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A few months ago, Elon Musk surprised the internet (as the billionaire likes to do) with a $44 billion bid to buy out Twitter after earlier joining, and then shortly after, leaving, the Twitter board. However, the deal came to an unexpected halt when Musk…
Elon Musk might have put his acquisition of Twitter on hold temporarily, but that hasn’t stopped the social media platform from continuing to make changes to spruce up the app. People discovered a new label on the Android Twitter app that surfaces when the…
The Tesla CEO is using his newly acquired toy, Twitter, to criticize passive investing. Elon Musk joined a conversation on Twitter, which he recently acquired for $44 billion, initiated by venture capitalist Maro Andreessen. On the thread, the latter posited…
Is your retail business struggling with growth and in need of some attention? Do you want to know how you can use Twitter to grow your business? Growing a business can be incredibly demanding and very difficult. Many business owners are not even sure what to…
Twitter today agreed to q be bought out by Elon Musk for $44 billion or $54.20 a share in cash. Musk, in a statement, reiterated his support for free speech and mentioned some of the changes that he wants to bring to the site. “Free speech is the bedrock of a…
Elon Musk on Thursday said he has lined up $46.5 billion in debt and equity financing to buy Twitter Inc and is considering taking his offer directly to shareholders, a filing with U.S. regulators showed. Musk himself has committed to put up $33.5 billion,…
Just three days ago, when Elon Musk ended up not joining Twitter’s board even with the 9.1% stake in the company that he amassed, one analyst suggested that this was a tactical move on Musk’s part. As a board member, he would have been forced to keep his…
Billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, has recently acquired a three billion dollar Twitter stake, which equates to about 9.2% of the social media company, or 73,486,938 Twitter shares. The news comes from a US securities filing, and according to the…
Good news for all people who like to track their online history to the last letter of the last message. Twitter has rolled out a new feature in its DM search bar, which allows you to search for specific messages using keywords. The search option has been…
If you were one of the people who were upset by the recent change to Twitter’s timeline and were angry that you couldn’t easily see all of the latest tweets, you canrelax now because Twitter has restored its timeline to what it was before. Yes, Twitter…
Ever had a very annoying conversation on Twitter that you really wanted to forget and were not able to, because of constant tagging and notifications? Well, Twitter seems to be working on a feature that will allow you to just leave a conversation you no…
Twitter is making all sorts of changes to its app almost on a weekly basis. Some of them are less important, while others are really useful even though they don’t get under the spotlight too often. After delivering the so-called “Good Bots” labels for all bot…
Twitter is expanding the beta testing of its Safety Mode feature to more of its users. In a tweet, Twitter announced that it is extending Safety Mode, a feature that enables Twitter users to temporarily block accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets, to…
Twitter is ending its business relationship with the company that sends its two-factor authentication messages to its users. In a disclosure to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Twitter wrote that it is ‘transitioning’ from working with Mitto AG, a tech company based…
Twitter announced that it is testing a new option for changing the playback speed of a video, which is just like the playback option on YouTube, Netflix, and other video platforms. In the tweet from Twitter, we see that the new playback option may appear as a…
Downvoting on Twitter has been in testing since summer last year, and the feature is now finally expanding for testing to more users. The button will be available to a select group of users around the world, as the company seems to have received positive…
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