Elon Musk accused of going back to his ‘apartheid roots’ after losing Twitter CEO vote, proposing poll tax

Yesterday, Elon Musk lost his own Twitter poll about whether he should stay on as Twitter CEO. Over 57% of users voted that he should step down, a decision Musk pledged to abide by no matter the results. But today, instead of resigning, he’s proposing a different methodology for Twitter polls, one that’s been accused …

Twitter Shares Awkward Work From Home Stories

@bauerpower On a zoom call with boss and 12 others, boss in the kitchen, her husband wanders out of the shower, dripping wet, butt naked standing there behind her drinking coffee and checking out the weather and giving the boys a little morning freedom🤪 05:43 PM – 10 Dec 2022 Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexalisitza/work-from-home-awkward-stories

Elon Musk’s mom is his biggest Twitter cheerleader

Analysis Moms are often our biggest cheerleaders: When we’re running down the soccer field as a toddler, thrashing in a pack of kids at a bouncing ball, they’re there hollering. When we’re up on the stage at our school’s winter choral performance, they’re filming our solo. And when you are purchasing one of the world’s …

Twitter Users Vote Elon Musk Out As CEO In Poll

According to a Twitter poll that closed this morning, Elon Musk should step down as the CEO of Twitter. Musk had tweeted that he would “abide by the results of this poll.” The billionaire initiated the vote last night after a chaotic weekend for the site. Over recent days, Twitter suspended prominent journalists (then reinstated …

Newsletter: Is Twitter gonna ban Santa?

Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.  I hope you had a good weekend! We’re kicking off our week with a “One Dumb Conspiracy” column from our Tech Reporter Mikael.  Besides that, we’ve got some key reports on: Whether or not Twitter’s new policies will ban the Santa …

Is Elon Musk Leaving Twitter? He’s Letting a Poll Decide

After the final results of the poll, Elon clarified that he will be stepping down as CEO, but will still be in charge of the software and server teams. “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!” he wrote. “After that, I will just run the …

Elon Musk loses his own Twitter poll asking if he should step down as ‘head of Twitter’

Elon Musk has a long history of overpromising and underdelivering, so anything he proclaims he’ll do should be viewed with healthy skepticism. But last night he offered people just a bit of hope in the form of a Twitter poll that doubled as a referendum on his brief, chaotic tenure as the social media network’s …

Twitter Spaces Is Gone After Elon Musk Was Grilled By Reporters On A Space

The billionaire has so far struggled to square his free speech proselytizing with his decisions to squash criticism against him on the platform. When he announced that he wanted to buy the company earlier this year, Musk tweeted, “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.” …

Elon Musk In Twitter Space About Journalists Suspension

Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell, one of the suspended reporters, said that he hadn’t posted Musk’s address on Twitter. “You posted a link to the address,” Musk shot back. “In the course of reporting about ElonJet, we posted links to ElonJet, which are now not online, and now banned on Twitter,” Harwell said. “You …

Twitter suspends accounts of prominent tech journalists who report on Elon Musk

Tonight, Twitter suspended the accounts of several journalists who report on tech, Twitter, and Elon Musk without explanation. Prominent reports such as CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, the Washington Post‘s Drew Harwell, and the New York Times Ryan Mac all disappeared from the site. Also caught in the purge were progressive Substack writer Aaron Rupar, Mashable’s Matt …