Twitter Blue has once again been announced by Elon Musk, who tweeted that he was “pushing back the relaunch of Blue Verified until November 29th to ensure that it is rock solid.” However, engineers and developers from Twitter and elsewhere have expressed their concern that the platform could start to …
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Elon Musk orders Twitter staff to adhere to a “very rigorous” culture or quit
Employees at Twitter have two options: resign with three months of severance pay or work “long hours at high intensity.” On Thursday, Twitter 2.0 launches at 5 p.m. ET. In a late-night email, Elon Musk issued a challenge to Twitter employees: either embrace the company’s “hardcore” culture, or get severance …
Read More »Elon Musk discovered a fundamental truth about Twitter after his own platform fact-checked him
There are appropriate periods to understand the fundamentals of a potential acquisition (preferably before any money is exchanged), and then there are the three weeks following the completion of the transaction on the platform that you have just purchased. Elon Musk revealed yesterday that he is unaware of the website’s …
Read More »Commentary from former Vine executives on Elon Musk’s proposal to revive the app
Former workers claim a revival would have a difficult time competing with TikTok, which now rules the short-form video market. On October 30, Elon Musk, who had just been named “Chief Twit,” published a Twitter poll asking the straightforward question, “Bring back Vine?” After almost five million votes, the survey …
Read More »While civil rights organizations urge a boycott of Twitter, advertisers are still running away
Elon Musk is confronted with a much more serious issue as he searches for new methods to monetize Twitter: advertisers are leaving the service. According to Musk, Twitter’s revenue has dropped significantly as a result of advertisers’ worries about content control and other issues brought up by activists. Many significant …
Read More »First Hyperloop Tunnel by Elon Musk Is Gone Now A Parking Lot
It’s easy to forget that, just a few months ago, Elon Musk was best known as the man who once purchased a car company and wants to impose serfdom on Mars because his controversial decisions have dominated the news cycle for the past week or two. Ohhh. This is bad. …
Read More »Elon Musk’s Twitter staff reductions have begun
One week after paying $44 billion for Twitter, Musk is anticipated to lay off about half of the company’s staff. According to an unsigned internal memo , Twitter has informed staff that it will be “cutting our global workforce” on Friday, November 4. The announcement follows Elon Musk’s acquisition of …
Read More »Elon Musk has abandoned the first Hyperloop tube in California
The test tunnel, which served as the venue for student competitions in 2018 and 2019, has been taken out and replaced with employee parking spaces at SpaceX. The initial Hyperloop tunnel prototype is no longer in existence. According to Bloomberg, the approximately one-mile-long white steel tunnel along Jack Northrop Avenue, …
Read More »Another Flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Rocket Carrying a Secret Military Mission
On November 1 at 9:41 am local time, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket has launched for the first time since June 2019 at this time. And it did so as part of a covert mission for the US Space System …
Read More »According to reports, Twitter will charge $20 per month for verified accounts
According to several sources, individuals who want to become or remain verified on Twitter would have to pay $20 each month. Twitter is currently controlled by Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla. According to The Verge and Platformer, Twitter is planning to launch a new tier of Twitter Blue, the …
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