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☆ What These Founders Learned From Trying to Take on Elon Musk's Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Amanda Hoover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

About three weeks after Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, #RIPTwitter started trending. As the bird app's outlook grew more bleak, several alternative conversation platforms hatched: Narwhal, Spoutible, Spill, Post, and Cohost among them. I talked to several founders about what they learned trying to compete with Musk, and the state of civil discussion online. "There's a ton of power in whoever controls" a big social media platform, Thompson says. Spill, a Black-owned social platform, has been downloaded more than half a million times.

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☆ Twitter Is Too Musk to Fail
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Laura Forman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Elon Musk is showing that he is willing to dedicate resources to Twitter to save his reputation as a brilliant and unconventional businessman. At least Elon Musk is having fun. Twitter’s new owner asked his nearly 119 million Twitter followers last week how one can make a small fortune on social media. His reply: “Start out with a large one.”It is probably too soon for that #RIPTwitter hashtag, though. But if Mr. Musk’s first few weeks running Twitter have been a train wreck, few people seem able to look away.

☆ #RIPTwitter is trending. Here's how to download your Twitter archive
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Sofia Pitt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

If you're worried about Twitter's future and don't want to lose all of the content you've put into the Twittersphere, here's how to download your Twitter archive in case it's lost in the turmoil. When you download your Twitter archive, you're capturing a snapshot of all of your Twitter info starting with your very first Tweet. When your download is finished, Twitter will send you an email where you can download a .zip file of your Twitter archive. If you have the app downloaded, you'll get a push notification letting you know your Twitter archive has finished downloading. Navigate back to "settings," on the app where you can click the "Download data" button under the Download data section.

☆ Twitter users flood the site with eulogies amid mounting fears of its imminent collapse and concerns that 'critical' teams are spread thin
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Twitter users worried about a possible site collapse shared memes and tweets with #RIPTwitter. Nithish Billava replied to Musk's tweet with the same meme, but with Musk's face over the tombstone saying, "Fixed it" with the sweat smile emoji. Gluscevic's tweet shows Musk's face on the little girl's face and the Twitter app on the house. Other Twitter users compared the demise of Twitter to the sinking of the Titanic. As we wait to see what happens next, Twitter users continued bidding adieu to the website on Friday morning.

☆ Elon Musk cracked jokes as users of his $44 billion acquisition prepped for the twilight of Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

But Elon Musk tweeted through the chaos. The tech billionaire cracked a joke on Twitter amid looming questions about the company's fate. Company officials told employees that all Twitter buildings were temporarily closed and that their badge access would be revoked, Insider confirmed Thursday. Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October after months of legal back-and-forths. In his first company-wide email earlier this month, Musk told employees that they could no longer work remotely and would need to prepare to promptly return to the office.

☆ What to do if you’re worried about your Twitter account going away
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Here are steps you can take if you’re worried about losing your Twitter account. Downloading your Twitter archiveIf you want to preserve your past tweets, you can start by downloading your Twitter archive. Users can download their archive by going to their account setting pages, clicking on the “more” icon and then selecting “Your account” from the options menu. Staying in touch with Twitter contacts on other platformsAmid the uncertainty surrounding Twitter, the social media app Mastodon has seen its popularity skyrocket in recent weeks. Some other tools have emerged, such as Twitodon, which helps users find their Twitter followers and the accounts they followed on Mastodon.

☆ Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform’s future into uncertainty
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Inside the company’s Slack, a mass resignation effectively occurred after Musk’s 5pm deadline for employees to arrive at a decision passed. Hundreds of staffers appear to have called it quits, accepting Musk’s offer to exit in exchange for three months of severance. A former Twitter executive, who recently exited the company, described the situation as a “mass exodus.” Asked about the situation, the former executive said, “Elon is finding out that he can’t bully top senior talent. It was already bad enough after Musk executed mass layoffs at the company earlier this month. “How do you make a small fortune in social media?” Musk asked.

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