Dorsey’s almost 15-year-old message “just setting up my twttr” attracted whopping offers after he posted a link to a tweets marketplace called Valuables on Friday. The intense bidding war put the Twitter co-founder’s post at $363,000 as of Saturday morning (around 8am GMT). While the sale was announced, at least …
Read More »Twitch reverts back to ‘women’ after tweet celebrating ‘Womxn’s History Month’ savaged online
Though the company took to Twitter on Monday to inform users that “March is Womxn’s History Month,” using an alternative styling of “women” in a bid to include non-binary gender identities, it made an abrupt about-face just a few hours later, announcing that it would revert back to the standard …
Read More »‘I’d rather be called a b**ch’: Twitch unites commenters in disgust with tweet celebrating ‘Womxn’s History Month’
March is Women’s History Month, and Twitch wants its users to celebrate. It’s putting female streamers on its front page, showcasing female musicians, and dishing out thousand-dollar grants to deserving female students and entrepreneurs. Oh, and it’s also spelling “Women’s History Month” as “Womxn’s History Month.” Unlike women, who have …
Read More »‘I’m an alien’: Musk confirms what many have long suspected in tongue-in-cheek tweet
The conversation took place on Friday night after the founder of credit payments app CRED asked Musk, one of the central figures behind companies Tesla, Paypal, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company and SolarCity, how he does it. “Elon Musk may end up running 4+ 500 billion companies simultaneously at a …
Read More »I’ve been expelled from my barristers’ chambers over a tweet – this shackling of free expression signals the death of democracy
I have been expelled from my barristers’ chambers because of a tweet. During my 15 years as a barrister at Cornerstone Barristers and 30 years at the bar, I had an unblemished professional record and was top ranked by legal directories for my work – particularly in public law. And …
Read More »Parting is such tweet sorrow… A fond farewell to Donald Trump’s Twitter feed
Donald Trump governed by social media. Tweeting from bed in his teddy bear pyjamas or on his sofa in front of a huge TV screen, sometimes from a buggy on his golf course. It was never gonna end well, and now it’s all over. Twitter permanently suspended his account yesterday, and …
Read More »Ayatollah still can tweet? Trump supporters point fingers at Iran’s leader… just as he runs into trouble with platform too
The US president was booted from the social media site for good on Friday, as Twitter embarked on a massive purge in the aftermath of the Capitol Hill debacle. The platform said it decided to lock Trump’s account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” while blocking many …
Read More »Trump’s China tweet ‘destructive & deceitful’ as there isn’t ‘ANY QUESTION’ Russia behind latest hacking scare, Adam Schiff claims
“Based on what I’ve seen, I don’t think there’s any question that it was Russia,” Schiff, who is the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told MSNBC on Sunday, commenting on the hack. The hacking operation in question targeted the SolarWinds Orion Platform, a network monitoring tool used by US …
Read More »MSM rush to report on Trump ‘CONCEDING’ election… after his tweet claiming Biden ‘won’ because Left ‘rigged’ the vote
“He won because the Election was Rigged,” Trump said of Biden on Sunday morning, in his latest tweet pointing to allegations of voter fraud. The president then blamed Biden’s apparent win on “NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company,” as well as …
Read More »Arizona secretary of state’s tweet about ‘neo-nazi’ Trump base comes back to haunt her as she’s in charge of certifying VOTES
“@realDonaldTrump has made it abundantly clear he’s more interested in pandering to his neo-nazi base than being @POTUS for all Americans,” Hobbs, a former Democrat senator, tweeted in 2017. Other tweets from the same time period blast Trump as “being on the side of freaking Nazis.” Hobb’s tweets followed Donald …
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