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Twitter won't allow new accounts to buy Blue verification for 90 days

It could be an effort to reduce the chances of scams and impersonator accounts.

Saluting out: How Musk's 'extremely hardcore' email caused chaos at Twitter

Slack, Twitter's internal communication platform, was on November 17 flooded with "salute" emojis sent by the employees who have resigned or are leaving the company

Approve remote work at 'your own risk': New CEO Musk dares Twitter managers

The new email, seen by The Verge, also told employees to do in-person meetings, as a disabled employee has sued Twitter over its ban on remote work.

Musk has undermined Twitter's integrity: US senators urge antitrust probe

The US lawmakers claimed that Twitter's new Chief Executive Officer, has taken alarming steps that have undermined the integrity and safety of the platform.

Elon Musk floats possibility of someone succeeding him at Tesla

Murdoch, who did not name the potential successor, was testifying in a trial over Musk's 2018 Tesla pay package

Twitter working on feature to split long text into thread automatically

In response to these tweets, Musk said the team is working on making thread writing easier

Former Twitter CEO Dorsey tweets 'nobody knows anything', Musk reacts

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

I don't want to be CEO of Twitter or any company, says Elon Musk: Report

Elon Musk has said that he does not want to be the CEO of any company, be it Tesla or Twitter.

Musk to find new Twitter head, tells staff to choose hardcore work or leave

'There's an initial burst of activity needed post-acquisition to reorganize the company. But then I expect to reduce my time at Twitter'

Elon Musk gives Twitter employees Thursday deadline to decide job fate

Elon Musk says Twitter is a software and servers company at its heart and wants employees to decide by Thursday evening if they want to remain a part of the business, according to an email the new owner sent to Twitter workers. Musk wrote that employees will need to be extremely hardcore" to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0" and that long hours at high intensity will be needed for success. Musk said Twitter will be much more engineering-driven, with employees who write great code comprising the majority of the team. The billionaire, who completed the USD 44 billion takeover of the San Francisco company in late October, has already fired much of its full-time workforce by email on November 4 and is moving to eliminate an untold number of contract jobs. Musk asked workers to click yes on a link provided in the email if they want to be part of the new Twitter". He said that employees had until 5 pm Eastern on Thursday to reply to the link. Employees who don't reply by that time will

Karnataka HC adjourns Twitter's plea against govt blocking orders to Dec 12

The Karnataka High Court has adjourned the hearing of the petition filed by microblogging site Twitter against the Central government's takedown orders to December 12. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology sought time to present its arguments in the case following which Justice Krishna S Dixit adjourned the case on Wednesday. Twitter has approached the High Court challenging the several blocking directions issued to it to remove tweets, accounts and URLs on the platform. The social media platform, in its petition filed in June 2022, claimed that the Centre was required to issue notice to the owners of the Twitter handles against whom blocking orders are issued. The company claimed that it was barred from even informing its account holders about the takedown. Senior advocates Arvind Datar and Ashok Haranahalli have argued on behalf of Twitter before the High Court in the last two months. The main argument so far on behalf of Twitter is that the government's blockin

Twitter starts working on end-to-end encryption for direct messages

Musk had announced that the micro-blogging platform would soon allow organisations to identify their associated accounts

TMS Ep304: Slow deposit growth, Tech layoffs, S Naren, Twitter's blue tick

Why's RBI governor worried about deposit growth? Where did big tech and startups go wrong on hiring? What's worrying S Naren when it comes to equity markets? What is Twitter's blue tick? Answers here

Amazon layoffs in India may be higher than other tech majors: Report

Including direct and indirect jobs, Amazon employs over 1.1 million people in India

What is Twitter's blue tick?

Twitter's move to sell its blue check badge for $8 made aerospace company Lockheed Martin and pharma giant Eli Lilly & Co fall prey to impersonators. What is blue check? How did it come into being?

Elon Musk to relaunch Twitter's blue tick subscription on November 29

With the new release, changing someone's verified name will cause the loss of the blue check "until name is confirmed by Twitter to meet terms of service", Musk said.

Best of BS Opinion: Prompt disclosures, boosting production, and more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

Twitter is very slow in India, Indonesia & many other countries: Musk

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has said Twitter is very slow in India and many other countries. Twitter is very slow in India, Indonesia & many other countries. This is a fact, not a claim. 10 to 15 secs to refresh homeline tweets is common. Sometimes, it doesn't work at all, especially on Android phones. The only question is how much delay is due to bandwidth/latency/app, Musk, Twitter's new owner, tweeted. In another tweet, he said he would like to apologise for Twitter being super slow in many countries. The app is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline! I was told ~1200 RPCs independently by several engineers at Twitter, which matches # of microservices. The ex-employee is wrong, he said. In another tweet, he said Same app in the US takes ~2 secs to refresh (too long), but ~20 secs in India, due to bad batching/verbose comms. Actually useful data transferred is low. There are ~1200 microservices server side, of which ~40 are critical to Twitter .

Reading between the tweets

World leaders are conspicuous by their presence on Twitter, tweeting about everything but the job losses

IAMAI asks govt to content and broadcasting services out of telecom bill

IAMAI said in its submission that 'telecommunication' can cover video calls, emails, messages as well as other cloud service providers