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Twitter outage was reportedly because an employee accidentally deleted data
- Twitter experienced a major outage caused by an employee who accidentally deleted data.
- The team responsible for the internal service was no longer at the company following Elon Musk's cost-cutting measures and ultimatum to staff in November.
- Twitter employee numbers have decreased more than two-thirds under Musk's leadership.
- The outage prompted Elon Musk to email staff to pause new feature development and prioritize system stability. The outage also drew criticism from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
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Elon Musk takes a dig at Jeff Bezos' iconic day 1 mantra
- Elon Musk tweeted about a key takeaway from Amazon's 25 annual letters written by Jeff Bezos since 1997.
- The Twitter user pointed out that Bezos wrote about a "Day 1" mentality in all of the letters.
- Amazon describes "Day 1" as a culture and operating model that emphasizes a start-up mindset and a focus on customers and innovation.
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Musk fires Twitter engineer over his dropping reach: Report
- A top Twitter engineer was fired by Elon Musk after making a comment about his declining popularity on the platform.
- According to Platformer, Musk's popularity in search rankings had dropped from 100 last year to nine.
- Musk questioned engineers and advisors at Twitter about his declining engagement on the platform.
- The engineer was fired after showing Musk a Google Trends chart to explain the decline.
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Ex-Twitter privacy chief joins BeReal social media startup
- Damien Kieran, formerly Twitter's Chief Privacy Officer, has joined French social media start-up BeReal as its General Counsel.
- Kieran's new role will see him lead the legal affairs of the photo-sharing app, which is focused on fostering genuine connections between users.
- The move comes just two weeks after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion, and Kieran cites the "product, people and potential" as the factors that lured him in to BeReal.
- With his extensive experience and knowledge of privacy, Kieran is poised to make a positive impact on BeReal as it continues to grow and evolve in the competitive world of social media.
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Twitter user shares Elon Musk's daily schedule; he responds
- Elon Musk, the world's second-richest person, responded to a tweet about his daily schedule.
- A Twitter user shared Elon Musk's daily routine, which consists of sleeping, waking up, and working.
- Elon Musk acknowledged his heavy workload, tweeting "I'm worried about me too."
- He previously stated that his workload increased from 70-80 hours a week to 120 hours after acquiring Twitter.
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Elon Musk tweets meme on US shooting down Chinese 'spy balloon'
- Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and second-richest person in the world, shared a meme on Twitter.
- The meme depicted a scene from the 2009 animated film "Up" where the flying house is shot down.
- The meme was in reference to the US shooting down an alleged Chinese "spy balloon" off the Atlantic coast.
- China has accused the US of overreacting and violating international practice.
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‘Extremely tough’: Musk on past 3 months as Twitter CEO
- Elon Musk recalled his past three months as Twitter CEO. He said that it has been "extremely tough" as he "had to save Twitter from bankruptcy" while also fulfilling his duties in Tesla and SpaceX.
- Musk attributed the drop in revenue to activist groups pressuring advertisers.
- To fix Twitter, Elon Musk reduced half of the staff, introduced a subscription service, and auctioned off memorabilia.
- Despite these changes, Elon Musk has faced legal troubles due to accusations of contract breach and discrimination from former Twitter employees.
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Musk is having sleepless nights, working all day to run 5 companies he owns
- Elon Musk is the owner of five companies, including SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, Neuralink, and Twitter.
- In a recent tweet, Elon Musk mentioned that he works all day to run his businesses.
- Currently, his focus is on improving Twitter, which he hopes to turn into a profitable company, known as "Twitter 2.0".
- Despite owning five companies, Elon Musk's priority is to work on making Twitter a success.
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Offer to McDonald's on accepting Dogecoin is still 100% open: Elon Musk
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that his offer to eat a McDonald's Happy Meal on television is still open.
- The offer was made in January 2022, when Musk tweeted that he would do so if McDonald's accepted Dogecoin as a means of payment.
- The value of Dogecoin has decreased by 31% since the offer was made.
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#UPIDown trends as users unable to make payments on New Year's Eve 2022
- Users have flooded social media with complaints as UPI (Unified Payments Interface) server seems to be down creating problems in making payments across the country.
- On New Year's Eve, people who use GooglePay, PhonePe, Paytm, and other UPI services are having trouble sending and receiving payments.
- The problem with UPI payments is not restricted to one or two places; individuals from all around the nation are tweeting about it. They are tagging the official UPI app handles in search of a response.
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After acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk now willing to buy another company
- On Wednesday, Elon Musk said he'd consider buying Substack, a newsletter subscription platform.
- US-based Substack supports subscription newsletters with publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure.
- Musk said, "I'm open to the idea" when a user asked if Twitter should buy Substack and integrate the two platforms.
- The user posted, "Twitter plus Substack creates instant massive competition for obsolete legacy corporate media."
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Data of 400 million Twitter users up for sale, Sundar Pichai, Salman Khan's data shared: Report
- A threat actor is claiming they have obtained data of 400,000,000 Twitter users and is offering it for sale.
- As a proof, the hacker provided a sample data set that included information on Sundar Pichai and Salman Khan.
- The data includes emails and phone numbers of celebrities, politicians, companies, normal users, and a lot of special usernames.
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'You're a jackass': Musk loses cool with ex-Twitter employee during Spaces chat
- Twitter CEO Elon Musk lost his cool during a recent Twitter Spaces discussion when an engineer asked him why he wanted to "completely rewrite" Twitter's code.
- ''You either needed to amend the crazy stack that exists or rewrite it'', Musk replied.
- Elon Musk further called the engineer a "jack***" and a "moron" for asking him to clarify what he meant.
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