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Who is Elon Musk

Elon Musk

About Elon Musk

Who is Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a South African-born American industrial engineer, entrepreneur, who co-founded Paypal and founded aerospace transportation services company SpaceX. He is also one of the early investors in Tesla, an electric car company, and now the Chief Executive Officer of the firm as well. With a $70.5 bn fortune, Musk sits comfortably at the 7th spot in the world's top 10 billionaires list.
Early years
 
Born in 1971, Elon Musk displayed an early talent in computers and video games and at the age of 12 created a video game code that earned him fame, as well as a fortune. He acquired
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Here's how Musk uses his 'free speech' platform to amplify views worldwide

Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated

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Updated On : 14 Aug 2024 | 6:01 PM IST

India among the top four countries that asked Twitter to remove content

India was also among the top nations that asked for Twitter user data last year, according to data shared by the company

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Updated On : 22 Apr 2024 | 6:19 PM IST

India among the top four countries that asked Twitter to remove content

India was also among the top nations that asked for Twitter user data last year, according to data shared by the company

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Updated On : 27 Apr 2023 | 10:52 AM IST

2022 in review: Russia war to COP27, top events that shaped the world

The year 2022 is coming to an end and a lot has happened that shaped the world in the year. Let's have a look at some of these significant events

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Updated On : 19 Apr 2023 | 4:46 PM IST

Twitter tags BBC as 'government funded media', British broadcaster objects

Elon Musk-owned Twitter has labelled the BBC as a government funded media on the microblogging site, leading to a sharp reaction from British public broadcaster which on Monday objected to the move

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Updated On : 10 Apr 2023 | 6:04 PM IST

Twitter situation is very frustrating: Substack CEO site restricts retweets

Musk last week denied that he blocked access to embedding tweets in posts on online publishing platform Substack

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Updated On : 10 Apr 2023 | 11:14 AM IST

Tesla new battery plant in Shanghai cements China's place in energy storage

China already had more than 1,400 gigawatt-hours of battery manufacturing capacity, with another 6,000 gigawatt-hours under construction or announced

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Updated On : 10 Apr 2023 | 12:41 PM IST

Always been independent: BCC as Twitter labels it as 'govt-funded media'

Twitter has not given a definition for what it considers "government-funded media" to constitute

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Updated On : 10 Apr 2023 | 6:40 AM IST

SpaceX's deep-space rocket Starship is 'ready for launch', says Musk

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday said his deep-space rocket Starship is ready for lift-off from SpaceX's launch facility in the US

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Updated On : 09 Apr 2023 | 3:03 PM IST

Elon Musk to visit China this weekend with possible Tesla plant stop

Musk is travelling with Tom Zhu, who was named Tesla's senior vice president of automotive this month

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Updated On : 08 Apr 2023 | 1:11 PM IST

Twitter stops writers from retweeting, liking or replying to Substack links

The Twitter change has become a huge problem for Substack writers, who use the Elon Musk-run platform to promote their newsletters

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Updated On : 08 Apr 2023 | 11:09 AM IST

Tesla cuts prices on EV models for 3rd time this year in US to lure buyers

Tesla cut prices on its entire US electric vehicle model lineup for the third time this year in an apparent effort to lure more buyers amid rising interest rates

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Updated On : 07 Apr 2023 | 8:04 PM IST

Twitter to show 50% less ads with better visibility to Blue subscribers

In order to woo more users, Elon Musk-run Twitter will now show at least 50 per cent less ads to Blue subscribers, along with a boost in their visibility on the platform.

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Updated On : 07 Apr 2023 | 11:05 AM IST

Twitter Verified account follows no one, removes 420,000 legacy accounts

Twitter had earlier warned of winding down all the legacy verified accounts from April 1 and even removing the checkmarks for those who still had them but were not paying for Twitter Blue subscription

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Updated On : 07 Apr 2023 | 6:55 AM IST

SpaceX Starship's 1st test flight may takeoff on April 10: Report

SpaceX has also rolled its Ship 24 out to Starbase's orbital launch pad over the weekend

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Updated On : 05 Apr 2023 | 1:34 PM IST

Vendors sue Twitter for thousands of dollars in unpaid bills

Elon Musk-run Twitter has been sued by a group of vendors who allege that the micro-blogging platform has failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills

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Updated On : 05 Apr 2023 | 2:16 PM IST

Twitter's contract workers sue company over Elon Musk's mass layoffs

The suit was brought on behalf of an unspecified number of workers hired by Twitter through employee staffing company TEKsystems Inc

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Updated On : 05 Apr 2023 | 7:51 AM IST

Elon Musk's month pushing Twitter blue failed to win many subscribers

Musk decided to give some verified users more time to decide whether to pay him

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Updated On : 05 Apr 2023 | 7:39 AM IST

Twitter has not revoked legacy verified blue tick from most accounts

Twitter also replaced the blue bird logo with that of Doge meme, a logo used for the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, on its web home page

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Updated On : 04 Apr 2023 | 11:42 PM IST

Dogecoin skyrocketed 1,992% on Google search after Twitter logo changed

Online searches for cryptocurrency 'Dogecoin' on Google skyrocketed by a whopping 1,992 per cent worldwide after Elon Musk changed Twitter's bird logo to Dogecoin's shiba inu on April 3

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Updated On : 04 Apr 2023 | 8:45 PM IST