Elon Musk

6 in 10 users took a break from Twitter in past year in US: Pew survey
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While a majority who used Twitter in the past year report taking a break from the platform, a quarter of them say they are not likely to use it a year from now, according to the Pew survey conducted about five months after billionaire Elon Musk acquired the platform for $44 billion.
Elon Musk finds butter chicken with naan 'insanely good
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A Musk subscriber/follower by the name Daniel tweeted that "I love basic b**** Indian food, it's so insanely good", while posting a picture of mouth-watering butter chicken with naan and rice. The Tesla CEO replied: "True."
Let's build Twitter 2.0 together, new CEO Linda Yaccarino tells Musk
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Yaccarino, who will start in six weeks in her new position, will focus primarily on business operations. "I've long been inspired by your vision to create a brighter future. I'm excited to help bring this vision to Twitter and transform this business together," she posted.
Who is Linda Yaccarino, the possible female CEO of Twitter?
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Although Musk is yet to reveal the name of the upcoming female CEO who will take over in six weeks, according to The Washington Post, Yaccarino "could serve to calm advertiser fears while balancing Musk's demand for sweeping changes to Twitter's policies on content moderation".
Elon Musk appoints female CEO to lead Twitter
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Musk said he will transition from his role as CEO of Twitter to serving as its executive chair and chief technology officer (CTO). "Excited to announce that I've a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in.6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops," he tweeted on Thursday.
Twitter introduces new features in DMs, will soon launch voice, video chat
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Twitter has launched two new features in DMs -- DM Replies, and a new Emoji Picker to DMs. As detailed in a tweet from the company's support account on Tuesday, with DM Replies, users can now reply to any message they receive in DMs, making conversations smoother and more intuitive. The company also "added a new Emoji Picker.
Over half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers not paying anymore
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According to a Mashable report, Out of about 150,000 early Twitter Blue subscribers, "just around 68,157 have stuck around and maintained a paid subscription as of April 30". Citing data scraped by independent researcher Travis Brown, the report said that not many Twitter Blue subscribers are sticking around.
Musk tells Sachin Agarwal why Twitter's 'For You' algorithm is working fine
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Agarwal, who earlier worked as a product manager at Twitter, said that this was something "we discussed every day while I worked at Twitter: how do we show you great content without you having to find and follow accounts? This simple solution works. "Musk replied: "Nice work by the recommendations algorithm team! As always, changes will be open source."
Twitter to allow media publishers to charge users per article per click: Musk
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After announcing new monetising features for content creators, the Twitter CEO is now aiming to help media houses amid a global meltdown that has seen several publications paying off employees and shutting down programmes. Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers
Elon Musk isn't doing right for Twitter: Jack Dorsey
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Dorsey now uses his new micro-blogging platform called Bluesky that is now available for Android users. Responding to a question from Bluesky user Jason Goldman regarding whether he felt that Musk proved the 'best possible' steward for the platform Dorsey said: "No. Nor do I think he acted right after realising his timing.
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