What you think Twitter needs is to overwork 200 programmers so they can cover for one who got fired. The question now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will actually do with the social media platform. Elon Musk, Twitters new owner, sent emails to employees late on Wednesday saying big changes were coming, including an end to the remote work policy. 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. Elon Musk, the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer who just surpassed 100 million Twitter followers and is a generally obsessive tweeter, hasnt posted anything in nine days. Hes simply gone missing. Taking a short Twitter break wouldnt be cause for alarm under normal circumstances. And lets be honest, every single large company is full of dead weight. 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 Adams cited the poll to emphasize his belief that racial tensions in America "can't be fixed. A decade later, Chinalooks like a much riskier investment destination. 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", Meanwhile, the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said dropping Dilbert "was not a difficult decision. Instead, they got 10 minutes of fart noises and sound effects, before the Tesla and Twitter CEO logged off and disappeared from the stream. Viewers tuning in to a recent live stream to hear Elon Musk were probably expecting to hear words of wisdom and business tips from one of the worlds richest men. I am a repeat customer and have had two good experiences with them. The price they quote you is guaranteed and if your load comes in on the scales below the pounds they quote you they will refund you the difference you paid. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2023. So, it is safe to assume that there's some issue with just the feed. For some users, though, the followers list disappeared for a while. 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. I see 30 teslas on the road every day. On Twitters Slack during Mr. Musks meeting with employees on Thursday, people discussed the merits of resigning or being laid off. By India Today Tech: Twitter is down once again. Twitter has not said what it will charge for basic API access, nor has it indicated whether the charge will apply to all users of the API, including researchers. As concerns rise about the direction of Twitters content moderation, European Union Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted to Musk on Friday that In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules.. Back in 2013, Abe was viewed with suspicion by manywary of hisdisastrous first term as leader and misplaced concerns about re-militarization. Explaining it took up 2,500 words of his Guildhall speech last week, his first real attempt to pitch the concept abroad. Heres a roundup of some popular tools and accounts that could disappear once the pay-for-access API comes into effect. John Victor - via Google, Very nice owner, extremely helpful and understanding Adams ruffled feathers by introducing a new character named "Dave," who is Black but identifies as white. He trotted out a long-held goal of Japanese leaders to shift householdassets from cash to investments, but also offered plans to expand tax-freeaccounts. Major personnel shakeups are widely expected, with Musk ousting several top Twitter executives on Thursday. I have no intention on paying Twitter for basic API usage.You can continue to follow the bot on Mastodon:https://t.co/tGsVdbTKyu It's been fun https://t.co/bNwJ4eqLjG. Twitter employees who lost jobs included many product managers, engineers, and people in the data science department. Never hear headlines about that. The mercurial Musk has not made it easy to anticipate what hell do. Because enough people hate him and will click on these dumb articles because of it. The takeover means Twitter is becoming a private company. Easy to offer complacency when its not happening to you. Trading of its shares was suspended Friday, and they will be pulled from the New York Stock Exchange next month. Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. He reclaimed the status on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index late Monday afternoon, having a fortune valued at an estimated $187.1 billion at that time, the outlet reported. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment or further information on why Mr Musks Twitter page was not loading. His predecessor Yoshihide Suga, lasted just a year before becoming the latestof Japans short-lived leaders. 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. Just some of our awesome clients tat we had pleasure to work with. The question now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will actually do with the social media platform. 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. But because of a rapid pace of product development under Mr. Musk, engineers could be forced to self-certify so that their projects meet privacy requirements, one employee wrote in an internal message seen by The Times. Elon Musk recently fired 10 percent of the workforce. 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.". SAN FRANCISCO Two weeks after buying Twitter, Elon Musk painted an increasingly bleak financial picture for the company and outlined That too relies on Twitters API. Outage tracking website DownDetector also shows hundreds of complaints. French luxury giant LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault previously supplanted Musk from the No. the bird is freed. he exclaimed. Because every round of layoffs has made Twitter less profitable. The deal for Musk's takeover of Twitter was agreed to on Monday. And yet, perhaps Tesla Inc. itself tells a tale. Days after his controversial YouTube rant, both Dilbert and Adams lost their distributor over the author's racist remarks. Investors are unlikely to be convinced by an appeal to invest in a prime minister whose name they seemingly cant be bothered to remember. Elon Musk follows through on Twitter promise, sells $1.1B in Tesla stock. I dont agree with everything Scott says, but Dilbert is legit funny & insightful.We should stop canceling comedy! And then Zuck should go down to zero employees to try to out-do Elon. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Twitter lacks a function to allow you to delete your tweets en masse or automatically, so third-party apps using Twitters API have filled that gap. Its not like twitter employees have proudly flaunted on social media how they do fuck all. Foreign money flowed induringthe early years of his premiership as investors bought into his narrative that Japan was back. In a follow-up tweet after the gray checks disappeared, Musk warned that the company will do lots of dumb things in coming months and keep only what works. Crawford quickly parroted Musks tweet, saying there were no sacred cows at the company. To be fair all major tech companies have been making news when layoffs happen. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. His Twitter account remained suspended Friday. More than 42,000 Twitter users heard him testing out a new mic, before testing out a setting that transformed his voice and caused him to fall about laughing. Meanwhile, conservative personalities on the site began recirculating long-debunked conspiracy theories, including about COVID-19 and the 2020 election, in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to test whether Twitters policies on misinformation were still being enforced. Adams is actively tweeting as the drama unfolds. Mr. Musk has previously said the company is losing $4 million a day. The USA Today Network includes USA Today and more than 300 local media outlets in 43 states. Even so, Mr. Musk said Twitter remained over-staffed after mass layoffs of half of the companys 7,500 employees last week. Abes rallying cry was, at least temporarily, a success. Twitter has restored its suicide prevention feature after it was reportedly removed under orders from current CEO and new owner Elon Musk. 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. October 12, 2022 | 12:52pm. Kishida has to change international perceptions. 171 views Nov 16, 2021 Dislike Share Any Thing 138 subscribers After months of uncertainty, a series of moves by Musk this week signaled that the deal would in fact go through. Mr. Musk also told employees that they must return to the office on Thursday and work from there for a minimum of 40 hours a week. Hannibal Hanschke via Reuters Twitter CEO Elon Musk questioned why people were complaining about racist remarks made by the cartoon creator of Dilbert, then 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. Adams's career took a hit elsewhere as Penguin Random House announced it will not publish his book Reframe Your Brain, a spokesperson for parent company Portfolio told Yahoo Entertainment. 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. 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. In one of his emails to staff on Wednesday, Mr. Musk said subscriptions should eventually account for about half the companys revenue. There's a whole sound board. I would use them again if needed. Twitter, whose communication department has been laid off, did not respond to a request for comment. On Monday, Adams reacted to the news that Dilbert was canceled. Around 200 employees at Twitter lost their jobs. The call seemed a throwback to speech by another Japanese leader Shinzo Abes 2013 appeal at the New York Stock Exchange for investors to Buy my Abenomics!" Google, Amazon and Meta account for about 75% of digital ads. Musk has come to Adams's defense on the social media app in recent days as he said the "media is racist." "Further, in the last nine months The Times has on four occasions printed a rerun of the comic when the new daily strip did not meet our standards," the Los Angeles Times stated in a post announcing its decision. 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. If you think its time to delete tweets, we are here for you: https://t.co/Znwc7AQSpl. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Who shared the crazy meme: Elon Musk or Don Jr? 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