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Hours after Twitter-rival Threads’ launch, Elon Musk takes a dig at Instagram

Instagram-powered Twitter rival platform Threads has launched and is exploding with new users arriving every second. As of writing this, there are more than 7 million users registered on the platform. With all the success Threads is gearing up to give a big challenge to Twitter. But the executive chair and CTO Elon Musk is not one to back down easily. Just hours after Threads app's launch, Musk has taken a dig at Instagram and explicitly stated that he does not prefer the social network app.Replying to a tweet about Musk…

Threads vs Twitter: Why is Instagram taking on Elon Musk? Adam Mosseri reveals the truth

The timing of the launch of Threads could not be any better. On Saturday, Elon Musk announced the decision to put a rate limit on the number of tweets viewed by users per day - something that has been seemingly revoked in a hurry. The decision, which was taken temporarily to curb “extreme data scrapping”, was met with an uproar, and the days following saw a big spike in incoming users on alternative platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky. It could be that Threads also wanted to take a big piece of that pie and that's why it…

As users flee Twitter after hitting ‘limit’, Bluesky witnesses ‘record traffic’

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the social media platform has suffered hits from his rather erratic decision-making - some good, some great, and some downright ugly. Right after taking the seat as the CEO of the company, he began a massive layoff that saw people working with the company for years being let go. Later, he introduced the Twitter Blue subscription, adding the blue tick as a part of the package, something that has been given to people of repute to distinguish them from fake accounts. While Musk is no…

As Elon Musk imposes rate limits on Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon gain BIG

Twitter users were left shocked last weekend after the company chairman and CTO Elon Musk posted a tweet that revealed that due to “extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation”, the social media platform will be temporarily adding a limit to the number of tweets a user can see in a day. After a brief back and forth, the number was set as 10,000 tweets for verified users, 1,000 for unverified users, and 500 for unverified new accounts. Most users felt this was an inadequately small number as every time they…

Twitter Accused of Ducking Legal Fight Over Musk’s Mass Layoffs

Twitter Inc. is refusing to engage in arbitration with ex-employees who were fired when Elon Musk took over the company after pushing them to use that process to resolve claims that they weren't paid, didn't get promised severance, or were discriminated against, according to a lawsuit.The company now known as X Corp. has been accused in multiple suits of numerous labor and workplace violations, including its failure to pay thousands of workers laid off late last year after Musk's acquisition. About 2,000 former Twitter…

Elon Musk announces new set of limitations on daily number of tweets users can read

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jack dorsey twitter: Twitter team doing best it can under constraints: Jack Dorsey after Elon Musk sets limits on usage

Twitter cofounder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey said it was difficult to run the microblogging platform and that the team at Twitter is doing the best it can under the constraints they have, following Elon Musk’s new diktat of applying ‘temporary limits’ on posts readers can read daily. “Running Twitter is hard. I don’t wish that stress upon anyone. I trust that the team is doing their best under the constraints they have, which are immense. It’s easy to critique the decisions from afar…which I’m guilty of…but I…

Twitter outage: Thousands of users complain of login issues, troll Elon Musk

The day that Twitter said it will not allow anyone to see tweets unless they login, also saw users in droves complain about an outage on the platform. In fact, Twitter was down globally as could be seen on Downdetector. Users took to various other social media outlets to vent their dfrustration at the platform.Twitter users across many countries complained that they were facing problems accessing their handles. DownDetector, a website that tracks online service disruptions, showed thousands of Twitter users's complaints.…

New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino plans to bring advertisers back

In May, Elon Musk officially announced Linda Yaccarino, the former chairperson of advertising sales for NBCUniversal, as the next CEO of Twitter. The move shocked many as it was believed that Yaccarino's opinions on advertisers and meeting their concerns was not really in sync with Musk's, who was losing advertisers on Twitter at an alarming rate due to his policies. However, it appears that Musk hired her specifically to bring back the ad revenue, and the new Twitter CEO is already making major progress in her…

Twitter video app for smart TVs coming! As Elon Musk eyes the big screen, here are 5 things to know

In what was a big surprise sprung on the general public in a quite nonchalant way, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that Twitter is working on a video app for smart TVs. This announcement was made in response to a user's comment on Twitter declaring that they would not watch long-form videos on the platform. A Twitter user named S-M Robinson tweeted, "We really need a Twitter video app for Smart TVs. I'm not watching an hour-long video on Twitter." To which Musk replied, "It's coming."That it may threaten other, established…