NEWS: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over "systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation" of Twitter's trade secrets and IP, as well as scraping of Twitter's data, in a cease-and-desist letter sent yesterday to Zuckerberg by Elon's lawyer Alex Spiro.
NEWS: Elon to interview with Tucker Carlson next week.
This follows his interview with BBC earlier this week. It’s great to see Elon engage with both sides of the political spectrum.
NEWS: The Twitter team continue to find shadowbans buried deep in the Twitter code.
Just last week they found a measure that stopped accounts assigned a low 'Reputation score' from trending.
This shadowban even applied to Elon's account and prevented his tweets from trending.
NEWS: 𝕏's lawyers have come to the defense of an Illinois student being threatened with disciplinary action by his university over posts he made on the platform.
This is the first known example so far of X paying legal fees to support users' free speech, as promised in August.
NEWS: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has halted its use of Twitter after being labelled “government-funded media,"
The public broadcaster says this label undermines its credibility.
NEWS: Elon Musk plans to establish a STEM-focused primary and secondary school, with eventual expansion into a university offering high-level education, featuring traditional and hands-on learning methods.
- The university will employ “experienced faculty” and feature a
NEWS: Twitter is officially dead.
After today's app updates, the name and logo have now changed to X across all the supported clients of desktop, iOS and Android.
BREAKING: Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against Open AI and Sam Altman for breach of contract.
The lawsuit accuses Altman et al with having betrayed an agreement from Open AI's founding to remain as a non-profit company.
NEWS: Linda Yaccarino doubles down on free speech in a memo sent to X employees.
““Our principles do not have a price tag, nor will they be compromised — ever."
NEWS: Brazil's government has just announced that it will suspend all contracts with Starlink
Elon responds by offering free starlink internet for schools in Brazil.
A number of political shows and podcasts have announced their intention to upload on Twitter alongside, or even in place of, Youtube. This new move by Youtube may be intended to stem the bleeding.
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NEWS: Elon talks about how bad Twitters Ad targeting had been. They JUST added the ability to have your ad next to a keyword after he got there.
#POSSIBLE2023
NEWS: Job listings on companies' Twitter profiles are going live! Try it out at
@workweekinc
's page
(note: for now it may only be available for users in the US)
OPINION: There's still a problem with visual clarity when it comes to Parody accounts.
Some possible solutions:
1) Usernames start with the parody label (eg "Parody Elon Musk")
2) A custom parody label below the username
3) Different or edited profile pic than the real account
NEWS: 𝕏 is going all-in on attracting Small and Medium Business (SMB) advertisers to the platform.
X said in a statement: "“SMBs are a very significant engine that we have underplayed for a long time. It was always part of the plan — now we will go even further with it.”
NEWS: Twitter has filed a lawsuit against 4 entitities located in Dallas, Texas, accusing them of scraping large amounts of data.
"These requests have severely burdened X Corp’s servers. and degraded the user experience for millions of X Corp.’s customers,” the suit says.
NEWS: Verified Organizations are now available globally.
Subscription includes features
- Premium Support,
- Impersonation Defense,
- Custom Profiles,
- Verification Management
- All Features of Twitter Blue
NEWS: Elon Musk hears a surprising applause from advertisers as he says “Freedom of Speech is paramount”
Even if it means losing advertising dollars from organizations that don’t believe in that.
#POSSIBLE2023
NEWS: South Carolina's state investment funds will no longer invest in Disney after its 𝕏 boycott.
The state treasurer said the 𝕏 boycott is breaching $DIS fiduciary duty to shareholders.
WSJ writes Elon Musk is transforming Twitter, not killing it
“Thanks to innovative new features and a trimmed-down staff, ads and money are coming back in droves”
NEWS: Starting today, contrasting ratings on “Not Helpful” notes will count as two negative Rating Impact points on contributors instead of one.
X hopes this change help improve the quality of the notes on the platform.
OPINION: Removing Blocking altogether is going too far.
While it can be used for purposes such as cutting off people who disagree with you politically, it has an important role to combat harassment, trolls and spam which are a significant problem for many users on the platform.
LAWSUIT SUMMARY: X Corp filed a defamation lawsuit against Media Matters for America and one of its writers, Eric Hananoki.
The key allegations are:
1) Media Matters published an article on November 16, 2023 with the headline "X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM,
NEWS: Elon and the xAI team have announced:
- xAI will release tools to the public as soon as possible
- will combine text, image, and real world AI
- Details of the first product release will be out in a few weeks
- Any ordinary person will be able to vote on xAI's future!
NEWS: Elon states he will continue to stand by community notes even if it means losing advertising dollars.
Twitter lost $40m after "two pretty big advertisers" got mad that Twitter refused to remove community notes from their ads.
INSIGHT: Grok during earning season is a gem and does a better job than most articles written by publications.
It does a great job breaking down earning calls and investor sentiment after the call.
It’s going to be interesting to see it improve further with the upcoming
NEWS: X (formerly Twitter) is launching a TV app for Amazon and Samsung smart TVs next week to turn the platform into a major video streaming competitor to YouTube.
The big picture: The app, which the source says looks "identical" to YouTube's TV interface, aims to encourage
NEWS: A US Federal court ruled that the White House and its agencies were violating the First Amendment’s protection against government censorship by pressuring Twitter to place advisory labels on posts and/or ban accounts.
NEWS: Twitter's web version no longer allows users to browse without logging in. All urls redirect to the signup page.
This is believed to be a measure to make it harder for scrapers to take Twitter's data, like ChatGPT's web browsing plugin has been doing.
the student ran an account noting events with free food at the university, but is facing punishment from the university after he allegedely advertised a private event and took food from it, though his lawyers dispute some details.
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NEWS: Twitter may be rebranded to a different name in the future, Elon has hinted.
He says compared to old Twitter, the X platform will have a much wider variety of long text, video, messaging, and financial services. Elon: “'Twitter' is, I think, the wrong branding for that”.
@elonmusk
Muting isn't a full replacement for blocking.
If anything, blocking is more of a service to your followers to stop them seeing harassment, spam etc.
It also prevents someone from quote-posting you to direct harassment your way.
Look at the replies. The feedback isn't good.
NEWS: Twitter has sued Watchell, the law firm that represented the company in the Delaware case that sought to force Elon to complete his purchase.
"“Wachtell exploited a corporate client left unprotected by lame duck fiduciaries", Twitter said in a statement.
NEWS: Twitter/X’s Brazilian employees will be ARRESTED if they don’t get them to a safe place.
As such, X will hold off on Data Dump of Government requests till then.
NEWS: X is complying with more German requests compared to pre-acquisition when it comes to identifying users in Hate speech cases, German prosecutors say.
This has raised concerns among civil liberties advocates, due to the strict and broad nature of Germany's hate speech laws.
NEWS: Here's what Linda Yaccarino told 𝕏 staff this week:
"Kowtowing to external criticism or pressures is simply not how X will ever operate"
"We stand in solidarity with those who believe in free speech and the critical checks and balances of a thriving democracy”
FLASHBACK: Today is 1 year since Elon closed the acquisition of Twitter.
It's reported he completed the takeover at around 4pm Pacific Time.
📷: Soon after the deal closed, Elon celebrates with a bottle of Pappy van Winkle at Twitter HQ (via
@WalterIsaacson
's biography)
NEWS: 𝕏's 10.0 update for iOS is out now.
The update replaces references to "Twitter" with 𝕏, and "Tweets" to "Posts".
The app's tagline is now "Blaze your glory!" aswell.