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A jury on Friday decided Elon Musk didn’t defraud investors with his 2018 tweets about electric automaker Tesla in a proposed deal that quickly unravelled and raised questions about whether the billionaire had misled investors. The nine-member jury reached its verdict after less that two hours of deliberation following a three-week trial. It represents a … Read more
Twitter will start sharing revenue from advertisements with some of its content creators, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Friday. Effective Friday, revenue from ads that appear on a creator’s reply threads, will be shared. The user must be a subscriber of Blue Verified, Musk said. Musk, however, did not give details about the portion … Read more
A lawyer for Tesla shareholders who claim Elon Musk deceived them when he tweeted that he had secured funding to take his electric car company private is expected to make closing arguments to a San Francisco jury on Friday. A jury of nine will decide whether the tweet artificially inflated Tesla’s share price by playing … Read more
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took over the social media platform, Twitter in October 2022. Since the controversial acquisition, both Musk and Twitter have been over the news for several reasons including mass layoffs, Twitter Blue subscriptions and other cost-cutting policies. The social media platform has now announced that it will stop offering free access to … Read more
Twitter boss Elon Musk baffled millions of the social media giant’s users Wednesday after marking his account private; this means only those who already follow the billionaire (and those he now permits) can see his tweets. Those who do not (Musk has nearly 128 million followers on the platform) will see this message – ‘these … Read more
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been experimenting with the platform ever since taking over. From introducing differently coloured verification ticks to tinkering with the algorithm, he has actively engaged with bringing new changes to the social media giant.Musk’s latest experiment involves checking the impact of account privacy settings on tweet visibility. In a recent tweet, … Read more
Elon Musk has reportedly asked employees at Twitter to work on a payments system with support for crypto functionalities. This system is said to start with fiat currencies but will also be able to accommodate cryptocurrencies in the future. Citing sources, The Financial Times said that Musk instructed developers to build the platform’s payments system. … Read more
Twitter has reportedly made its first interest payment on the $12.5 billion debt – and some more – which Elon Musk took last year to purchase the social media platform. The billionaire acquired the company in a $44 billion deal in October 2022.According to a report by Bloomberg, the initial interest payment, an estimated $300 … Read more
Twitter is working to introduce payments on the social media platform and has begun applying for regulatory licenses, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. New boss Elon Musk is pushing Twitter to create new streams of revenue as it faces a drop in advertising income, following his $44 billion … Read more
Elon Musk announced earlier this month that Twitter will make it less mandatory for users to use the “For You” algorithmic timeline. The CEO has now announced another update regarding the platform’s timeline saying the ‘For You or Following’ choice will be persistent soon.The conversation started when MMA fighter Matt Brown tagged Musk complaining that … Read more