The de-feathering of Twitter may soon be upon us as Elon Musk claimed in a series of Saturday night tweets that the company’s logo will soon shift from its trademark bird to simply “X.” In a series of late-night tweets that touched topics like the Fermi Paradox, declining birth rates, …
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Last week, prominent Twitter Blue accounts began posting screenshots of thousand-dollar payouts they received through the platform’s newly launched ad revenue-sharing program. The program grants high-engagement Twitter users who’ve paid for verification “a share in ad revenue starting in the replies to their posts.” To qualify, users need to have …
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A former Twitter employee has filed a $500 million class action suit against Elon Musk and the social media company, alleging they’ve skimped out on severance for the thousands of workers fired since Musk’s takeover last year. The lawsuit (shared via Variety) was brought by Courtney McMillian, a former HR …
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With a strike looming for members of the Screen Actors Guild, whose new deadline for SAG-AFTRA to come to an agreement with Hollywood studios and producers is set to expire at midnight on July 12, and SAG-AFTRA agreeing to federal mediation, actors say they don’t have a lot of faith …
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Everything Doja Cat tweeted before June 2023 is gone. All of her trolling to her 5.6 million followers about the title of her forthcoming album, her denouncement of the pop genre, and her threats to quit music altogether — wiped. All the links to those posts lead back to the …
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Twitter may be struggling to court advertisers, keep the site actually running, and prevent users from fleeing to eager competitors — but at least the Taliban likes it. On Monday, Anas Haqqani, a senior leader in the Taliban, praised Twitter in response to the launch of Meta’s Threads, a Twitter …
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Threads, a brand-new social app from Instagram that bears more than a passing resemblance to Twitter, has already pulled in a massive user base, notching 50 million signups just a day after launch. The Silicon Valley shakeup is exacerbating tensions between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, with attorneys for the …
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Cameras have officially picked up for Vanderpump Rules Season 11, following a monthslong news cycle around Scandoval and the highest-rated episodes in the Bravo series’ history. Last Thursday, TMZ reported that Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney filmed at a Los Angeles thrift store shopping for items for their sandwich shop, …
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Within four hours of launching Threads, Mark Zuckerberg posted that 5 million people had registered on the platform. The Twitter competitor went live in the App Store on Wednesday, a day earlier than expected, and as users signed up in droves, Zuckerberg highlighted the milestone. “Just passed 5 million sign …
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A lawyer representing Elon Musk‘s X Corp., which owns Twitter, has sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, accusing his company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property” in the creation of its new Threads app. The app, …
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