Jack Dorsey apologizes to Twitter employees after thousands laid off
Under Elon Musk's ownership, thousands of Twitter employees, including top executives, have been fired.
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Under Elon Musk's ownership, thousands of Twitter employees, including top executives, have been fired.
Analysts say the billionaire will move to slash costs after overpaying in his $44 billion purchase of the social media company.
The email sent Thursday evening notified employees that they will receive a notice by 12 p.m. ET Friday that informs them of their employment status.
The number of hate speech-filled tweets increased by 4.7 times an hour immediately following Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, researchers found.
Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted a link to an unfounded rumor about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, just days after Musk's purchase of Twitter fueled concerns that the social media platform would no longer seek to limit misinformation and hate speech.
The rapper, who was recently suspended from Instagram and Twitter, said "we have the right to freely express ourselves."
While both accounts were still visible as of Sunday evening, several posts had been removed.
Tesla CEO had faced long odds of convincing a court to let him walk away from his $44 billion acquisition.
Twitter has several data centers across the country including here in Sacramento, but last week the high heat fried the equipment. We reached out to twitter which tells us service was not interrupted in the area but what does this mean for the future of the company in Northern California?
Twitter's Sacramento data center overheated on September 5 when the temperature outside reached 115-degrees.
Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centers, and a company executive warned in an internal memo obtained by CNN that another outage elsewhere could result in the service going dark for some of its users.
Twitter said the feature will later expand to Twitter Blue subscribers, which means you'll have to pay to use the edit button.
Marjorie Taylor Greene said for the government to say debt is forgiven "is completely unfair." The White House tweeted back that she had more than $183,000 in PPP loans forgiven.
Elon Musk said Saturday his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures whether user accounts are 'spam bots' or real people.
Musk claimed in a letter to Twitter's top lawyer that he is ending the deal because Twitter is "in material breach of multiple provisions" of the original agreement.
A demonstration by supporters of President Donald Trump to protest his ban from the Twitter social media platform outside the company's San Francisco headquarters appeared to be a bust Monday morning.
Twitter is permanently banning President Trump from the platform, the company announced late Friday.
The U.S. Naval Academy has opened an investigation into social media posts allegedly made by a cadet that suggested police should shoot unarmed protesters and that Breonna Taylor received "justice" when she was shot and killed by police in Kentucky.
Saudi Arabia, frustrated by growing criticism of its leaders and policies on social media, recruited two Twitter employees to spy on thousands of accounts that included prominent opponents, U.S. prosecutors have alleged.
A plan to require social media sites to get a parent or guardian's permission before letting a person under age 13 create an account failed in the California State Assembly.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's official account has been hacked and sending racist and vulgar tweets to his 4.2 million followers. Twitter says it is aware of the situation and is investigating.
Nearly every two-year-old (92%) in the United States has an online presence and that presence, oftentimes, started before the child was even born.
Law Enforcement is warning the public about parody accounts and to make sure all social media accounts are verified.
The digital team behind the Sacramento Kings are the best in the business.
Rio Vista resident Alexus Sheppard's videos showed the world what passengers on the ship were facing.
