• San Francisco investigates permit violation after 'X' logo installed on Twitter building

    San Francisco investigates permit violation after 'X' logo installed on Twitter building

    Jul 29, 2023 03:05 PM EDT

    ... he remakes the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday. Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla, has long been fascinated with the letter X and had already renamed Twitter’s corporate ...

  • Elon Musk announces he is changing Twitter's brand and logo to 'X'

    Elon Musk announces he is changing Twitter's brand and logo to 'X'

    Jul 23, 2023 06:29 PM EDT

    ... laid off roughly three-fourths of the workforce to slash costs and avoid bankruptcy. In May, Musk hired longtime NBC Universal executive Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s CEO. Luring advertisers is essential for Musk and Twitter after many fled in the early months after his takeover of the social media ...

  • House Republicans interrogate FTC chair over big tech regulation, 'harassment' of Twitter

    House Republicans interrogate FTC chair over big tech regulation, 'harassment' of Twitter

    Jul 13, 2023 07:14 PM EDT

    ... to investigate the company’s past actions before he took over. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said that Khan's oversight of Twitter seems like an “obsession.” “Why are you harassing Twitter?" Jordan asked. Khan said the agency has been focused on Twitter's lax security and ...

  • Meta launches Twitter competitor Threads as Zuckerberg and Musk rivalry intensifies

    Meta launches Twitter competitor Threads as Zuckerberg and Musk rivalry intensifies

    Jul 06, 2023 10:45 PM EDT

    Amna Nawaz: So, in terms of a response from Elon Musk, there's some reporting that Twitter's threatening to now sue Meta over Threads, sending Zuckerberg a cease-and-desist letter. We know Musk has been tweeting about this. This afternoon, he tweeted this, saying: "Competition is fine. Cheating ...

  • Twitter threatens legal action against Meta over new rival app Threads

    Twitter threatens legal action against Meta over new rival app Threads

    Jul 06, 2023 09:19 PM EDT

    NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new, text-based app called Threads, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In a Wednesday letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter's trade secrets ...

  • Facebook parent company Meta launches Threads app as rival to Twitter

    Facebook parent company Meta launches Threads app as rival to Twitter

    Jul 06, 2023 03:37 PM EDT

    ... global market research company. "Meta is banking on a moment in time amidst peak Twitter frustration. However, this window of opportunity is already flooded with Twitter alternatives including Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, Post.News and Hive, which are all competing for Twitter's market share." Even so, Threads could be a ...

  • Meta unveils Threads, new app to challenge Twitter

    Meta unveils Threads, new app to challenge Twitter

    Jul 04, 2023 04:48 PM EDT

    ... users need to pay have their accounts verified under Musk's changes. TweetDeck is popular with companies and news organizations, allowing users to manage multiple Twitter accounts. It comes after outcry over Musk's announcement this weekend that Twitter has limited the number of tweets users can view each day ...

  • Twitter users get locked out after Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading tweets

    Twitter users get locked out after Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading tweets

    Jul 01, 2023 09:27 PM EDT

    ... outages. Although that's a relatively small number of Twitter's more than 200 million worldwide users, the trouble was widespread enough to cause the #TwitterDown hashtag to trend in some parts of the world. The service disruptions cropped up a day after Twitter began requiring people to log on ...

  • Twitter ranks lowest in LGBTQ safety among major social media platforms, GLADD says

    Twitter ranks lowest in LGBTQ safety among major social media platforms, GLADD says

    Jun 15, 2023 05:02 PM EDT

    In April, for instance, Twitter quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” raising concerns that the platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups. Musk has also repeatedly engaged with far-right figures and pushed misinformation to his 143 million followers. Twitter, as part ...

  • Fox News warns former star Tucker Carlson to stop Twitter video series, Axios reports

    Fox News warns former star Tucker Carlson to stop Twitter video series, Axios reports

    Jun 13, 2023 04:00 PM EDT

    ... up. WATCH: Brooks and Capehart on the possible Biden-Trump rematch and Tucker Carlson’s ouster Since leaving Fox, Carlson kicked off a "Tucker on Twitter" series — arguing that Twitter was "the only" major remaining platform that allows free speech as he denounced news media. The series, which has published ...