Randal Cooper imagines a response to a user trying to quit the platform formerly known as Twitter:
These actions constitute an illegal one-person boycott that infringes on our client’s constitutional right to free speech, as well as his right to monetize that speech in several ways, and has caused him irreparable harm.
[McSweeney's Internet Tendency]
In an all-hands at X, CEO Linda Yaccarino attempted to rally the troops after filing a lawsuit against a coalition of major advertisers, claiming they had coordinated an “illegal boycott” and cost the company billions of dollars.
Yaccarino urged employees to “review the evidence,” a source at X told me. She also hyped up X payments and shopping on the platform, but didn’t announce a launch date, and emphasized X’s “pivot to video.”
X is moving out from the building Elon Musk famously walked into while carrying a kitchen sink, per an internal memo I’ve seen.
In the email to employees, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says the company will “transition to our new primary locations in the Bay Area,” including an office in San Jose and a “shared space” with Musk’s xAI in Palo Alto.
Mark Kalman, X’s engineering lead of media, and his second-in-command, Melissa Merencillo, resigned today. They announced their departures in a company Slack channel on the day stocks vest at X; Merencillo told The Verge that the timing had no bearing on their decision.
This is a big loss for X, a source tells me. Kalman is the main source of knowledge for all things X media infrastructure, and more important than that, he’s good at “handling” Elon Musk.
Update: added comment from Merencillo.
There’s no official confirmation, but the app — which has been abandoned before — has been delisted from the Mac App Store. It’s still functional, although it’s been increasingly buggy since the transition to X. It remains one of the last vestiges of Twitter iconography and terminology which I’ll memorialize in the grab below.
Update: The Mac app now prompts users to “upgrade” to the iPad version of X, which is a worse experience.
