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For 12 seasons, "Murder, She Wrote" was the definitive cozy murder mystery show. Set in the small and charming yet dead-body-filled fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, the show wormed its way into the hearts of procedural fans everywhere with its familiar structure and unlikely hero -- middle-aged mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). While the actor behind the beloved amateur sleuth passed away in 2022, "Murder, She Wrote" lives on, both in the form of much-watched reruns and in an upcoming movie adaptation.

Little is known about the new version of "Murder, She Wrote" at this point, but screenwriters Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo have said that the story will relate back to Cabot Cove and Jessica in some capacity. When it comes to potential cameos from old cast members, the pool is unfortunately limited, as several of the series' lead actors have passed away in the decades since the show ended.

If the dark clouds hanging over Twitter have you in a funk, then you’ll be happy to hear that blue skies are on the way. A social media startup called Bluesky Social has hit the U.S. App Store, and it is backed by Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey.

The foundation of Bluesky is the At Protocol, which powers a “federated network” of interconnected sites. According to the startup’s website, the At Protocol provides a “foundation for social networking which gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience.”

Translation: Bluesky will aggregate content from across the social web in one convenient location. It will also give users ownership of their accounts, allowing them to port identities from one platform to another without ceding control to corporations.

In theory, that’s how Bluesky works, but the upstart platform has been on...

Twitter Co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey is back in the social media game, with the launch of his Twitter alternative called Bluesky that is now available in Apple App Store in the testing phase. The Twitter-funded micro-blogging platform is available as an invite-only beta as of now, and a public launch is near, reports TechCrunch.

According to app intelligence firm data.ai, the Bluesky iOS app debuted on February 17 and had seen some 2,000 installs in the testing phase.

The app offers a simplified user interface where you can click a plus button to create a post of 256 characters, which can include photos.

While Twitter asks “What’s happening?”, Bluesky asks “What’s up?”

Bluesky users can share, mute and block accounts, but advanced tools, like adding them to lists, are not yet available, according to the report.

The discover tab in the bottom centre of the app’s navigation is useful,...

‘Bezos: the Beginning’ is a made-for-television movie now available for streaming on Amazon Prime and Google Play. It details the rise, trials, and tribulations of Bezos’ early life in his attempt to start his now titanic e-commerce company. We witness Bezos (played by Armando Gutierez) start out as an endearing yet unconfident VP of a hedge fund company, then transition to creating an entirely online startup for purchasing books, then the polishing and repolishing of the idea of Amazon until it bears some semblance of how we know it today. I was surprised that a biopic about his life hadn’t been made yet. To any given American citizen, Bezos is a wealth of mysteries and secrets. He represents our current economic system at its most extreme, and is as famous as any other famous tech giant. Surely someone would have tried to make a film about him in the...

Twitter announced on Friday that it will only allow paid Blue subscribers to use text messages as a two-factor authentication (2Fa) method to secure their accounts.

The social media platform stated the changes will be effective March 20, 2023. For those not paying the monthly price tag (8 a month on Android; 11 a month on iOS), non-subscribers with text message 2Fa will have it disabled after the March deadline.

The explanation for the update, posted on the company’s product page, was brief: “While historically a popular form of 2Fa, unfortunately we have...

The Super Bowl 2023 halftime show has taken place, with Rihanna headlining the event.

This year’s NFL final took place at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, and saw the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs.

Follow live updates from the halftime show here.

Rihanna joined a list of celebrated musicians who have played Super Bowl halftime shows in the past, including Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Madonna, Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, and Shakira.

Here are the biggest talking points from the halftime show.

Rihanna’s setlist

Rihanna’s performance lasted for 13 minutes. Durign her time on stage, she sang some of her greatest hits, including “Rude Boy”, “Only Girl (In The World)”, “Work” and “Umbrella”.

In a five-star review for The Independent, Mark Beaumont called Rihanna’s performance “a magnificent megamix”.

The “Umbrella” singer’s fans expressed their delight with...

House Republicans have made clear they intend to do everything they can to cast President Biden as the ringleader of a global crime racket that he’s now using the White House to facilitate. The House Oversight Committee, led by a guy who just a few days ago wondered if the alleged Chinese spy balloon was carrying bioweapons from Wuhan, is going to be responsible for a big chunk of this effort. It will hold its first hearing on Wednesday to investigate, what else, Hunter Biden stuff.

More specifically, the...

It seems like everywhere you look these days there are layoffs, and Pinterest is no exception.

Just weeks after laying off an undisclosed number of people from its recruiting team, the platform has cut a further 150 employees. Pinterest had 4,000 employees at the end of Q3 2022, so this layoff is impacting around 3.75 of its staff.

According to Bloomberg, employees were let go across various divisions of Pinterest, though a person familiar with the matter specified that not all teams “were affected to the same degree.”

Pinterest confirmed to Bloomberg that cuts were made, but did not disclose specifics.

“We’re making organizational changes to further set us up to deliver against our company priorities and our long-term strategy,” a company spokesperson said. “Our employees are the heart of how we’re able to serve our Pinners around the world. All of the employees who were impacted contributed to Pinterest and as they transition,...

San Francisco, Jan 4 (Ians) Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Wednesday announced that it is planning to “expand” the political advertising it allows “in the coming weeks”.

The platform made the announcement from its Twitter Safety account, saying: “Today, we’re relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US. We also plan to expand the political advertising we permit in the coming weeks.

“Moving forward, we will align our advertising policy with that of TV and other media outlets. As with all policy changes, we will first ensure that our approach to reviewing and approving content protects people on Twitter.”

Several users expressed their thoughts on the platform’s announcement.

While one user said, “this is actually a good call at Twitter. Kinda shocking”, another commented, “translation: Advertisers don’t want to advertise on here anymore so we’re just gonna let the alt-right advertise whatever”.

Meanwhile, in November 2019, Twitter...

If you’re not on Twitter, good. Stay that way and spare yourself.

If you are on Twitter, you probably know the last 48 hours have been, to put it lightly, a wild ride.

Over the weekend—on the heels of banning (and then unbanning) journalists from The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and other reputable outlets who had been critical of Elon Musk—Twitter introduced a new, confusingly worded policy that said it would no longer allow “free promotion of certain social media platforms.”

And by “free promotion,” it meant linking to them at all.

The blacklisted platforms included Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Donald Trump‘s Truth Social, Tribal, Post, and Nostr (a startup that recently got a Bitcoin investment from Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey).

In addition to banning those, Twitter said it would no longer allow link-aggregation services like Linktree and lnk.bio. That part...

A day after Elon Musk announced that Twitter would suspend accounts for linking to rival social media platforms, the controversial CEO is walking back the plan, now saying the new rule would apply only to accounts wherein the “primary purpose is the promotion of competitors,” which, Musk writes, “essentially falls under the no spam rule.”

The initial, stricter policy was immediately questioned by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who posted the simple “Why?” in response to the original announcement, and by Edward Snowden.

Within hours of the new rules getting posted, the tweets and web pages outlining them were removed.

Those since-deleted tweets specified the social platforms whose links or usernames would prompt suspension: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.

Policy will be adjusted to suspending accounts only when that account’s *primary* purpose is promotion of competitors, which essentially falls under the no spam rule

— Elon Musk...

After Twitter owner Elon Musk spent the last few days suspending — and then unsuspending —journalists tasked with covering him, the social media site on Sunday unveiled a policy banning the free promotion of certain other sites.

Not only are free links to Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr prohibited, but so are those to aggregating platforms like linktr.ee and lnk.bio, according to the policy. It also considers it a violation to spell out “dot” in place of a period, as well as posting a screenshot of...

Singer Kendrick Lamar has given ‘Count Me Out’ a music video treatment. The visuals feature a special guest appearance from Helen Mirren.

In the black-and-white clip, Helen stars as Kendrick’s therapist who is patiently waiting for the emcee to talk.

The rapper, who is seated in front of a grand piano, later recalls the incident in which he denied taking a parking spot from someone before admitting that he did. The pair then laugh together.

After Helen asks Kendrick: “You texted me at 2 in the morning, ‘I feel like I’m fallin’,’ why’d you feel that way?” the two split onto opposite sides of the screen. The middle section, meanwhile, narrates the rapper’s lyrics in full colour. There is footage of him getting a Covid-19 test, putting on a fake smile for a toast with former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and venture capitalist Vivi Nevo, and others.

On September 5, 2018, CEO Jack Dorsey sat in front of congress and under oath to convince them and the world that Twitter was a trusted place, a public forum to support free and open discussion. While their staff silently shadow banned prominent conservative public figures, buried news stories that didn’t support their narrative and […]

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San Francisco, Dec 14 (Ians) Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has responded to new owner Elon Musk’s purported expose ‘The Twitter Files’ and said he believes that the company has nothing to hide, contrary to how the files have been presented.

Dorsey wrote an essay on Revue, an editorial newsletter tool for writers and publishers on Tuesday, reports The Verge.

He said that the Twitter staff should not be targeted for perceived slights, and stated that he wished the information had been “released Wikileaks-style.”

He also promoted Bitcoin and his own social networking protocol in the essay.

Dorsey’s response came after Musk spent almost a week promoting five selective document releases known as the ‘Twitter Files’, which revealed internal documents, Slack logs and emails.

The threads, as well as Musk’s promotion of them, have mostly taken on a conspiratorial tone, accusing the former Twitter executives and staff...

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey took the blame for Twitter’s controversial content decisions that the platform made under his leadership, while warning of content control by governments and corporations.

Dorsey started the statement in a Twitter thread but moved it to a blog post, explaining, “I don’t want to edit everything into 280 char chunks.” The founder said that he hoped to build a Twitter that was based on principles he had learned through his “past actions as a Twitter co-founder,” but that he “completely gave up pushing for those...

Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut again heaped admiration on the new Twitter chief and second richest businessman in the world, Elon Musk, on Sunday. The actress, who is currently busy with multiple projects in different stages of production, took to the story section of her Instagram on Sunday afternoon and posted a screenshot of Musk’s tweet which showed morphed images of the old Twitter head Jack Dorsey and US President Joe Biden.

The screenshot read, “Just one more lockdown my king”.

Hitting at left-leaning liberals derogatorily referred to as ‘wokes’, Kangana wrote on the picture, “Elon alone stands against ruling government but gets no support from wokes, Wokes want you to believe that they are rebels who support an individual in a fight against the system/state.”

She then recalled the Bombay Municipal Corporation’s action against her office and home in Mumbai when the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government led...

New York, Dec 10 (Ians) Jay Bhattacharya, an Indian-origin Stanford University professor, who had said that Covid lockdowns would harm children, was placed on a “Trends Blacklist”, internal Twitter documents have revealed

The second installment of “Twitter Files” released by journalist Bari Weiss on her social media platform took the lid off cases where the microblogging website prevented the tweets from trending.

Weiss shares a screenshot on her Twitter, which shows Bhattacharya’s account marked as having a “recent abuse strike” and as being on a “trends blacklist”.

“…Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr Jay Bhattacharya who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist”, which prevented his tweets from trending,” Weiss wrote on Twitter.

Weiss said that the “investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavoured tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics — all in secret,...

New Delhi, Dec 9 (Ians) New Twitter owner Elon Musk on Friday said the company will delete and free names of 1.5 billion accounts that have been inactive for years on the platform.

“Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion accounts. These are obvious account deletions with no tweets and no login for years,” said the billionaire.

Musk also said that the micro-blogging platform is working on a process to inform the users whether their tweets have been suppressed under a process known as “shadow banning” and they can appeal against the ban.

He added that Twitter is also working on a software update that will show your true account status.

“So you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal,” he mentioned.

Twitter has been accused of suppressing certain political speech on the platform.

The “Twitter Files 2” revealed that the micro-blogging platform,...

New Delhi, Dec 9 (Ians) Elon Musk on Friday released the “Twitter Files” season 2, revealing that the micro-blogging platform had a secret group that included former legal and public policy head Vijaya Gadde, then Cto Parag Agrawal and Yoel Roth, former global head of trust and safety, that made controversial decisions including “shadow banning” high-profile users without informing then CEO Jack Dorsey.

This time, the “Twitter Files Two” were released by Bari Weiss, Founder and Editor of The Free Press, on the micro-blogging platform and endorsed by Musk.

“Controversial decisions were often made without getting Jack’s approval and he was unaware of systemic bias. The inmates were running the asylum. Jack has a pure heart imo (in my opinion),” tweeted Musk.

Weiss said that the “investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavoured tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics — all in secret,...

The second installment of the much-hyped “#TwitterFiles” debuted on Thursday night, with conservative writer Bari Weiss outlining — in a Twitter thread — what she described as the “shadow banning” of prominent conservatives including Charlie Kirk, Dan Bognino, and Libs of TikTok.

The #TwitterFiles represent an ongoing “leak” of documents revealing the social media giant’s past content-moderation decisions, directed by new owner and CEO Elon Musk. The files are being doled out to contrarian journalists including Weiss and Matt Taibbi, a Substack writer and former longtime writer for Rolling Stone.

The first #TwitterFiles installment,...

Borat is making a statement on antisemitism.

On Sunday, actor Sacha Baron Cohen appeared in character as Borat at the annual Kennedy Centre Honors, with U.S. President Joe Biden in attendance.

Read More: Sacha Baron Cohen Honoured With 2021 Icon Award At GQ Men Of The Year Awards

Bono and the Irish rock band U2 were among those being celebrated during the night’s event.

During his roast, Cohen took aim at a number of targets, including Donald Trump and Kanye West.

“I know the president of US and A is here,” he said. “Where are you, Mr Trump?”

Continuing the joke, he addressed Biden, “You don’t look so good. Where has your glorious big belly gone? And your pretty orange skin has become pale.”

He added, “But I see you have a new wife. Wawawoooah! She is very erotic. I must look away before I get a Bono.

New Delhi, Dec 3 (Ians) The ‘Twitter Files revealed by Elon Musk has implicated Vijaya Gadde, the Indian-origin former head of legal, policy and trust at the company, in suppressing Hunter Biden’s laptop story on the platform, while giving a clean chit to former CEO Jack Dorsey.

Gadde, who took an unceremonious exit from Twitter along with former CEO Parag Agrawal, had taken the crucial call to ban former US President Donald Trump and stop political advertising on the platform.

Working with Twitter since 2011, she was a key executive responsible for overseeing the microblogging platform’s trust and safety, legal and public policy functions.

Without revealing how he obtained them, independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi shared the ‘Twitter Files’ on the platform on Saturday, which Musk then endorsed, saying “here we go”.

“The decision (to suppress Hunter Biden’s laptop story) was made at the highest levels of the company,...

San Francisco, Dec 3 (Ians) Praising Indian-origin Democrat Ro Khanna, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has released internal ‘Twitter Files’ that revealed how the micro-blogging platform took orders from the US President Joe Biden’s team to suppress the censorship of his son Hunter Biden’s laptop story, published by the New York Times during the 2020 US presidential elections.

Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi, who posted a series of tweets revealing the Twitter Files.

“On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published ‘Biden Secret Emails’, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop,” Taibbi posted late on Friday.

He claimed that Twitter took “extraordinary steps to suppress the story,” removing links and posting warnings that it may be unsafe.

“They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography,” Taibbi posted.

Twitter has released a tweetstorm of its internal discussions about its efforts to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story Friday night via journalist Matt Taibbi.

Most shocking revelation in the news, being delivered in a series of separate tweets, is that former CEO Jack Dorsey was not aware of the decisions to hold back. Instead, Vijaya Gadde, the head of the company’s Trust & Safety – and one of the first executives fired by new owner Elon Musk upon taking control of Twitter – made the call.

The controversial material on Biden’s laptop was discovered when he left the computer at a repair shop. When he didn’t return to retrieve it, the owner examined its hard drive, leading to a potential political scandal over its contents shortly before the 2020 presidential election.

The thread is ongoing at the time of this writing and can be found here:

1. Thread: The Twitter Files

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022

Earlier,...

Elon Musk released the anticlimatic “Twitter Files” about “free speech suppression” by the social-media platform on Friday evening. On Monday, he teased the release, writing, “The public deserves to know what really happened …”

What followed after was a series of tweeted snippets detailing what the public has known—and what Twitter executives themselves have detailed over the past two years—about the company’s deliberation surrounding the New York Post’s publication of files from Hunter Biden shortly before the 2020 election.

“What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series,...

New Delhi, Nov 25 (Ians) Defending Jack Dorsey once again, his billionaire friend Elon Musk on Friday said that the former Twitter CEO has a “pure heart”.

Reacting to a Twitter follower who asked if Dorsey lied before the US Congress, Musk replied: “Jack has a pure heart.”

Dogecoin influencer Matt Wallace posted: “Crypto culture changed Jack Dorsey. He went from a censorship champion to someone who supports freedom! Respect for his moves to help undo the damage he did.”

Dorsey, along with Facebook (now Meta) CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce on March 25 this year, over the spread of misinformation and disinformation in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riots.

Dorsey is currently testing another social media app to compete with Twitter.

According to media reports, the 45-year-old Dorsey is looking for beta testers for his decentralised...

Elon Musk has managed to piss off just about everyone on Twitter, and after announcing that he would be instituting what appears to be a shadowbanning policy on the platform, even the right wingers who lauded him as the savior of “free speech” are in an uproar.

Twitter is currently being held together by digital duct tape and a skeleton crew of employees after Musk spurred a mass resignation among the platform’s already severely pared-down staff. Despite internal emails revealing that Musk asked remaining employees to fly to San...

San Francisco, Nov 17 (Ians) As the new Twitter Boss Elon Musk is revamping the micro-blogging platform, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on Thursday morning tweeted, “nobody knows anything”.

To this, Musk responded: “Magic knows it all.”

This comes after a wave of impersonation turmoil caused by a modification to Twitter’s “blue tick” verification method.

The first two weeks of Musk’s ownership of Twitter have been marked by rapid change and chaos.

Musk and Dorsey got into an argument last week over the “Birdwatch” function and the social media platform’s vision.

Earlier, Dorsey had apologised to Twitter’s employees, following the company’s layoff of nearly 50 per cent of its workforce as part of the new owner’s ambitious revamp plan.

He had expressed regret over having too quickly expanded the micro-blogging platform.

“Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient. They will always find a way...

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment presents the comeback of a lifetime in Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm, the newest film based on Adult Swim's iconic Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Created by Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis, the original show ran for 11 seasons, and also produced a previous movie: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. The original characters and cast members return for Plantasm, but plenty has changed since they were last a true blue team.

Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm sees Frylock (Carey Means), Master Shake (Dana Snyder), Meatloaf (played by Willis), and their friend-slash-landlord Carl (also played by Willis) living separate lives with not a lot of joy in them. But when Frylock's new boss Neil from the mega-corporation Amazin proves to be biting off a lot more than he can chew, the old teammates must join forces once more and attempt to stop crime. The film not...

San Francisco, Nov 11 (Ians) Sully Sullenberger aka ‘Captain Sully’, who is known for landing a airplane on the Hudson River in the US has announced to take a step back from the Elon Musk-owned Twitter.

“To my friends on Twitter, I will be taking a step back from the platform for now,” Sully tweeted.

In a 2013 CNBC video, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey called the 2009 US Airways Flight 1549 landing on the water in the Hudson River a moment that “changed everything.”

“Connect with me on Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram to stay informed and hear my latest personal and professional updates,” Sully further posted.

Reacting to his tweet, a Twitter user wrote, “We will miss you a lot! Is it because of Twitter’s new ownership? All the best to you!”.

Musk has implemented several changes to the micro-blogging platform since he acquired Twitter at a super fast pace, some of...

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Elon Musk’s journey as owner of Twitter was fraught from the beginning. But, after seven months of negotiations and a lawsuit, he’s now officially in charge of the microblogging platform and is facing a new wave of headaches. There are legal threats over mass layoffs, advertisers fleeing the platform and widespread backlash after his proclamation that blue checks would cost 20 per month — which Musk lowered to 8 after a public exchange with author Stephen King (whose response was, “Fuck that, they should pay me”).

Then, of course, there’s his 44 billion investment. Musk — who brought on outside backers including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, Vc fund Sequoia Capital and cryptocurrency exchange Binance; convinced current equity holders Jack Dorsey and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal to retain their stakes in the company; and took out more than 13 billion in loans to fund his takeover — says the company is hemorrhaging money.

With the upheaval continuing at Twitter, the emerging alternative social network Mastodon has attracted a lot of former Twitter users.

Even before Elon Musk followed through with his proposed 44 billion takeover of Twitter, the 16-year-old social network’s user base was on the alert. When Musk finally closed the deal after spending months trying to fight it, his arrival at the helm has been followed by a non-stop series of provocations. He has fired half of Twitter’s workforce; shared a conspiracy theory about the attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Polosi; jousted with account holders like Stephen King, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Kathy Griffin, and made pronouncements about a more laizzes-faire future in terms of content moderation and the return of long-banished figures like former President Donald Trump.

The change of direction has prompted many Twitter users to seek an alternative, and one of the leading ones among lesser-known,...

A few hours after a story emerged that indicated there’s little love for him among Twitter workers past and present, the service’s former Twitter CEO and cofounder Jack Dorsey has responded.

The animosity toward Dorsey has reached a fever pitch in the wake of the service firing a reported 3,700 people from its 7,500 worldwide workforce. Many blamed him for allowing the money-losing service to fall into disrepair under his watch.

“Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient,” Dorsey tweeted Saturday morning. His comments came after The New York Post ran a story indicating many “hate” him.

“They will always find a way no matter how difficult the moment. I realize many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize for that.

“I am grateful for, and love, everyone who has ever worked on Twitter,...

New Delhi, Nov 5 (Ians) Facing trolls on social media, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Saturday apologised to sacked Twitter employees, saying that he grew the micro-blogging platform too quickly.

Reports earlier said that several Twitter employees hate Dorsey for their current sad status after the hostile takeover by Elon Musk who has fired almost 50 per cent of the Twitter workforce.

“Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient. They will always find a way no matter how difficult the moment. I realize many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize for that,” Dorsey posted.

“I am grateful for, and love, everyone who has ever worked on Twitter. I don’t expect that to be mutual in this moment…or ever and I understand”, he added.

Dorsey quit Twitter in November last year,...

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is betting that Elon Musk can turn the social platform’s fortunes around.

According to securities filings Monday evening, Dorsey opted to roll his ownership stake in the company over to Musk’s new private venture. While Musk had said in the months leading up to the closing of the deal that he had been in talks with Dorsey to roll over his stake, neither man had confirmed the deal until the filings were disclosed on Oct. 31.

Dorsey owned more than 18 million shares in Twitter, valued at about 1 billion. He could have cashed those shares out at 54.20 a piece when Musk took the company private, instead, he will end up saving Musk about 1 billion in his purchase price by rolling those shares over.

The rollover keeps Dorsey around as one of Twitter’s largest shareholders, after only Musk and...

New Delhi, Oct 28 (Ians) Former Indian-origin Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who continued to do his job to change the platform for better “despite the noise” coming from Elon Musk, never put his foot down against the Tesla CEO.

Agrawal, who took over from Jack Dorsey in November last year and has now been sacked by Musk, had said that he took the job to change Twitter for the better, “course correct where we need to, and strengthen the service”.

“Proud of our people who continue to do the work with focus and urgency despite the noise,” he had tweeted in April.

Recently, a treasure trove of texts exchanged between Musk and Agrawal was leaked in the public domain.

Musk told Agrawal that he does not want to be a boss, to which Agrawal replied that the Tesla CEO should also treat him like an engineer instead of a CEO.

“Frankly,...

As far as we know, the deal hasn’t been closed yet, but Elon Musk updated his personal Twitter account on Wednesday with a new bio that suggests he’s finally going to close the 44 billion acquisition of the site despite months of his trying to get out of it.

Musk, the world’s richest man, now calls himself “chief Twit” and lists his location as “Twitter HQ.” You can see what that looks like above.

The Tesla CEO’s purchase of Twitter is supposed to close on Friday, after months during which Musk tried repeatedly to back out of the deal citing unproven accusations of membership fraud by the social media company. Twitter filed a lawsuit to force Musk to honor the agreement, which Musk fought for months until the beginning of October, when he offered to buy it at the original offer — if Twitter would drop the lawsuit...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly proposed again to buy Twitter at 54.20 a share, the same price he originally proposed in April this year before terminating the 44 billion takeover deal. According to Bloomberg, Musk has sent Twitter a letter offering to buy the micro-blogging platform at the originally proposed price.

The move, if true, has created confusion in the minds of millions as the Musk-Twitter legal battle is set to begin in a US court from October 17.

Twitter or Musk did not comment on the report.

Trading of Twitter shares was briefly halted, reports The Verge.

The new report came at a time when a new treasure trove of texts exchanged between Musk and Twitter executives like CEO Parag Agrawal and Jack Dorsey was leaked in the public domain.

Twitter shareholders have already voted to approve Musk’s 44 billion takeover bid.

The vote came as Musk’s lead team is...

New Delhi, Oct 2 (Ians) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed the secret behind his peak fitness at age 51: Intermittent fasting.

Responding to a follower on Twitter who asked if lifting weights and eating healthy is his script to look “awesome, fit, ripped and healthy”.

To which, Musk who addressed the gathering during Tesla’s AI Day 2022 event, replied with just one word: ‘Fasting’.

Musk actually referred to intermittent fasting that he has adopted on the advice of a “good friend”.

Last month, the world’s richest man revealed he lost 9 kgs with intermittent fasting and now “feels much healthier”.

“On the advice of a good friend, I’ve been fasting periodically and feel healthier,” he had tweeted.

Musk said he finds the “zero fasting app quite good” that helps track his food intake.

“From time to time, I will share some things that seem to be working for me,...

New Delhi, Sep 30 (Ians) Elon Musk told Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal recently that he does not want to be a boss, to which Agrawal replied that the Tesla CEO should also treat him like an engineer instead of a CEO.

A new treasure trove of texts exchanged between Musk and Twitter executives like Agrawal and Jack Dorsey has now been leaked in the public domain.

In an early April conversation with Twitter CEO Agrawal, Musk admitted he doesn’t want to be a boss, reports TechCrunch.

“Frankly, I hate doing mgmt stuff. I kinda don’t think I should be the boss of anyone. But I love helping solve technical/product design problems,” Musk told Agrawal.

“Treat me like an engineer instead of a CEO,” Agrawal replied.

Musk told him that he has tons of ideas, but “I just want Twitter to be maximum amazing”.

“I would like to understand...

A massive trove of Elon Musk’s texts made available to the public give a glimpse into Musk’s mindset during his bid to acquire Twitter, and the subsequent unraveling of the deal that has resulted in Twitter taking the Tesla billionaire to court in order to force his proposed 44 billion purchase.

The texts, which were released as part of evidentiary discovery in Twitter’s lawsuit against him, provide valuable insight into the thought process behind Musk’s attempted acquisition, and show how the billionaire was in regular contact with powerful industry players,...

San Francisco, Sep 20 (Ians) Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is set to be grilled in the court in the ongoing legal battle between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the Parag Agrawal-led micro-blogging platform.

According to media reports citing court filings, Dorsey was set to be questioned by the attorneys from both teams on Tuesday.

Musk’s legal team last month submitted a subpoena in the court for evidence from Dorsey.

Twitter and Musk are preparing for their October 17 trial date at the Delaware Court of Chancery to argue over his attempt to terminate the 44 billion acquisition agreement.

Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO for the second time last November and handed control of the company he helped create to Agrawal. He is currently running the financial services firm Block.

After the world’s richest man bought Twitter, Dorsey had said that the Tesla CEO “is the singular solution I trust”.

“In principle,...

Jay-Z has claimed that “capitalist” is a derogatory term invented to bring down the black community.

On Thursday (1 September), the 52-year-old rapper participated in Twitter Space hosted by journalist Rob Markman to promote his recent song “God Did” with DJ Khaled.

During the discussion, Jay-Z addresses those who have criticised his business ventures.

“We not gone stop,” he said. “Hip-hop is young. We still growing. We not falling for that tricknology the public puts out there now.

“Before it was the American Dream. ‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You can make it in America’ – all these lies that America told us our whole life. And then when we start getting it, they try to lock us out of it. They start inventing words like ‘capitalist’ and things like that.

“We’ve been called n****s and monkeys and s***. I don’t care what words y’all come up with.

Elon Musk cited the claims of Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday, Aug. 2 as he attempts to back out of his deal to buy the social media company for 44 billion.

Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, claimed in a recent whistleblower complaint that the social media platform had major security deficiencies and that it prioritized user growth over combatting spam (his allegations were first covered in The Washington Post and CNN). In the new filing, Musk’s lawyers cited Zatko’s complaint,...

Twitter subpoenaed whistleblower Peiter Zatko today, asking for a raft of documents including any related to his “separation” from the company and his buying or selling of Twitter stock.

Allegations by Zatko, Twitter’s former security chief, that the company is negligent in handling cybersecurity risk and in addressing fake accounts have turned up the heat in the social media platform’s litigation against Elon Musk. Zatko’s accusations were sent to federal agencies and made their way to Congress, where he is scheduled to testify in September. That’s a month before a Delaware Chancery Court judge will hear a suit by Twitter against the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX founder for terminating his 44 billion takeover of the company.

Twitter responded to the whistleblower complaints, which were revealed by the Washington Post and CNN last week, by saying the company fired Zatko in January for what it claims was poor performance,...

San Francisco, Aug 29 (Ians) In an update to his eccentric food habits, tech billionaire Elon Musk said he feels healthier after fasting periodically, which he says has been adviced by a good friend and netizens are wondering if it may be former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

On the microblogging site, the Tesla CEO said: “On the advice of a good friend, I have been fasting periodically and feel healthier.

“From time to time, I will share some things that seem to be working for me, in case you find it helpful,” Musk added.

While replying to Musk, a user quipped if he is Dorsey as he has previously admitted that he only eats seven meals a week.

“Is that friend Jack Dorsey? He is big on the fasting trend. I find it ironic the things Americans do, first-world problems. Meanwhile, we send money to those permanently and unwillingly on a...

Jack Dorsey’s biggest regret is that Twitter, which he co-founded, has become a company. In a tweet, Dorsey who is now running financial payments company Block, said: “The biggest issue and my biggest regret is that it (Twitter) became a company”.

When app researcher Jane Manchun Wong asked him in what form did he wish Twitter to become, Dorsey replied: “A protocol. Def can’t be owned by a state, or company. Becomes clearer every day”.

He had earlier tweeted that Twitter should be an open and verifiable protocol.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has submitted a subpoena for evidence from former Twitter CEO Dorsey.

Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO last November and handed control of the company he helped create to Parag Agrawal.

The microblogging platform and Musk are preparing for their October 17 trial date at the Delaware Court of Chancery to argue over his attempt to break their acquisition agreement.

San Francisco, Aug 26 (Ians) A US judge has rejected Elon Musk’s absurd demand to ask Twitter to hand over all data for approximately 200 million user accounts for the last three years.

Judge Kathaleen McCormick said no to Musk’s legal team’s “absurdly broad” request, saying that Twitter must hand over the 9,000 accounts it reviewed for its audit in the fourth quarter of 2021, reports The Verge.

“Plaintiff (Twitter) has difficulty quantifying the burden of responding to that request because no one in their right mind has ever tried to undertake such an effort. It suffices to say, Plaintiff has demonstrated that such a request is overly burdensome,” the judge ruled late on Thursday.

Twitter will now need to hand over “a small additional set of data from its review database”, said the judge.

In addition, the judge also agreed to Twitter’s request for documents from Musk’s side,...

Jack Dorsey has been served. As the lawsuit between Elon Musk and Twitter heads to trial in Delaware on Oct. 17, the Tesla exec has subpoenaed the former Twitter CEO, per court documents obtained by E! News. The subpoena comes as Musk has made an effort to back out of the 44 billion deal he made to acquire the company Twitter back in April. According to previous court documents obtained E! News, Twitter claims that Musk has cited an alleged breach of information-sharing, inaccurate representation of data and the firing of some employees as reason to pull out of the deal. Per the documents, Twitter said that Musk's allegations have no merit, instead suggesting Musk is attempting to back out of the...