acquisition of twitter by elon musk
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TikTok Finds a New Defender: Elon Musk
As the United States cracks down on TikTok, Elon Musk joins Donald Trump in opposing a bill that could ban the platform.
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Twitter Hasn’t Been ‘Enshittified’, It Always Sucked
Twitter is officially dead. Since Elon Musk’s $US44 billion acquisition of it late last year, people have been saying it’s dead or dying or will die. Musk ended the argument when he renamed the app “X.” And now, so many people seem to pine for the days when Twitter was good. But let me tell…
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Happy Twitter Anniversary, Elon Musk! Your Platform Is Dying
Ever since Elon Musk took over X, formerly known as Twitter, this time last year, plenty of decisions ranging from head-scratching to plain bad have been made. Now, one year later, there is clear data indicating that those decisions have done next to nothing except destroy the once massive and respected platform’s user base. On…
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World’s Richest Man Wants $1 from New X Users
X, formerly called Twitter, launched its “Not a Bot” beta Tuesday, which charges new accounts a $US1 annual fee to tweet and retweet. The initial test applies to new accounts created in New Zealand and the Philippines to allegedly “combat bots and scammers on X,” the company said on its Help Center page. The Not…