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For more than a decade, Twitter has been the Internet’s water cooler, a place where people can find the topics driving the day. The like, retweet, and favorite counts were crucial to this system, letting people quickly see what conversations were burning up and motivating them to get in on the action. The system wasn’t broken, but the platform’s new owner Elon Musk didn’t like it—so he says he’s going to break it himself.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetIn a series of tweets on Wednesday, Musk announced that like,…

November 16, 2023 @ 3:08 PM Tesla shares dropped 4% on Thursday after Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on his personal X account, while IBM announced it would stop advertising on the social media platform after it discovered its ads beside pro-Nazi content. In the tweet posted Wednesday, Musk endorsed a verified account named @breakingbaht, which wrote, “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”…

Twitter has undergone various changes under Elon Musk. Some of these changes have tinkered with the way the micro-blogging website works resulting in bugs cropping up every now and then. In one such case, a Twitter bug is reportedly bringing back tweets that users mass-deleted back on their profiles.According to a report by The Verge, some users, including one of their own staff, experienced that his deleted tweets, including some from 2020, are reappearing on his timeline. Another user posted on Twitter rival Mastodon…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tweet about greed. That's what U.S. politicians ought to do if they want to gain likes and retweets on Twitter, according to new University of British Columbia research. The work is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers from UBC's department of psychology analyzed every tweet…