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Jack Dorsey cited the "weird as hell" bitcoin community as the reason for his support of the digital currency. The Twitter CEO chatted with Elon Musk Wednesday about all things bitcoin-related. Dorsey said bitcoin's "always evolving" network reminds him of the internet's early days. Loading Something is loading. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said part of what drives his passion for bitcoin is its community, which he described as being "weird as hell."Dorsey chatted everything related to the digital asset in a virtual bitcoin conference with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood, and Square Crypto Lead Steve Lee on Wednesday.He cited the bitcoin network as his inspiration for supporting the currency."It's deeply principled, it's weird as hell, it's always evolving," Dorsey said, adding that its community reminds him of the early days of the internet when he was a kid. "It's the only reason that I have a career — because I learned so much from people like who are building bitcoin today," Dorsey said.Dorsey hopes bitcoin can create "world peace" in an environment driven by "too many monopolies of violence.""It's going to be long-term, but my hope is definitely peace," he said.Dorsey has become an influencer for…

Photo: Lionel Bonaventure (Getty Images)A troll conspiracy to capture a generic Twitter handle has resulted in death, Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN has reported. According to the station, an underage extortionist going after the “@Tennessee” Twitter account placed a false 9-11 report (“swatting”) of a shooting at the home of 60-year-old handle owner Mark Herring. When confronted by a police force shouting to put his hands down, Herring suffered a heart attack and died.Herring’s family members told the station that, leading up to the tragedy on April 27th, 2020, pizza deliveries for Herring mysteriously arrived at their homes—a common troll to make the recipient pay for pizza they hadn’t ordered. On the morning of his death, they later learned, Herring had received a call demanding that he sell his handle and refused.In May 2020, a federal grand jury charged Tennessee resident Shane Sonderman, a minor at the time of Herring’s death, with a litany of threats and coordinated harassment campaigns against Herring and five other people over valuable handles. The maximum for all charges are fines of up to $1 million and 35 years in prison.According to the brief summary in the indictment, Sonderman and co-conspirators set out to loot “simple,…

Twitter announced today it will begin testing a new set of features for TweetDeck, the company’s often-ignored social media dashboard aimed at Twitter’s power users, which Twitter may soon turn into a new subscription service. According to a post from Twitter Product Lead Kayvon Beykpour, the revamped version of the Twitter client will include a full tweet composer, new advanced search features, new column types and a new way to group columns into clean workspaces. We’re testing new features in TweetDeck for a small group in the U.S., Canada and Australia. These include a full Tweet Composer, new advanced search features, new column types, and a new way to group columns into clean workspaces. https://t.co/7bTiwBPmea — Kayvon Beykpour (@kayvz) July 20, 2021 Beykpour earlier this year had teased Twitter’s plan to introduce an overhauled version of TweetDeck. In an interview with The Verge, he admitted that Twitter hadn’t “given TweetDeck a lot of love recently,” but said that would soon change with a revamp, which he then described as a “pretty big overhaul from the ground up.” The update appears to be making good on that promise with a handful of notable changes. For example, Twitter tells TechCrunch the new…

Shaun King, Senior Justice Writer for the New York Daily News, speaks at Penn State Berks as part of their Arts and Lecture Series Wednesday evening November 15, 2017. King is a prominent voice in the Black Lives Matter movement. Photo by Ben HastySource: MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images / GettyActivist and journalist Shaun King has decided to take a break from social media. Before deactivating his accounts, he said he was taking a step back from social media so he could spend time with his family. Once Twitter was deactivated and his Instagram was private, Black Twitter celebrated.King is known for using Twitter to bring light to racial injustices that happen throughout the country. Once he sees a video of a Black person being hurt or discriminated against, he shares a social media post and calls his followers to help raise awareness about the culprits in the clips. He also uses social media as a platform for financial campaigns for the families of those who have lost loved ones due to police brutality.Even though he seems to have good intentions, he isn’t a beloved activist amongst the Black community. He clashes with people on social media due to…

Law360 (July 19, 2021, 5:43 PM EDT) -- Twitter lambasted a trial judge's denial of its lawsuit seeking to block Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's ​​probe into the tech giant's moderation practices, telling the Ninth Circuit that it should revive the case because Paxton is unlawfully retaliating against the company for removing former President Donald Trump from the platform.Twitter made this argument Friday in an appeal of U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney's May order, which granted Paxton's request to dismiss the company's suit after finding the case to be premature, since no enforcement actions have been taken. The California federal judge later shut down Twitter's bid for an injunction to halt... Stay ahead of the curve In the legal profession, information is the key to success. You have to know what’s happening with clients, competitors, practice areas, and industries. Law360 provides the intelligence you need to remain an expert and beat the competition. Access to case data within articles (numbers, filings, courts, nature of suit, and more.) Access to attached documents such as briefs, petitions, complaints, decisions, motions, etc. Create custom alerts for specific article and case topics and so much more! TRY LAW360 FREE FOR SEVEN DAYS

Shares of Twitter Inc. TWTR, -0.59% slumped 0.59% to $66.02 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -1.59% falling 1.59% to 4,258.49 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.09% falling 2.09% to 33,962.04. This was the stock's third consecutive day of losses. Twitter Inc. closed $14.73 below its 52-week high ($80.75), which the company achieved on February 25th. Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Monday, as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -1.33% fell 1.33% to $277.01, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL, -1.88% fell 1.88% to $2,491.56, and Facebook Inc. Cl A FB, -1.23% fell 1.23% to $336.95.true Trading volume (15.8 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 13.6 M. Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.

Shutterstock By Alia Hoyt/July 18, 2021 3:15 pm EDT The worldwide supply chain has been long disrupted thanks to the pandemic. Now that it has thoroughly affected Taco Bell, however, people are fully over it. It's one thing for a restaurant chain to run out of something expendable, like sporks. But Taco Bell customers the country over are reporting shortages of everything from chicken and beef to hot and mild sauce. Fresh ingredients, like lettuce and tomatoes, are even in short supply in some stores, says Eat This, Not That! The chain has even had trouble sourcing 10-inch tortillas! Is nothing sacred anymore? The latter was so disturbing that even the New York Post had to throw in on the hysteria, with an article titled, "Taco Bell is facing a tortilla shortage and it might be time to panic." Pandemic-inspired ongoing labor shortages are also contributing to the chain's inability to handle customer demand. Although the supply and labor issues aren't necessarily all Taco Bell's fault, the blowback has nonetheless been swift, resounding, and fierce. Taco Bell "fans" have taken to channels like Reddit and Twitter to voice their displeasure in droves. Twitter users are reporting Taco Bell supply issues Shutterstock Because…

Text size Second-quarter earnings season picks up this week, as 76 S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report. IBM and  J.B. Hunt Transport Services will be Monday’s highlights, followed by Netflix, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Halliburton, Intuitive Surgical, and United Airlines Holdings on Tuesday. Wednesday will be busy, with SAP, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Texas Instruments, and Verizon Communications all releasing results. AT&T, Twitter, Biogen, Snap, American Airlines Group, Intel, and Southwest Airlines go next on Thursday, before American Express, Honeywell International, and Schlumberger close the week on Friday. The economic calendar this week will bring plenty of data on the state of the U.S. housing market. On Monday, the National Association of Home Builders releases its NAHB/ Wells Fargo Housing Market Index for July, followed by the Census Bureau’s new residential construction data for June on Tuesday. Then, on Thursday, the National Association of Realtors reports existing-home sales for June. Economists on average expect a still robust housing market, but one that’s less explosively growing than earlier this year.Monday 7/19 IBM, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, PPG Industries, Prologis, Tractor Supply, and Zions Bancorp report quarterly results. L Brands holds a conference call to discuss the spinoff of its Victoria’s Secret…

How has the social media platform reacted to pleas for information data from governments around the world? The story so far: On Wednesday, social media platform Twitter released its Transparency Report for the second half of last year (July 1 to December 31), in which it was revealed that India was the single largest source of government information requests. India also was one of the prominent sources of legal demands for removal of content, according to the report.What’s the transparency report all about?Twitter started publishing a biannual report — Twitter Transparency Report — in 2012. The original goal, it says in its blog, “was to provide the public with recurring insights into government pressures that impacted the public, whether through overt political censorship or by way of compelling account data through information requests”.It further says, “A lot has changed since 2012. It is now more important than ever that we also shine a light on our own practices, including enforcement of the Twitter Rules and our ongoing work to disrupt global state-backed information operations.”Over the years, the scope of the report has been expanded gradually. Additional categories such as non-government legal requests, trademark notices, coordinated manipulation, and so on, have…

Twitter is hard at work developing an edge to edge layout for photos on the timeline interface. In other news, the platform has also assured its users that improvements are coming to the Topics feature.Twitter and its devs are often hard at work, developing a new feature or the other for the short form message sharing platform. Twitter's microblogging sensibilities, as well the massive community its amassed, leave it open to a lot of potential changes. Developers have added in threaded replies, private DMs, groups, bookmarks, an entire premium service called Twitter Blue, and so much more. It's been quite a long drive to get here, but currently Twitter stands as a full fledged form of social media, as opposed to just the simple tweet-posting forum it was in its infancy. An important part of Twitter's development process is just how much feedback they take from the community. An example of this can be found in the platform's defunct threaded replies feature. Devs spent nearly a year beta testing with the community. The new replies interface went through months of tweaking, only for Twitter to eventually dispose of the whole system in its entirety because the community stated that it…