Twitter Blue offers status marks formerly used to validate VIP accounts, with more features ‘coming soon’ Twitter has launched a subscription service allowing users to buy blue-tick verification for a monthly fee of $7.99 (£7) in a significant change under its new owner, Elon Musk. The system was designed to help users identify authentic and …
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Former UK-based vice-president Bruce Daisley thinks Tesla boss has underestimated the complexity of his restructuring plans Elon Musk “doesn’t know what he’s doing” with Twitter and is “making everyone alarmed”, a former executive has said, after major brands paused their advertising spend on the platform and the company laid off thousands of staff. Bruce Daisley, …
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As anger builds, Dorsey says ‘I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation – I grew the company too quickly’ Former Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey has gone on the platform recently acquired by billionaire Elon Musk to apologize for the state of the site, which has laid off thousands of …
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The theoretical physicist and martial arts expert has written a new book that uses magic and wizardry as a portal to engage people with the important but overlooked field of condensed matter Felix Flicker is a theoretical physicist working on the quantum underpinnings of matter. Born in Devon, he studied at Oxford, the Perimeter Institute …
New owner says company is losing $4m a day as he tries to reassure advertisers over content moderation Elon Musk has defended the mass layoffs at Twitter by saying axed employees received a three-month payment from the company, which is losing more than $4m a day. The company began widespread staff cuts around the world …
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The UK-based photographer had to act quickly to capture his mini-moggy’s perfect pose – but is it enough to make Pearly Whiskers famous? John Angerson was working late one night when the family kitten hopped on to his desk. “She was only about three or four months old; I think we got her a little …
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Internal chaos at the company – and the decimation of its staff – has created ideal conditions for falsehoods and hateful content The mass layoffs at Twitter that diminished several teams, including staff on the company’s safety and misinformation teams, could spell disaster during the US midterm elections next week, experts have warned. The company …
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With advertisers cutting ties and pressure to payback loans worth $13bn, the new direction for revenue has come under questioning Layoffs of hundreds of Twitter employees have raised alarm about the future of the platform as it continues to restructure under the ownership of Elon Musk, who purchased the company for $44bn last week. Musk, …
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In part three of our series on the UK’s battery ambitions, we look at its attempts to encourage ‘gigafactories’ Human beings and batteries are a bad mix: water and dust can cause disastrous short circuits in the cells that power electric cars, risking blazing fires. So the few people allowed into the vast clean rooms …
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Billionaire blames financial woes on activist groups ‘trying to destroy free speech in America’ Twitter temporarily closed its offices and cut workers’ access to internal systems on Friday as it began laying off staff, a week after the billionaire Elon Musk took over the social media platform. The firings came as Musk tweeted that the …
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