Twitter Archive

In this entry into the list of lawsuits over unpaid Twitter bills, Courthouse News reports Mark Schobinger’s class action lawsuit is over unpaid 2022 annual bonuses. Schobinger, notably, is Twitter’s former senior director of compensation.

X (formerly Twitter) will let you replace the username in a post’s URL with... really, whatever you want, and it will still go to the original post. It’s been that way since at least 2019.

ProPublica and Columbia University identified over 2,200 false or misleading posts from more than 1,300 verified accounts in the month following the Israel-Hamas war’s beginning, garnering half a billion impressions.

It’s about Elon Musk bragging to the banks that backed his Twitter takeover that he never lost money for his investors.

I have spent an alarming amount of time in the last 24 hours reading thousands of the best tweets anyone ever tweeted. We talked about those tweets, our brushes with main-character-ness, and more. Plus, Will Poor resurrects his extremely old Macintosh, and wonders: how can I make this thing last another three decades?

If you missed Sarah Jeong’s piece about the right wing’s coordinated harassment campaign against her (part of our very special Twitter series), you can enjoy it as a TikTok.

Bloomberg cites unnamed sources in this report about how much ad revenue has dropped for the platform formerly known as Twitter as its CTO continues to drive advertisers away, saying it’s on track for $2.5 billion this year despite internal targets for $3 billion.