Twitter deletes bird logo, replaces it with DogeCoin dog
Twitter’s logo mysteriously transformed from the familiar bird into the memetastic DogeCoin dog today, leaving users perplexed. The logo in the top right corner of the Twitter browser window was replaced by a picture of a Shiba Inu, a breed of Japanese hunting dog. The dog also appears for a second when you first load […]
Voting in Twitter polls to require verification – Musk
Voting in Twitter polls will require users to be verified, owner and CEO of Twitter Elon Musk. In changes that he says will address advanced artificial intelligence (AI) bot swarms taking over, the tech company plans to make unverified accounts less visible on the platform. Unverified accounts will also not appear in the “For You” […]
Elon Musk reclaims world’s richest man title
Elon Musk is once again the world’s richest man after a rally in Tesla’s stock price on Monday boosted the Twitter owner’s net worth by nearly $7bn to $187bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk’s recovery of the top spot from the French luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault follows a precipitous drop in his […]
Elon Musk unblocks everyone on Twitter, calls negative feedback ‘good thing’
Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, on Saturday confirmed that he has unblocked everyone on the microblogging platform, calling “negative feedback a good thing”. The billionaire clarified that everyone that he has ever blocked on Twitter has been unblocked, apart from the scammers. He further recommended people to do the same thing. “I have unblocked […]
Elon Musk breaks world record for largest loss of personal fortune in history
Elon Musk has broken the world record for the largest loss of personal fortune in history, according to a Guinness World Records report. The tech billionaire has lost approximately $182 billion/Ksh22.5 trillion since November 2021, although other sources suggest that it could actually be closer to $200/24.7 trillion the report said. “Musk’s net worth dropped […]
Twitter sued by landlord for allegedly failing to pay rent
A commercial landlord is suing Twitter for breach of contract after the company allegedly failed to pay rent for one of its offices in San Francisco. The lawsuit concerns Twitter’s office space at 650 California Street, not its main headquarters on Market Street. But it comes after media reports last month said Twitter’s new owner, […]
Twitter suspends journalists who report on Elon Musk
Twitter has abruptly suspended more than half a dozen journalists in the United States who have reported critically about the social media platform’s new owner Elon Musk. The suspensions, which happened without prior warning late on Thursday, came as Musk accused journalists of endangering his family by “doxxing”, or disclosing nonpublic information, about his location. […]