SAN FRANCISCO — For years, Twitter was a runner-up social media company. It never grew to the size and scale of a Facebook or an Instagram. It simply muddled along.Then, […]
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Back to news homeTwitter’s Chief Tries Staying the Course as Elon Musk Upends Plans
SAN FRANCISCO — At a virtual meeting for Twitter executives last week, Parag Agrawal admitted he was exhausted.Mr. Agrawal, Twitter’s chief executive, had spent the past six weeks steering the […]
Inside Twitter, Fears Musk Will Return Platform to Its Early Troubles
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. […]
Twitter 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, […]