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The company, which had been fined $350,000 for the delay, argued that President Donald Trump should have been notified when prosecutors investigating him for election interference issued a search warrant for his account data, according to The Washington Post.

The giant hashtag statue? Jon Ball, a former Twitter engineering manager, owns that. (“I think I got a pretty decent deal on that,” he said. “My wife doesn’t think so.”) Paintings of famous Twitter moments? People bought those, too. What was the experience of the auction like? “It’d be like if somebody you love went bankrupt and then you’re bidding on the remains.”

After the SEC’s X account was hijacked to post the agency’s premature approval of Bitcoin ETFs, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) are looking for answers — particularly, whether the SEC had 2FA turned on.

“I kind of don’t understand the trade here?” Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine writes of the hack of the SEC’s Twitter account yesterday, in which a fake approval of Bitcoin ETFs was briefly posted.

X’s news account claimed responsibility for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne having “rescinded its disciplinary action against Juan David Campolargo,” a student who had gotten in trouble for an account that pointed to events on campus that had free food available.

The Elon Musk-owned platform quietly removed the option for Premium subscribers to use NFTs as their profile pictures, as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. X also scrubbed all mention of NFT profile pictures from its support page.

X CEO and former award-winning DEI executive Linda Yaccarino is promoting the company’s 2024 plans for AI and Grok, as well as the “video first” experience that included so many unauthorized Super Mario Bros. Movie streams.

That sentence may look familiar! Headlines were added back on the web yesterday, but this morning, I noticed they were gone.

X (formerly Twitter) now has a “basic” tier for Verified Organizations, which gets you a gold checkmark badge (and a few other benefits) for $200 per month instead of $1,000 per month for “full access.”

Fidelity, an investor that put over $300 million into Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, now believes the company is worth 71.5 percent less than the $44 billion paid for it, Axios reports. That implies a total valuation of between $12 and $13 billion and includes a drop of 10.7 percent in the month of November alone when Musk told advertisers to “go fuck” themselves.

Musk keeps asking creators to post their videos to X. Turns out there’s a very obvious reason why they’re not.

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.