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| More disasters for Twitter under the Musk stench. |
The X Group owned by controversial billionaire Elon Musk has decided to scrap all the birds on the dying platform Twitter. Since his takeover, the company has lost advertising, charges all users to be verified, limits how many tweets can be seen, how many followers are seen and constantly glitches.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
In addition, there is porn, hate, misinformation, disinformation and Musk.
Musk also reportedly sent an email last night to Twitter employees telling them the company would become X, and that it was the last time he would email from a Twitter address.
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With the rival Threads already surpassing over 160 million subscribers, Twitter is desperately trying to stop the bleed by offering incentives to keep people from leaving. Literally Twitter is paying extremists to promote the brand.
Most recently, Twitter said it would limit the number of DMs for non-paying users, a LinkedIn-like hiring feature showed up for Verified Organizations, and Musk said the site would soon let users post ”very long, complex articles” to the site. The article feature seems to be called Articles, but at one point was apparently called Notes — you know, the name for article site Substack’s Twitter clone, the debut of which, you may remember, was a little dramatic.
Under Musk's tumultuous tenure since he bought Twitter in October, the company has changed its business name to X Corp, reflecting the billionaire's vision to create a "super app" like China's WeChat.
The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Twitter's website says its logo, depicting a blue bird, is "our most recognizable asset". "That's why we're so protective of it," it added.
The bird was temporarily replaced in April by Dogecoin's Shiba Inu dog, helping drive a surge in the meme coin's market value.
The company came under widespread criticism from users and marketing professionals when Musk announced early this month that Twitter would limit how many tweets per day various accounts can read.
The daily limits helped in the growth of Meta-owned rival service Threads, which crossed 100 million sign-ups within five days of launch.
Twitter's most recent complication was a lawsuit filed on Tuesday claiming the firm owes at least $500 million in severance pay to former employees. Since Musk acquired it, the company has laid off more than half its workforce to cut costs.
Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard and Jan Harvey
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