Tag: Twitter

• Saturday, July 9th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Musk backs down on Twitter buy-over deal

  

  South African billionaire Elon Musk finally decided not to move forward with his plans to buy over Twitter and withdraw the US$ 44 billion he had once offered.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 00:27 UTC

  Musk's Twitter account grows despite his absence from social media

  

  Billionaire Elon Musk, who has vowed to buy over the Twitter social media platform, has suddenly vanished from the space, thus raising speculations about his ulterior motives, as both his tweets and the negotiations for the transaction are on hold.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Musk has second thoughts on Twitter deal

  

  Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk is now having second thoughts about his announcement to buy over Twitter for US$ 44 billion, saying the company is hiding key information from him about fake posts and “spam”.

• Friday, May 13th 2022 - 19:54 UTC

  Musk puts Twitter buy-over on hold over fudgy financial statements

  

  Billionaire Elon Musk Friday announced he was having second thoughts about buying over Twitter, prompting the social network's shares to plunge 20% in early trading.

• Monday, April 25th 2022 - 20:45 UTC

  Elon Musk reaches deal to buy over Twitter

  

  Billionaire Elon Musk Monday agreed to buy over 100% of Twitter for US$44 billion, at a value of US$ 54.20, the company announced in a press release.

• Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 09:09 UTC

  US Congresswoman has Twitter account banned permanently

  

  Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene Sunday had her personal Twitter account canceled permanently for postings deemed untrue regarding COVID-19. “We have permanently suspended the account for repeated violations of our Covid-19 disinformation policy,” the company noted.

• Thursday, July 8th 2021 - 17:33 UTC

  Trump files class action lawsuit against big tech giants and their CEOs

  

  Former US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, Google and their CEOs, because of unfairly infringing upon his First Amendment right to free speech as protected by the US constitution.

• Friday, January 8th 2021 - 01:02 UTC

  Facebook and Instagram block Trump's accounts “indefinitely” or at least until the presidential transition is over

  

  Facebook Inc said it would block U.S. President Donald Trump's accounts “indefinitely” and for at least the next two weeks until the presidential transition is completed.

• Saturday, October 10th 2020 - 08:51 UTC

  Twitter imposing tough new rules ahead of the US presidential election

  

  Twitter is imposing tough new rules that restrict candidates from declaring premature victory and tighten its measures against spreading misinformation, calling for political violence, and spreading thoughtless commentary in the days leading up to and following the Nov 3 US election.

• Saturday, July 25th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Facebook and Twitter take down the accounts of high-profile Bolsonaro supporters

  

  Facebook and Twitter took down the accounts of several high-profile supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro following a Supreme Court order, a move that underlines the tricky territory the social media titans are navigating in some of the world's largest jurisdictions.