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Elon Musk announced that he has found a new leader for Twitter and will shift into a new role as chief technologist. While Musk is yet to name his successor, reports suggest that NBC Universal executive Linda Yaccarino could potentially replace him as the new leader of the microblogging platform. In a tweet on May 11th, Musk said the company’s new CEO will start in about six weeks. “Excited to announce that I’ve a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My...

Joseph James O’Connor, a 23-year-old British citizen extradited from Spain to the United States on April 26, pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including hacking the social media platform Twitter in 2020. O’Connor, who also uses the online name PlugwalkJoe, has been charged with stealing cryptocurrencies worth $794,000 from a Manhattan-based company through a SIM Swap attack. U.S. prosecutors said O’Connor would forfeit the funds and pay his victims restitution. Besides,...

Bluesky allows users to use domain names as handles to help achieve decentralized verification and give users more control over their identity. Bluesky, a social media platform created by former Twitter Inc boss Jack Dorsey, has gained significant traction even before its official launch. The official Bluesky Twitter account has more than 252k followers without a solid protocol to showcase to the users. Nevertheless, the Bluesky application has been downloaded more than 245k times by...

KuCoin has assured all the impacted users that it would reimburse them the amount lost while also pledging additional security measures. In the latest development, the hackers managed to briefly breach the Twitter account of the crypto exchange KuCoin thereby causing the exchange users to lose more than $22,000. Earlier today on April 24, hackers took over KuCoin’s Twitter account for 45 minutes, promoting a fake activity. Although the incident was brief, KuCoin has acknowledged that it...

For the Twitter Blue subscription, only individuals retain the Blue Check while organizations that subscribed to the service will be given a yellow tick. Yesterday was a historic day for American multinational micro-messaging platform Twitter Inc as it striped its previously verified users of their Blue check marks. While the move has been tagged by many critics as a rude and dangerous precedent to set, the removal of the Blue Checks has been lauded by proponents in one of the hottest...

The Twitter-eToro stock-trading initiative is a milestone under Musk’s watch as the Tesla CEO strives to transform Twitter into a super-app.  Twitter is partnering with Israeli financial services facilitator eToro to bring stock trading to users of the social media giant. According to reports, starting today, Twitter users can buy and sell stocks and securities via eToro. The Twitter-eToro partnership is a rare deal for the microblogging platform’s owner Elon Musk since he assumed control...

Twitter is all set to roll out a new feature enabling its users to access stocks, cryptocurrencies, and other financial assets through a partnership with the fintech company eToro. The collaboration will focus on expanding Twitter cashtags to cover far more instruments and asset classes, as per an eToro spokesperson. eToro-Twitter According to a CNBC report, the Elon Musk-led social media giant plans to allow users to view market charts on an expanded range of financial...

The move comes as a surprise, considering that Musk was recently at the forefront of another movement that raised concerns about the development of AI. Billionaire businessman Elon Musk has reportedly made some new buys in line with Twitter’s artificial intelligence (AI) project. According to a Business Insider report, Musk is forging ahead with his plans to create an AI infrastructure for Twitter and has bought almost 10,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) to this effect. Interestingly,...

The speculations about whether Elon Musk purposefully inflated Dogecoin’s price by changing Twitter’s logo so that he can dispose of his holdings continue on social media. According to data from Lookonchain, two of the five largest DOGE whales sold over $120 million worth of the memecoin amid its massive price rally this week. Twitter’s new owner is known as a keen proponent of the original memecoin, having pushed its price higher numerous times in the past through various...

Twitter’s main logo abruptly changed on Monday into a picture of the infamous “Doge” meme – a Dogecoin (DOGE) predictably pumped as a result.  The cryptocurrency is up 25% in the past hour, now trading for $0.1.  Elon Pumps Doge (Again) When logging into Twitter, the bluebird that once appeared on Twitter’s loading page has now been replaced by an icon of Doge. Meanwhile, the similar icon used to return to one’s homepage Twitter feed in the upper left corner of the desktop...