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☆ Twitter has re-rolled out its 'official' badges for some accounts after previously saying it would not add them
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Twitter's "official" badges seem to have been re-rolled out after appearing, then vanishing. Twitter's support account confirmed on Friday the badges had been added to some accounts. A post from the support account said on Friday: "To combat impersonation, we've added an "Official" label to some accounts." What you saw him mention was the fact that we're not focusing on giving individuals the 'Official' label right now." However, accounts including the New York Times and Twitter itself did not appear to have an "official" label.

☆ Elon Musk calls Twitter's 'official' labels an 'aesthetic nightmare' and says they create a two-class system
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk has called Twitter's gray "official" labels an "aesthetic nightmare." The labels were rolled out on Wednesday to some public figures and news organizations. In a confusing rollout, the "official" labels appeared on the Twitter accounts of some public figures and news organizations. Later in the day, he called them an "aesthetic nightmare" during a Twitter Space conversation. During Wednesday's Twitter Space, Musk said: "Apart from being an aesthetic nightmare when looking at the Twitter feed, is that it was simply another way of creating a two-class system."

☆ Twitter will distinguish 'verified' Twitter Blue accounts from 'official' accounts with different colored check marks, product manager says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Twitter will distinguish between Twitter Blue "verified" accounts and "official" accounts with different check marks. Not all verified accounts will get an "Official" label, which is not available for purchase, Crawford said. The change has not yet been made to the current Twitter profile, as the Twitter Blue changes are set to roll out on November 9. "Not all previously verified accounts will get the "Official" label and the label is not available for purchase," Crawford added. "Accounts that will receive it include government accounts, commercial companies, business partners, major media outlets, publishers and some public figures."

☆ Twitter exec says there will soon be three types of accounts: official, paid, and unlabeled
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Some originally verified accounts will soon sport an "official" label, she said, while any user who pays $7.99 per month for Twitter Blue, the company's subscription product, will sport a blue checkmark. Musk himself has benefitted from having the Twitter verification checkmark. Under Musk's direction, the new Twitter Blue checkmark will instead work as a paying subscriber badge that the company nonetheless plans to call "verification." "The new Twitter Blue does not include ID verification – it's an opt-in, paid subscription that offers a blue checkmark and access to select features. "Not all previously verified accounts will get the 'Official' label and the label is not available for purchase.

☆ Fact Check-CNN did not report Trump died on Nov. 1, 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A screenshot of an alleged report attributed to CNN entitled “Donald Trump dead at 76” has duped some social media users. See you in hell, my man,” one Twitter user commented. The earliest iteration of the image Reuters could identify was posted by Twitter user “@mylifeisabiglie” (here) in response to a tweet by Heidecker. Social media claims that former U.S. President Donald Trump died likely originated as satire. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .

☆ Trevor Noah jabbed at Elon Musk's early Twitter tenure, joking that if the new owner really wants to make money he should charge white people to say the 'n-word'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Comedian Trevor Noah ridiculed Elon Musk's plan to charge $8 a month for Twitter Blue on his show. Noah said if Musk charged white people to say the n-word Twitter would be "the most profitable company in history." He noted that the use of the N-word went up 500% in the first 12 hours after Musk became Twitter's owner. After Musk officially became Twitter's owner last Thursday, Noah said, "we got a taste of this extra free speech." "It was a troll that turned into a real, he used his free speech, and he paid a big price," Noah said.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Murphy on Monday called for an immediate investigation into the national security implications of Saudi Arabia's stake in Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media company. “The purpose of these reviews is clear: to protect the national security interests of the United States and American citizens,” Murphy wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who leads CIFIUS. Late last week, Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Company and the private office of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said they would help Musk finance his Twitter deal by rolling over their ownership of shares of the company worth about $1.89 billion, according to a statement tweeted by Alwaleed. Together all the way @Twitter,” Prince Alwaleed tweeted. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, led by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, owns nearly 17 percent of Kingdom Holding, according to Reuters.

☆ Elon Musk says he has 'no idea who the CEO' of Twitter is after being sent an auto-email telling him 'it's time to start managing'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

He was sent an email from the company telling him to start a "managing @Twitter 101" training course. Musk tweeted that he has idea who the CEO is yet, despite calling himself "Chief Twit." Elon Musk was sent an email from Twitter telling him "it's time to start managing @Twitter 101," in reference to a training course about "what it means to be a good manager at Twitter." Musk tweeted on Sunday: "Just received this email from Twitter. Musk responded: "My title is Chief Twit right there in the bio.

New York CNN Business —Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the company confirmed in a securities filing Friday, putting the world’s richest man in charge of one of the world’s most influential social media platforms. The confirmation comes after a source familiar with the deal told CNN the deal had closed Thursday night. But Musk’s takeover now raises a host of new questions for the future of the social media platform, and the many corners of society impacted by it. Despite multiple news outlets confirming the changes Thursday night, Twitter staff had still not formally been informed of the changes as of Friday morning, two Twitter employees told CNN. Now he controls a social media platform that shapes how hundreds of millions of people communicate and get their news.

☆ Fired Twitter CFO, who's getting a $25.4 million golden parachute, says 'the past 6 months have pulled on every mental muscle I've developed in 48 years'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former Twitter CFO Ned Segal said the past 6 months have "pulled on every mental muscle." The executive was ousted on Thursday, but is set to walk away with a $25.4 million golden parachute. In a thread on Twitter, Segal said his time at the company was "the most fulfilling" of his career. "The past 6 months have pulled on every mental muscle I've developed in 48 years," Segal said. The executives are set to walk away from the company with millions thanks to golden parachute provisions.

☆ Senzaţionalele şi foarte gravele afirmaţii ale preşedintelui Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2020-05-27 | by ( Cristian Unteanu | ) adevarul.ro time to read: +5 min

that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone..... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020....living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election.

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