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Twitter Payments chief is out as layoffs cut 10% of Twitter staff, report says

posted onFebruary 28, 2023
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

More engineers, product managers, and data scientists are out at Twitter, as another round of layoffs has slashed 10 percent of the remaining staff, The New York Times reported. Multiple sources familiar with the matter told the Times that 200 employees were affected.

On Saturday night—just as it happened during Twitter’s November layoffs—some employees discovered they were about to lose their jobs when they were abruptly logged out of corporate email accounts and laptops. Now there are fewer than 2,000 employees left, it’s estimated.

Twitter deal leaves Elon Musk with no easy way out

posted onMay 19, 2022
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

Since the financial crisis, corporate lawyers have aspired to build the ultimate ironclad merger contract that keeps buyers with cold feet from backing out.

The “bulletproof” modern deal agreement now faces one of its biggest tests, as Elon Musk, the Tesla boss and richest person in the world, openly entertains the possibility of ditching his $44 billion deal for Twitter.

Musk says Twitter must show data behind spam estimate or he’ll kill the deal

posted onMay 17, 2022
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

Elon Musk has cast more doubt on his willingness to buy Twitter, criticizing the company's CEO and saying the "deal cannot move forward" until Twitter provides data behind its estimate of spam accounts. Musk also said this week that renegotiating the deal at a lower price is "not out of the question."

The Twitter accounts of 15 NFL teams have been hacked, and one hacking group is claiming to be behind all of them

posted onJanuary 28, 2020
by l33tdawg
Credit: Business Insider

Nearly half of the teams in the National Football League appeared to have their Twitter accounts hacked Monday afternoon.

As of the time of this story's writing, 15 verified accounts belonging to professional football teams have tweeted out strange messages, and had their profile photos and banners disappear. The apparent hacks appear to have all happened within the span of a couple hours on Monday.

Twitter pauses verification program after giving white supremacist the coveted blue tick

posted onNovember 12, 2017
by l33tdawg

Head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has admitted that the company's verification system is "broken" after a blue tick was awarded to white supremacist Jason Kessler. There was a backlash this week after Kessler -- who helped to arrange the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville earlier in the year -- had his Twitter account verified.

Responding to the negative reaction this prompted, Twitter announced that its verification program has been paused. The company also said that the verification tick had been largely misinterpreted by people.

Twitter says it shuttered 235k accounts linked to terrorism in 6 months

posted onAugust 18, 2016
by l33tdawg

Twitter said Thursday it has shut down 235,000 accounts linked to violent extremism in the last six months alone. That brings the total number of terminated Twitter accounts associated with terrorism to 360,000 since mid-2015.

San Francisco-based Twitter, which had come under fire for allegedly not doing enough to crack down on extremist speech on its site, said it condemns acts of terrorism and that it is "committed to eliminating the promotion of violence or terrorism on our platform."

Twitter Has a New App, But This One’s Just for Coders

posted onFebruary 24, 2016
by l33tdawg

For the just the second time in its history, Twitter has built a new smartphone app.

Sure, Twitter offers apps like Vine and Periscope. But it bought those. The company’s new app is the first Twitter has built from scratch since, well, the Twitter app itself. That’s a big deal—but, as it turns out, only if you speak code.

Twitter fixes buggy update which caused worldwide crash

posted onJanuary 21, 2016
by l33tdawg

Social notworking site Twitter says it has fixed the buggy software which caused a worldwide outage yesterday.

Users from Scandinavia to Saudi Arabia to South Africa reported outages. India and Russia also suffered performance issues, according to a Twitter technical site.

Both Twitter’s Internet and mobile services began experiencing outages concentrated in northern Europe around 0820 GMT. Intermittent breakdowns later spread to the United States and Canada in the early part of their working day.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Hints Its 140 Character Limit Could End

posted onJanuary 6, 2016
by l33tdawg

Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter.

Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things longer than the traditional 140-character limit, and the company is targeting a launch date toward the end of Q1, according to multiple sources familiar with the company’s plans. Twitter is currently considering a 10,000 character limit, according to these sources. That’s the same character limit the company uses for its Direct Messages product, so it isn’t a complete surprise.