Ex-twitter employee Esther Crawford has said that Elon Musk is destroying twitter after he rebranded the platform recently. Crawford, the product manager, went viral for her photo last year when she slept at twitter office to show her hard work. Crawford has come out as a critic of the new changes Musk has introduced in the platform after she was fired in February.
Elon Musk recently surprised its twitter users’ base by announcing that he is working on changing the bird logo. Elon Musk revealed that the beloved feathery symbol that users have become familiar with will soon be replaced, and he favors the letter “X” as its replacement.
Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked to hand over documents about content moderation of Meta’s latest application called Threads. The development was made on the basis of previous subpoenas sent by the government to the 5 tech giants to reveal their content moderation policies.
Meta’s recently released Threads application has achieved an impressive user base of over 100 million users, surpassing even ChatGPT’s growth rate. While OpenAI’s chatbot reached this milestone within two months, Threads managed to accomplish the same feat in just a matter of days since its launch last Wednesday.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is set to launch twitter rival on Thursday. The new app known as “Threads” is available for pre-order on Apple’s App store and is expected to give tough competition to twitter. It seems like Mark Zuckerberg is capitalizing on the sidelined & unsatisfied twitter market, after Musk introduced some rules which displeased the users.
Twitter has imposed temporary restrictions on the number of tweets users can read. Thousands of people complained about the access to the platform after twitter limited the number of tweets unverified users can read to 1,000 per day. Elon Musk tweeted that only verified users will be able to view 10,000 posts per day.
While millions across the world are excited about the fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Musk’s father has issued a warning to his tech billionaire son not to engage in a UFC cage fight with the Meta man. Elon Musk’s father Erroll Musk told Fortune Magazine that the fight will be a no-win situation for his son.
The last thing the world could see is this, the CEOs of two giant tech companies have agreed to fight each other in a cage match. Both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agreed to hold a UFC cage fight after replying to each other on social media. The president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship also confirmed it and said he has talked to both of them and they are “dead serious”.
The Australian cyber watchdog has given 28 days ultimatum to twitter to clean up its platform from hate speech. The Australian internet safety watchdog wanted the platform to respond to multiple complaints filed against it or face a penalty of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The US President Joe Biden was laughed at on social media after he, out of nowhere, ended his speech about gun safety with “God save the Queen man!”. The statement caused confusion online as to what Biden actually meant by saying something so awkward to an audience at National Safer Communities Summit.
Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey has said that the Indian government once threatened to shut down twitter and raid employees’ homes. He said Modi’s government has requested the platform to restrict and remove accounts that were critical of the government on numerous occasions.
An AI generated photo of baby Elon Musk went viral on twitter. A twitter user by the name of @alifarhat79 uploaded a photo of little Elon Musk with the description saying “BREAKING: Elon Musk was reportedly working on some anti-aging formula but it got way out of hand”.
