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Tucker Carlson’s First Episode of New Twitter Show Garners Over 60 Million Views in Less than 24 Hours Ep. 1 pic.twitter.com/O7CdPjF830
On Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson released Episode 1 in his “Tucker on Twitter” program.
Carlson took on the Ukraine Dam that was blown up and suggests the Kakhovka Dam explosion was likely a Ukrainian attack.
In less than 24 hours, the episode has received over 59.6 million views, absolutely demolishing the 3.5 million audience of his former Fox News show.
“Mr. Silverstein made a blunt declaration in the New York Post : “We’re lusting after the World Trade Center, the prize of all prizes.”
“There are also questions about the long term. According to an analysis of the complex’s cash flow by the magazine Grid , whoever wins the Trade Center can expect a relatively paltry stream of cash for some time, until the long-term leases are up. This means that whoever buys the complex will be in it for years before seeing a profit.“
“Then again, hardly anything has gone as predicted so far in the Port Authority’s topsy-turvy auction.”“
https://observer.com/2001/04/silverstein-recovers-dark-horse-may-win-world-trade-center/amp/
Twitter Worth Just 33% of Elon Musk’s Purchase Price
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-30/twitter-is-worth-33-of-musk-s-purchase-price-fidelity-says?leadSource=uverify%20wall
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IRS Caught red-handed in a web of lies related to Twitter files:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/24/irs-opened-probe-into-matt-taibbis-taxes-after-twitter-dump/
IRS opened its investigation of reporter Matt Taibbi on Christmas Eve, a Saturday, 3 weeks after first Twitter files were revealed by Matt to the public, then sent an IRS agent to his house to “leave a note” the day he was to testify to Congress in proven act of intimidation, then the IRS lied to Congress under oath by claiming it was all done to verify whether Matt was a victim of identity theft as per two previous non-existent letters the IRS claims it mailed to Matt which the IRS has failed to produce. This is what happens when China controls your executive branch via a compromised puppet and compromised Intel community, sowing the seeds of financial and social chaos ahead of a nuclear war and military invasion. Democrats need to wake up and break the spell their party has placed in their minds the same way the Germans woke up to what the Nazis were doing, oh they are just a bunch of clowns not with your best interests in mind but their own. Wake. Up. FBI arrest the IRS agents involved in the proven scheme and begin to restore order to the United States. What the HELL are you waiting for.
IRS Caught red-handed in a web of lies related to Twitter files:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/24/irs-opened-probe-into-matt-taibbis-taxes-after-twitter-dump/
IRS opened its investigation of reporter Matt Taibbi on Christmas Eve, a Saturday, 3 weeks after first Twitter files were revealed by Matt to the public, then sent an IRS agent to his house to “leave a note” the day he was to testify to Congress in proven act of intimidation, then the IRS lied to Congress under oath by claiming it was all done to verify whether Matt was a victim of identity theft as per two previous non-existent letters the IRS claims it mailed to Matt which the IRS has failed to produce. This is what happens when China controls your executive branch via a compromised puppet and compromised Intel community, sowing the seeds of financial and social chaos ahead of a nuclear war and military invasion. Democrats need to wake up and break the spell their party has placed in their minds the same way the Germans woke up to what the Nazis were doing, oh they are just a bunch of clowns not with your best interests in mind but their own. Wake. Up. FBI arrest the IRS agents involved in the proven scheme and begin to restore order to the United States. What the HELL are you waiting for.
Twitter alleges improper data usage by Microsoft
By: Investing.com | May 18, 2023
(Reuters) -Twitter Inc has alleged that Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) may have violated an agreement over using the social media company's data, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday.
Lawyers representing Twitter said Microsoft had used more Twitter data than it was supposed to, also shared the Twitter data with government agencies without permission.
A Microsoft spokesperson said the company on Thursday heard from a law firm representing Twitter with some questions about its previous use of the free Twitter application programming interface (API).
"We will review these questions and respond appropriately. We look forward to continuing our long term partnership with the company."
Twitter did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment.
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Twitter: FBI lawyer infiltration of Twitter mentioned in today’s hearing on (China’s somewhat-clandestine) weaponization of U.S. Government :
https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-weaponization-federal-government-2#:~:text=The%20Select%20Subcommittee%20on%20the,FBI%20has%20retaliated%20against%20whistleblowers.
Elon Musk subpoenaed in Jeffrey Epstein case
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-virgin-islands-subpoenaed-elon-musk-jeffrey-epstein-litigation-2023-05-15/
There is the molder, there are his materials
Bring in the enemy and re-educate them. Twitter corporate should become a re-education camp for WEF adherents, one at a time turn them from the dark side or they’re fired if not malleable. Bring in the Trojan horses, we know what is inside them already, clean them, and they become an asset. Bring them in and they will not be cleaned, send them away to rot in their previous lies, imprinted though with a different environment than what the horse only knew. One day they might see and decide to open their eyes to what they’ve done, an independent choice, and then there is change, reform, build their own re-education camp, now they see.
Codes: X is the 24th letter of the Alphabet, it also says the word “ex” as in referring to something “prior, previous” or as the acronym “for example”. 2024 is 6.66 months away. X Corp in numbers as a date: 24 3 15 RP. X Marx the spot is a coming phrase. Solve for X. The answer provided by the solution. The answer, the response, the reply.
Sad! Which billionaire will the sheep give their money to next?
WARNING: NEW TWITTER CEO IS A WEF GLOBALIST PLANT!!!!!! ELON MUSK IS A ***CON***!!!!!!!!
GLOBALIST SHILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Top NBCUniversal Ad Exec And World Economic Forum Taskforce Chair In Talks To Become Twitter CEO: WSJ
Are Twitter's days of encouraging free speech and independent thought numbered... or is Musk, just days after unveiling that Tucker is joining, playing 4D chess?
Just hours after Elon Musk announced he had picked a new female Twitter CEO candidate, the WSJ revealed the identity of the person in talks to become the next CEO of the world's most important social network: it is Linda Yaccarino, who is currently NBCUniversal’s influential head of advertising.
Yaccarino, who is chairman of global advertising and partnerships at NBCU, has been with NBCU for more than a decade, where she has been an industry advocate for finding better ways to measure the effectiveness of advertising. As head of NBCU’s advertising sales, she was key in the launch of the company’s ad-supported Peacock streaming service.
Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner, said in a tweet Thursday that he had hired a new CEO, but didn’t say who it was. “She will be starting in ~6 weeks!” Mr. Musk said in the tweet.
In some ways, Musk's pick of Yaccarino is not a surprise: as Chair of the Advertising Council's Board of Directors and arguably NBCU's top advertising exec, she is meant to fill a critical void at the new Twitter: that of advertising. After all, despite having massive traffic, Musk's social network - which as a reminder cost him $44 billion - has been hemorhaging ad revenue as woke brands have abandoned the website.
Of the top 100 advertisers on Twitter before Mr. Musk bought the company, 37 spent nothing on Twitter advertising during the first quarter of this year, according to market-intelligence firm Sensor Tower, while an additional 24 brands reduced their average monthly Twitter ad spending by 80% or more.
As such, it will be Yaccarino's job to convince advertisers to return: Yaccarino, who oversees roughly $13 billion in annual ad revenue, is well-known for her tight relationship with marketers and ad agencies. Yaccarino has a reputation for hard-nosed negotiating tactics, and media buyers have described her as the “velvet hammer.”
Musk's announcement of the new CEO came days before one of the biggest events of the year for NBCU, the company’s annual pitch event for advertisers, known as the upfront, which is scheduled for Monday in New York. And according to the WSJ, an NBCU spokesman said Ms. Yaccarino is in back-to-back rehearsals for NBCU’s upfront.
On the other hand, the hiring of Yaccarino to head the social network which in recent months has become the bane of liberals and progressives through its encouragement of free speech and independent thought, both of which are despised and suppressed by the left, could be a problem.
For one, according to her LInkedIn profile, Yaccarino is the "Chairman of the WEF's Taskforce on Future of Work and sits on the WEF's Media, Entertainment and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee. She is also highly engaged with the Value in Media initiative." Most recently, she delivered the following speech in Jan 2020: 'World Economic Forum: Creating the Workplace of the Future by Focusing on People."
Additionally, in 2014 Yaccarino joined the Ad Council Board of Directors and became a member of the Executive Committee in 2015. She first served as Vice Chair before her appointment to Board Chair from 2021-2022.
And then there's this: in 2021-2022, as Ad Council Chair, "Yaccarino partnered with the business community, the White House, and government agencies to create a COVID-19 vaccination campaign, featuring Pope Francis and reaching over 200 million Americans."
And finally:
As an industry advocate, Yaccarino has called for a return to values-based, trusted partnerships, spotlighting the most important issues facing her colleagues and peers. As 2021-2022 Ad Council Chair, Yaccarino partnered with the business community, the White House, and government agencies to create a COVID-19 vaccination campaign, featuring Pope Francis and reaching over 200 million Americans. At NBCU, she uses the power of media to advance equity and helps to launch DEI-focused initiatives, including BOLD, a program for employing veterans; #ShesMy, a campaign to uplift women and girls; Scene in Color, a collaboration with Target to elevate emerging BIPOC film creatives; and a partnership with Telemundo to release a Latina-centric storytelling guide.
Things get a little more complicated however, when one considers that in May 2018 Trump Named Yaccarino (alongside Bill Belichick and a bunch of other folks) to a two-year term on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. It wasn't immediately clear how long she lasted in this particular role.
Bottom line: despite that last rather odd detour, which can be attributed to Trump's habitual lack of due diligence, Yaccarino appears to be the perfect establishment hire, one who will help Twitter recover most of its lost ad revenue... the trade-off may very well be that in the process twitter may just become the same company it was before its acquisition by Trump.
In response to the news of her hiring, the outcry has been - as one would imagine - extremely polarized.
In conclusion, while it is certainly possible that Musk is playing 4D chess here, a prevailing sentiment among the replies is that "Twitter was fun for a few months. See you guys in the gulag." One can only hope that it is wrong.
Musk says the new CEO of X/Twitter starts in 6 weeks, Tesla gains 2%
By: Markets & Mayhem | May 11, 2023
Elon Musk said X/Twitter will have a new CEO, who will start in approximately 6 weeks. Although he didn’t mention the name of the new leader, it will be a woman.
Musk added that his role will transition to executive chair and CTO, overseeing product, software and sysops.
Following the tweet, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) shares jumped and closed the day with more than a 2% gain, as investors responded positively to the news that Elon Musk's shifting role would free up additional time for him.
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Musk says Twitter to soon allow calls, encrypted messaging
By: Investing.com | May 9, 2023
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday revealed details about new features including adding calls and encrypted messaging coming to the platform.
Last year, Musk flagged plans for "Twitter 2.0 The Everything App", which he said would have features such as encrypted direct messages (DMs), longform tweets and payments.
"Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform, so you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number," Musk said in a tweet on Tuesday.
The call feature on Twitter will bring the micro-blogging platform into line with the likes of Meta's social media applications, Facebook (NASDAQ:META) and Instagram, which have similar features.
Musk said a version of encrypted direct messages will be available on Twitter starting Wednesday, but did not say if calls will be encrypted.
Twitter this week said it will start a cleansing process by removing and archiving accounts that have been inactive for several years.
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Twitter to remove inactive accounts
By: Investing.com | May 8, 2023
(Reuters) -Social media platform Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) will remove accounts that have been inactive for several years, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday.
Musk added that users on the micro-blogging platform could see a drop in follower count.
According to Twitter's policy, users should log in to their account at least once every 30 days to avoid permanent removal due to prolonged inactivity.
Earlier this month, Musk "threatened" to reassign National Public Radio's Twitter account to another company, after the public broadcaster stopped posting content to its 52 official Twitter feeds in protest against a Twitter label that implied government involvement in its editorial content.
Twitter last month removed the legacy verified blue tick from the profile of thousands of people, including celebrities, journalists and prominent politicians.
Musk has made account verification a part of Twitter's Blue subscription, a move he said would tackle the issue of bot accounts on the social media platform.
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and sometimes ...... it is a educating juggernaut ! https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-why-does-media-misrepresent-interracial-crime-stats-such-extreme-degree
MUSK IS TOO LATE TRYING TO TURN TWITTER IN ***X*** PAYMENT PLATFORM!!!!!!
FEDNOW INSTANT PAYMENTS COMING OUT IN JULY WITH ONLY $0.045 TRANSACTION FEE!!!!!!!
SINCE WALMART WILL SUPPORT FEDNOW THE ZOMBIE MASSES WILL ALL USE IT!!!!!!!!
MOST E-COMMERCE WEBSITES WILL JUMP ONBOARD BECAUSE OF THE LOW TRANSACTION FEES!!!!!!!!
MUSK PAID WAY TOO MUCH FOR TWITTER!!!!!!!!!!!
Twitter is still a censoring juggernaut!
Analysis-Companies wary as Twitter checkmark policy fuels imposter accounts
By: Investing.com | May 2, 2023
Twitter's attempt to implement a paid account verification service has attracted imposters spreading misinformation, which experts said could lead major brands to further pull back from the social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
On April 20, Twitter moved to boost profits by removing the once-coveted blue check marks from accounts and charging $8 a month to users who wish to buy a Twitter Blue subscription to retain their verified status.
Musk's latest initiative was met with a wave of imposter accounts sharing harmful misinformation. Some organizations have already stopped using Twitter, including the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) with 1.3 million followers. Both AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) and Volkswagen AG (OTC:VWAGY) told Reuters they had paused Twitter ads and had not yet resumed as of April.
Twitter has been hit by a massive decline in advertising since the acquisition but Musk told the BBC last month most of the advertisers are returning to the platform.
Data from outside research firms and statements from several advertisers show Twitter’s ad business may not be bouncing back that quickly.
"Twitter Blue is a mess. This is more chaos and confusion for brands who were already wary of impersonation. They don't want to remain on a platform where they feel vulnerable," said Jasmine Enberg, principal analyst at Insider Intelligence.
Since Musk bought Twitter in October and began making rapid changes, brands have been debating whether they should keep advertising on the platform. Enberg said Twitter's removal of legacy checkmarks could prompt some companies to stop tweeting and maintaining their profile.
"There's little incentive for brands to keep an organic presence when they think their brand is at risk, and especially on a platform where it's not going to drive any meaningful impact," she said.
Rachel Moran-Prestridge, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, said Twitter's checkmarks for years gave users confidence an account was legitimate.
"Without this verification, users have to do much more heavy lifting to try to ascertain whether the account is who they say they are," she told Reuters in an email.
In a move that furthered confusion, Twitter on April 22 appeared to give some high-profile users a verification mark.
Within the next 48 hours, all but 110 of the most-followed Twitter accounts suddenly had verification through Twitter Blue, indicating Twitter likely gifted the check marks, independent researcher Travis Brown told Reuters.
Neither Twitter nor Musk has commented on the return of the verification marks for a select few users.
An emailed request for comment to Twitter returned an automated reply with a poop emoji.
Reuters is a partner of Twitter's Community Notes fact-checking project.
A fake account posing as Disney Junior UK, now a defunct TV channel, last week was issued a gold checkmark used for "verified organizations". The Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) Co told Reuters it contacted Twitter and the account was suspended.
New York's MTA said last Thursday it "does not pay tech platforms" and would stop tweeting service alerts and information.
"The reliability of (Twitter) can no longer be guaranteed," the MTA said in a statement.
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Since the initial rollout of the Twitter Blue service in November, imposter tweets have spread harmful misinformation.
U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) and Co watched its stock tumble over 4% and was forced to apologize after a Twitter user impersonating its official account posted "insulin is free."
Imposter Twitter accounts also tarnished the online reputations of Lockheed Martin Corp (NYSE:LMT) and Nintendo Co Ltd (TYO:7974). Last month, Twitter told advertisers in an email that businesses spending less than $1,000 per month on Twitter ads must be subscribed to Twitter Blue or pay to be part of the verified organizations program to keep running ads on the platform, according to Matt Navarra, a social media consultant who has worked with Meta and Mozilla.
Eric Yaverbaum, CEO of the New York-based PR agency Ericho Communications, said more brands are likely to pull away if Twitter does not implement a stringent user verification model.
"Brands have already stopped ads on Twitter, many won't come back, and I have a feeling more companies will put an end to advertising on the platform," Yaverbaum said in an e-mail to Reuters.
Some brands have already taken countermeasures against online impersonation by retaining the services of brand reputation management companies.
Social Impostor CEO Kevin Long said a number of factors attract online impersonators to a celebrity or brand.
"Just because you had - or will have - a blue verification mark does not deter the imposters from creating accounts," Long, whose company took down over 8,000 bogus accounts across major platforms, told Reuters in an email.
"The volume of imposter accounts seems to depend on several things -- Is the client doing a high profile event that week? Is the client in the news for some reason - good or bad? My experience is this is across all social platforms."
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its a good way to flush out the libs and entitled. but false ID is a big problem.
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Twitter Corruption Went Deeper Than We Thought
By: Martin Armstrong | April 24, 2023
We knew Twitter was corrupt before the Musk takeover. We knew that Twitter had verified fact-checkers and the ability to de-platform individuals of power, such as then-President Trump. Yet, this piece of information has been swept under the rug. The government had backdoor access to view every user’s private messages. All of them!
“The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind,” Musk told Tucker Carlson. Every government official and head of state uses Twitter from around the world. Twitter emerged as the favored platform for leaders to speak directly to the public in real-time. Musk also highlighted the dangers of AI in that interview, which is an important topic for another day.
Musk received backlash for labeling organizations as “state-affiliated” and later changed them to “government funded.” National Public Radio deleted their account after Musk declared they were “state-affiliated,” and Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Swedish public radio also halted their accounts. Verified accounts with the blue checkmarks are only verified by supplementing a phone number. The blue checkmarks began 14 years ago when Twitter aimed to verify that accounts were real. However, they quickly became a status symbol for politicians, celebrities, activists, and journalists where their Tweets were seen as “real news” since that little blue checkmark indicated they were someone important. Some balked at paying fees for the verification, such as basketball star LeBron James, and Musk said he was personally paying for LeBron’s blue checkmark to stifle his tantrum. There are a slew of imposter accounts online now, but maybe, just maybe, people can do their own fact-checking instead of relying on what a government-funded organization says is true.
I do not think we realize how big of a hit the loss of Twitter was for intelligence agencies. EVERY politician and world leader is on there. We’ve seen how careless these politicians are with online safety (see: Hillary Clinton), and I have no doubt many used the platform to send what they thought were secretive messages.
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Twitter Begins Removing Blue Checks From Users Who Don't Pay
By: Barchart | April 21, 2023
This time it's for real.
Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue checks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.
After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. The checks — which used to mean the account was verified by Twitter to be who it says it is — began disappearing from these users' profiles late morning Pacific Time.
High-profile users who lost their blue checks Thursday included Beyoncé, Pope Francis, Oprah Winfrey and former President Donald Trump.
The costs of keeping the marks range from $8 a month for individual web users to a starting price of $1,000 monthly to verify an organization, plus $50 monthly for each affiliate or employee account. Twitter does not verify the individual accounts, as was the case with the previous blue check doled out during the platform’s pre-Musk administration.
Celebrity users, from basketball star LeBron James to author Stephen King and Star Trek’s William Shatner, have balked at joining — although on Thursday, all three had blue checks indicating that the account paid for verification.
King, for one, said he hadn't paid.
“My Twitter account says I’ve subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven’t. My Twitter account says I’ve given a phone number. I haven’t,” King tweeted Thursday. “Just so you know.”
In a reply to King's tweet, Musk said “You’re welcome namaste" and in another tweet he said he's “paying for a few personally.” He later tweeted he was just paying for King, Shatner and James.
Singer Dionne Warwick tweeted earlier in the week that the site's verification system “is an absolute mess.”
“The way Twitter is going anyone could be me now," Warwick said. She had earlier vowed not to pay for Twitter Blue, saying the monthly fee “could (and will) be going toward my extra hot lattes.”
On Thursday, Warwick lost her blue check (which is actually a white check mark in a blue background).
For users who still had a blue check Thursday, a popup message indicated that the account “is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.” Verifying a phone number simply means that the person has a phone number and they verified that they have access to it — it does not confirm the person's identity.
It wasn't just celebrities and journalists who lost their blue checks Thursday. Many government agencies, nonprofits and public-service accounts around the world found themselves no longer verified, raising concerns that Twitter could lose its status as a platform for getting accurate, up-to-date information from authentic sources, including in emergencies.
While Twitter offers gold checks for “verified organizations” and gray checks for government organizations and their affiliates, it's not clear how the platform doles these out and they were not seen Thursday on many previously verified agency and public service accounts.
The official Twitter account of the New York City government, which earlier had a blue check, tweeted on Thursday that "This is an authentic Twitter account representing the New York City Government This is the only account for @NYCGov run by New York City government" in an attempt to clear up confusion.
A newly created spoof account with 36 followers (also without a blue check), disagreed: “No, you’re not. THIS account is the only authentic Twitter account representing and run by the New York City Government.”
Soon, another spoof account — purporting to be Pope Francis — weighed in too: "By the authority vested in me, Pope Francis, I declare @NYC_GOVERNMENT the official New York City Government. Peace be with you."
Fewer than 5% of legacy verified accounts appear to have paid to join Twitter Blue as of Thursday, according to an analysis by Travis Brown, a Berlin-based developer of software for tracking social media.
Musk’s move has riled up some high-profile users and pleased some right-wing figures and Musk fans who thought the marks were unfair. But it is not an obvious money-maker for the social media platform that has long relied on advertising for most of its revenue.
Digital intelligence platform Similarweb analyzed how many people signed up for Twitter Blue on their desktop computers and only detected 116,000 confirmed sign-ups last month, which at $8 or $11 per month does not represent a major revenue stream. The analysis did not count accounts bought via mobile apps.
After buying San Francisco-based Twitter for $44 billion in October, Musk has been trying to boost the struggling platform’s revenue by pushing more people to pay for a premium subscription. But his move also reflects his assertion that the blue verification marks have become an undeserved or “corrupt” status symbol for elite personalities, news reporters and others granted verification for free by Twitter’s previous leadership.
Twitter began tagging profiles with a blue check mark starting about 14 years ago. Along with shielding celebrities from impersonators, one of the main reasons was to provide an extra tool to curb misinformation coming from accounts impersonating people. Most “legacy blue checks,” including the accounts of politicians, activists and people who suddenly find themselves in the news, as well as little-known journalists at small publications around the globe, are not household names.
One of Musk’s first product moves after taking over Twitter was to launch a service granting blue checks to anyone willing to pay $8 a month. But it was quickly inundated by impostor accounts, including those impersonating Nintendo, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Musk’s businesses Tesla and SpaceX, so Twitter had to temporarily suspend the service days after its launch.
The relaunched service costs $8 a month for web users and $11 a month for users of its iPhone or Android apps. Subscribers are supposed to see fewer ads, be able to post longer videos and have their tweets featured more prominently.
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Twitter was such a scam before Elon took over. He has been exposing the fraud.
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Twitter no longer twitter. "Call me X Corp":
🚨#BREAKING: Twitter is now X Corp. Twitter Inc. no longer exists. pic.twitter.com/KScC05wMZA
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 11, 2023
the owners are heavy into crypto, cant remember if also BTC, they are just as bias as twitter once was but more so when about crypto. just a bunch or kids who have never carried on a conversation in their lives. u can tell when they send out messages.
IHUB admins are useless.
I hear IH admin is full of twitter and crypto rejects?
Twitter again accused of legal violations during mass layoffs
By: Daniel Wiessner | April 4, 2023
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) faced a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the social media giant of illegally laying off contract workers without notice after Elon Musk bought the company last year, the latest action stemming from its massive job cuts.
The proposed class action, filed in San Francisco federal court, claims Twitter in November laid off numerous workers employed by staffing firm TEKsystems Inc without the 60 days of advance notice required by U.S. and California law.
Five other cases are pending in the same court accusing Twitter of violating those laws, targeting female workers for layoffs and discriminating against employees with disabilities. Twitter has denied wrongdoing.
Twitter laid off roughly 3,700 employees, or half its workforce, in early November in a cost-cutting measure by Musk, who paid $44 billion to acquire the social media platform. Hundreds more employees subsequently resigned.
Twitter and Maryland-based TEKsystems, named as a defendant in the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Shannon Liss-Riordan, who represents the plaintiffs in all of the cases, said in an email: "While Elon Musk seems to think he's saving the company money by avoiding these obligations, we plan to show him that not meeting his responsibilities can be a lot more costly."
Liss-Riordan said she also has filed complaints in private arbitration on behalf of more than 1,700 former Twitter employees and contractors who signed agreements to arbitrate legal disputes. She said workers employed by TEKsystems did not sign arbitration agreements.
Liss-Riordan also represents workers who have filed complaints against Twitter with a U.S. labor board claiming they were fired for criticizing the company, attempting to organize a strike, and other conduct protected by federal labor law.
Twitter has not responded to those claims.
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Twitter makes some of its source code public
By: Sheila Dang | March 31, 2023
(Reuters) -Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, allowing users and programmers a peek into its workings and the ability to suggest modifications to the algorithm.
The company said in a blog post it uploaded the code in two repositories on code-sharing platform Github. They include the source code for many parts of Twitter, including the recommendations algorithm which controls the tweets that users see on their timeline.
The move comes at the behest of its billionaire owner Elon Musk, who has said code transparency would lead to higher trust among users and rapid improvements to the product.
It also serves to address common concerns from users and lawmakers, who are increasingly scrutinizing social media platforms over how algorithms select the content that users see.
Musk tweeted on Friday that third parties should be able to analyze the open-sourced code and "determine, with reasonable accuracy, what will probably be shown to users."
"No doubt, many embarrassing issues will be discovered, but we will fix them fast!" he tweeted.
Musk also said Twitter will update its recommendation algorithm based on user suggestions every 24 to 48 hours.
On Friday, Musk and some Twitter employees held a session on Spaces, Twitter's audio chat feature, asking users to bring recommendations and questions about how the platform's code works.
One person questioned why Twitter's code appeared to classify users as Republicans or Democrats. A Twitter employee responded that it was an old feature that was not important to the platform's recommendation system, and the company was looking to remove it.
The repositories on Github do not include the code that powers Twitter's ad recommendations, the company said.
It also said it excluded code that would compromise user safety or privacy, as well as details that would undermine efforts to prevent child sexual abuse material on the platform.
The news also comes after parts of Twitter's source code were leaked on Github, which took down the code last week at Twitter's request.
Twitter asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to order Github to produce "all identifying information" associated with the Github account that had posted the leaked code, according to a legal filing.
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Elon Musk of Twitter correctly believes in censoring specific calls to violence, such as a day of vengeance against a group,
At the same time, anyone who takes their kids to a drag show so a stranger man dressed as a woman can twerk above their kids and straddle them while the mom watches from the audience should be charged with endangering the welfare of a child, the drag artist who otherwise should be allowed to do whatever they want with ADULTS should be charged as a pedophile for participating in that act and for endangering the welfare of a child, and any banker who does these things should be charged with all of the above AND endangering the welfare of the banking system, what is causing people to think their endangering and pedophile behavior is ok all of a sudden? There are laws against both. Why aren’t those laws being enforced?
It is possible that the vaccines have somehow driven American women insane, what other explanation can there be, I don’t remember hearing about this mass psychosis of kids at drag shows before CoVid.
Audrey Hale saw that the banker’s commitment to transgender theory had contributed to their distraction from banking and the current collapse of the U.S. banking system, and she/he took advanced military action ahead of what she believed was an impending extermination of and war against transgender folks that doesn’t exist… nobody, zero people of good conscience want to exterminate anyone including transgender people, but plain and simple by the law indoctrinating kids at drag shows is a criminal offense, just as injecting babies against their will without their consent with an EXPERIMENT vaccine is a criminal offense, no CoVid is NOT the clear and present danger that POLIO was to babies, just as Gross negligence of gain of function was a criminal offense, just as Hunter Biden’s child prostitution and cocaine found on his laptop is a criminal offense, just as the Biden family accepting money from the Anti-Catholic Chinese Communist Party is a criminal offense, and no accountability from the FBI for any of the above is the worst criminal offense of all because the lack of accountability led to a complete deterioration of ethics and morality in the entire society, so what then defines morality in any culture ? Protecting the most vulnerable from negligence, and as you can see from the above proven examples that is the exact opposite of what is happening in the United States today.
Joe Biden is sick in the head, laughing about what happened in Nashville, Kamala Harris is a mindless buffoon, people who act the way they do are sick people who need medical treatment not leadership positions, all the leftist traitor politicians need to be arrested yesterday just to relieve them of their destructiveness to society, and for a coup not just against government but against society, the left is clearly insane by any legal or moral definition that humanity knows of, similar and predictably to just about every leftist regime before them.
This particular group of nutcases has their own flavor, and they’ve presented themselves as such after first pretending to be civil for so long, now look at who they really are as uncivilized people who are now trying to take the soul of a nation for China their true allegiance because they don’t have one ounce of a soul in their own bodies, no spirit to anchor them to ethics,
they are ethically lost and can’t be trusted with any responsibility now or henceforth, every sentence that Joe Biden speaks is anti-American, anti-human and inflammatory and destructive. It’s his purposefulness that is the worst part of it, it is not part of any leadership mechanism but is akin to someone sitting on a throne saying “ha-ha I’m the king listen to me anger you, I spend my time inflaming rather than leading because I’m controlled by radical anarchists, ha-ha.”
What a big man Biden is to have become that puppet, this is the pinnacle of his career, which began supporting the KKK, plagiarism, filling prisons with low level drug offenders, supporting leftist Obama in all his leftist controlling radicalism, now presiding over a cartoon kingdom and being an anti-catholic puppet king of a group of leftist radicals behind the scenes, and the big banks are all in the side of these leftists, look at how JP Morgan tried to bail out these irresponsible banks. China is their master that is why. The banking system has another leg down, maybe to zero, because, at best, the globalists can’t admit their leadership model is failing and those implementing it FAILED to be responsible with the management of money. At worst, they are destroying capitalism purposefully for China, the radical left and themselves so as to sit on their own thrones in the future, having replaced the current system with a cartoon version similar to that in China that they can all laugh at as they take over the world via infiltration and sabotage and not via any kinetic warfare.
Elon Musk puts $20 billion value on Twitter - The Information
By: Investing.com | March 26, 2023
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) CEO Elon Musk has offered the social-media company's employees stock grants at a valuation of nearly $20 billion, the Information reported on Saturday, citing a person familiar with an email Musk sent to Twitter staff.
The reported valuation is less than half of the $44 billion that Musk paid to acquire the social media platform, pointing to a drop in Twitter's value.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a Reuters' emailed request for a comment.
Musk said in December that Twitter is on track to be "roughly cash flow break-even" in 2023 as top advertisers slashed their spending on the social-media platform after the billionaire' s takeover.
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Elon Musk sent this email to Twitter employees today
By: StockMKTNewz | March 25, 2023
• Elon Musk sent this email to Twitter employees today.
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“"In the United States, we're expanding legal pathways for migration, to seek safety and humanitarian…humanitarian basis, while discouraging unlawful migration that feeds exploitation and human trafficking," the president began.
"So today, I applaud China for stepping out...excuse me, I applaud Canada," Biden stumbled while Canadian Members of Parliament laughed.”
Why advertisers aren’t coming back to Twitter
By: Shirin Ghaffary | March 24, 2023
There’s no getting around it. Twitter’s survival in the coming months depends on how its new owner, Elon Musk, manages his relationship with a key group of people: advertisers.
It’s been a rocky pairing since October, when Musk officially took over and many big-name advertisers paused spending on the platform. Almost five months later, the company’s standing with the advertisers that historically make up 90 percent of its revenue still hasn’t measurably improved.
More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers before the acquisition have stopped advertising on the platform as of February, according to data from digital marketing analysis firm Pathmatics and shared with Vox. Out of Twitter’s top 10 advertisers pre-acquisition, only six still advertise on the platform, according to the firm. That affects Twitter’s bottom line: The company’s revenue was down by 40 percent, according to a December report by the Wall Street Journal. Fewer people also appear to be visiting Twitter’s website where advertisers create ad campaigns: The number of users visiting Twitter’s advertising portal page was down 18 percent in February compared to a year before, according to data from digital intelligence firm SimilarWeb.
Vox spoke with several advertising executives, former Twitter employees, and other industry insiders who explained why Twitter’s relationship with advertisers continues to suffer.
Sources described a lack of confidence in Musk’s ability to keep his promises about stopping Twitter from turning into a “free-for-all hellscape,” high turnover in Twitter’s sales department, and confusion about the company’s policies regarding content moderation.
Chief among their concerns is a perception that Musk has turned Twitter into a place where people can post racist, sexist, or otherwise harmful speech without much consequence. Major corporations don’t want to jeopardize what they call “brand safety” by associating with offensive content. Musk has taken a lax approach to content moderation — such as allowing Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and other controversial figures back on the platform in the name of free speech.
Companies also worry about affiliating with Musk himself as he continues to post offensive tweets, including a recent one mocking a disabled Twitter employee (Musk apologized after facing widespread backlash). Making matters worse, some advertising executives say they no longer know who to talk to about their concerns because Musk has fired or laid off many key members of Twitter’s sales and brand safety teams. All of this, insiders say, has resulted in weaker trust in Twitter among a relatively small group of people who control major ad budgets.
“Elon doesn’t understand how advertising works,” said Lou Paskalis, a longtime ad industry executive and founder of AJL Advisory, a firm that consults with brands on their marketing strategies. “I think he thinks it’s a science first and then an art, when in fact, it’s an art first and then a science.”
Twitter did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Musk, however, discussed the company’s relationship with advertisers who may be hesitant to return to the platform in an interview at a Morgan Stanley conference earlier this month.
“What I’d say to advertisers and brands is: Use Twitter for yourself and believe what you see on Twitter, not what you read in the newspapers,” said Musk. “Because what you see on Twitter is the real thing and what you read in newspapers is not.” Musk said that hate speech on Twitter is actually lower than it was before he took over and that brands worried about their reputation can choose what kind of tweets they want to run their ads next to. Several recent outside studies have found a sustained increase in hate speech such as anti-LGBTQ and antisemitic slurs in the months since Musk took over, but Twitter has said that the “reach” of hate speech, or how much it’s being seen, has decreased (which is hard to verify independently without access to Twitter’s data).
In the end, Twitter needs advertisers more than advertisers need Twitter. Compared to Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, Twitter has a much smaller, niche user base. Brands can easily shift their advertising budgets to the bigger players in social media. Whether or not Musk can win back brands — or figure out a feasible alternate plan to make money — will determine whether the company will ultimately go bankrupt. While Musk says Twitter is close to breaking even now that he’s drastically cut costs, he warned in November of the possibility of bankruptcy, and will see that risk increase if advertisers fail to return...
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Twitter said on April 1st it will begin winding down its legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks
By: StockMKTNewz | March 23, 2023
• Twitter said on April 1st it will begin winding down its legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks
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Musk of Twitter believes in simulation theory, Simulation theory as applied to big brother security State observing its citizens, When a living being moving through a hole towards a wall is being observed the being acts like a particle and hits the wall at a predictable place, but when living being moving through a hole towards a wall is not being observed a being acts like a wave, creating an interference pattern on the wall when the being hits the wall, what this means, not sure. When a person knows they are being observed they act differently, same as a photon passing through a slit towards a wall. The best actors can act as if they don’t appear to know they are being observed even though they are, their wave-like self is deemed close to authentic, these artistic performances are applauded more than inauthentic particle like performances. Human beings therefore desire to be like a wave rather than a particle and seek art that matches that desire, while the anti-human State will attempt to prevent all authenticity in order to gain control via predictability of all outcomes (choices) to perfect the security of the State. The hole might be deemed a human choice or decision, moving from one initial state, through a challenge which puts the human to a choice or decision and towards an outcome after that challenge, and the wall is the outcome of the decision.
The 25 billion dollars made from thin air are the protection for all the other banks should President Dementia raise the interest rates further and cause the bond value to decline further, literally throwing fire on a problem that Brandon created all by himself.
We have for all intents and purposes lost these United States of America
“The Federal Reserve established a facility to ensure that institutions hit with liquidity problems would have access to cash. The Treasury Department backstopped the program with $25 billion in funds and vowed that depositors with more than $250,000 at SVB and Signature would have full access to their funds.”
25 billion in funds from where went to risky venture capitalists ? Wasn’t there over 180 billion in deposits ?
“Greg Becker, the chief executive of SVB, "took home $9.9 million in compensation last year, including a $1.5 million bonus for boosting bank profitability — and its riskiness. Joseph DePaolo of Signature got $8.6 million,"”
For 9.9 million a ceo should understand treasury bond investments as they relate to interest rate increases. They probably did, the entire fiasco is a win win for China Biden, distraction and consolidation of power, destruction of the standard of living by bailing out the wealthy, Ukraine pension funds too. This is how corrupt governments deliver for the citizens, toxic mushroom clouds in Ohio, horrible economics, agents who claim to be prioritizing violent criminals and then aim their weapons at catholic families. There literally isn’t a single thing the Biden government has done correctly while calling their enemies fascist, while enlisting late night comedians to speak for them like this is some sort of clown show, it’s on purpose, for China and themselves and their management responsibilities are proven to be an afterthought again and again. Without FBI accountability the corrupt regard their responsibility as the last on a list of things to accomplish on any given day if they ever get around to it, they know the FBI isn’t going to prosecute them for fraud, they feel invincible and maybe they are? Maybe one day the FBI will have enough evidence to pull the plug on those who feel above the law starting with Joseph Biden, Fauci and Pelosi, jail them all and cleanse the nation of the corrupt. How can their be progress, or at the very least a lack of destruction of the United States, with these people in charge? The trend of progress vs destruction can’t get back to even let alone progress given the current State of this farcical government. If they had any shame they would have resigned in shame already for what they have caused.
Banks:
Customers Bancorp Inc. CUBI
First Republic Bank FRB
Etc. etc…
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/20-banks-that-are-sitting-on-huge-potential-securities-lossesas-was-svb-c4bbcafa?
“With $209 billion in assets through the end of 2022, Silicon Valley Bank is the second-largest bank failure after Washington Mutual’s 2008 failure. Washington Mutual Bank had $307 billion in assets.”
-From Marketwatch, “What should you do if your bank closes down? People have questions after Silicon Valley Bank collapse.” March 10.
Don’t worry it was a little bank, like when you are playing monopoly and someone is the banker.
But wait…
“Washington Mutual was a conservative savings and loan bank. In 2008, it became the largest failed bank in U.S. history. By the end of 2007, WaMu had more than 43,000 employees, 2,200 branch offices in 15 states, and $188.3 billion in deposits.1 Its biggest customers were individuals and small businesses.”
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/washington-mutual-how-wamu-went-bankrupt-3305620
Lots of bad similarities if you read that article.
““We can be sure because the footage contains an electronic bookmark that is still archived in the Capitol’s computer system,” said Carlson. “That means that investigators working for the Democratic Party saw this tape. They saw it, but they refused to release the tape to the public.”
Committee staffers even used some of the footage to show Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., allegedly fleeing the Capitol. All Carlson did was extend the footage a few seconds longer than what was televised in the committee’s show-trial hearings, and it became clear Hawley departed the Capitol along with other members of Congress.”
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/09/top-democrat-on-j6-committee-we-actually-didnt-review-any-of-the-surveillance-video/
Not only did the J6 committee make specific legal and personal claims about specific individuals and groups regarding tapes they never themselves reviewed, as was their publicly stated purpose (investigation), they allowed and presented to the public edited tapes to humiliate their political enemies. So…They didn’t review the tapes, they presented edited tape to humiliate people publicly anyway, then today they admitted to the public, after the election, that they didn’t review the tapes, and that their responsibility, which they said in the committee was “of the upmost importance” … was outsourced… think about that, what kind of people inside are they, in their hearts, completely and utterly negligent, the worst kind of people are proven to all to be in charge of the executive branch and their congressional Democrat Comrades are evil individuals, disgustingly sick individuals. The FBI has a duty to arrest them immediately.
The American public requests accountability for election interference and fraud and manipulation, on both sides if it occurs anywhere, and that is exactly what the Democrats themselves have demanded in the past! Then today they are again proven to have committed the very crimes they accused others of, so what will they do next? What fraud will they perpetrate under the nose of the FBI, in plain sight? What other crimes have they committed? There is a string of crimes and negligence of the Democrat Party going back to Obama and Clinton, from “Fast and furious” to the trashing of the Whitehouse after Al Gore lost, was that an insurrection?
Why aren’t the Whitehouse staffers who vandalized the Whitehouse after Al Gore lost in 2000 in a gulag for two years? They put national security at risk by vandalizing Whitehouse computer systems on the way out, what else did those climate cultists destroy in 2001? I think you know. China knows too.
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