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Elon Musk made fun of a disabled ex-Twitter employee after he questioned why he was laid off. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young ...

Image caption, Halli ThorleifssonBy James ClaytonNorth America technology reporterTwitter chief executive Elon Musk has apologised over an exchange he had on the platform with an employee.It came after worker Halli Thorleifsson tweeted to Mr Musk saying: "Your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am employed or not".Mr Musk responded by asking: "What work have you been doing?"After a series of follow up questions and answers Mr Thorleifsson said he received an email confirming that he had been fired.Mr Musk followed that Twitter conversation with a tweet on Tuesday describing Mr Thorleifsson as "the worst" before deleting it.But in an apparent change of heart, Mr Musk took to the platform a few hours later to apologise - and appeared to offer Mr Thorleifsson his job back."I would like to apologise to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful.""He is considering remaining at Twitter," he added.Image caption, Elon Musk's deleted tweetOn Monday, Mr Thorleifsson told the BBC exclusively that he could not get an answer from Twitter's human resources department on whether or not he had been sacked. "My

Cloud News Mark Haranas March 06, 2023, 12:52 PM EST Reports of Twitter outages were spiking this afternoon. Less than an hour later, Twitter said the platform ‘should now be working as normal.’ Twitter outages spiked Monday due to an “internal change,” according the social media giant, with tens-of-thousands of users reporting Twitter outages from Seattle to Boston. “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now,” said Twitter’s Support on the social media platform at 12:19 p.m. ET today. “We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.” There were over 8,300 reports of Twitter outages at 12:07 p.m. ET alone today, according to Downdetector. Several of the largest cities in the U.S. were hot spots for outages this afternoon including Seattle, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City and Boston. Some Twitter users experienced issues trying to log in as well as when attempting to share tweets. Reported Twitter outages began spiking around 11:30amET today across the country. “We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed,” said Twitter on its Twitter Support page. Some parts of Twitter may not be

Over the past 11 months, thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts – perhaps hundreds of thousands of them – have been created to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump. Besides posting adoring words about the former United States president, the fake accounts have ridiculed Trump’s critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador who is challenging her one-time boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that the Florida governor could not beat Trump but would be a great running mate. As Republican voters size up their candidates for 2024, whoever created the bot network is seeking to put a thumb on the scale, using online manipulation techniques pioneered by the Kremlin to sway the Twitter conversation about candidates while exploiting the digital platform’s algorithms to maximize their reach. The sprawling bot network was uncovered by researchers at Cyabra, an Israeli tech firm that shared its findings with The Associated Press. While the identity of those behind the network of fake accounts is unknown, Cyabra’s analysts determined that it was likely created within the US. To identify a bot, researchers will

Toxic trolls 'left to thrive on Twitter under Elon Musk': Hateful and vile content - including disinformation and child sexual exploitation - remains a huge problem on social media app, insiders claim Hateful and toxic content is thriving as a result of mass job cuts, insiders said There is a spike in accounts following misogynistic and abusive profilesBy Jim Norton Published: 19:32 EST, 5 March 2023 | Updated: 19:40 EST, 5 March 2023 Twitter is no longer able to protect users from trolling, disinformation, and child sexual exploitation, company insiders have claimed.Hateful and toxic content is thriving as a result of mass job cuts and changes made under the platform's billionaire new owner Elon Musk, they said.The claims appear to be backed up by academic research showing a spike in accounts following misogynistic and abusive profiles and an increase in harassment.The investigation by BBC Panorama reveals concerns that child sexual exploitation is on the rise on Twitter, while there are fewer resources to report suspected offenders to police.Rape survivors have reportedly been targeted by accounts that have become more active since the takeover, with evidence they have been reinstated or newly created. Twitter is no longer able to protect users from trolling

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the micro-blogging platform will "soon" extend "longform tweets" to 10,000 characters. When YouTuberA@ThePrimeagen, who posts videos related to coding, asked Musk, "the dev community and I were wondering if you could add code blocks to tweets?" Musk replied: "As an attachment? How many chars? We are extending longform tweets to 10k soon." Several users expressed their thoughts on Twitter CEO's post. While one user said, "You're a crazy man lmao," another commented, "!! Wow! That's really good news. Actual microblogging!" Last month, the company had announced that Blue subscribers in the US can post long tweets of up to 4,000 characters on the platform. Only Blue subscribers can post longer tweets, but non-subscribers can read, reply, retweet and quote tweet to them. Earlier, tweets were limited to only 280 characters, which still applies to non-subscribers. Meanwhile, Musk had said that the micro-blogging platform is "spinning up subscriptions" so that users can "charge" their followers for specific content.(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

Jon Jones returned from a more than three-year layoff at UFC 285 on Saturday and further solidified his greatness in the sport by claiming the vacant heavyweight title against Ciryl Gane.Jones (27-1 MMA, 21-1 UFC), a former longtime light heavyweight titleholder, was successful in his long-awaited move up a division when he earned a first-round submission victory over Gane (11-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) in the pay-per-view headliner at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.With the win, “Bones” became the eighth fighter in UFC history to win titles in two divisions, and arguably locked up his place as the best in MMA history.Check below for the top Twitter reactions to Jones’ title-winning performance against Gane at UFC 285.* * * *MMA JunkieNick KalikasUFCUFCFrancis NgannouMarc RaimondiJed I. GoodmanNolan KingAlexander VolkanovskiUFCTeddy AtlasMarlon VeraUFCMike BohnBelal MuhammadMarc RaimodiSodiq YusuffRafael dos AnjosKenny FlorianTeddy AtlasDanny SeguraUFCMegan AndersonMMA JunkieUFCChris CurtisUFCStory originally appeared on MMA Junkie

Jon Jones is back, and he’s back with a vengeance. There were big questions on which Jon Jones we’d see at UFC 285: the beast who dominated the light heavyweight division for years, or the lackadaisical “Bones” who plodded through his last three decision wins. The Jones we saw on Saturday night in Las Vegas was re-energized and on a mission: he took Ciryl Gane down with ease and submitted him just two minutes into their much-hyped heavyweight title fight. Gane didn’t do much other than kick Jones in the groin. After that he was quickly grounded and pressed up against the cage. Jones pushed his opponent into the fence and mounted him. He cinched up a guillotine choke and tapped “Bon Gamin.” It was extremely impressive ... and almost anti-climactic. The general response from the Twitter community (including UFC fighters watching with interest) was that things ended before they even got started. That didn’t stop them from proclaiming Jones the G.O.A.T. once more. Take a look at all the discourse from Jones’ quick win over Ciryl Gane. Ohhhh shitttt. He had a flag!! All ufc fighters knows what im talking about lmfao— Brendan Allen (@BrendanAllenMMA) March 5, 2023 Jon

 Elon Musk twitter account is seen through Twitter logo in this illustration taken, April 25, 2022. — ReutersTwitter reported a drop of about 40% year-over-year in both revenue and adjusted earnings for the month of December, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter.The report comes after several advertisers slashed their spending on the social-media platform after Elon Musk took charge of the company on October 27, resulting in a 71% drop in advertising spend on Twitter during December, data from advertising research firm — Standard Media Index showed.Twitter did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.Musk, who warned in November about the possibility of the Twitter going bankrupt, said in December that the company was on track to be "roughly cash flow break-even" in 2023.Twitter made its first interest payment in January on a loan that banks provided to help finance billionaire Musk's purchase of the social media company last year.Twitter lays off 10% of current workforceLast week, Twitter laid off at least 200 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, the New York Times reported in its latest round of job cuts since Musk's takeover.The layoffs impacted product managers, data scientists and

SynopsisElon Musk has been trying hard to increase Twitter’s revenue and launched the paid subscription of Twitter Blue after an initial delay. However, it has not found many takers. ReutersThe cut in social media spending resulted in a 71% drop in advertising spend on Twitter during DecemberAs advertisers continue to move away from Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover in October last year, the microblogging platform reported a drop in revenue and adjusted earnings for December, The Wall Street Journal reported citing sources.Twitter reported a 40% year-on-year decline in revenue and adjusted earnings for December in an investor update. Last year, following the takeover, Musk highlighted the issues plaguing the financial health of the world’s largest microblogging platform.In addition, Musk has $13 billion in debt that he borrowed to finance Twitter’s purchase, totalling annual interest payments of about $1 billion. Recently, Musk made the first interest payment to a group of banks that lent him $13 billion.Musk has been trying hard to increase Twitter’s revenue and launched the paid subscription of Twitter Blue after an initial delay. However, it has not found many takers. Discover the stories of your interestET reported on February 10 that Twitter users in India — a