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Twitter's caller proprietor and CEO, Elon Musk, has been making melodramatic changes since helium finalized a woody to bargain the institution for astir $44 billion connected Oct. 27.
Twitter's saga with Musk, who besides runs automaker Tesla and aerospace institution SpaceX, was chaotic adjacent earlier helium took control. He signed a woody successful April to get the institution but past attempted to backmost retired of it, starring Twitter to writer him. After months of pretrial skirmishes, Musk closed the acquisition conscionable earlier a court-ordered deadline.
After laying disconnected fractional the staff, helium gave remaining employees an ultimatum past week to pledge to enactment nether his caller aggravated civilization oregon get out. Many, it seems, decided to leave. The evacuation of Twitter by thousands of its workers has spurred worries of outages and disruptions.
Here's the astir caller quality astir Musk's takeover of Twitter:
Nov. 22: Musk taps iPhone hacker for help
George Hotz, a hacker known for being the archetypal idiosyncratic to jailbreak an iPhone successful 2007 and starting his ain autonomous driving startup, Comma.ai, accepted a 12-week internship astatine Twitter to assistance amended the societal media network's hunt functions. Hotz and Musk person had a analyzable relationship, with Hotz claiming that helium turned down a occupation to enactment astatine Tesla. Musk, meanwhile, had dismissed the conception that Hotz and his Comma.ai startup could make a amended autonomous driving strategy than Tesla's Autopilot.
Meanwhile, Twitter is undergoing a cost-cutting run that the New York Times reports includes refusing to wage vendors for outstanding bills. The outgo cuts are targeting infrastructure, question expenses, bundle services and existent estates, the Times reports, citing aggregate unnamed sources.
Nov. 21: Even much relationship bans lift, Musk holds disconnected connected paid verification relaunch
Still much once-suspended accounts continued person their bans lifted. On Nov. 21, US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's idiosyncratic Twitter relationship was unlocked, 10 months aft being permanently suspended for violating Twitter's COVID misinformation policy. But amid the parade of restored accounts, Musk claimed 1 prohibition volition stay successful place: Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Later successful the day, Musk tweeted that Twitter is "holding off" the relaunch of paid verification done its Twitter Blue subscription work until "there is precocious assurance of stopping impersonation." Twitter paused the caller verification strategy earlier successful November aft users who purchased the verified bluish cheque marks posed arsenic large brands, politicians, athletes and different celebrities. Twitter was expected to relaunch paid verification connected Nov. 29. The institution allows immoderate users to get their accounts verified with a bluish cheque people if they bargain a Twitter Blue subscription program for $8 per month. Musk tweeted that the institution volition astir apt usage a antithetic colour cheque people for organizations versus individuals.
Nov. 20: More suspended accounts revived, World Cup begins
After Musk reversed erstwhile US President Donald Trump's imperishable prohibition from Twitter the time before, much suspended accounts came backmost online, including that of Kanye West. Known arsenic Ye aft changing his sanction past year, West tweeted Sunday to his 32 cardinal followers for the archetypal clip successful 2 weeks, aft helium had been locked retired for antisemitic comments.
Project Veritas, a blimpish activistic radical known for hidden-camera videos, was besides reinstated, aft being suspended past twelvemonth for disclosing people's idiosyncratic information, a complaint it denied.
Separately, the FIFA World Cup kicked off. The lawsuit typically spurs spikes successful Twitter usage, arsenic radical astir the satellite converge to revel successful real-time updates and posts related to its matches. In the flood of usage, worries persisted that Twitter mightiness beryllium tripped up by outages and disruptions arsenic it copes with operating with a fraction of its accustomed staff. But the archetypal time of the tourney seemed to proceed without Twitter experiencing immoderate large incidents.
Nov. 19: Musk lets Trump backmost connected Twitter
Elon Musk's long-expected reversal of Trump's imperishable prohibition from Twitter came Saturday, opening the doorway for the arguable person to regain his societal media megaphone.
Musk had polled users connected Twitter astir whether Trump should beryllium allowed backmost onto the platform. The last results of that canvass showed 51.8% successful favour of reinstating Trump and 48.2% against.
"The radical person spoken," Musk tweeted. "Trump volition beryllium reinstated." An relationship with the acquainted sanction @realDonaldTrump showed up connected the tract Saturday. Twitter, similar different societal networks, had booted Trump aft the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots.
Separately, Bloomberg reported that Musk is considering firing much employees connected the income and concern side. He reportedly asked leaders, including Robin Wheeler, the caput of income and marketing, to occurrence much employees. Wheeler refused and mislaid her occupation (she lists herself arsenic an ex-Twitter income exec connected her profile).
Twitter, which has laid disconnected its communications department, didn't respond to a question sent to its its property email.
Nov. 18: Musk asks engineers to travel to the office. Previously banned accounts get reinstated
Twitter employees were locked retired of the company's headquarters, but Musk reportedly sent an email asking for immoderate bundle engineers to caput backmost into the office, according to Bloomberg. Musk asked the coders to conscionable with him and supply examples of their coding enactment successful bid to assistance him amended recognize the software.
Musk tweeted about the company's argumentation connected code saying definite tweets volition not person "freedom of reach."
"Negative/hate tweets volition beryllium max deboosted & demonetized, truthful nary ads oregon different gross to Twitter," helium said. "You won't find the tweet unless you specifically question it out, which is nary antithetic from remainder of internet."
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Musk followed that tweet with different saying blimpish media property Jordan Peterson, right-wing satire tract The Babylon Bee and comedian Kathy Griffin volition person their banned accounts reinstated. Twitter booted Peterson and The Babylon Bee from the level earlier successful the twelvemonth implicit anti-trans tweets portion Griffin had her relationship suspended past week for changing it into a Musk parody account.
Musk besides tweeted that Twitter hasn't made a determination regarding erstwhile President Donald Trump's account, but Yoel Roth, the erstwhile caput of spot and information astatine Twitter, said successful a New York Times sentiment piece published Nov. 18 that the ex-president's reinstatement was "near certainty." Twitter banned Trump from its level successful 2021 due to the fact that of concerns his remarks could spark much unit aft the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot.
Roth, who resigned from the company, wrote however Musk called for much censoring of tweets aft a surge of hatred code showed up connected the level pursuing his takeover. He besides went connected to explicate the request for contented moderation was not lone important to support advertisers happy, but it besides was needed to appease app store owners and authorities entities, specified arsenic the European Union, that person laws against hatred speech.
In a 24-hour canvass connected Twitter, Musk asked users if Trump's relationship should beryllium reinstated.
Twitter users are inactive disquieted astir the platform's imaginable death, particularly up of high-traffic events specified arsenic the FIFA World Cup that kicks disconnected connected Nov. 20. The New York Times, citing 3 radical adjacent to the company, reported that immoderate estimates showed that astatine slightest 1,200 employees resigned connected Nov. 17 aft Musk gave them a prime to enactment oregon leave.
User information is different large interest connected Twitter. CNN newsman Oliver Darcy tweeted that the White House is asking Twitter to explicate however it's safeguarding "the information of Americans' online data." The White House didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Nov. 17: Twitter users fearfulness extremity is near. Musk locks bureau doors. Many employees instrumentality severance. Senators privation probe
Twitter users started tweeting farewell remarks arsenic #RIPTwitter trended connected the level successful the US and different parts of the world.
Fears astir a imaginable illness of the tract came aft hundreds of employees decided to permission the institution earlier successful the day. One erstwhile Twitter worker told The Washington Post that there's nary longer a "skeleton unit manning the system."
Twitter "will proceed to seashore until it runs into something, and past it volition stop," the worker said.
Musk tweeted a meme with Twitter's logo connected a gravestone.
The remaining 3,500 oregon truthful employees who were near astatine Twitter aft thousands were laid disconnected had a prime to marque astatine the extremity of the time connected Nov. 17: Remain nether Musk's program for an aggravated "Twitter 2.0" oregon permission with 3 months of severance pay.
Up to 75% of remaining employees chose the exit, according to Fortune and Bloomberg, creating disorder astir however galore remaining radical would person entree to the offices. The Verge reported that those who near included some "legendary" engineers and coders.
Around the aforesaid time, the institution seemingly locked the doors to its San Francisco office until Nov. 21, according to tech newsletter Platformer.
Twitter, which whitethorn nary longer person a nationalist relations department, didn't respond to a petition for comment.
All of this occurred aft Musk softened his stance connected however helium wanted to tally the caller Twitter, astatine slightest somewhat. An email sent to Twitter employees connected Nov. 9 said distant enactment would beryllium banned, but an email to employees connected Nov. 17 stated that distant enactment is imaginable if approved, according to a study from Bloomberg.
"All that is required for support is that your manager takes work for ensuring that you are making an fantabulous contribution," Musk said successful the email. He besides wants employees to person in-person squad meetings astatine slightest erstwhile a month.
Scoop: I americium proceeding acold less than expected devs deed "yes".
Elon sent retired an email relaxing distant moving from the erstwhile draconian policy.
I'm proceeding helium is having meetings w apical engineers to person them to stay.
Sounds similar playing hardball does not work. Ofc it doesn't. https://t.co/VrPEn4IwBG
Twitter is besides facing much scrutiny from US lawmakers. A radical of Democratic senators sent a missive to Lina Khan, the chairwoman of the US Federal Trade Commission. Outlined successful the missive are what the legislators described arsenic "alarming steps" taken by Musk including caller features that person been utilized by scammers, an summation successful hatred code and the removal of cybersecurity executives wrong the company, perchance putting users' idiosyncratic information astatine risk.
The senators constituent retired that these actions could spot the institution successful usurpation of the FTC's consent decree to support this information arsenic portion of a settlement with the committee successful 2011.
"We impulse the Commission to vigorously oversee its consent decree with Twitter and to bring enforcement actions against immoderate breaches oregon concern practices that are unfair oregon deceptive, including bringing civilian penalties and imposing liability connected idiosyncratic Twitter executives wherever appropriate," the senators said.
Among the 7 senators who signed the missive are Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
Twitter violated the consent decree successful May erstwhile the FTC recovered the institution utilized information information similar telephone numbers and email addresses to people advertizing astatine users. This led to a $150 cardinal colony paid by Twitter.
Musk appeared to extremity the time poking amusive astatine his earlier informing that Twitter whitethorn spell bankrupt.
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Twitter has not responded to aggregate requests for comment.
Nov. 16: Musk demands 'hardcore' enactment culture. Dorsey's 'nope'
Musk emailed each unit to outline his imaginativeness for "Twitter 2.0," which volition necessitate an "extremely hardcore" culture, with agelong hours and precocious intensity, according to Pragmatic Engineer writer (and erstwhile Uber engineer) Gergely Orosz. Employees indispensable hold to this connected Thursday oregon permission with 3 months of severance pay.
Scoop: Elon Musk conscionable sent an email to each unit outlining "Twitter 2.0", penning it will"need to beryllium highly hardcore". Long hours, precocious intensity.
People request to click "yes" to corroborate being portion of this by 5pm ET tomorrow, other they get 3 months severance. More details:
During grounds Wednesday implicit a Tesla shareholder lawsuit alleging that his wage arsenic CEO is excessive, Musk besides reportedly told the tribunal that helium does not privation to beryllium CEO of Tesla, and that his chief enforcement enactment of Twitter is simply a impermanent arrangement.
"I expect to trim my clip astatine Twitter and find idiosyncratic other to tally Twitter implicit time," helium said, according to CNBC.
Twitter didn't respond to a petition for comment.
When a follower asked Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey if he'd see returning arsenic CEO, Dorsey responded with a steadfast "nope." There's nary denotation that helium got an connection to instrumentality -- the follower's query came aft Dorsey engaged successful speech astir Twitter's aboriginal and expressed assurance that the tract would survive. His erstwhile tenure arsenic CEO ended successful May 2021, and helium left its committee of directors in May 2022.
Nov. 15: Workers fired for speaking astir Musk connected Slack
Employees who criticized Elon Musk successful Twitter's Slack channels were fired overnight via email, Platformer's Casey Newton said successful a tweet. They were apparently told their "recent behaviour has violated institution policy." It's unclear however galore radical were affected.
Twitter didn't respond to a petition for comment.
Nov. 14: Musk wants greater Twitter video enactment
Speaking via video link, Musk told concern leaders during the G20 acme successful Bali that helium wants to spot Twitter support much longer-form video to bring successful much contented creators. He besides noted that he's been moving "at the implicit astir magnitude ... from greeting til night, 7 days a week" since the acquisition.
Nov. 13: SpaceX reportedly buys large Twitter advertisement bundle
SpaceX, Musk's aerospace company, ordered a Twitter "takeover" advertizing package for its outer net work Starlink, CNBC reported. This volition seemingly beforehand the work connected people's Twitter timelines successful Spain and Australia and tin outgo much than $250,000. It comes aft immoderate advertisers paused campaigns owed to the upheaval astatine Twitter.
SpaceX didn't respond to a petition for comment.
Nov. 12: Thousands of declaration employees seemingly terminated
Twitter chopped thousands of declaration employees, according to Platformer's Casey Newton, Axios and CNBC, with Newton reporting that astir 4,400 of Twitter's astir 5,500 contractors were affected. Most didn't get immoderate announcement and recovered retired due to the fact that they mislaid entree to the company's email and interior communications systems, Newton reported.
The institution didn't respond to a petition for comment.
Nov. 11: Twitter Blue subscription enactment vanishes
The enactment to motion up for the $8 a period subscription work Twitter Blue is nary longer disposable connected Twitter's iOS app, arsenic earlier reported by The Verge. The displacement comes days aft the work launched for Apple devices and anterior to its Android launch. Attempting to subscribe connected desktop directs you to the iOS app.
CNET tin corroborate that this manifests successful 2 chiseled ways: the enactment to subscribe has vanished from the sidebar, and tapping the nexus gives you an mistake message.
Trying to subscribe to Twitter Blue connected the iOS app resulted successful this connection connected Nov. 11.
Twitter/Screenshot by CNET"Thank you for your interest!" it reads. "Twitter Blue volition beryllium disposable successful your state successful the future. Please cheque backmost later."
It's unclear wherefore the institution paused signups for the service, but a ample fig of users reportedly bought verification to impersonate brands and celebrities. An internal enactment posted connected Slack said it stopped radical from subscribing "to assistance code impersonation issues," according to tech outlet Platformer's Zoë Schiffer.
Twitter didn't respond to CNET's petition for comment.
Nov. 10: Musk bans distant enactment and warns of bankruptcy, lawyer says he's risking billions successful FTC fines
Musk sent his archetypal emails to employees connected Nov. 9, informing that "the economical representation up is dire." He banned distant work unless helium personally approved it, according to Bloomberg, portion The New York Times reported that helium told workers "the implicit apical precedence is finding and suspending immoderate verified bots/trolls/spam."
An lawyer connected Twitter's privateness squad posted a connection successful the company's Slack informing that Musk's absorption connected monetizing its users is making him instrumentality unsafe steps, The Verge reported. It's seemingly astatine peculiar hazard of incurring billions successful fines from the Federal Trade Commission successful the aftermath of a May colony regarding the usage of idiosyncratic info to people ads.
Twitter's main privateness officer, Damien Kieran; Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner; and Chief Compliance Officer Marianne Fogarty each resigned, The Verge noted. Kissner's departure confirmed her departure successful a tweet.
Musk besides reportedly told employees bankruptcy was a possibility, Bloomberg reported, citing a idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter. Two much Twitter executives -- Yoel Roth, the company's caput of spot and safety, and Robin Wheeler, who led selling and income astatine Twitter -- besides resigned, according to the report. Wheeler past decided to enactment astatine the institution aft Musk persuaded her to bash so, Bloomberg reported. Roth, Wheeler and Musk's lawyer Alex Spiro didn't respond to a petition for comment.
Nov. 9: Musk tries to reassure advertisers amid disorder astir cheque marks
Twitter's rollout of a new verification system is messy. Twitter started adding grey cheque marks and an "official" statement to high-profile Twitter accounts but past scrapped immoderate of the changes hours later.
In an hour-long unrecorded audio chat connected Twitter aboriginal successful the day, Musk said the caller labels are an "aesthetic nightmare erstwhile looking astatine the Twitter feed" and "another mode of creating a two-class system."
Esther Crawford, who oversees early-stage products astatine Twitter, tweeted that the institution would inactive beryllium rolling retired the "official" statement but to authorities and commercialized entities first. Twitter besides started allowing radical to adhd bluish cheque marks to their profiles if they wage $8 a period for a Twitter Blue subscription. Scammers are already utilizing the caller strategy to make fake accounts. Twitter said it would suspend accounts engaged successful deceptive tactics and impersonation.
In the audio chat, Musk discussed Twitter's plans for a contented moderation assembly and decisions by companies to temporarily intermission their advertizing campaigns connected Twitter.
"I don't deliberation having hatred code adjacent to an advertisement is great. Obviously," helium said. Musk besides said helium thinks it volition instrumentality Twitter a mates of months to make a contented moderation council.
He signaled, though, that helium isn't readying to dilatory down erstwhile it comes to changing Twitter.
"The complaint of improvement of Twitter volition beryllium an immense measurement alteration compared to what it has been successful the past," helium said. "You know, if thing else, I americium a technologist and I tin marque exertion spell fast."
Nov. 6: Paid cheque marks whitethorn beryllium pushed back, Musk cracks down connected impersonation
Paid verification reportedly delayed until aft predetermination
Twitter is postponing the rollout of verification badges connected to an $8 monthly subscription work until aft the midterm elections, according to The New York Times.
Impersonators get the footwear
Musk warned that immoderate Twitter relationship engaging successful impersonation without intelligibly specifying that it's parody would get deed with a imperishable ban. In reaction, immoderate users changed their names to "Elon Musk," which led to their suspension.
Nov. 5: Paying for cheque marks, proceeding from Dorsey
Pay-for-verification program shows up successful iOS update
Version notes for the latest iteration of Twitter's app for the Apple iPhone showed up successful the App Store, with a What's New conception that pointed to the verification feature. The notes archer users that "starting today" if you "sign up now" for an $8-a-month Twitter Blue subscription, "your relationship volition get a bluish cheque mark, conscionable similar the celebrities, companies, and politicians you already follow." It appears, though, that the programme hasn't really kicked successful yet. Read much here.
Dorsey weighs successful
With quality reports saying Twitter had laid disconnected astir fractional its staff, co-founder and erstwhile CEO Jack Dorsey took to the work to connection words of encouragement and to spot blasted connected himself.
"I ain the work for wherefore everyone is successful this situation: I grew the institution size excessively quickly. I apologize for that," Dorsey tweeted. He besides called Twitter staffers past and contiguous "resilient" and said, "I americium grateful for, and love, everyone who has ever worked connected Twitter. I don't expect that to beryllium communal successful this moment."
In April, Dorsey expressed his support of Musk taking implicit the company, but helium besides said that successful principle, helium thought nary 1 should ain oregon tally Twitter and that it should alternatively beryllium "a nationalist good."
Nov. 4: Musk says Twitter has had 'massive drop' successful gross
Since Musk's takeover, respective large advertisers, specified arsenic Tesla rival General Motors, nutrient institution General Mills and pharmaceutical corp Pfizer, person temporarily paused their advertisement campaigns connected Twitter. Musk tweeted that Twitter has had a "massive drop" successful revenue, which helium blamed connected activistic groups pressuring advertisers. Musk didn't accidental successful his tweet however overmuch Twitter's gross has fallen, nor did helium place the activists. In the tweet, Musk besides said Twitter hasn't changed its contented moderation policies.
Musk besides made an quality astatine the Baron Investment Conference, wherever helium noted that Twitter grappled with gross challenges earlier the acquisition and that helium tried to get retired of the deal.
His remarks came aft Twitter started laying disconnected employees. Musk aboriginal tweeted that determination was "no prime erstwhile the institution is losing implicit $4M/day." Without specifying however galore radical were laid disconnected oregon what percent of the workforce, Musk added they were "offered 3 months of severance." Reportedly, astir half of Twitter's 7,500-person enactment unit was laid off.
Civil rights groups that met with Musk spoke retired astir the layoffs.
"For starters, there's nary mode to support predetermination integrity successful spot if you are cutting capableness to bash the monitoring successful #TwitterLayoffs," tweeted Rashad Robinson, president of radical justness radical Color of Change. The radical is portion of #StopToxicTwitter, a conjugation of much than 60 organizations that are urging large advertisers to intermission spending and put successful contented moderation. Partners listed connected the coalition's website see the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Public Citizen, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The Volkswagen Group and others reportedly paused advertisement spending due to the fact that of concerns that ads could look alongside problematic contented connected the platform.
Nov. 3: Musk looks for ways to chopped costs, suit filed
Musk wants to chopped costs and marque Twitter little babelike connected advertising.
Reuters, citing 2 sources acquainted with the substance and an interior Slack message, reported that Musk directed Twitter's squad to find much than $1 cardinal successful infrastructure outgo savings.
The institution is looking astatine different ways to marque wealth extracurricular of advertising, including "paywalled" videos and paid nonstop messages, The New York Times reported, citing 2 radical with cognition of the substance and interior documents.
Musk is already making changes to Twitter's enactment culture. Bloomberg reported that Musk has removed "days of rest" from Twitter's worker calendars and plans to cancel the company's distant enactment policy. Twitter didn't respond to a petition for comment.
Twitter reportedly told employees successful an email that layoffs would happen. A suit seeking people enactment status, accused Twitter of violating the national Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires ample companies to springiness astatine slightest 60 days of beforehand announcement earlier wide layoffs, arsenic antecedently reported by Bloomberg.
Nov. 2: Musk reportedly plans to chopped fractional of Twitter's workforce
Musk plans to chopped astir 3,700 jobs astatine Twitter, oregon fractional of the societal media company's workforce, Bloomberg reported. Affected staffers are to beryllium informed of their destiny by Nov. 4, sources told the quality outlet.
Musk besides plans to reverse the company's existing work-from-anywhere policy, requiring remaining employees to study to an office, the unidentified sources said.
In 1 script for reducing Twitter's workforce being considered, laid disconnected workers volition beryllium offered 60 days' worthy of severance pay. Twitter users person been bracing for layoffs since Musk announced his bid for Twitter successful April. One study indicated that Musk planned to chopped 75% of jobs astatine Twitter.
Nov. 1: Musk suggests charging for verification
In a bid of tweets, Musk floated the thought that Twitter complaint $8 per period for a verified bluish cheque mark arsenic portion of its subscription plan. The company's subscription service, known arsenic Twitter Blue, presently costs $5 per period but doesn't see verification arsenic a perk.
Twitter presently doesn't complaint to verify accounts with a bluish cheque mark, and the badge is expected to beryllium fixed retired to accounts that the institution determines are "notable, authentic and active." The bluish cheque people is meant to assistance users find if an relationship of a celebrity, writer oregon different nationalist fig is fake oregon not.
Musk tweeted that the terms would beryllium adjusted by state and that the subscription would see "priority successful replies, mentions & search, which is indispensable to decision spam/scam," arsenic good arsenic the "ability to station agelong video & audio." He besides said users would spot "half arsenic galore ads."
Earlier successful the day, The Wall Street Journal reported that Twitter Blue subscribers volition lose entree to ad-free articles from publishers similar Vox, the Los Angeles Times and Insider. There person been assorted reports of antithetic prices for a Twitter Blue subscription, with the institution besides reportedly having considered expanding the subscription terms to $20 a month.
It's unclear from Musk's tweets if verified users would person to wage for a subscription oregon suffer their bluish cheque mark. Musk tweeted determination would beryllium "a secondary tag" for nationalist figures, similar the 1 present utilized for politicians.
The company's main lawsuit officer, Sarah Personette, besides revealed successful a tweet that she resigned.
Hi folks, I wanted to stock that I resigned connected Friday from Twitter and my enactment entree was officially chopped disconnected past night.
— Sarah Personette (@SEP) November 1, 2022Meanwhile, Twitter said it has removed 1,500 accounts since Oct. 29 for posting hateful content.
Oct. 31: Official CEO, committee dissolved, layoff plans, nary Trump determination yet, contented moderation constricted
Days aft naming himself "Chief Twit" connected his Twitter profile, Musk confirmed he's the company's CEO through a securities filing. Other changes to Twitter's enactment are besides underway. A related securities filing shows Twitter's committee of directors was dissolved the time Musk took implicit and identified Musk arsenic the "sole director" of the company.
He besides reportedly plans to laic disconnected 25% of Twitter's workforce, The Washington Post reported, citing anonymous sources.
Musk, who has antecedently said helium would reverse former US President Donald Trump's imperishable prohibition from Twitter, is inactive getting questions astir whether he'll travel done connected that. Twitter booted Trump from its level successful 2021 pursuing the deadly US Capitol Hill riot due to the fact that of concerns that his remarks could incite much violence.
"If I had a dollar for each clip idiosyncratic asked maine if Trump is coming backmost connected this platform, Twitter would beryllium minting money!" Musk tweeted.
Twitter besides limited immoderate Trust and Safety worker entree to interior tools, Bloomberg reported, curbing their quality to mean contented and code misinformation up of next week's US elections. They tin seemingly inactive edit oregon region posts that could effect successful real-world harm.
"This is precisely what we (or immoderate company) should beryllium doing successful the midst of a firm modulation to trim opportunities for insider risk. We're inactive enforcing our rules astatine scale," Yoel Roth, Twitter's caput of information and integrity, tweeted successful effect to Bloomberg's story.
Oct. 30: Musk toys with cheque people changes and Vine revival, tweets misinformation
Musk has been engaged suggesting changes to Twitter. He tweeted a canvass astir whether Twitter should bring backmost Vine, a short-form video app that Twitter unopen down successful 2017.
Twitter besides reportedly plans to complaint $20 per period for its Twitter Blue subscription service, and verified users would suffer their bluish cheque people if they don't bash truthful successful 90 days, The Verge reported, citing anonymous sources. Platformer's Casey Newton reported that Twitter is reasoning astir charging $5 a period to verified users if they privation to support their bluish cheque marks.
Musk besides tweeted and past deleted a nexus to an nonfiction with a baseless conspiracy mentation astir past week's onslaught connected Paul Pelosi, the hubby of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, successful San Francisco. The nonfiction came from a website called the Santa Monica Observer. Fact-checking website Media Bias/Fact Check noted the outlet publishes right-wing misinformation.
Oct. 29: Twitter battles a surge successful racist slurs
Twitter is trying to combat anonymous accounts that started to tweet racist slurs hours aft Musk took implicit Twitter.
Twitter caput of information and integrity Yoel Roth tweeted that the institution has "seen a tiny fig of accounts station a ton of tweets that see slurs and different derogatory terms." He added that "more than 50,000 tweets repeatedly utilizing a peculiar slur came from conscionable 300 accounts."
"Bottom enactment up front: Twitter's policies haven't changed. Hateful behaviour has nary spot here. And we're taking steps to enactment a halt to an organized effort to marque radical deliberation we have," helium tweeted.
Let’s speech for a infinitesimal astir slurs, hateful conduct, and trolling campaigns.
Bottom enactment up front: Twitter’s policies haven’t changed. Hateful behaviour has nary spot here. And we’re taking steps to enactment a halt to an organized effort to marque radical deliberation we have.
Oct. 28: Twitter to signifier contented moderation assembly
Advocacy groups person raised concerns that Musk's power implicit Twitter would let much hatred code and misinformation to aboveground connected the platform. Musk has vowed publically helium doesn't privation Twitter to go a "free-for-all hellscape" but has besides said that he's "against censorship that goes acold beyond the law."
Musk said the institution would signifier a contented moderation assembly with "widely divers viewpoints." The institution won't marque immoderate large contented decisions oregon relationship reinstatements earlier the assembly convenes, helium tweeted.
Twitter volition beryllium forming a contented moderation assembly with wide divers viewpoints.
No large contented decisions oregon relationship reinstatements volition hap earlier that assembly convenes.
A securities filing connected Oct. 28 besides noted that Twitter's banal is being delisted connected the New York Stock Exchange. Twitter, a publically traded company, became a backstage one.
Oct. 27: Musk takes implicit Twitter, fires executives
Musk became Twitter's caller proprietor and reportedly fired cardinal executives astatine the company, including Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's caput of ineligible policy, spot and safety.
Earlier successful the day, Musk tweeted a missive to advertisers. The billionaire, who erstwhile tweeted that helium hated advertising, present posted that "advertising, erstwhile done right, tin delight, entertain and pass you."
Musk met with employees passim the week, carried a descend into Twitter's office arsenic a photograph op and changed his illustration to "Chief Twit" earlier quality broke that the woody had been completed.
CNET unit contributed to this report.
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