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Washington, United States | AFP | Sunday 4/10/2023 Twitter has backtracked after an uproar for labeling the US radio network NPR as “state- affiliated media” and now calls it “government-funded.” Elon Musk’s social media network has also applied that new label to the BBC, which is funded predominantly by British households paying a license fee. Britain’s beloved national broadcaster has reached out to Twitter for clarification, news reports said. The change in how Twitter refers […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Reports of more layoffs at Twitter landed on Monday as owner Elon Musk waded into a racism controversy that risked pushing advertisers further away from the struggling platform. Musk called US media “racist” on Sunday after multiple American newspapers announced they would stop publishing a popular comic strip whose creator called Black people a hate group. Musk, chief of electric car company Tesla and […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Thousands of Twitter users on Wednesday reported problems using the platform as the Elon Musk-owned social network began letting paying users post tweets as long as 4,000 characters. “Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you,” the company said in a tweet. “Sorry for the trouble. We’re aware and working to get this fixed.” Reports of Twitter troubles spiked at website Downdetector early afternoon in Silicon […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – A Twitter bird statue fetched $100,000 on Wednesday as Elon Musk auctioned off furniture, decorations, kitchen equipment and more from the tech firm’s downtown San Francisco headquarters. An online auction of “surplus corporate office assets of Twitter” that lasted slightly more than 24 hours also featured a 10-foot neon light in the shape of Twitter’s bird logo, which brought in a winning bid of $40,000, Heritage Global Partners auction service […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN / Julie JAMMOT Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — A lawyer for angry Tesla investors told a California courtroom on Wednesday that CEO Elon Musk “lied” about having funding in place to take the company private, costing his clients millions of dollars. More than four years after Musk fired off tweets saying he had funding secured to buy the electric car maker at $420 a share, investors who felt burned […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – Tesla said Monday it had delivered 1.31 million electric vehicles in 2022 — a record for the US automaker and a 40 percent jump from a year before, but still short of its own and Wall Street’s expectations. The Elon Musk-led company has set a long-term goal of increasing its deliveries by 50 percent a year on average. Tesla regularly says the objective may fluctuate based on operations and in […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Thousands of Twitter users reported an outage on Wednesday, according to tracking sites Downdetector.com and Netblocks, but the issue appeared to be resolving, with error messages and missing tweets reappearing. At the peak of the outage, at about 0035 GMT, DownDetector said more than 10,000 people reported problems with the platform, which is now owned by the mercurial billionaire Elon Musk. AFP journalists in the United States and Asia were among […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – Elon Musk on Wednesday said that severe cost cuts at Twitter had repaired the company’s dire finances as he set out to find a new CEO for his troubled social media platform. The mercurial billionaire told a live chat forum that without the changes, including firing over half of Twitter’s employees, the company would have bled $3 billion dollars a year. “Not good since Twitter has $1 billion in cash. […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Elon Musk on Tuesday said that he doubted the reliability of a Twitter poll in which a majority of votes said he should step down as a CEO of the company. Musk, who became sole owner of the platform on October 27, said earlier he would abide by the poll results but in a series of tweets, the tycoon indicated his belief that the vote may have been rigged […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Twitter users voted on Monday to oust owner Elon Musk as CEO in a highly unscientific poll he organized and promised to honor, just weeks after he took charge of the social media giant. A total of 57.5 percent of more than 17 million accounts voted for him to step down. Musk, who is also the boss of car maker Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX, has not yet […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Elon Musk temporarily suspended the Twitter account of another journalist, the latest in a series of suspensions after owner Elon Musk complained that personal information endangering his family was being divulged. “Elon Musk suspended my Twitter account,” Taylor Lorenz, a Washington Post reporter, said on her Substack page. Lorenz, who covers technology, said the suspension by Musk came after she and a colleague “attempted to reach him several times” for comment […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – Twitter suspended Thursday the accounts of more than a half-dozen journalists who had been writing about the company and its new owner Elon Musk. Some of the journalists had been tweeting about Twitter shutting down an @ElonJet account that tracked flights of the billionaire’s private jet and about versions of that account hosted at other social networks. Twitter did not say why the reporters’ accounts were suspended. “Nothing says free […]
