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☆ 7 of Twitter's most followed users have jumped onto Threads: 'May this platform have good vibes'
  + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | Reena Koh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Ellen DeGeneres is currently the Twitter user with the greatest following to have posted on Threads. Already, some of Twitter's most followed users have jumped onto the Threads wagon. Shakira, 53.8 million Twitter followersShakira Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesShakira made her move to Threads on Tuesday with her first post: "Well hello Threads 👋." Jennifer Lopez, 44.9 million Twitter followersJennifer Lopez in 2023. read her first post, followed by: "Hola a todos!!!!!"
Persons: Ellen DeGeneres, Shakira, Kim Kardashian, Twitter's, twit, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Ellen DeGeneres Brooks Kraft, DeGeneres, Bill Gates, Bill Gates Taylor, Shakira Marc Piasecki, witter, J, ola, hal i, ari Organizations: Twitter, Getty, unc, lse Locations: usk
☆ Oprah Winfrey almost turned down her first TV job—how a college professor changed her mind
  + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Oprah Winfrey has a highly decorated media career, winning 20 Emmy awards, a Tony award and a Peabody award, amongst many others. These feats may not have happened, however, if it wasn't for a reality check from a college professor. Winfrey, 69, started her sophomore year with a career in education in mind, she told 2023 graduates at Tennessee State University, her alma mater, during her commencement speech on Saturday. When Winfrey told her professor, he looked at her "as if I didn't have a brain that God gave lettuce," she said. "At no time did I ever feel out of place or not enough or inadequate or an imposter," she said.
☆ These twins started companies together and other cofounders can learn a lot from them about rivalries, comparisons and being close to your business partner
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
Having a business partner you are personally close to can be a huge benefit, they said. Torsten Pieper, an academic at UNC Charlotte, told Insider that twins having distinct roles in a business can be beneficial. Research from the Institute for Family Business showed companies that promote themselves as family-run can gain greater trust and are better placed to attract talent. Phan said family businesses inherently care about their communities, because their identity is often attached to the community where they work. As long as we're together, that's greatAll the twins said their businesses have changed the nature of their relationships.
☆ Elon Musk and Donald Trump are trying new ways to dodge jet tracking — but it's not a 'silver bullet'
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Taylor Rains | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault is one: He recently sold his private aircraft so "no one can see where I go," and he now rents jets instead. The program allows private aircraft owners to block their planes from being publicly shown on websites like FlightAware and FlightRadar24, which use FAA data. Puma/Jay Z's jet tracked on ADS-B Exchange with LADD indicator. Sweeney's Elon Jet Twitter bot also recorded the flight. Elon Musk's private jet flight with PIA flag, tracked by Jack Sweeney.
☆ Netflix's big bet on Harry and Meghan might already be a win for the streamer
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
"Harry and Meghan" dethroned "Wednesday" as Netflix's top series in the US on Friday. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle struck a deal with Netflix in 2020 worth a reported $100 million. "Harry and Meghan" isn't the only piece of content featuring members of the royal family popular on Netflix. Anecdotally, "the younger people in the UK love Harry and Meghan, and the older people don't," Shalit said. "Netflix just wants to have the most-discussed programs in the world, and Meghan and Harry are everywhere throughout the world," he said.
☆ ‘Oprah' inspired this pastry chef to start a cupcake shop at age 31—now Oprah Winfrey herself is a fan
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
That's according to Sprinkles co-founder Candace Nelson, whose leap from investment banking to pastry making helped drive the early 2000s cupcake boom — all thanks to an unconventional source of inspiration from Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart. Nelson spent hours moping on the couch — which is where the idea for Sprinkles started forming. "The funniest thing happened as I was sitting on the couch, watching hours and hours of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' and 'The Martha Stewart Show,'" she said. Nelson had a near-out-of-body experience watching Winfrey wax poetic about the desserts while filming the show, she added. "I can understand how someone like Oprah Winfrey can, and does, have such a positive power over people she's never even met," Nelson said.
☆ What Kanye West, Liz Cheney, Oprah Winfrey, The Rock, and Andrew Yang have in common: They're third-party alternatives to the Biden-Trump 2024 presidential binary.
  + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Oprah WinfreyGetty Images/Getty Images for Global CitizenOne of the most influential women in the world, Oprah Winfrey's presidential ambitions have long been a subject of celebrity-watching chatter. "I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon," she said. Winfrey said she had met with someone who offered to help with a political campaign, but she declined. "I've always felt very secure and confident with myself in knowing what I could do and what I could not," Winfrey told Brown. "I thought, oh gee, I don't have the experience, I don't know enough, and now I'm thinking, 'Oh, oh?'"
☆ Oprah Winfrey backs John Fetterman over Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania Senate race
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Oprah Winfrey speaks on stage during The Robin Hood Foundation's 2018 benefit at Jacob Javitz Center on May 14, 2018 in New York City. Oprah Winfrey said Thursday she would vote for Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman over Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz in the must-win Senate race in Pennsylvania. Herself a talk-show superstar and media titan, Winfrey was the first guest on Oz's early-2000s show "Second Opinion," and she invited Oz on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" regularly for years. Greg Abbott, as well as Stacey Abrams, the Democrat running to unseat Republican Gov.
☆ Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk — here's a brief history from the app's founding in 2006 to the present
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
In this photo illustration, former U.S. President Donald Trump's archived Twitter account is shown on a phone screen with the Twitter logo in the background. And they happen to be the hands of Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and one of the app's most high-profile provocateurs. 2006In March, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams created Twitter, which was originally a side project stemming from the podcasting tool Odeo. 2011Twitter became an essential social media tool used during the Arab Spring, the wave of antigovernmental protests throughout Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. The combined wealth of Williams, Dorsey, and Costolo hit roughly $4 billion.
☆ What Liz Cheney, Kanye West, Oprah Winfrey, The Rock, and Andrew Yang have in common: They're third-party alternatives to the Biden-Trump 2024 presidential binary.
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Oprah WinfreyGetty Images/Getty Images for Global CitizenOne of the most influential women in the world, Oprah Winfrey's presidential ambitions have long been a subject of celebrity-watching chatter. "I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is on the horizon," she said. Winfrey said she had met with someone who offered to help with a political campaign, but she declined. "I've always felt very secure and confident with myself in knowing what I could do and what I could not," Winfrey told Brown. "I thought, oh gee, I don't have the experience, I don't know enough, and now I'm thinking, 'Oh, oh?'"
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