Tech company Twitter has fired nearly all its staff in Ghana, more than a week after billionaire Elon Musk took over the company. A source told the BBC that only one person was left in the almost 20-member team. “The company is re-organising its operations as a result of a need to reduce costs,” read […]
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Twitter deal temporarily on hold – Elon Musk
Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday said his acquisition of Twitter is temporarily on hold pending details supporting a calculation that spam or fake accounts represent less than 5% of users of the microblog. Musk was reacting to a news report about Twitter estimating that false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5% of its monetizable […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter, saying the social media platform he has criticized for not living up to free speech principles needs to be transformed as a private company. Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that Musk, currently the company’s biggest shareholder, has proposed buying the remaining shares […]
Intolerant Mahama in Twitter blocking spree; block users for expressing divergent views on his Page
Former President John Dramani Mahama has embarked on a merciless blocking spree on his official Twitter handle, leaving many users to question his level of tolerance. The former President who is also the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been wasting no time in evicting users who express divergent views on his […]
Twitter CEO reveals ambitious plans to ‘invade’ Africa live
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has capped a whirlwind tour of Africa by pledging to move to the continent for several months in 2020. Dorsey said in a message on the social media platform that he didn’t know where he would be living, but he planned to spend up to half of next year in Africa. “Sad […]