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by Tony Crumpton - Assoc. Editor - Sunday, December 5, 2021, 9:05 PM Some things don't last forever. Elite defensive coordinator Brent Venables is leaving Clemson to become the new head coach at Oklahoma. The Oklahoma private plane picked him up on Sunday night and there will likely be a Monday press conference to officially announce his reunion with the Sooners. Check out some of the reactions on Twitter from the big hire by the Sooners: NO ONE BETTER. . .#LEGEND https://t.co/f9JkmCW07R— ?? DJ Uiagalelei ?? (@DJUiagalelei) December 6, 2021 So happy for coach. He deserves it more than anyone. Hardest working man I have ever known. Y'all take care of him!! @OU_Football— Xavier Thomas (@atxlete) December 6, 2021 Much love Coach V ???? @CoachVenables— KJ Henry (@thekjhenry) December 6, 2021 Yall better party bout this one, hes that dude ?? https://t.co/6NgU4jPoBE— KJ Henry (@thekjhenry) December 6, 2021 would love for @CoachVenables to stay here forever because of who he is, but you gotta be so happy for this man and his family. nobody more deserving! https://t.co/LTAwoG5EXG— ???????????? ?????????????? (@D_Rench_) December 6, 2021 Nothing but love for you Coach ! https://t.co/7pA27gDvfn— TGroovy???? (@_TreWilliams) December 6, 2021 ??— Joe Castiglione (@soonerad)…

Alec Baldwin's main Twitter account has been deleted days after his first sit-down interview since the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.Baldwin, 63, had two verified Twitter accounts, one of which he was particularly active on. It is that account, @AlecBaldwin, which has been shut down and deleted from the social media platform.In November, the account switched its settings to 'private', meaning the only those users allowed to follow the account were able to see any new tweets or postings, but that account has now disappeared entirely. A second account, @AlecBaldwln____, still appeared to be active on Monday although the most recent tweet was from October 19th with any prior content being from June. In November, Baldwin’s Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation account set its account to private too. By Monday morning, that account, along with Hilaria's personal Twitter accounted was also deleted. Hilaria has though kept her gushing Instagram page, where she frequently posts videos of her children and photos of herself and Alec, active. At present, it is not known what prompted the actor and his wife to delete their although the timing coincides perfectly with last week's sit down TV interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos in which Baldwin gave his version of what happened…

A Fine Gael TD has claimed victory online after a bizarre online sparring match with outspoken MMA fighter Conor McGregor. he controversial fighter from Crumlin took to Twitter to vent his views on Covid-19 vaccines and his belief that Ireland should leave the EU last night.  He also posted a photo of Fine Gael spokesperson on European Affairs Neale Richmond cheering at a football match at the Aviva stadium, implying that the politician was under the influence of ecstasy. “Were you on E in the Aviva last week?” McGregor posted on his official Twitter account @TheNotoriousMMA. He added; “Happy, sweaty sap. Mandate vaccine is coming per EU. But which one even? 1st? 2nd? Boost? Omicron? And the message to be delivered by the same people will just do as they are told.” But the TD shot back with a barb of his own, tweeting: “Here champ. It’s Neale,” referring to McGregor’s misspelling of his name.  "But when you’ve picked up that missing ‘e’ that was right in front of you, you’ll see that EU membership has been good for Ireland & the vaccines have ensured lots of Irish people haven’t died when you were off on some yacht in the Med.” But Richmond’s coup…

| India's all-round bowling show limited New Zealand to 62 in their first innings in Mumbai| Blackcaps TwitterAfter Ajaz Patel bagged a record 10-wicket haul in India’s first innings effort of 325 in the ongoing second India-New Zealand Test in Mumbai, the hosts bundled out Blackcaps for a paltry 62 to take a massive 263-run lead. It was the lowest ever Test innings total for any team against India. Responding to India’s first-innings score of 325, New Zealand were dented quite early by Mohammed Siraj, who sent back Will Young and Daryl Mitchell in the fourth over of the innings. He castled Ross Taylor with a peach off the very first ball of his next over, to leave the Blackcaps at 17/3.Spinners Ravichandran Ashwin (4/8), Axar Patel (2/14), and Jayant Yadav (1/13) then ran through the middle and lower order, to bundle the visitors out for 62. It was the lowest ever Test innings total for any team against India, the previous being South Africa’s 79 all-out in Nagpur in 2015. Overall, it was New Zealand’s sixth-lowest total in Test cricket.Unplayable delivery!Great awareness! pic.twitter.com/CMvcmfo67r — Lodu_Lalit (@LoduLal02410635) December 4, 2021Taylor's reaction tells you all! pic.twitter.com/g8xhN16KLP — Lodu_Lalit (@LoduLal02410635) December 4, 2021What was…

New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has begun restructuring the company and two senior executives have already stepped down as part of the reorganisation plan. According to a report in The Washington Post citing an internal email, Twitter's Chief Design Officer Dantley Davis, who joined the company in 2019, and Head of Engineering Michael Montano, who joined in 2011, have quit. "Dantley's departure is singularly focused around shifting our organisational model around a structure that has one lead manager supporting a key company objective," a Twitter spokesperson was quoted as saying in media reports late on Friday. "We don't have further details to share on these changes out of respect for the individuals involved," the spokesperson added. In an email Agrawal had written that the company has recently updated its strategy to hit ambitious goals, "and I believe that strategy to be bold and right". "But our critical challenge is how we work to execute against it and deliver results -- that's how we'll make Twitter the best it can be for our customers, shareholders and each of you." He added. According to Twitter, "Parag is focused on operational excellence and setting Twitter up to hit its goals and these changes…

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The Ford F-150 Lightning is the most researched electric pickup truck on Twitter, much more than the GMC Hummer EV, Rivian R1T and Tesla Cybertruck. That’s according to geotagged Twitter data from the last three months tracking over 130,000 tweets, hashtags, and direct keyword electric phrases about upcoming electric truck models. Tracked tweets included "Ford F-150 Lightning," "Rivian R1T," "Hummer EV," "Cybertruck," #cybertruck, #R1T, #HummerEV, and many more of the same. Interest for other models was also tracked, such as the Bollinger B2, Lordstown Endurance, and Atlix XT, but none of those managed to beat the four models shown on the map: the Ford F-150 Lightning, GMC Hummer EV, Rivian R1T, and Tesla Cybertruck. As you can see from the map put together by auto site PartCatalog using trends software with direct access to geotagged Twitter data, the Ford F-150 Lightning is by far the most researched electric pickup on Twitter, ranking first in 28 states. The GMC Hummer EV takes second place by dominating in 10 states, followed by the Rivian R1T with 8 states, and the Tesla Cybertruck with only 4 states. It’s interesting to note that Ford takes the middle of the country, which is traditional pickup…

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Square Inc., the financial-services company co-founded and led by former Twitter Inc. chief Jack Dorsey, is changing its corporate name to Block Inc. The change will be effective later this month, the company said Wednesday. Its ticker symbol will remain SQ.GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HEREThe move comes just days after  Mr. Dorsey resigned as Twitter’s chief executive. He was serving as CEO of both companies. Square said the new name encompasses its various businesses better than the current name, which is mostly associated with its merchant-payment services. However, the new name also happens to align with Mr. Dorsey’s interest in cryptocurrencies and the technology behind them, called blockchain.TWITTER CEO JACK DORSEY TO STEP DOWN Mr. Dorsey has emerged as one of the highest-profile backers of bitcoin, and to an extent has used Square as a vehicle for that. "I don’t think there’s anything more important in my lifetime to work on," Mr. Dorsey said at a bitcoin conference earlier this year.The company holds about $220 million of bitcoin in its corporate treasury. Its CashApp business allows users to buy and sell bitcoin. In August, the company started a new unit aimed at building a blockchain-based exchange…