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June 14, 2023; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor (28) passes on the sideline Wednesday, June 14, 2023, during mandatory minicamp at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center in Indianapolis. Mandatory Credit: Mykal McEldowney-USA TODAY Sports Use your ← → (arrows) to browseColts owner Jim Irsay did what Colts owner Jim Irsay does best Wednesday evening. In an ill-advised post from his official Twitter account, Irsay took a direct shot at running backs — and their agents. Including the agent of All-Pro Jonathan Taylor.NFL Running Back situation- We have negotiated a CBA,that took years of effort and hard work and compromise in good faith by both sides..to say now that a specific Player category wants another negotiation after the fact,is inappropriate. Some Agents are selling ‘bad faith’..— Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) July 26, 2023On one hand, the 64-year-old has a point. The players did agree to the 2020 Collective Bargaining Agreement fairly recently. The next set of negotiations won’t take place until the end of the current decade. Until then, try as they might… running backs have little recourse to ratify any change.On the other hand, Irsay’s team, the Colts, are currently locked in a stalemate with their

Elon Musk told users he's making dark mode Twitter's default setting. He first said he planned to scrap light mode because the dark version was "better in every way." The billionaire later backtracked after users asked him to keep the light mode option. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. Elon Musk isn't finished with his Twitter makeover quite yet.After announcing that Twitter was rebranding to X and swiftly changing the company logo, the billionaire said he planned to make "dark mode" the platform's default setting. The Tesla boss initially announced plans to scrap light mode altogether, saying that the dark version was "better in every way," but then backtracked by saying dark mode would simply become the new default. He tweeted on Thursday evening: "A lot of people have asked to keep light mode, so we will, but the default will be dark and dim will be deleted." The comments of the original tweets were flooded with people pleading the case for Twitter's light mode."Dark mode is much harder to read outside in daylight," one user said. "Change the default, not the option."Musk has been embarking on

The fired Twitter executive who went viral for sleeping on the office floor last year has broken her silence on mercurial boss Elon Musk — describing him as a brilliant but cold leader with a “painful” lack of empathy. Esther Crawford, whose rapid rise and fall from Musk’s good graces drew intense scrutiny over the last year, gave her most detailed account yet of the bizarre experience in a nearly 15-minute video posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “I learned a ton from watching Elon up close — the good, the bad and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful,” Crawford said. “Elon has an exceptional talent for tackling hard physics-based problems but products that facilitate human connection and communication require a different type of social-emotional intelligence,” she added. Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company.I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in… pic.twitter.com/bw7CHhk0Xg—

Elon Musk has significantly discounted ad prices on X – the social networking platform previously known as Twitter. For a limited time only, select marketers in the U.S. and UK can save up to 50% off of new bookings until July 31. The platform reportedly claims it is running these promotions to boost reach for marketers during high-traffic periods, such as the Women’s World Cup, in an email seen by the Wall Street Journal. Why we care. Whether you’re a marketer that has taken a step back from X or you’ve never purchased ad space from the platform before, now may be a good time to reconsider and start making it part of your advertising strategy as the financial risk has been significantly reduced. X also still has 450 million daily active users worldwide, so reach potential is huge and could hep brands connect with previously untapped audiences, which could lead to improved ROI. How it works. The discounts are only being offered to select marketers that are running video ads alongside trending topics in X’s ‘Explore’ tab. These ads provide brands with a 24-hour placement at the top of X’s trending topics list. A spokesperson reportedly said: “The goal

If you accept the fact that the press corps is conflicted over Twitter, then you should have no trouble accepting that no matter what Elon Musk might do with the site, the press would be bawling about it because that’s the nature of its relationship with it. It’s no defense of Musk to assert that no matter what he does or doesn’t do with Twitter, he’ll be keelhauled for it. For example, if Musk had purchased Twitter and did nothing but kept the lights on, the complaint would have been, “Musk is letting the site atrophy.” “Where are the new features?” “He’s an absentee owner!” “Why did he even bother buying it?” Even if he had limited his changes to remodeling a few features and tossing new coats of paint on the hallways, traditionalists would have called for the department of historical preservation cops to arrest him. Twitter users by their nature tend toward conservatism. They want things to remain the same so they can recycle their complaints more effectively. But as we’ve seen, Musk’s big moves at the company have brought out the boo-birds, too. Musk has been condemned for charging for Twitter Blue, for restoring the accounts of

Elon Musk and Jack White. Photo: AP Photo/Evan Agostini, Rich Polk/Getty Long gone are the days when Jack White considered Elon Musk "the Henry Ford of the 21st century." Months after slamming the billionaire for allowing hate speech on Twitter since becoming the platform's CEO, the 48-year-old rock star is auctioning off his "personal Tesla model S" in a virtual garage sale on the platform Everything But the House. "Thought to be the first model S in the state of Tennessee, this car long-served as White’s daily driver," reads a description from Ben Blackwell, an archivist for White's Third Man Records, who noted that the musician utilized the car's sound system to mix the Raconteurs’ 2019 album Help Us Stranger. Jack White and Elon Musk. Jason Kempin/Getty, Taylor Hill/Getty Before Musk, 52, took over as Twitter's CEO last year, White used to champion his efforts to create environmentally conscious vehicles. The pair posed for a photo in 2016, when White made the "Henry Ford" claim, and the White Stripes member staged a free concert for Tesla employees in California two years later. "I believe that what Tesla is doing is so important for the future of how we look at

Police interrupted a crew removing the Twitter sign at the San Francisco headquarters of the social media company as it rebrands to "X," leaving "er" and the platform's iconic — now retired — bird logo on the building. Video posted to social media Monday showed a crew using a crane and cherry picker to take down part of the sign, just hours after owner Elon Musk announced the rebranding to "X" to "embody the imperfections in us all that make us unique." "Just biked past Twitter HQ on way home, goodbye to the @Twitter sign?" a passerby tweeted Monday afternoon, along with a video that showed three letters of the sign removed. But the crew did not finish the job, NBC Bay Area reported, saying local police checked to see if they had a permit to close Market Street and block a lane of traffic.A worker removes letters from the Twitter sign on the exterior of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, on Monday.Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesThe "er" in one side of the sign, and the bird logo, remained hanging during the pause in work, the local station reported. It’s unclear if or when the work to remove the sign

One lawyer said there is a “100 per cent” chance Twitter will get sued over changing its name to X. Twitter is already facing a number of lawsuits following Elon Musk’s takeover of the company - and now its rebrand could see it facing even more.The billionaire announced on Sunday that Twitter was being rebranded as X, unveiling a new logo for the social media platform, a stylised black-and-white version of the letter.According to experts, this rebrand could be legally complicated as other tech giants such as Meta and Microsoft already have intellectual property rights to the same letter."There's a 100% chance that Twitter is going to get sued over this by somebody," said trademark attorney Josh Gerben, who said he counted nearly 900 active US trademark registrations that already cover the letter X in a wide range of industries.Owners of trademarks - which protect things like brand names, logos and slogans that identify sources of goods - can sue, claiming infringement, if other branding would cause consumer confusion.This can result in monetary damages being demanded to blocking the use of the brand name itself.Microsoft has owned an X trademark since 2003, which is related to communications about its Xbox

The signature blue bird perched atop social media platform Twitter vanished on Sunday as part of a company rebrand under a new name: X.

Over the weekend, Elon Musk issued the unexpected fiat via late-night/early-morning tweetstorm (x-storm?) that Twitter would now be known as X — complete with a new X logo that has replaced the bonny blue birdie on the service’s website. Per Musk, you won’t be posting tweets on his social platform, you will be throwing up… “x’s.” Musk’s hand-picked new CEO Linda Yaccarino, late of NBCUniversal, tried to explain the situation. “X is the future state of unlimited interactivity — centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking — creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services and opportunities,” she, uh, x’d on Sunday. “Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.” But the only evident changes for Twitter, as of now, are that Musk is insisting everyone call it X, and the introduction of the new X logo (which is “so generic that it appears almost identical to the Unicode character ‘Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X,'” as the Verge observed) — but only on the web interface. Still unchanged are the Twitter name, the term “tweet” and other elements of the overall Twitter brand. The company launched x.com, but that redirects to twitter.com. The button on