Twitter tells advertisers its user growth at all-time high under Elon Musk
According to a company document obtained by The Verge, Twitter's monetisable daily user (mDAU) growth has accelerated to more than 20 per cent after Musk takeover.
Elon Musk's Indian-origin adviser defends $8 for Blue with verification
On Monday, Krishnan reacted on Twitter to the claim that verification will not solve impersonation but cause more problems. "Using a CC/mobile checkout dramatically increases friction. And everyone caught impersonating will lose their money," Krishnan tweeted.
Now Twitter requests key employees to return amid internal chaos
According to Platformer editor Casey Newton, the micro-blogging platform is now asking key people to come back to their roles at the company. "Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now say that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off asking them to come back. Whoops," Newton said in a tweet.
Elon Musk suspends comic Kathy Griffin's account for impersonation
A screenshot of Kathy Griffin's viral tweet read: "After much-spirited discussion with the females in my life. I have decided that voting blue for their choice is only right," asking voters to support Democratic candidates in the US midterm election on November 8.
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw condemns Twitter layoffs in India
Vaishnaw's reaction, first reported by Business Standard, came as Musk fired about half of Twitter's workforce globally, including nearly 150-180 employees in India. "We condemn the way Twitter has sacked employees in India," said Vaishnaw, adding that the employees "should have given the employees a fair time for transition".
Elon Musk announces permanent ban for impersonation on Twitter
In a series of tweets, the new Twitter CEO said that the platform will not even warn such users, like in the previous past, and will suspend the account immediately. "Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying 'parody' will be permanently suspended," said Musk.
Twitter delays launch of Blue subscription service after US midterms
The company "made the decision to move the launch of this release to November 9, after the election", according to a report from The New York Times, citing an internal memo. Musk initially wanted employees to roll out Blue with verification by November 7 "and threatened to fire them if they didn't meet this deadline".
Elon Musk axes human rights, accessibility, AI ethics, curation teams at Twitter
Former Twitter Human Rights Counsel Shannon Raj Singh tweeted that the company's human rights team was axed on Friday. The team worked to protect users facing human rights violations around the globe, including activists, journalists and people affected by conflicts like the war in Ukraine.
Elon Musk begins laying off Twitter employees, shuts offices 'temporarily'
Employees were set to receive an email by 9 a.m. PST (9.30 p.m. India time) confirming whether they have been laid off or not, according to an internal memo seen by The Verge. The employee badge access to Twitter's offices will be shut off "temporarily".
Twitter back after brief outage for some Indian users
Twitter on mobile was working fine but users on the desktop version had some troubles logging into the platform. The Twitter website also went down for some users, with a message saying "Something went wrong, but don't fret - let's give it another shot". According to downdetector.com, a website that monitors online outages, 94 per cent users had issues with Twitter on Web, while just 6 per cent faced issues with the mobile platform.
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