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Twitter threatens to sue Facebook owner Meta over new Threads platform | Science & Tech News
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Twitter has threatened to sue Facebook owner Meta over its new Threads platform. The company has written to Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg to say it “intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, according to news site Semafor, citing a letter from Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro. “It demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop…
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Threads launches: Meta’s Twitter rival has arrived – how it works, how to join, and which celebs are on board | Science & Tech News
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Threads, the long-awaited Twitter rival from Meta, launches in the UK today. Built by the firm’s Instagram team, it’s billed as a home for “sharing text updates and joining public conversations”. Its release couldn’t be more aggressively timed, coming days after another controversial move by Twitter’s incendiary owner Elon Musk forced many people to look…
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Threads: Why Meta’s Twitter rival could finally be the one that catches on | Science & Tech News
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If you can’t beat them, copy them. That’s generally been Mark Zuckerberg‘s go-to strategy when it comes to dealing with upstart competitors to his social media empire. Long gone are the days when Instagram was just a feed of photos as was its original vision, with two of its now marquee features ripped straight from…
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Who is Jack Dorsey? The billionaire tech founder and Bluesky boss who ran Twitter before Elon Musk | Science & Tech News
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As Elon Musk drags Twitter and its users through more and more turbulence, its founder Jack Dorsey has made a supportive observation from the sidelines. He posted that “Running Twitter is hard” and “it’s easy to critique the decisions from afar”. The 46-year-old billionaire left the platform he co-founded in 2006 to launch what he…
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Twitter applies temporary reading limits for all users, Elon Musk announces | Science & Tech News
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Twitter has applied temporary daily reading limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk has said. In a tweet, the billionaire gave details for both verified, unverified and new unverified accounts – followed by another post about two hours later, saying the caps would be “increasing soon”. Verified Twitter users…
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Twitter loses second trust and safety chief since Elon Musk takeover | Science & Tech News
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Twitter’s head of trust and safety has resigned from the social media company, according to a report. Ella Irwin told Reuters news agency she had resigned, not long after Fortune reported her internal Slack account appeared to have been deactivated. Ms Irwin oversaw content moderation – a controversial subject for a company that has been…
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Who is Linda Yaccarino? The new Twitter chief executive with deep ties in the advertising industry | Science & Tech News
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In a few short weeks, Elon Musk will hand over the helm of Twitter to Linda Yaccarino. But who exactly is the new chief executive, and how does she fit into Musk’s vision of “the everything app”? Musk, who brought Twitter in October and has been running it since, has long insisted that he would…
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Elon Musk names Linda Yaccarino as new Twitter chief executive | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has announced his new Twitter chief executive – NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino. The billionaire said he was “excited” to announce the hiring of Ms Yaccarino – who he said would focus “primarily on business operations” at Twitter. Musk, who completed a $44bn (£35bn) takeover of the social media site in October, also announced…
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Elon Musk appoints new Twitter chief executive – but is yet to name her | Business News
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Elon Musk has announced he has found a new Twitter chief executive – but is yet to name her. “Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!” Musk said in a tweet on Thursday. He added that his role within the company will transition to…
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Briton pleads guilty to hacking stars’ Twitter accounts to steal Bitcoin | Science & Tech News
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A British man has pleaded guilty to hacking Twitter accounts – including Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk – in a bid to con people out of Bitcoin. Joseph O’Connor, 23, also admitted other hacking schemes, cyberstalking a young victim, and money laundering charges. He was extradited from Spain to New York last month…