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☆ Twitter suspended comedian Kathy Griffin's account after she changed her name to Elon Musk to make fun of him
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Comedian Kathy Griffin's Twitter account was suspended after she impersonated Elon Musk. Griffin now joins a range of several celebrities and figures who had their Twitter handles suspended for parodying Musk. Any name change at all from a verified account would lead to "temporary loss of verified checkmark," he added. In a similar case, former NFL punter Chris Kluwe had his verified account suspended when he changed its details to match Musk's profile. Too many bird groups fighting each other internally other at Twitter," Musk wrote.

☆ Twitter users could soon be able to pay to DM 'Very Important Tweeters' thanks to a new feature, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's Twitter is working on a paid direct messaging feature, the NYT reports. Twitter users would pay a few dollars to send a message to a "Very Important Tweeter," per the report. According to two people familiar with the plans and internal documents seen by The Times, Twitter is working on paid direct messaging to verified users referred to as "Very Important Tweeters." These paid direct messages would land in a separate area of the "Messages" section on Twitter, the report said. "Very Important Tweeters" would then select which paid messages they want to receive, The Times said.

Musk has said he would reverse Twitter's ban on former president Donald Trump if he bought it. Trump has previously said that he isn't going back to Twitter, and instead wants to focus on Truth Social. Before he was banned from Twitter, Trump had over 88 million followers. Since then, the two have sparred, with Trump calling Musk a "bullshit artist," in July, and Musk saying Trump shouldn't run for president again that same month. Musk also called Truth Social a "right-wing echo chamber," in a Financial Times interview earlier this month.

☆ Exclusive: Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

The reality, according to internal Twitter research seen by Reuters, goes far beyond the handful of examples of celebrities ghosting their own accounts. Twitter was motivated to investigate “disturbing” trends among users that may have been masked by overall growth in daily active users and better understand the decline in the company’s most active users, the documents said. Twitter’s most active English-speaking users were also increasingly interested in cryptocurrencies, reaching an all-time high in late 2021, the internal documents showed. ‘DEVASTATING’ LOSSESTopics that have traditionally made Twitter a popular platform for its millions of users are now in decline among the most active English-speaking users, the documents show. But the categories have since lost the highest number of heavy Twitter users and have shown no signs of recovery, the report said.

☆ Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The reality, according to internal Twitter research seen by Reuters, goes far beyond the handful of examples of celebrities ghosting their own accounts. These "heavy tweeters" account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Cryptocurrency and "not safe for work" (NSFW) content, which includes nudity and pornography, are the highest-growing topics of interest among English-speaking heavy users, the report found. Twitter was motivated to investigate "disturbing" trends among users that may have been masked by overall growth in daily active users and better understand the decline in the company's most active users, the documents said. Our overall audience has continued to grow, reaching 238 million mDAU in Q2 2022," the spokesperson said, using an acronym for monetizable daily active users.

☆ How a ghostwriter makes $200,000 a year crafting tweets for superstar VCs
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

We spoke with one tech founder who moonlights as a ghostwriter for prominent VCs, and rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars — sometimes for a single thread. Below, we've got an inside look at the lives of Twitter ghosts, a job that, in one ghostwriter's case, is "60% shitposting." Top VCs are paying ghostwriters big bucks to craft tweets for them. This person — a founder of a tech startup — started ghostwriting as a side hustle, taking five hours out of his week to come up with original tweets. VCs, on their hunt for the next superstar startups, must establish themselves on Twitter, and write the kind of content that will get the attention of young founders.

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