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Later that day Musk, now also Twitter's CEO, tweeted "investor support is confirmed". The plaintiffs claimed that was a lie.

Fans on Twitter exploded as Lionel Messi scored the winner to complete a come-from-behind 2-1 win for Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) against Toulouse on Saturday, February 4. With Neymar and Kylian Mbappe absent from the team due to injuries, the onus was on Messi to guide his team to victory. The Parisians, however, didn't get off to an ideal start. Branco van den Boomen found the back of the net in the 20th minute of the game to give the visitors the lead at the Parc des Princes. Achraf Hakimi restored parity for Christophe Galtier's team with his strike in the 38th minute of the match. The teams headed down the tunnel for the half-time break with the score being level at 1-1. Messi gave his side the lead in the 58th minute of the match. Hakimi was the creator-in-chief this time around with his mazy run. Messi took the ball from the former Real Madrid man and fired his effort past Maxime Dupe from outside the area. The goal marked Messi's 15th across competitions this season and 10th in Ligue 1. The Parisians, meanwhile, extended their lead over Marseille at the top of the Ligue 1 table to eight points.

Twitter is refusing to arbitrate legal claims by hundreds of ex-employees who cannot produce copies of employment contracts they signed, after the company successfully moved to have their class action claims sent to arbitration, according to a court filing. Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer for more than 1,000 people who were laid off or fired by Twitter last year, said she could be forced to bring hundreds of claims into court just to have Twitter produce copies of the agreements when it moves to send them to arbitration. Liss-Riordan and Twitter made a joint filing in San Francisco federal court on Thursday to update the court ahead of a hearing scheduled for Feb 9. The workers claim Twitter refused to pay promised severance or give them the advance notice of mass layoffs required by law, which the company denies. A federal judge last month said several of the class action plaintiffs were required to arbitrate their claims. Others did not sign arbitration agreements, so the case has remained in court. In an interview on Friday, Liss-Riordan said Twitter is likely trying to delay the arbitration cases in hopes that some workers drop their claims. “This is just a stupid game that

FILE – A sign at Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Twitter CEO Elon Musk reiterated his plan to remove the social media platform’s “legacy” verification in a “few months” on Friday, calling the system “deeply corrupted.”  “Twitter’s legacy Blue Verified is unfortunately deeply corrupted, so will sunset in a few months,” Musk tweeted in response to a question from a user about accounts that previously had verification and then subscribe for thew newer Twitter Blue verification.  Musk said in November that he would remove blue checkmarks from previously verified accounts that did not pay $8 per month for his Twitter Blue in “a few months.”  The Tesla CEO rolled out his new Twitter verification system soon after he acquired the company in October.  The system had some struggles upon its launch as a flood of Twitter users who paid for the subscription posed as famous people, causing confusion. Musk paused the Twitter Blue system for a couple weeks to make adjustments to try to avoid the issue.  But The Washington Post reported last month that Twitter still did not appear to be verifying accounts after a reporter successfully posed as

Elon Musk locked his Twitter account this week, having convinced himself that something was awry within the website’s all-powerful algorithm. “Made my account private until tomorrow morning to test whether you can see my private tweets more than my public ones,” Musk wrote just after midnight US eastern time on Feb. 1.It’s possible that Musk, once hailed as a Silicon Valley luminary for his work, has to try highly publicized experiments like this in order to divine what ghosts are in the machine that he just spent a large fraction of his wealth acquiring. But if you don’t buy that idea, then you might be onto something.The decision to run this particular experiment appears to have been inspired by chatter among a band of right-wing Twitter influencers with whom Musk frequently pals around on the website he bought for $44 billion. It’s another leg of his crusade against Twitter, a mission that began long before he took over the company. Musk is still tilting at windmills, and you’d be wrong to assume that he’ll stop just because he himself now controls those very windmills.Elon Musk needs an enemy to rage againstThe Elon Musk playbook is remarkably similar to the one

Elon Musk tweet displayed on a phone screen and Twitter logo displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 21, 2022Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesTwitter will start charging developers to get access to its API, a vital tool that powers popular services like TweetDelete and bots that send users prompts on data in real time.The microblogging site, which was taken over by Elon Musk last October, said that from Feb. 9 it would "no longer support free access to the Twitter API."Third-party services using the Twitter API will have to use its basic paid tier instead, the company said."Over the years, hundreds of millions of people have sent over a trillion Tweets, with billions more every week," an official Twitter account tweeted late Wednesday."Twitter data are among the world's most powerful data sets. We're committed to enabling fast & comprehensive access so you can continue to build with us."Musk responded with a tweet, saying "free API is being abused right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There's no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things. Just ~$100/month for

Image: Bethany Clarke (Getty Images)Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced he was making his Twitter account private early on Wednesday to determine the level of engagement his tweets received. Musk made the decision after Ian Miles Cheong, a right-wing commentator and regular rabble rouser tweeted that he had set his account to private on Tuesday and found that he received more likes and views on his posts while in private mode. He said the results showed that the same tweet received more engagement when his account was private than the same tweet did when it was set to public.Cheong posted the results of his experience showing that a tweet he posted while public received 11k views while the same tweet garnered 28.3k views while the account was private. Musk responded to Cheong’s post, telling him that the results are “extremely concerning” and announced he would conduct his own experiment. Musk wrote in a Twitter post, “Made my account private until tomorrow morning to test whether you see my private tweets more than my public ones.” The change means only Musk’s 127 million followers are able to see his posts.Only followers of private Twitter accounts can view the user’s tweets or will need

U.S. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, speaks at a media event at the National Press Club on January 30, 2023 in Washington, DC.Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesHouse Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., effusively praised Twitter owner Elon Musk on Wednesday, saying Musk was "being transparent" about the tech platform."God bless Elon Musk," Comer said in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk Box." He called the controversial tycoon "a great American."Comer's comments came just days after Musk visited Washington and met for over an hour with House Republican leaders, a group that included Comer.They also came just a week before Comer is set to chair the first big congressional hearing on Twitter since Musk bought the company in October and since Republicans took control of the House.On Feb. 8, the House Oversight Committee will hear from three former Twitter executives about what Comer called "the role the government played in suppressing the Biden laptop story."Notably, Comer did not say he would be investigating Twitter's role in the alleged suppression.Musk's charm offensive on Capitol Hill appears to have been limited to Republicans and White House officials.Musk initially claimed that he "met with" Democratic House Minority

The Damus app is powered by Nostr, which uses decentralized relays to distribute end-to-end encrypted messages, and has a powerful backer in Jack Dorsey. 987 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTDamus, a so-called “Twitter killer” built on a decentralized network, has been approved on the Apple App Store.The Damus team confirmed the approval to its 11,500 Twitter followers on Jan. 31, following what it claims were at least three rejections from the Big Tech player.Shortly after, Twitter co-founder and Nostr contributor Jack Dorsey shared the news with his 6.5 million followers, with the entrepreneur labeling it as a “milestone” moment for open-source protocols:a milestone for open protocols...#nostr is now officially on the Apple App Store with @damusapp:https://t.co/GQmvPE5nfX— jack (@jack) January 31, 2023 The app dubs itself the “social network you control” and is a messaging service built on Nostr — a decentralized network enabling encrypted end-to-end private messaging, among other things. It plans to become a social media platform with uncensored content. It also has built-in payments through the Bitcoin (BTC) layer-2 Lightning Network, according to a Jan. 27 post from Protos.No servers run the network. Instead, Nostr utilizes decentralized relays

click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons / Bigcats lair Twitter users are giving former Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo mixed reviews as an announcer. Twitter are accusing CBS broadcaster and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo of nearly letting a racial slur fly during Sunday's AFC Championship game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Kansas City Chiefs. The sports Twittersphere latched onto Romo's discussion of a first-down play in which Chiefs rookie running back Isiah Pacheco evaded three Bengals defensive players, all of whom are Black.Tony Romo almost saying the N word on national television is absolutely insane pic.twitter.com/iSBXracLLA— Rick (@AnothrAtName) January 30, 2023 “The extra yards. The tough yards. The finish on the play," Romo effused about the Pacheco's run. "Right there you got three ni– ... talked about this. The best tackling team. They don’t miss tackles. And that could be the difference.” Soon after, sports fans on Twitter asked others if they also heard what some interpreted as something that could have become the announcer gaffe of the century. Even former NFL superstar and three-time Super Bowl champion Shannon Sharpe weighed in. "It's . You get hyped and forget sometimes where you are," Sharpe tweeted.It’s 📺. You get hyped and