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DOVER, Del. (AP) — Newly disclosed text messages between Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal showed that the two men briefly bonded in the spring over their love of engineering — at least until Musk publicly tweeted this message early on April 9: ' Is Twitter dying? ‘”That soured a relationship that appeared to bloom around the time Twitter offered the billionaire Tesla CEO a board seat after learning that he had purchased a huge stake in the company. In the texts, Agrawal questioned Musk about public criticism of Twitter, describing the comments as unhelpful and distracting within the company.“What did you get done this week?” Musk tersely responded less than a minute later. “I’m not joining the board. This is a waste of time. Will make an offer to take Twitter private.”The messages revealed in Delaware court filings ahead of a high-stakes trial offer a window into Twitter’s delicate negotiations with Musk. At the time, he had not only invested heavily in Twitter shares, he was publicly proposing ideas for improving it or starting an alternative.Twitter and Musk are due in court Oct. 17 for a trial that will decide whether the world’s richest man will be forced…

Sahar Khodayari, a 29-year-old Iranian woman, died on Sept 9, 2019, after setting herself on fire in protest at the threat of a prison term for attending a football match—an activity prohibited by Iranian authorities. She had disguised herself as a man to enter the Azadi Stadium in Tehran to watch her favourite football team. Security guards arrested her and an Islamic Revolutionary Court subsequently declared that she must face imprisonment. After leaving the court, she poured petrol over her body and set herself alight. She died a week later in the intensive care unit of Tehran's Motahari Hospital. She became known on social media as #BlueGirl, after the colours of her football team, Esteghlal. Zahra Abtahi and colleagues, from Florida International University, Miami, studied the public reaction to Khodayari's suicide as an example of collective or cultural trauma among Farsi-speaking Twitter users. They reviewed a random sample of over 8000 tweets sent in September, 2019, and hundreds of further posts made a year later. They identified three main themes—calls for greater awareness about her death; advocacy for social justice, through protests against the government; and the processing of public experiences and feelings. In the Journal of Traumatic Stress, they…

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Some brands including Forbes, Dyson, Mazda, PBS Kids, Walt Disney, NBCUniversal, Cole Haan, and Coca-Cola have suspended their advertising on Twitter after their promotions reportedly appeared next to tweets seeking child pornography, Reuters reported. Over 30 advertisers were said to have appeared on the profiles of Twitter accounts that had links to child pornography, Reuters said after reviewing accounts highlighted in new research by cybersecurity firm Ghost Data covering child sex abuse online. The ads appeared alongside tweets that contained keywords associated with "rape" and "teens". According to Reuters, an ad by Cole Haan appeared next to a tweet which said the user was "trading teen/child content". Cole Haan's brand president David Maddocks told Reuters that the brand is horrified and that Twitter is either going to fix it or Cole Haan will "fix it by any means can, which includes not buying Twitter ads". Meanwhile, Forbes' spokesperson told MARKETING-INTERACTIVE: "We were horrified to learn about this and we immediately ceased any paid activity on Twitter. We have no plans to resume our marketing on Twitter this time. They need to fix this mess." At the same time, Twitter's spokesperson told MARKETING-INTERACTIVE that it is working closely with its clients…

While you would think that Disney would be best placed to know their own movies, fans of Encanto recently trolled the studio on their own Twitter account thanks to them seemingly misrepresenting one of their own characters. In a post that celebrated Luisa’s ability to “juggle” everything with unique strength, fans couldn’t help but point out that Encanto’s message when it comes to the character is that it is in fact impossible to show the constant strength that she is expected to for most of the movie. Encanto was one of those movies that really finds its audience after its theatrical run has ended. Having made a mediocre impact on the box office, Encanto seemed to seemed destined to be one of those movies that pad out the Disney catalogue of mega-hits, bit then it arrived on Disney+ and all that changed. The main reason for the movie’s second-wind success came from its songs, led by the number one single We Don’t Talk About Bruno, which dominated the charts like no other Disney movie soundtrack. However, behind the catchy tunes, the movie had a definite message to tell, which was that everyone had their place in the world, and not…

SynopsisDocuments obtained from two data scientists employed by Musk showed they estimated in early July that the number of fake accounts on the platform at 5.3% and 11%, the Twitter lawyer told a Delaware judge.ETtechElon Musk's review of Twitter Inc accounts by his advisers did not back up the billionaire's allegation that the number of fake users was "wildly higher" than 5% as he claimed when he said he was ending the Twitter takeover deal in July, a Twitter lawyer told a judge on Tuesday. Documents obtained from two data scientists employed by Musk showed they estimated in early July that the number of fake accounts on the platform at 5.3% and 11%, the Twitter lawyer told a Delaware judge. "None of these analyses so far as we can tell remotely supported what Mr. Musk told Twitter and told the world in the termination letter," said the lawyer, Bradley Wilson. Musk and his attorney did not immediately respond for a request for comment. Musk and Twitter are locked in a court fight and Twitter is seeking an order directing Musk to close the deal at $54.20 per share. Twitter's stock ended Tuesday trading at $42.09, up 1.4%. They are scheduled…

Scott Olson/Getty Images News A key Delaware hearing has begun Tuesday afternoon in the case of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) v. Musk et al., with no fewer than eight legal issues on the table ahead of a trial that's now less than three weeks away that will establish what happens with Elon Musk's soured $44B deal to buy the company. In the Delaware Court of Chancery, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick is hearing lawyers for both sides argue for some major discovery motions (three from each side); a challenge from Musk's team on confidentiality redactions; and Morgan Stanley's (MS) opposition to a Twitter motion to compel production of documents. (Twitter is seeking the turnover of texts between Musk and Morgan Stanley's James Gorman.) Last Thursday, McCormick said she would allow Musk to amend his counterclaim to bring in facts around Twitter's (TWTR) $7.75M severance payment to whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, though she said she would give hearing to Twitter's counter-request for additional discovery about early contacts between Musk and Zatko - a bid that Musk is resisting. That and other discovery issues are set to come up in Tuesday's hearing, set for slightly more than three hours (and which may not result in an…

(AP) — A Delaware judge is hearing arguments over the exchange of information by lawyers for Twitter and Elon Musk in a lawsuit in which the ...

But bots don’t even need to be useful. “I don’t think bots have to do something worthwhile,” says V Buckenham, founder of Cheap Bots, Done Quick!, a free tool that helps people create automated Twitter accounts. Tens of thousands of bots have been developed using the platform, most of which Buckenham says aren’t useful. “It’s a joyful thing or a creative thing,” they say. “It’s a form of creative expression, whether that be something lots of people are following, or something that just amuses you.”Some bots blur the boundary between utility and diversion. Journalist Karen K. Ho began posting reminders for people to put down their phones and stop doomscrolling through Twitter at the start of the pandemic. “I had developed quite a following during the pandemic because—understandably—many people were doomscrolling for information on how to deal with the coronavirus pandemic,” she says. She was doing so manually, typing out the missives and hitting send, until she began to find it tiring to do so—particularly late at night, when people were most likely to aimlessly flick through Twitter.So she built a bot to do the job for her. @doomscroll_bot now tweets every hour, reminding people to log off, alongside sitting…

... was based in Qatar and was a spiritual leader for the Muslim Brotherhood, died on Monday, according to a post on his official Twitter account.