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Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether (www.platformer.news)
2023-6-11 Google Twitter

How Twitter, YouTube, and Meta gave up on removing lies about the 2020 US Presidential elections, having briefly banded together to do the right thing (www.platformer.news)
2023-6-7 YouTube Twitter

Sources: Elon Musk cut the Twitter Spaces team, which once numbered as many as 100 employees, down to roughly three people over the past several months (www.platformer.news)
2023-5-27 Twitter Elon Musk

Twitter's encrypted DMs don't offer end-to-end encryption, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and open to government access requests (www.platformer.news)
2023-5-16 Twitter

Documents: Twitter maintains a list of ~35 accounts which it monitors and offers increased visibility including AOC, Joe Biden, Marc Andreessen, and Elon Musk (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-28 Twitter Elon Musk

Sources: Microsoft laid off one of its responsible AI teams that was tasked with assessing the risks associated with integrating OpenAI's tech into its products (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-14 Microsoft AI

Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-10 Decentralize

Meta is exploring a decentralized social network for sharing text updates; the app will reportedly let users log in with Instagram and is codenamed P92 (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-10 Instagram Decentralize

Source: Twitter broke on Monday after the only site reliability engineer attached to the project to migrate to a paid API made a bad configuration change (www.platformer.news)
2023-3-6 Twitter

Sources: The Boring Company CEO Steve Davis has been in charge of Twitter's cost-cutting, including recent layoffs, amid talk that he will be Twitter's next CEO (www.platformer.news)
2023-2-28 Twitter Layoffs

Sources: Twitter's engineers built a system to boost Musk's tweets over everyone else's after Musk complained Biden's Super Bowl tweet performed better than his (www.platformer.news)
2023-2-15 Twitter

Sources: Elon Musk publicly fired a Twitter engineer for suggesting that his engagement numbers are down not because of a bug but because of waning popularity (www.platformer.news)
2023-2-10 Twitter Elon Musk

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announce a venture to explore social apps, the first being Artifact, a TikTok-like app for news articles (www.platformer.news)
2023-2-1 Instagram

The DOJ's case against Google could succeed as it is rooted in real harms and is a fairly simple case of market consolidation hurting people by overcharging (www.platformer.news)
2023-1-25 Google

Twitter's head of product and engineering Behnam Rezaei and acting head of human resources Katie Marcotte, who was at Twitter for 10 years, have resigned (www.platformer.news)
2023-1-4 Twitter

Sources: Twitter is considering forcing all users to opt in to personalized ads and location data sharing, but may let Blue users opt out of personalized ads (www.platformer.news)
2022-12-14 Twitter

Sources: on December 11, Twitter briefly blocked traffic from ~30 mobile carriers, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, in an attempt to rid Twitter of spam (www.platformer.news)
2022-12-13 Mobile Asia Twitter

Internal messages show Twitter's EMEA ad revenue dropped 15% YoY, weekly bookings are down 49%; source: Blue is delayed as Twitter seeks to skirt App Store fees (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-30 Twitter

Sources: Twitter has begun reinstating ~62K accounts with more than 10K followers after Musk's poll on general amnesty; one of those accounts has 5M+ followers (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-29 Twitter

A Twitter HQ seating chart shows Elon Musk's top five special projects: Blue verified, Blue for business, encrypted DMs, tips on tweets, and longform notes (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-18 Twitter Elon Musk

A look at a doc from Twitter's trust and safety team on Nov. 1 that detailed how the new Blue subscription could be abused, largely ignored in a rush to launch (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-15 Twitter

Sources: Musk has pitched charging most or all users a subscription fee to use Twitter; internal estimates show the new Blue could actually lose Twitter money (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-8 Twitter

Some current Twitter employees created Google Docs listing who they could confirm was still employed, after an internal directory was made inaccessible (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-5 Google Twitter

Sources: Twitter's newsletter platform Revue, acquired in early 2021, is scheduled to close by the end of the year, and its Notes product has been paused (www.platformer.news)
2022-11-4 Twitter

Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges (www.platformer.news)
2022-10-31 Twitter

Sources: Twitter engineers were told on Friday to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, before being told to shred all printouts (www.platformer.news)
2022-10-30 Twitter Elon Musk

A leaked email shows Ben Chestnut stepped down in August as Mailchimp CEO after arguing that asking for pronouns at start of meetings “does more harm than good” (www.platformer.news)
2022-10-21

Interviews with journalists at The Wire, sources at Meta, and knowledgeable outside observers describe the messy fight between Meta and The Wire (www.platformer.news)
2022-10-18

Meta is testing letting average users inform its speech policies, which started with a pilot from February-April 2022 on “problematic” climate info on Facebook (www.platformer.news)
2022-9-21 Facebook Climate

Source: Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox directed the New Product Experimentation division to scale back and focus entirely on short-form video innovation (www.platformer.news)
2022-9-16

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