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Musk Will Seek Evidence from Twitter’s Former Product Chief as He Looks to Exit His Takeover Deal

19Aug

By Andrew HutchinsonNo Comments

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Musk Will Seek Evidence from Twitter’s Former Product Chief as He Looks to Exit His Takeover Deal

God, I’ll be happy when the Elon Musk/Twitter takeover deal is finally done with, so that I no longer have to keep checking in on Musk’s rubbish Twitter feed every day. So what’s the latest on the Musk takeover fiasco? Well this week, Elon’s team finally had a minor win, with a judge ruling that Twitter will be required to provide documents from former Twitter product chief Kayvon Beykpour as part of Team Musk’s evidence-gathering process, through which it’s seeking to prove that Twitter willfully mislead investors as to the amount of fake accounts on its platform Which is the key sticking point, according to Musk, in the deal going ahead as originally planned. For months, Musk has questioned Twitter’s claim that only 5% of its active users ae bots or spam accounts - because in his pers...

Twitter’s Working on Tweet Awards, Another Creator Monetization Option

After adding tipping along with its Super Follow and other subscription options, Twitter now appears to be working on a new ‘Awards’ option for tweets, which would potentially provide another way for creators to generate income from their on-platform efforts. As you can see in this image, shared by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, the new award option appears as a gift icon in the lower tweet function bar. There’s also a microphone icon before Wong’s user name in this example, which appears to be connected with Super Follows, though what it actually means is not clear as yet. Awards looks similar to Facebook’s virtual gifts, which are purchasable with Stars, its in-app currency to donate to creators, while YouTube also has its own ‘Super Stickers’ option to facilitate the s...

Everything You Need to Know About Twitter’s Disappearing Tweets

It’s common wisdom that the internet is forever. Country superstar Brad Paisley even wrote a song about it, for goodness sakes. But Twitter, with its new Fleets feature, dares to disagree. Rolled out to users worldwide November 2020, Fleets are a way to post content on Twitter that will disappear after 24 hours. Reactions so far have been… mixed. It's very meta how everyone stopped caring about Fleets after 24 hours. — Monty Ashley (@monty_ashley) November 27, 2020 ok all of your fleets are excellent, it's like having access to an exclusively wholesome take-free alt twitter whenever I like and I'm begging you to keep it that way — Hannah Malcolm (@hannahmmalcolm) November 27, 2020 I ain watch 10 fleets since this feature come out — Duke (@Dxke_fz) December 9, 2020 Finally updated tw...