Tag: Twitter
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Twitter is reportedly planning to charge businesses $1,000 per month to keep gold verified checks
In the latest revenue generating effort for Elon Musk’s Twitter, the social media giant is reportedly set to make businesses pay $1,000 per month to keep their gold verification check. Social media consultant Matt Navarra first reported the new charge, along with screenshots allegedly showing Twitter employees offering the price to businesses looking to sign up as…
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Twitter users have voted in favor of Elon Musk giving up his leadership of Twitter
On Sunday, Musk posted a yes-or-no poll on Twitter asking whether he should step down as the company’s head. When it closed Monday morning, 17.5 million accounts had voted, with 57.5% — about 10 million — in favor of him stepping down. Shortly after the poll closed, Tesla stock was up nearly 5% in premarket trading. Musk…
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Meta considered building a Twitter competitor to capitalize on Elon Musk’s ‘crisis’ at company
Employees from Facebook and Instragram met virtually in November to generate ideas around building a text-based app that could take on Twitter, the Times reported. “Twitter is in crisis and Meta needs its mojo back,” one Meta employee wrote in a post, per The Times. “LET’S GO FOR THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER.” At the brainstorming…
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Twitter staff in Ghana are rejecting Elon Musk’s lay-off package
About a dozen Twitter staff based in Ghana, which was the firm’s only office in Africa, have rejected a severance package offered to them and are now considering taking legal action. The staff’s legal firm has told the BBC that Twitter wants to negotiate the severance package and termination process, but it did not provide details…
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Elon Musk says he’s sleeping at Twitter’s HQ ‘until the org is fixed’
Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday morning that he will be working and sleeping at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco “until the org is fixed,” after saying he spent the previous night there. Musk made the tweet as part of a Twitter thread started by Eric Frohnhoefer, a Twitter employee that’s been at the company for…
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Elon Musk strikes deal to buy Twitter for $44bn
The board of Twitter has agreed to a $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover offer from the billionaire Elon Musk. Mr Musk, who made the shock bid less than two weeks ago, said Twitter had “tremendous potential” that he would unlock. He also called for a series of changes from relaxing its content restrictions to eradicating fake accounts.…
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Government focused on creating level playing field for businesses – Nana Addo
President Nana Akufo-Addo has in an interview with CNN highlighted his government’s aim of creating an enabling environment to allow local businesses to thrive while wooing foreign businesses to invest in the Ghanaian economy. This comes on the back of Twitter’s decision to base its African headquarters in Ghana. When asked about measures put in…
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Coronavirus: Twitter tells staff to work from home
Twitter has told its employees to work from home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. In a blog post, the social media giant said it was mandatory for staff in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea to work remotely. The company also said it was “strongly encouraging” all of its 5,000 employees around…