Nilay Patel
“Visit Goth Target in the Metaverse”
I don’t know what this means and I don’t think anyone should ever find out.
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The CEO of Microsoft Gaming thinks King is the crown jewel of the Activision empire.
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“They’re all a bunch of cowards.”
Fired Twitter engineer Eric Frohnhoefer talks to Forbes, revealing that he discovered he was fired via Elon tweet and his laptop getting locked down; no one from the company actually called him.
“No one trusts anyone within the company anymore,” he said. “How can you function? Employees don’t trust the new management. Management doesn’t trust the employees. How do you think you’re supposed to get anything done? That’s why there’s production freezes – you can’t merge code, you can’t turn things on without permission from VPs.”
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Twitter didn’t respond to Eli Lilly about the fake insulin tweet for hours.
The pharma giant has suspended all of its Twitter accounts in the aftermath of the scandal, which wiped billions from its market cap.
Inside the real Eli Lilly, the fake sparked a panic, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Company officials scrambled to contact Twitter representatives and demanded they kill the viral spoof, worried it could undermine their brand’s reputation or push false claims about people’s medicine. Twitter, its staffing cut in half, didn’t react for hours.
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The CEO of Tesla says he’ll be working remotely for a while.
Elon, who just told Twitter staffers to either come into the office or it was “resignation accepted,” is now working remotely from Twitter HQ for his side gig as CEO of Tesla.
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John Legere asks to run Twitter.
Former T-Mobile CEO John Legere — who successfully rebooted the company’s culture and shook up the mobile industry by sheer force of confrontational personality — asks Elon to just let him do it. Oh, and to tweet more like a leader, which, again, John Legere.
Musk promptly replied with a single word: “No.”
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Sports Twitter is getting rocked by fake verified accounts.
Being able to pay $8 for a blue check means there have already been hoax NBA trade rumors, NFL coach firings, and more.
Fake Schefter accounts have existed for years, duping people not looking for the check mark or scrutinizing the news. The difference now is that the Tweet as pictured gives absolutely no indication outside of the username @AdamSchefterNOT that would lead people to know it’s not the actual ESPN NFL insider.
Who could have ever seen this extremely obvious situation unfolding exactly as it has?
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Elon is not helping win back Twitter’s advertisers.
Peter Kafka has a look at how Twitter’s ad business is going, and... well, it’s not going. The problem? Elon’s tweets.
“His personal Twitter handle is introducing a level of reputational risk that in my experience, most Fortune 500 companies cannot accept,” says Lou Paskalis, an advertising executive who met with Musk and about 100 other industry officials via a Zoom call last week.
We also talk about AI and VR — but we know why you’re here.
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Two Starlinks are cheaper than one if you go over the cap.
The Starlink subreddit (one of my favorite communities on the whole internet) is having a field day with the new data caps.