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Twitter may be worth one-third what Elon Musk paid for it last fall as Fidelity marks down investment

Financial services company Fidelity has reduced the market value of its equity stake in Twitter for a third time, now putting it at $6.55 billion. That's down from the nearly $20 billion Fidelity valued its stake at in October.

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Elon Musk wants to build a digital town square. But his debut for DeSantis had a tech failure.

Elon Musks's much-publicized Twitter Spaces kickoff event, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announcing his run for president, struggled with technical glitches and a near half-hour delay Wednesday.

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Elon Musk’s ‘historic’ Twitter event with Ron DeSantis struggles with technical glitches

Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into a “digital town square,” but his much-publicized Twitter Spaces kickoff event, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announcing his run for president, started off with technical glitches and a near half-hour delay Tuesday.

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San Francisco officials are investigating if Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Hotel’ plan broke laws

This is not the first time San Francisco officials have tussled with Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October and converted a part of the company's headquarters into bedrooms.

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Twitter is purging inactive accounts including people who have died, angering those still grieving

The decision has been met by an outcry from those who have lost, or who fear losing the thoughts and words of deceased loved ones linked to now-inactive accounts.

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The dangers ahead for Twitter’s new CEO

Linda Yaccarino's appointment renewed questions about the “glass cliff,” a theory that underrepresented minorities are more likely to be hired for leadership jobs when there’s a crisis, which sets them up for failure.

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Elon Musk confirms Twitter’s new CEO is Linda Yaccarino from NBCUniversal

Elon Musk has confirmed that the new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it’s now called, will be NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino, an executive with deep ties to the advertising industry.

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Who is Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk’s pick for Twitter CEO?

The choice of Yaccarino, a longtime media industry insider, could signal a change at the ailing microblogging platform and prove a relief to advertisers, many of whom left Twitter after Musk took control.