Twitter paid whistle-blower  million for silence, says Musk’s lawyer

Twitter paid whistle-blower $7 million for silence, says Musk’s lawyer

Twitter Inc paid a whistle-blower who raised questions about operational problems within the social media platform $7 million to secure his silence, according to a lawyer for Elon Musk. The payment was mentioned in passing at a Sept. 6 hearing in the lawsuit between Twitter and Musk over his attempts to cancel a $44 billion […]

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Twitter to combine its health and service team to reduce spam bots

Twitter to combine its health and service team to reduce spam bots

Twitter Inc is combining teams that work on reducing toxic content and spam bots, according to a staff memo on Tuesday seen by Reuters, amid accusations from a former executive that the company failed to do either job well. The social media company will combine its health experience team, which works on reducing misinformation and […]

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Twitter is working on a ‘verified phone number’ tag: Report

Twitter is working on a ‘verified phone number’ tag: Report

In the last couple of weeks, Twitter has managed to stay in the spotlight for all sorts of reasons. Despite the Elon Musk vs Twitter battle, the developers are working on bringing in new features. As it turns out, the social media might soon bring a ‘verified phone number’ tag on the phone numbers of […]

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Twitter Has to Give Musk Only One Bot Checker’s Data: Its Ex-Product Head

Twitter Has to Give Musk Only One Bot Checker’s Data: Its Ex-Product Head

Twitter Inc. was ordered to hand over files from its former consumer product head to Elon Musk on spam and bot accounts the billionaire has cited in seeking to abandon his $44 billion purchase of the social media company. But Twitter was spared from producing documents for most of the employees Musk says are key […]

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Why Elon Musk can’t back out of buying Twitter, according to Twitter

Why Elon Musk can’t back out of buying Twitter, according to Twitter

In a 62-page lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Twitter accused Elon Musk of breaching an agreement to buy the social media company for $44 billion. Musk, the world’s richest man, has tried to back out of the acquisition, citing Twitter’s number of fake accounts and accusing the company of not giving him enough information about the […]

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Twitter gears up for most ambitious quarter of user growth

Twitter gears up for most ambitious quarter of user growth

Twitter is gearing up for its most ambitious quarter of user growth, leaders of the social media company’s consumer products division told staff on Tuesday. Twitter is aiming to grow its monetizable daily active users, or users who see advertising, by 13 million this quarter, according to an internal meeting that was heard by Reuters. […]

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