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Nov 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Elon to advertisers who bail on twitter because of his tweets. “Go. Fuck. Yourself.”

The "Hi Bob" was targeted at Disney CEO Bob Iger who is in the audience and has paused advertising on X.
Oct 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEWS: Here's what Elon told 𝕏 staff at the all-hands meeting:

- X is aiming to roll out full payment+financial services by end of 2024
- Creator payouts will increase "significantly"
- X could launch a dating feature
- X's video player will be integrated into TVs
Image More from what Elon told X staff:

- X is seeing >500 million posts and over 100 billion impressions per day
- Elon thinks X can build a viable LinkedIn competitor via @XHiring
- X is rapidly achieving feature parity with Youtube in its video player, and could exceed it.
Sep 28, 2023 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
NEWS: Here's the highlights of Elon's roundtable with Jewish leaders discussing X, free speech, Antisemitism and the recent ADL controversy.

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Elon started by pointing out views on Antisemitic content are down >>30% since the Twitter acquisition. Image Elon: Multiple third parties, using full data sets, have also concluded the same that impressions on Antisemitic content is down.

Elon challenges anyone who claims the opposite to provide evidence.
Sep 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEWS: FBI and White House coerced social media platforms into removing posts, appeals court rules. Image It also said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention likely violated the First Amendment, though its actions were "not plainly coercive."
Sep 11, 2023 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
NEWS: Walter Isaacson on what he saw at X/Twitter HQ as Elon took over last year.

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Elon had his cousins Andrew and James Musk and more from the Tesla AI team go over lines of Twitter code. Elon himself was sat with a laptop looking at the code. Image This was when they decided to fire 85% of the staff - the remaining team needed to go “all in” and Twitter 2.0 would no longer prioritize “psychological safety” or remote work as 1.0 had.
Aug 22, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
NEWS: X is changing how news links show up on the timeline.

It will strip out the headline/text so links display only an article’s lead image.
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Image The change is said to help reduce the vertical pixel space that articles take.
Aug 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
INSIGHT: Here's why X is discontinuing the legacy @Pro/Tweetdeck.

Legacy Tweetdeck runs on very old APIs. Keeping it running costs the team time and money, and likely leaves the platform more vulnerable to manipulation.

The team are aiming to upgrade the new Pro asap.

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Image Tweetdeck was largely put aside by Twitter 1.0 for years, explaining why its tech got so outdated.

It seems that now it's becoming a paid Premium feature, Pro is getting much more attention and dev resources than before.
Jul 31, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEWS: 𝕏/Twitter is threatening legal action against the campaign group Center for Countering Digital Hate, over what it says are the group's false claims of rising hate speech on the platform.

In response, the group has accused X Corp of intimidation and said the threat is an… https://t.co/goiOiNkYcttwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Image The letter by Elon's lawyer Alex Spiro accused the group of making "“inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions about Twitter”. X Corp is considering whether the CCDH may be liable under the Lanham Act.

More excerpts from the letter by Spiro:

“Please be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jul 24, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
NEWS: San Francisco police interrupted the dismantling of the iconic Twitter sign, but concluded that no crime was committed Image San Francisco Police Department said at approximately 12:39 P.M., officers assigned to Tenderloin Station responded to Twitter HQ regarding a report of a possible unpermitted street closure
Jul 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEWS: Many users are reporting issues with tweets and replies randomly showing as "This tweet is unavailable".

There was a similiar bug a few months back. Hopefully it can be fixed soon. Image We've also seen reports of a wave of DMCA related suspensions. X team may want to investigate

Jul 14, 2023 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
NEWS: xAI is passionate about releasing tools and products to the public as early as possible, and wants these tools to help people understand the universe, the @xAI team has announced on Twitter Spaces. Image Elon: goal of xAI is to build a 'good AGI'.

Best way is to build an AI that is maximally curious and interested in humanity.
Jul 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEWS: Twitter has filed a lawsuit against 4 entitities located in Dallas, Texas, accusing them of scraping large amounts of data.

"These requests have severely burdened X Corp’s servers. and degraded the user experience for millions of X Corp.’s customers,” the suit says. The volume of automated logging requests from the four defendants, the lawsuit alleges, far exceeds what any person can send to an individual, and shows that the requests were aimed at scrubbing data from Twitter.



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Jul 7, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEWS: Twitter has sued Watchell, the law firm that represented the company in the Delaware case that sought to force Elon to complete his purchase.

"“Wachtell exploited a corporate client left unprotected by lame duck fiduciaries", Twitter said in a statement. Twitter is accusing Wachell of breaching its fiduciary duty ("fiducaries who had lost their motivation to act in Twitter’s best interest pending its imminent sale to Elon Musk") and seeking restitution for a $90 million payment.

source: wsj.com/articles/twitt…
Jun 20, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
NEWS: More than 75% of Twitter's top 100 advertisers have now returned to spending on Twitter!

The Twitter team continues to make progress here. In November around half of the top 100 paused advertising, and the WSJ reported that in Q1 of this year 37 of the 100 stayed away. Measurements by Twitter's partners has also found that over 99% of ad placements are next to content deemed brand-safe by industry standards.

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Jun 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
NEWS: In a contentious French TV interview, Elon had to repeat 4 times over that Twitter will comply with the EU's content moderation rules in the Digital Services Act.

Elon also told the interviewer that hate speech visibility on Twitter has declined 30% since the acquisition. Image Video with generated English subtitles:

Politico report: politico.eu/article/musk-t…
Jun 17, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
NEWS: Highlights from Zuby’s interview with Elon!

Elon points out that giving in to advertiser demands is costing Twitter about $2 Billion in ad revenue a year.

“Freedom of speech is pretty expensive”.

🧵 Elon says the months since the Twitter acquisition have been “extra difficult” in terms of his workload, even on top of his usual busy schedule.

Twitter is stable by this point, Linda will be a great help with that too.
Jun 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEWS: The Twitter team continue to find shadowbans buried deep in the Twitter code.

Just last week they found a measure that stopped accounts assigned a low 'Reputation score' from trending.

This shadowban even applied to Elon's account and prevented his tweets from trending. Image The Reputation score applied to accounts was simply based on how many times an account was reported. This wasn’t relative to follower count - so anyone with a large following would be hit.

Elon said yesterday shadowban transparency tools are coming:

Jun 17, 2023 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
NEWS: Highlights from Elon’s keynote at @VivaTech in Paris!

The talk began on a self-depreciating note.

Elon: "If I'm so smart why did I pay so much for Twitter?"

🧵 @VivaTech Interviewer: What was wrong with Twitter before you decided to buy it?

Elon explained he’s been a heavy Twitter user for a long time, and he was “closely attuned” to how the platform was shifting.

He was concerned Twitter was having a negative effect on civilization.
Jun 16, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
NEWS: Twitter has reduced Child Sexual Abuse material on the platform by around 95% since the acquisition, Elon announced today in Paris.

Bots and scams are also down ~90% under Twitter 2.0, Elon said. Image The above graph is from an earlier interview, but we know the @TwitterSafety team have continued to ramp efforts in this area since.

Another recent report:

Jun 16, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEWS: Inline media has finally gone live!

You can now insert pics into the middle of Long tweets instead of having them all at the end of the tweet, like below. 👇 Here's how it looks on the Web version of Twitter, after you click into the Tweet details view - it looks like a normal tweet before expanding Image
Jun 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
INSIGHT: @socialdatabase breaks down the targeting features Twitter now offers to advertisers, focusing on:

-Follower lookalike
-Keyword
-Interests

There’s also demographic targeting (gender, area, language) and a few other options like Events.

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twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1… @socialdatabase 1) Follower lookalike

This is one of the most popular options with advertisers - you can pick a handle, and select to target the followers of that account - and also other accounts that look like those followers. Image