UPDATE: Based on tweets from employees showing that they’ve lost access to their work emails and Slack, layoffs are starting to happen: All your access suddenly shut off in the middle of the night? Same 🙃 — ariasafaria (@SrinivasanAria) November 4, 2022 Has it already started? Happy layoff eve! pic.twitter.com/0AcaQjGJvm — Rumman Chowdhury (@ruchowdh) November […]
Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
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Another company hoping to capitalize on Twitter’s upheaval in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover is the newsletter platform Substack. The company has openly targeted Twitter’s user base over the past few days and has now thrown its hat into the ring as a more direct competitor with the launch of Substack Chat. The new […]
Substack targets Twitter with launch of discussions feature, Substack Chat by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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Open-source, decentralized social network Mastodon has been benefiting from the chaotic Twitter takeover by Elon Musk. In addition to seeing a record number of downloads for the Mastodon mobile app this past weekend, the non-profit company today announced a new milestone. In a post on Twitter — where Mastodon has been successfully marketing its app […]
Decentralized social network Mastodon grows to 655K users in wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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More on rumors of looming job cuts at Twitter: Bloomberg is reporting that new owner Elon Musk will slash headcount by 50% to cut costs, citing people familiar with the matter. Its report suggests staff will begin being told Friday. Additionally, Bloomberg says Musk will reverse Twitter’s current ‘work from anywhere’ policy — and intends to […]
Musk to slash Twitter’s headcount by half — report by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter is canceling its Chirp conference for developers amid management transition, the company said late Thursday. The conference was scheduled to take place on November 16. After Elon Musk took over the company last month, there have been several executive exits and directional changes in the company’s product strategy. So it is not surprising that […]
Twitter cancels its Chirp conference for developers amid management transition by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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It’s hard to imagine committing to invest $500 million in someone’s vision for a company only to watch that individual almost immediately try to distance himself from it. But Changpeng “CZ” Zhao told an audience tonight at Web Summit in Lisbon that he wasn’t bothered when, after committing to invest $500 million in Elon Musk’s […]
‘CZ’ Zhao on why Binance bet big on Twitter despite Musk’s machinations by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter CMO Leslie Berland is the latest executive leaving the social network, just days into its Elon Musk era, Bloomberg and the New York Times report. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg also writes that Jean-Philippe Maheu, the vice president of global client solutions, is leaving the company. Berland hasn’t said anything publicly about the job change […]
Twitter CMO is the latest to leave in a string of exec departures by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
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After much uncertainty around Twitter Blue’s revamp, Elon Musk laid out the company’s approach. He said that the new paid plan will cost $8 per month — something that he mentioned in a reply to Stephen King’s tweet. Plus, the price will be adjusted according to purchasing power parity of the country, hinting towards a […]
Elon Musk floats $8 Twitter subscription that includes verification, long-form video and audio posting and fewer ads by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter’s Chief Consumer Officer Sarah Personette has left the company, she wrote in a Twitter thread Tuesday morning. Personette, who was in charge of Twitter’s ad sales business, said that she resigned on Friday, and her work access was officially cut off by Tuesday. The day before her resignation, Musk fired four key executives immediately […]
Twitter ad sales head resigned amid turbulent Musk takeover by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
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It’s public knowledge now that one of the first things Elon Musk is concentrating on after taking over Twitter is revamping the Twitter Blue program. While a lot of attention has centered around a potential verification feature being included in the paid program, the company is also removing some of the existing features like publisher […]
Twitter to end ad-free news articles as part of its revamp of the Twitter Blue subscription by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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