Elon Musk had a plan to buy Twitter and undo its content moderation policies. On Tuesday, just a day after reaching his $44 billion deal to buy the company, Mr. […]
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Back to news homeTwitter Employees Search for Answers as Musk Deal Takes Shape
In January 2020, thousands of Twitter employees gathered in Houston for a corporate summit called #OneTeam. During the event, Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive at the time, revealed he had […]
Twitter Counters Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid With a Poison Pill
Poison pills have been around for decades. The lawyer Martin Lipton, a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, invented the maneuver, also called a shareholder rights plan, in […]
Twitter Grapples With an Elon Musk Problem
SAN FRANCISCO — Bright and early on Monday, Elon Musk sent the government a surprising new document.In it, the world’s wealthiest man laid out his possible intentions toward Twitter, in […]
Elon Musk Will Not Join Twitter’s Board, Company Says
Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man and the biggest shareholder of Twitter, will no longer join the social media service’s board of directors, the company said late Sunday.The move capped […]
Reinvention and Nostalgia: The Project to Remake Twitter
The Bluesky project would eventually allow for the creation of new curation algorithms, which would show different tweets at the top of users’ timelines than Twitter’s own algorithm. It would […]
How the Copycats Came for Clubhouse
“More people getting into social audio is good for social audio,” Maya Watson, Clubhouse’s head of global marketing, said in an interview. “We’re not bothered by it, and, if anything, […]
Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New C.E.O.?
SAN FRANCISCO — When Jack Dorsey, then Twitter’s executive chairman, pushed the company to build out its machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities in 2014, he turned to an engineer, […]
Jack Dorsey Expected to Step Down as C.E.O. of Twitter
SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief executive of Twitter, the social media site he co-founded in 2006 and guided through the tumultuous years of the Trump […]