on rent payments at the company's offices.
The lawsuit was filed against the social media platform in San Francisco State Court on Thursday.
It was not immediately clear if Musk was serious, and no formal announcement beyond the tweet had been made.
"I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!" Musk tweeted. "After that, I will just run the software & servers teams."
After one Twitter user said, "Blue subscribers should be the only ones that can vote in policy related polls," Musk responded, "Good point. Twitter will make that change."
Musk posted the poll himself and said he'd abide by it -- but that was before the results were in: 57.5% of respondents said he should while 42.5 said he shouldn't.
Twitter users will no longer be able to link to certain rival social media websites, including what the company described Sunday as "prohibited platforms" Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.
The company hasn't explained why it took down the accounts and made their profiles and past tweets disappear.
Twitter suspended an account that used publicly available flight data to track Elon Musk's private jet.
It happened despite Musk's vow last month that he would leave the account up as part of his "commitment to free speech.
Twitter on Wednesday suspended an account that used publicly available flight data to track Elon Musk's private jet, despite a pledge by the social media platform's new owner to keep it up because of his free speech principles.
Under Elon Musk, several journalists are releasing internal Twitter documents about content decisions. Critics say it shows censorship.
The advisory group of around 100 independent organizations was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide and other problems on the platform.
Dave Chappelle asked the crowd at his comedy show to "make some noise for the world's richest man." They did. Lots of booing.
From basic office supplies to fancy espresso machines, Twitter is looking to get rid of the surplus items at its California headquarters.
"My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," the Twitter CEO wrote on Sunday.
"It saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world," the award-winning artist posted.
Elon Musk has converted some conference rooms at the social media company's hub into sleeping quarters, according to Forbes.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate and Anti-Defamation League both said in reports that the volume of hate speech on Twitter has grown dramatically under Musk's stewardship.
The billionaire owner of the social media service said the rapper "again violated our rule against incitement to violence."
