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☆ Why is a South American beer brand going viral? The answer's simple: Star Wars
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In 2003, the brand edited ads into a broadcast of the Star Wars trilogy. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementThe latest brand getting attention on social media isn't Stanley — it's a South American beer creatively edited into a Star Wars broadcast 20 years ago. On X, formerly known as Twitter, users started sharing clips from the original Star Wars trilogy last week. The clips look normal — until a bottle or can of Cerveza Cristal beer suddenly appears in the shot.

Persons: —, isn't Stanley — it's, Cristal, Obi, Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, Wan, 🛸, ," the Organizations: Wars, Service, Star Wars Locations: American, Chile, pic.twitter.com

☆ Why can’t we stop calling X, Twitter?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Saira Mueller | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

While some people (mainly fans of Musk) have embraced the X brand, most have not. Many people, both online and in person, still call the platform Twitter, and refer to posts as tweets. WHY ARE WE STILL CALLING THIS PLATFORM TWITTER. Even when you do see X, it's framed as "X, formerly Twitter". So the brand is what they say it is… it’s not that customers can’t stop calling it Twitter, it’s that they won’t.”

Persons: it’s, adieu, Elon Musk, — Jack Scalfani, ”, — Sherrye Pomeroy, Linda Yaccarino, It’s, ” Ramon Jimenez, Wolff Olins, “, ” Marty Neumeier, —, Musk, ’, Zoë Schiffer, Schiffer, Josh Adelson, X, x.com, ” Musk, wasn’t, Neumeier, “ It’s, ’ ” Elon Musk, Alain Jocard, James Withey, Kirill Kudryavtsev, Withey, — Sandy Horne Organizations: CNN, Twitter, Premium, Twitter Twitter, Global, Merriam, Webster, Oxford English, Liquid Agency, Elon, Musk, Twitter Inc, X Corp, Getty, The New York Times, Apple, Adobe, Google, Strategy, Innovation, Nissan, Datsun Locations: @sherrye_pomeroy, San Francisco, Paris, AFP, Frankfurt, Germany, @SandyHorne61

☆ Bill Ackman is defending Elon Musk amid the X owner's antisemitism controversy
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementHedge fund manager Bill Ackman voiced his support for fellow billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday as the X owner faces backlash for retweeting an antisemitic remark. "It is remarkable how quickly the world stands ready to attack Musk for his shoot from the hip commentary," Ackman wrote. "You have said the actual truth," Musk wrote in his retweet, sparking a swift wave of online backlash. In his defense of Musk, Ackman reposted a video from conservative political pundit Ben Shapiro, who said Musk was unjustly being labeled as "some sort of crypto-Nazi." Ackman wrote that he agreed with Shapiro's analysis.

Persons: Bill Ackman, Elon Musk, Ackman, —, who's, Musk, Ben Shapiro, Shapiro, Israel Organizations: Elon, Service, SpaceX, Facebook, Defamation League, ADL, Palestine, Harvard University, Health Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ Opinion | Elon Musk’s Antisemitism Problem Isn’t About Free Speech
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Musk’s invocation of free speech is nothing new for him. Instead of creating a platform for free speech, Musk created a platform for Musk’s speech — or, more precisely, Musk’s power. First, he has demonstrated that he’s perfectly willing to take action against people or entities that challenge him or challenge X. Second, rather than create a free marketplace of ideas, Musk uses X as a marketplace where you can pay to privilege your thoughts. It directs a human tidal wave of attention — some 140 million Elon Musk fans — to their accounts.”Taken together, all of these factors mean that Twitter isn’t so much a free speech paradise as the generalissimo’s playpen, and the generalissimo’s values shape everything about the place.

Persons: loftily, ”, Jack Dorsey, —, that’s, Musk, “, revel Organizations: Twitter, Foundation, Rights, Elon

☆ So What Do We Call Twitter Now Anyway?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Kate Conger | More About Kate Conger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The bewilderment stems from Mr. Musk’s move last month to rebrand Twitter, which he owns, as X. The rebranding has been hair-raising for Twitter fans, who embraced the company’s iconic blue-and-white bird logo and used a bird-related lexicon when talking about the platform. A tweet referred to a post; tweeting was a verb for posting, and sharing another person’s post was known as retweeting. Some people have wondered if the X name will stick, especially with the word tweets still appearing on the site. The app’s home button is also still shaped like a birdhouse, and the company’s website — at least for now — remains Twitter.com.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk’s, Snapchat, tweeting, — Organizations: Twitter, Facebook, Meta

☆ Elon Musk says he plans to boot the Twitter brand and 'bid adieu' to 'all the birds'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk said he's planning to change Twitter's logo and get rid of its bird character. Musk pinned a tweet with a graphic of a new "X" logo, meaning he may already have a replacement. Elon Musk indicated he's planning to scrap Twitter's logo – and has even started asking users for ideas for his new X app. "And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds," Musk also tweeted. After Musk asked for suggestions, he continued to post prospective logos on his page, including retweeting the X.com logo Musk used for his online banking venture that was founded in 1999.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, adieu, He's, Tencent's Organizations: Morning, Twitter, Fidelity, Bloomberg, X Corp

☆ Twitter paid out $100K to an account that reposts other people's stuff, despite Musk claiming to oppose that
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Am account that reposts viral posts is among the big beneficiaries of Twitter's new monetization scheme. The "Internet Hall of Fame" account appears to have netted $100,000 from the scheme. Musk previously said that accounts based on "theft" of others' post would not get paid. The "internet hall of fame" account, which has 1.9 million followers and describes itself as highlighting the "best of the internet," in a screenshot Thursday was shown to have been paid $107,247.00. He didn't define exactly what he meant by "theft of posts," and it isn't totally clear whether Internet Hall of Fame would meet that definition.

Persons: Oliver Alexander, Elon Musk, Oliver, Musk, Andrew Tate, Twitter Organizations: of Fame, Morning, Twitter, Copyright, Washington Post

☆ 'Can't even see my own tweets': Twitter users despair over Elon Musk's decision to limit views
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk has decided to temporarily limit the number of tweets people can read each day. In his latest Twitter shake-up, Elon Musk has decided to temporarily control how many tweets users can read each day. The decision sparked backlash and within hours the billionaire said he had extended the limits to 10,000 for verified users, 1,000 for unverified users, and 500 for newly unverified users. On Friday, Musk also changed Twitter's rules to stop unregistered users from viewing tweets without signing up. One user poked fun at the risk the policy might reduce views: "Babe no your tweet's a banger!

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, MrBeast, Matt Navarra Organizations: Twitter

☆ Tucker Carlson launches first episode of low-budget Twitter show after Fox News firing
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Tucker Carlson is back — sort of. He wrapped up by declaring that U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial life are ‘actually real.’”“As of today, we’ve come to Twitter,” Carlson said in the video. Regardless, whether the Twitter show has the same influence and reach as Carlson’s one-time Fox News time slot is far from certain. Carlson faces an uphill climb if he hopes to reclaim the power he once enjoyed through Twitter videos. The first episode of “Tucker on Twitter” didn’t help.

Persons: CNN — Tucker Carlson, “ Tucker, Carlson, Katie Robertson, Jeremy Peters, Vladimir V, Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Carlson, “ We’re, Bryan Freedman, Rupert Murdoch’s, Musk, Nielsen Organizations: CNN, Elon, Twitter, Fox News Locations: Russia, Ukraine

☆ Twitter trust and safety chief Ella Irwin resigns
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Twitter's head of trust and safety Ella Irwin resigned from her role at the Elon Musk-owned social media platform. Irwin ran the Twitter team that fought disinformation, removed offensive content and helped maintain Twitter's platform integrity. But Twitter has experienced significant challenges in stemming offensive content under Irwin's tenure and since Musk began serving as CEO. Irwin's departure comes at a turbulent time for the social media network, which was grappling with the dissemination of a conservative website's purported documentary on transgender people. The video was uploaded to Twitter's platform Thursday but was "visibility limited," preventing users from retweeting or commenting on it.

Persons: Elon Musk, Emmanuel Macron, Twitter's, Ella Irwin, Irwin, Musk, Yoel Roth, He's, Linda Yaccarino Organizations: Elon Musk, Reuters, Twitter, NBC News, CNBC Locations: Paris

☆ Ron DeSantis praised Anthony Fauci for Covid response in spring 2020 for ‘really doing a good job’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Andrew Kaczynski | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

And from Dr. Birx to Dr. Fauci to the vice president who’s worked very hard, the surgeon general, they’re really doing a good job. “Governor DeSantis would’ve fired Anthony Fauci.”In a news conference on Tuesday, DeSantis also acknowledged mistakes early in the pandemic. DeSantis, like Trump, later broke with Fauci over reopening Florida in July 2020, but he didn’t begin regularly harshly criticizing Fauci until spring 2021. Speaking at a news briefing on March 21, 2020, DeSantis made similar comments praising Fauci. “I would defer to people like Dr. Fauci,” DeSantis said on March 14, 2020.

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☆ Twitter users care less and less about what Elon Musk has to say, exclusive data shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Twitter users are engaging with original tweets from Elon Musk less and less. "Elon Musk's tweets attracted more engagement after his stake in Twitter started to increase," Huge said in its analysis. "There is a significant difference in engagement for Elon Musk's original tweets after the acquisition, compared to before the acquisition." That high level of engagement in Spring 2022 quickly fell, however, the Huge data shows, to roughly 5 million engagements per week. While there have been some brief spikes in engagement with Musk's tweets so far this year, overall there has been a decline.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Elon, Musk's, Kali Hays Organizations: Elon, Twitter Locations: khays

☆ AOC slams Elon Musk for promoting parody account after it joked she had a ‘crush’ on him — and he flirted back
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

AOC says she's assessing next steps after Elon Musk promoted a parody account, impersonating her. Musk responded with a fire emoji when the fake account tweeted that she had a crush on him. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she's assessing next steps after Twitter owner Elon Musk promoted a parody account that has been impersonating her. The parody account responded by copying and pasting the tweet and retweeting Ocasio-Cortez and writing, "I can't believe someone would do that to us." The account also wrote, "Parody should be illegal," and "If @elonmusk wants to have a chance with me, he'll immediately ban the parody account of me.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Rep, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, —, I've, Linda Yaccarino, retweeting Ocasio, he'll Organizations: Twitter, Service, New, New York Democrat, Cortez Locations: Alexandria, New York

☆ Elon Musk says Twitter will soon allow calls and encrypted DMs
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk says calls and encrypted messages are coming to Twitter. Elon Musk says Twitter will soon allow calls and encrypted messages. Musk did not specify an exact timeline for the call feature but said "encrypted DMs V1.0" should launch on Wednesday. In December, Musk said Twitter was planning to delete around 1.5 billion inactive accounts to free up usernames. When approached for comment, Twitter responded with an automated reply that did not address the question.

☆ Elon Musk is escalating his beef with Mark Zuckerberg, claiming WhatsApp 'cannot be trusted' and saying the Meta CEO seems 'extremely partisan'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk slammed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, saying he seemed "extremely partisan." Elon Musk is amping up his beef with Mark Zuckerberg this week, saying the Meta CEO seems "extremely partisan," and blasting WhatsApp over privacy concerns. And on Tuesday, Musk moved on to criticizing WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta. And when Zuckerberg questioned Musk's negativity toward AI as "irresponsible" in 2017, Musk tweeted that the Meta CEO's "understanding of the subject is limited." Musk and Meta did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.

☆ A Simple Trick Helped Me Cut Back on Screen Time, Break My Phone Addiction
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Shubham Agarwal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

To try and break my habit, I decided to slow down my phone experience with a new app called One Sec. Plus, studies have shown that things like app limits that merely measure your screen time won't break compulsive habits. Sandy Gould, a senior computer-science lecturer at Cardiff University, has researched ways to curb our compulsive phone tendencies. Frederik Riedel, the German-based developer of the app, told me that creating better boundaries was the motivation behind the development of the app. I can attest to that figure: One Sec has nearly halved my compulsive Twitter use.

☆ Pro poker player rants at airline over lost luggage during live broadcast — and says he still can see it pinging at the airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Aidan Pollard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Steve O'Dwyer griped on Twitter and during a live broadcast that Lufthansa airlines lost his luggage. He told CNN he tracked the bags with an AirTag, which indicated they were at Heathrow, but he still hasn't gotten them back. The pro player took to Twitter to share other airline customers' accounts of mishandled luggage. Following the tournament, O'Dwyer recounted to CNN his journey from Ireland to the Bahamas with a connecting flight at Heathrow Airport. After O'Dwyer bashed Lufthansa during the tournament broadcast, he continued to tweet at the airline and some of its employees.

☆ Trump hosts conservative influencers behind ‘Libs of Tik Tok’ and Babylon Bee for dinner
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Summer-Concepcion-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Summer Concepcion | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

In addition to the creator of the controversial Twitter account "Libs of TikTok," Trump also hosted Seth Dillon, who owns the conservative political satire website Babylon Bee, according to the source. This was among the first of many wine-and-dine events that Trump has planned with social media influencers, the source said. Twitter owner Elon Musk reinstated Trump’s account in November, but he has yet to post anything to the social media platform. The Twitter account has more than 1 million followers, and more than 300,000 followers on Instagram. In now-deleted tweets under a former Twitter handle, Raichik reportedly stated her support for Trump, according to the Post.

☆ Rep. Mike Rogers apologizes to Matt Gaetz for losing temper during chaotic speaker votes
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Julie-Tsirkin-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Julie Tsirkin | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Mike Rogers, R-Ala., on Sunday publicly resolved their differences after tensions boiled over on the House floor late Friday night during the votes for House speaker. Rogers was physically restrained after he charged towards Gaetz. After Gaetz voted present in the 14th ballot, McCarthy approached Gaetz in the back of the chamber, where a tense exchange occurred, a number of Republican lawmakers crowding them. Rogers, the incoming chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee, then walked over and appeared to lunge in the direction of Gaetz, but was physically restrained by Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., before storming away. McCarthy ultimately gained the votes to secure the speakership in the 15th ballot, when Gaetz and several other McCarthy opponents switched their votes to “present.”

☆ It's hard to see what an avowed far-right militant 'would be doing much differently' than Elon Musk with his Twitter policies, extremism expert says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-02 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Berger, a researcher on extremism and extremist movements on social media, explained what constitutes extremism and how Musk fits into the right-wing extremist ecosystem. Elon Musk wouldn't be considered a right-wing extremist, right? It's hard to say if he's an extremist, but he is most definitely implementing policies that favor extremism. Is Elon Musk just bad at his job and unintentionally letting these right-wing extremists through or is it more sinister than that? There's a mythology of the center that the far right advances and that is the mythological center that Elon Musk is interested in promoting.

☆ Elon Musk is tweeting about basically everything — apart from the poll where users said he should give up control of Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk polled Twitter users on Sunday about whether he should give up control of the company. Musk, who has run the site since buying it in late October, said he'd abide by the results of the poll. "Should I step down as head of Twitter?," Musk had tweeted. Shortly after posting the poll, Musk tweeted: "As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it." Some users and activist groups say there has been a rise in hate speech on the platform since Musk took over.

☆ Analysis: The Twitter CEO is conspicuously quiet after users vote for him to step down amid chaotic policy changes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

In fact, Musk spent most of Monday conspicuously quiet, refraining from tweeting for a remarkable 18-hour period. In one Sunday night tweet, Musk wrote, “No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. Musk last month said he would “find somebody else to run Twitter” and that he expected to “reduce” his time there. The electric automaker bore the brunt of more bad news related to Musk’s Twitter obsession on Monday. As the saying goes, Vox populi, Vox dei.

☆ Fight for control of the RNC turns heated as some members demand change
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —Shortly before announcing her campaign against Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, Harmeet Dhillon, a well-connected conservative attorney, phoned an important ally to solicit his thoughts. Republican voters and local officials have bombarded committee members with emails and calls about the party’s next chair, often berating them directly for the GOP’s underwhelming performance in the midterms, according to four committee members who requested anonymity to describe their experience. During the same period, her law firm received nearly $900,000 from the RNC, federal election data shows. We are all independent thinkers, and we know what’s best for our states,” said Jeff Kent, a committee member from Washington. “It’s very hard to beat an incumbent RNC chair if that incumbent wants to stay,” said Bill Palatucci, a New Jersey committeeman.

“I haven’t seen sunlight in what seems like a long time,” Li told CNN, a week after the protests broke out. In recent years, Beijing has extended its crackdown on dissent to the foreign platform, detaining and jailing Chinese Twitter users who criticized the government. TwitterLi received thousands of submissions a day – and up to dozens per second at the height of the protests. Journalists, observers and activists monitored his feed closely, and some of his posts were aired on televisions across the world. And then they went to our house at midnight to harass my parents,” Li said.

☆ Japanese billionaire Maezawa picks K-pop star TOP, DJ Steve Aoki to join SpaceX moon trip
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa reacts as he speaks with his family after donning space suits shortly before the launch to the International Space Station (ISS) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, December 8, 2021. REUTERS/Shamil ZhumatovTOKYO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on Friday revealed that K-pop star TOP and DJ Steve Aoki will be among the eight crew members he plans to take on a trip around the moon next year, hitching a ride on one of Elon Musk's SpaceX rockets. The picks were announced by Maezawa on Twitter and at a website for what he dubbed the #dearMoon Project. Maezawa used the micro-blogging site to recruit eight crew members from around the world to join him on the moon trip, saying 1 million people had applied. U.S. Olympic snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington and Japanese dancer Miyu were named as backup crew members.

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