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Twitter rival Mastodon has grown eight times its size in a matter of weeks, going from approximately 300,000 users in October to 2.5 million in November, according to a blog post by the platform's founder, Eugen Rochko.

Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts is calling on Congress to pass new legislation to rein in Big Tech companies after Elon Musk ignored an information request. "Elon Musk could respond to my tweets but failed to respond to my letter by yesterday's

Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted Thursday that he would be giving a

Musk is making a lot of changes at Twitter. Here's a timeline to keep you up to speed.

Netizens questioned why the images depicted lack of gender equality among the Twitter workforce with whom Musk is planning the future of the platform.

- I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers," an ex Twitter employee told WaPo. "There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop." (WaPo)

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Staff at the Facebook and Instagram owner flooded Blind with negative comments about their CEO on the day he axed 13% of its workforce.

Singapore passed legislation on Wednesday empowering authorities to order social media platforms Facebook, TikTok, and others to remove “egregious content” such as those promoting self-harm, sexual exploitation, terrorism, and hate.

One Twitter user took advantage of the $8/month subscription, but not for their own personal platform, instead using it to make a verified LeBron James account.

(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company will cut more than 11,000 jobs, calling himself responsible for the first major round of layoffs in the social media giant's history.Most Read from BloombergSa

Twitter cut close to 3,700 people this week via email as a way to trim costs following Musk's acquisition.

Twitter is notifying staff that have been laid off over email. The layoffs are expected to affect about 50% of Twitter's employees.

Musk is trying to find $1 billion in annual savings but doesn't seem to understand the company he bought.

Staff are working long hours to try prove themselves as they face the looming threat of layoffs under new owner Elon Musk.

Surprise! Elon Musk's tenure at Twitter is already shaping up to be confusing and contradictory. Whether this dynamic ends up being more self-defeating for him and his new company than harmful for the rest of humanity and human civilization remains tb

Executives at the social media company are considering making a $5 a month subscription a condition of holding on to the blue check mark, Platformer reports.

Elon Musk says he will "look into" increased censorship on Twitter during the 2022 election season.

Elon Musk, Twitter's new owner, announced plans for a content moderation council to dictate policy and review major account reinstatements.

Elon Musk told prospective investors in his deal to buy the company that he planned to get rid of nearly 75 percent of Twitter's 7,500 workers, whittling the company down to a skeleton staff. But big cuts were expected, regardless of whether or not th

Musk's $44 billion deal to buy the company is once again on, after the world's richest man backed down on plans for a court fight to scrap the deal earlier this month.