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Both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram lead Adam Mosseri have been adamant they were not simply copying Twitter wholesale. And yet, that’s exactly what they seem to be doing as the company’s latest move has been to limit the number of posts users can see on the Instagram-based app, just as Elon Musk’s Twitter did a few weeks ago.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetMosseri claimed in a Threads post late on Monday that “Spam attacks have picked up,” requiring new rate limit changes. While the Instagram boss didn’t describe precisely what those post view limits were, he mentioned that some actual human users could get caught up in the crossfire.Some Threads users responded to Mosseri with screenshots of spam posts flooding the Instagram head’s replies. Gizmodo reached out to Meta for more details on what the rate limits entail, but the company declined to offer any more beyond the Instagram head’s post.You only have to look back to the first days of July when Twitter owner Musk announced that the platform would be limiting the number of tweets users could see per day, citing “system manipulation” and “extreme levels of data scraping.” After Mosseri made his announcement, Musk tweeted

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent a letter urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Tesla and its board of directors over possible “conflicts of interest, misappropriation of corporate assets, and other negative impacts to Tesla shareholders” related to CEO Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.In the letter sent to SEC Chair Gary Gensler on Monday, Warren wrote that the Tesla board’s “apparent lack of independence” from Musk, combined with “inaction and incomplete disclosures, raise questions about possible violations of securities laws and exchange rules which fall under SEC’s jurisdiction.”The nine-page letter, first obtained by CNBC, reiterates concerns Warren had raised in earlier correspondence to Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm in December 2022, after Musk led a $44 billion buyout of Twitter. The take-private deal included $13 billion in debt, and Musk reportedly sold billions of dollars worth of his Tesla shares to finance the transaction.A spokesperson for the SEC’s Office of Public Affairs said Gensler “will respond to Members of Congress directly.”Musk appointed himself CEO of Twitter after the deal closed and quickly made sweeping changes to the social network, while cutting more than three-quarters of the staff at the company and authorizing teams of employees from Tesla and SpaceX to assist him there.Citing CNBC’s reporting on the matter, Warren wrote

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"They literally ghosted us," one former Twitter Africa employee saidFormer staff of Twitter Africe who were fired claim that the company "ghosted" them. The former workers said that they have not received their promised severance pay, CNN reported on Monday.Billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022 and began a series of layoffs which affected thousands of workers. In November, the company laid off almost all of its staff in Ghana, its only African location, days after its physical office opened following a year of remote working, the media outlet reported.Terminated workers from Twitter's office in Accra, Ghana, have still not received severance pay despite being laid off seven months ago. According to CNN, the former employees accepted Twitter's offer to pay them three months' worth of severance, the cost of repatriating foreign staff and legal expenses incurred during negotiations with the company, but they have not received the money or any further communication."They literally ghosted us," one former Twitter Africa employee told CNN."Although Twitter has eventually settled former staff in other locations, Africa staff have still been left in the lurch despite us eventually agreeing to specific negotiated terms."Adding that they agreed to the severance package without benefits, even

Animation by @eoinryanart for POLITICO Rosie Gray is a journalist who has written for BuzzFeed News, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and other publications. In 2018, Costin Alamariu disappeared. There was a flurry of activity in October, when Alamariu, a Romanian-American writer with a Ph.D. from Yale, published an article: “Jair Bolsonaro And The Populist Crisis in Brazil” in Palladium Magazine, an online journal that was associated with the anti-democracy, pro-authoritarian “neo-reaction” movement. Alamariu announced on Twitter he was restarting his account — though it’s unclear when or if he posted on the account previously, as no earlier posts are visible — and tagged far-right figures like Steve Sailer and Ann Coulter. “hi Steve I closed my account before but reopened to post some new articles. Hope you follow back! You might be interested in this one about Brazil,” he wrote to Sailer. But on Oct. 30, he suddenly stopped tweeting. He hasn’t posted since then from that account. He hasn’t published any work since then, nor has he held a job with any public profile. As far as the general public is concerned, Alamariu no longer exists. But as Alamariu was disappearing, another figure looking to make a

Twitter is still losing money, Elon Musk told a user this weekend.Responding to a tweeter who offered financial advice, Musk wrote on Saturday, “We’re still negative cash flow, due to (about a) 50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load.”“Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else,” he added.Twitter logos hang outside the company's offices in San Francisco, in December. (Jeff Chiu/AP)Since acquiring Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, Musk has sought to reassure advertisers concerned by changes at the company, including the departure of top executives and shifts in content moderation.Musk has reinstated some high-profile users who were previously banned, and in April, he expressed optimism that most advertisers had returned and that Twitter could achieve positive cash flow in the second quarter.Additionally, Musk appointed Linda Yaccarino, a former NBCUniversal executive experienced in the advertising industry, as the new CEO of Twitter.But some recent changes — such as limits on the number of tweets users can view per day — have dissatisfied some users, leading to complaints of being locked out of the platform.Elon Musk (Michel Euler/AP)Musk defended these restrictions, explaining that they were necessary to prevent unauthorized scraping of Twitter data.Twitter

The Industry Advertisers are already clamoring to spend big on Meta’s new social network. Photo illustration by Slate. Images via choness/iStock/Getty Images Plus and Meta. Meta hasn’t opened Threads to ads yet, but it might not be able to resist for long. Advertisers are eager to spend serious money there and are already planning for the eventuality, with a good number expecting the opportunity to arrive later this year. The Twitter clone has everything ad buyers look for in a partner: a large audience, public interest, and potential access to Meta’s industry-leading advertising tools. And as soon as Mark Zuckerberg welcomes them, they won’t waste a minute. “We’re going to start immediately for our clients, as soon as advertisements are available on Threads,” said Ahmet Yavuz, CEO of digital marketing firm ASY Digital. “Everything is ready from our side.” For Yavuz and his peers, there’s serious appeal in having another app inside Meta’s ad manager. And that could be trouble for Twitter, which saw advertisers flee following Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform last year, and has since strained to woo them back. Meta’s ad platform centralizes buying across its properties—including Instagram and Facebook—and is extremely effective, using advanced targeting and optimization

Elon Musk said Twitter's cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load. "Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else," Musk said in a tweet early on Saturday. After Musk acquired Twitter in October, the social media firm faced months of chaos, including layoffs of thousands of employees, criticism over lax content moderation, and an exodus of many advertisers who did not want their ads appearing next to inappropriate content. Musk's hiring of Linda Yaccarino, former ad chief at Comcast's NBCUniversal as CEO, signaled that ad sales remained a priority for Twitter even as it works to increase subscription revenue. Yaccarino started working at Twitter in early June. On Thursday, Twitter said that select content creators will be eligible to get a part of the ad revenue the company earns in an attempt to draw more content creators to the site.Stay on top of technology and startup news that matters. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for the latest and must-read tech news, delivered straight to your inbox.

Skip to main content A hearing to review FTC Chair Lina Khan's leadership turned into a debate over the commission's role overseeing Twitter's privacy practices. Lina Khan, nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks at a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on April 21, 2021. (Photo by Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images) Republicans sparred with Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan over the agency’s investigation into Twitter’s data and privacy protection practices in an oversight hearing on Thursday. The hearing meant to examine GOP allegations of FTC “mismanagement” under Khan came just after Twitter on Thursday asked a federal court to terminate the consent order giving the commission oversight of its privacy practices. In the filing, lawyers for Twitter alleged the agency was “imposing new and burdensome demands and treating the Consent Order as a license for invasive scrutiny of any move X Corp. makes, no matter how remote from the data privacy and security concerns.” Elon Musk changed the legal name of Twitter to X. Corp. In his opening remarks, House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, cited work by his Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government alleging targeted harassment

Twitter announced thousands of dollars in ad revenue payouts made to users due to a program that allows them to benefit from their posts, sparking celebrations and cheers for Elon Musk, who took over the platform in October.Users on Thursday afternoon said they received notifications from Twitter that they received payouts as their share of the platform's ad revenue in replies to the content they created or posted. The company said that the highest payout—$37,000—was made to Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus, known on Twitter as Shibetoshi Nakamoto.Twitter announced on Thursday that it's sharing a portion of its ad revenue generated from creators' reply threads to help users "benefit" from their posts. The payouts are received via the Stripe account used to register for Creator Subscriptions."So far many creators are pleased with the size of the payouts and are saying Twitter's creator programme is more generous than they expected. This is shaping up to be a win for keeping creators happy with and engaged on Twitter," the social media company said.The payouts come shortly after social media giant Meta launched Threads, a new platform that, some experts told Newsweek, has the potential to become Twitter's next top rival as it capitalizes