Musk has also spent months deriding Twitters spam bots and making sometimes conflicting pronouncements about Twitters problems and how to fix them. After months of uncertainty, a series of moves by Musk this week signaled that the deal would in fact go through. Mr. Musk also loaded the company with $13 billion in debt for the buyout, and it is now on the hook to pay $1 billion in interest payments annually. Omg how is Twitter even up right now?! Don't even think it's worth trying.". That's the only outcome. Mr Musk has said that the takeover deal is on hold until he is given more detail on the estimated number of fake accounts on Twitter. His Twitter account remained suspended Friday. Join the news democracyWhere your votes decide the Top 100. You are now subscribed to our newsletters. Adams said he used "hyperbole" when he called Black people a "hate group" but didn't take any of the statements back. A Delaware judge had ordered that the deal be finalized by Friday. Twitter was just 1% of global digital ad spending in 2022, according to an Insider Intelligence projection. "I missed a couple of maintenance windows for my Airbus / Boeing and nothing bad happened, that maintainence must not have been vital to the operation of the airplane", "I haven't gotten my oil replaced in 30,000 miles and my car is still running fine, clearly it's not necessary to the operation of my car". Bloomberg pegged Arnaults net worth at $185.3 billion on Monday. Foreign money flowed induringthe early years of his premiership as investors bought into his narrative that Japan was back. laura lehn - via Google, I highly recommend Mayflower. Adams cited the poll to emphasize his belief that racial tensions in America "can't be fixed. Here's why Dilbert essentially disappeared overnight. And even trending hashtags were visible. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. This will put huge amount of personal, professional and legal risk onto engineers: I anticipate that all of you will be pressured by management into pushing out changes that will likely lead to major incidents, the employee wrote. Musk, who has fretted before about the risks of global population collapse,"might be exaggerating for effect. Disappear For Six Months - Elon Musk. You are just one step away from creating your watchlist! Elon Musk follows through on Twitter promise, sells $1.1B in Tesla stock. asked the Fintwit account Zerohedge when Kishida was elected leader last year, summing up the disdain many have for a country where returns have long been thought to go to die. Oh wait, they must have not been vital to the operation. At some of Mr. Musks other companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, he has also said employees must go into the office to work 40 hours a week. Things havent been helped by the fact that Japans borders have been closed for most of the past two years. Around 200 employees at Twitter lost their jobs. I realize it's a long shot, but I dont want to completely take myself out of the conversation for the job.". Such scorn, though, is misplaced. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings. In his first communications with Twitters staff, the companys new owner painted a bleak picture as more executives resigned. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. He has complained about restrictions on speech on the platform but then vowed he wouldnt let it become a hellscape. And for months it wasnt even clear if he wanted to control the company at all. After Musk signed a deal to acquire Twitter in April, he tried to back out of it, leading the company to sue him to force him to go through with the acquisition. This is nothing new as the platform faced outage multiple times in the last few months. Twitter said its application program interface (API) would be cut off and replaced with a paid version from 9 February. Bloomberg earlier reported Mr. Musks emails. https://t.co/tF7tN9SrXc, clevelanddotcom (@clevelanddotcom) February 24, 2023. "Well, I've gotta go to bed. On Monday, Adams reacted to the news that Dilbert was canceled. Talk to you later," Musk said before leaving. Days after his controversial YouTube rant, both Dilbert and Adams lost their distributor over the author's racist remarks. The question now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will actually do with the social media platform.. Musk gave one indication of where hes headed in a tweet Friday, saying no decisions on content or reinstating of accounts will be made until a A paid basic tier will be available instead . Investors are unlikely to be convinced by an appeal to invest in a prime minister whose name they seemingly cant be bothered to remember. Who shared the crazy meme: Elon Musk or Don Jr? The question now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will actually do with the social media platform. Felicia Hagler - via Google, In the middle of a big move and so far Jay Casey has been immensely helpful to us with all the details! The council, he wrote, would have diverse viewpoints. or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees. Lori Baker - via Google. The takeover means Twitter is becoming a private company. In a post on Thursday morning, Twitters developer account announced free access to its application program interface (API) would be cut off and replaced with a paid version from 9 February. Elon Musk said on Wednesday he expects a wireless brain chip developed by his company Neuralink to begin human clinical trials in six months, after the company missed earlier timelines set by him. It makes no sense to help Black Americans if you're white. Never hear headlines about that. Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty. On Twitters Slack during Mr. Musks meeting with employees on Thursday, people discussed the merits of resigning or being laid off. Dont resign, be fired, one worker wrote in a companywide channel, in a message viewed by The Times. Viewers on the stream were then treated to various noises from the built in presets, including flushing of a toilet and a tap running. When I said Black people were like a hate group it wasn't because I hated anybody. The billionaire, who also runs the electric-car maker Tesla and the rocket company SpaceX, is under pressure to make the deal work, having paid $44 billion for Twitter. HR is not relevant for a site to run but you sure as hell want them on the company. The homepage currently displays "Welcome to Twitter. "This is not a difficult decision." Lou Paskalis, former head of media for Bank of America, said Twitters most loyal advertisers, many Fortune 100 companies, believe in the platform and probably wont leave unless some really untoward things happen. No C.E.O. In the controversial video, Adams launched into an attack on Black First, many are rightly apprehensive over whether hell will be around in the long-term. ", Meanwhile, the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said dropping Dilbert "was not a difficult decision. Inevitably, Musk then played a bunch of fart noises and laughed away with his co-host. That story didnt last as Abenomicsran out of gas. Unless something changes to cause the birth rate to exceed the death rate, Japan will eventually cease to exist, Elon Musk warned on Sunday, tweeting a response The reform-minded run of Junichiro Koizumi in the early 2000s was one such example; Abenomics another. Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America.Maybe they can try not being racist. In January, Guinness World Records had bestowed upon Musk the record for the "largest loss of personal fortune," citing a $180-billion loss between November 2021 and January 2023. October 12, 2022 | 12:52pm. The same message is seen on both desktop as well as the mobile app. Not sure why he gets so much flak every time he does something a business man should. Whatever people think is happening is not working. The same day, Musk fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde. Servicing Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Merced Counties, 2209 Fairview Drive Suite A Ceres, CA 95307. I would use them again if needed. Twitter has typically reviewed its products for privacy problems before rolling them out to users, to avoid additional fines from the F.T.C. That too relies on Twitters API. The social media company was running a negative cash flow of several billion dollars, Mr. Musk added, without specifying if that was an annual figure. Indeed, Chinas President Xi Jinping was seen in better light,still the sort to be invited to have pints at the U.K. prime ministers local pub. marking a 37% increase from the same three-month period last year. The move was not initially explained, but the company later said it was enforcing a long-held policy. Twitter CEO Elon Musk launched the paid verification Our areas of expertise include Commercial Moving Services, Warehousing, Document Shredding and Storage Solutions. is to create and maintain customer confidence with our services and communication. Mr Musk has been voicing numerous concerns about Twitter over recent weeks, in the midst of his attempt to buy the company. Musk has come to Adams's defense on the social media app in recent days as he said the "media is racist." Much of "While we respect and encourage free speech, his views do not align with our editorial or business values as an organization. Earthquake bots and other accounts set up to post automatic updates on the weather, environment or health issues such as Covid can be extremely useful. Elon Musk might soon charge $19.99 per month for those blue verification checkmarks on Twitter. Twitters work force had been remote since early in the pandemic, and in recent years, its employees have been allowed to choose where they want to live rather than remaining in cities where the company has offices. spent months deriding Twitters spam bots. Trump has repeatedly said that he will not return to Twitter even if his account is reinstated, though some allies wonder if hell be able to resist as he moves closer to announcing another expected presidential campaign. He has sold nearly $4 billion in Tesla shares recently, according to regulatory filings this week. You can invest in Japan with confidence," Fumio Kishida, the countrys prime minister, told an international audience at the City of London last week in a Japanese-language address, adding a three-word declaration in Englishalmost as an exclamation point: Invest in Kishida.". Adams said his comments last week were "hyperbole. Musk who was taking a short break from posting terrible memes was co-hosting a Twitter Space livestream with inventor and podcaster Jason Calacanis in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday (February 28). They included Kathleen Pacini, a human resources leader; Yoel Roth, the head of trust and safety; and Robin Wheeler, an advertising executive, according to four people familiar with the matter. David McCabe contributed reporting from Washington. A decade later, Chinalooks like a much riskier investment destination. For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now theyre racist against whites & Asians. To be fair all major tech companies have been making news when layoffs happen. The first hint Twitter would clamp down on use of the API was in mid-January when Twitter suddenly shut off access for Tweetbot, a third-party Twitter app optimised for Apple products. Adams said he did not "espouse racism," and simply said people "should try to get away from it, which is apparently racist in itself." ", "Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer," writes Chris Quinn. In fact, hate wasn't even part of the conversation, was it?" the bird is freed. https://t.co/PjHePIkCpb pic.twitter.com/e45XXU7ugF. You save your energy for more important battles," he wrote in a now-deleted post. Its not like twitter employees have proudly flaunted on social media how they do fuck all. With fair value that we would peg at roughly $25 billion, Musk buying Twitter remains a major head scratcher that ultimately he could not get out of once the Delaware Courts got involved.. WebUsually elite coders are in fact responsible to make sure the rest of of teams code is good enough and to solve hard technical problems. An obvious question for those who canceled me is do they disagree with my point. The companys profits saw a roughly 59% jump from 2021s Q4 to $3.7 billion, while its earnings per share came in at $1.19. Copyright HT Digital Streams Limited All rights reserved. The man will be hiring and firing people indefinitelyjust like every other company. "Do you think I would be canceled if I were not white? You can blame the newspapers for being a little skittish, but the syndication company didn't have any choice so don't give them a hard time.". The API provides access to Twitter data, which can be used to create third-party apps, automated bots, customer service tools for brands, and enables researchers to report on trends or patterns on the site. On Tuesday, he did the same, replying to another user who voiced concerns about that number by writing Yeah, maybe a smidge higher . This is nothing new as the platform has faced multiple outages in the last few months. I will be digging in more today, he tweeted early Friday, in response to a conservative political podcaster who has complained that the platform favors liberals and secretively downgrades conservative voices. Private equity isbullish on the nations prospects. Outage tracking website DownDetector also shows hundreds of complaints. Twitter employees who lost jobs included many product managers, engineers, and people in the data science department. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Explaining it took up 2,500 words of his Guildhall speech last week, his first real attempt to pitch the concept abroad. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin and Mae Anderson contributed to this story from New York. Just another episode in the life of Elon Musk. Adams addressed the scandal on Monday's YouTube show Real Coffee With Scott Adams where he claimed media outlets posted his startling comments out of context. Much of Musks wealth is tied to Tesla, the electric vehicle and clean energy company where he is the largest individual shareholder. He has responded by threatening a thermonuclear name & shame of advertisers who choose to halt their spending. 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