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Elon Musk is, as we all recently learned, hardwired into Twitter's source code — but according to him, this is the first he's hearing of it.

Elon Musk Puzzled to Learn That He’s Hardcoded Into the Twitter Source

By Noor Al-Sibai

While Twitter waits for owner Elon Musk's next decree, the geniuses behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary account have provided some comedic relief.

Elon Musk Brutally Owned by Merriam-Webster Dictionary

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's latest Twitter verification gambit is so convoluted, even some of his biggest stans are coming out against it.

Even Elon Musk’s Biggest Fans Are Aghast at His Latest Scheme

By Noor Al-Sibai

Swathes of Twitter's source code leaked online months ago on GitHub, The New York Times reports, allowing practically anybody to get a detailed glimpse.

Elon Musk Bragged He Was Going to Open Source Twitter’s Code, Now Furious That Someone Leaked It Online

By Victor Tangermann

It very much looks like a lot of Twitter Blue subscribers are angry that their genius tweets aren't getting algorithmic priority yet.

People Are Mad They Aren’t Getting Attention on Twitter After Paying for Twitter Blue

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an attempt to compete with Twitter, the extremely-centralized Facebook-turned-Meta is building a decentralized, text-based Twitter alternative.

Facebook Is Working on a Twitter Clone That Nobody Asked For

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former Twitter executive is sounding off on Elon Musk after the CEO bashed a disabled ex-employee on the platform and had to apologize later.

Ex-Twitter VP Says Elon Musk Is Behaving “Like the Local Drunk”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership

Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership

By Frank Landymore

After dragging an ex-Twitter employee, Elon Musk has apologized to Haraldur Thorleifsson after disparaging him so publicly.

Elon Musk Finally Relents and Apologizes for Mocking Disabled Twitter Ex-Employee

By Noor Al-Sibai

"He's the worst," Musk wrote in a tweet, which he promptly deleted, after roasting former Twitter director Haraldur Thorleifsson.

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Roasting Disabled Twitter Employee

By Victor Tangermann

Musk publicly shamed former Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson in front of his well over 100 million followers, telling him his contributions to Twitter amounted to nothing.

Elon Musk Publicly Mocks His Employee for Daring to Have Muscular Dystrophy

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is being accompanied by at least two bodyguards, who will go as far as to follow him to the bathroom, an engineer told the BBC.

Elon Musk’s Bodyguards Reportedly Accompanying Him to the Bathroom at Twitter HQ

By Victor Tangermann

What's Twitter CEO Elon Musk up to in the late hours of the night? Screwing around in Twitter spaces and playing fart noises, apparently.

Elon Musk Hosts Bizarre 2am Livestream

By Frank Landymore

Steve Davis, a SpaceX alum and the current CEO of The Boring Company, might be the first "Goon" in line for the CEO role at Elon Musk-owned Twitter.

Elon Musk Rumored to Be Giving Twitter CEO Job to Guy in Charge of Digging Holes in the Ground

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite sleeping at the office in November former head of Twitter payments Esther Crawford was fired by CEO Elon Musk last week.

Elon Musk Fires Employee Who Slept in Office to Prove Loyalty

By Victor Tangermann

Elon was so annoyed that Joe Biden's tweet had eclipsed his own, that the CEO forced his engineers to create an algorithm to artificially boost his tweets.

Busted! Fame-Obsessed Elon Musk Ordered Twitter to Make His Tweets Show Up Everywhere

By Frank Landymore

If you, dear reader, logged onto Twitter last night and found your For You feed to be uncharacteristically Elon Musk-heavy, rest assured: you weren't alone.

Twitter Tweaks Algorithm to Force Feed Everyone Elon Musk’s Tweets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is complaining about how few people are interacting with his tweets, Platformer reports. "This is ridiculous."

Elon Musk Furious at Twitter Engineers Because People Aren’t Faving His Tweets

By Victor Tangermann

If you were on Elon Musk-owned Twitter at all yesterday evening, you may have noticed: it was broken. Unsurprisingly, things apparently weren't chill at HQ.

Panicked Elon Musk Asked Twitter Employees to Stop Building New Features as Site’s Infrastructure Crumbles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's many self-inflicted wounds are really starting to catch up with him. He's still suvering from "severe back pain" and a lack of sleep.

Elon Musk Responds to Health Concerns

By Victor Tangermann

After declaring that "removing child exploitation is priority #1" back in November, Twitter's CEO Elon Musk is yet again not living up to his many promises.

Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Reportedly Failing Miserably to Contain Horrific Child Abuse Content

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is, per insiders, really trying build a Twitter payments platform, and plans on having it take cryptocurrency to boot.

It Looks Like Elon Musk Is Actually Building a Twitter Payment Platform

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Something is wrong," Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday evening, in response to Twitter influencers' complaints about their virality numbers.

Elon Musk Sets His Twitter Account to Private

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dave Rubin says that Twitter's "whole situation" is "'a flaming dumpster rolling down the street.'" Miraculously, we agree — but for different reasons.

Elon Musk Apparently Thinks Twitter Is a “Flaming Dumpster Rolling Down the Street”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As if being verified couldn't be more worthless or AIs more dubious, beware verified Twitter accounts with AI-generated faces pretending to be real people.

Artificial Intelligence

Twitter Is “Verifying” Accounts With AI-Generated Faces

By Frank Landymore

According to a scathing new report, Twitter's new Head of Trust and Safety has been breaking Twitter's rules on the whims of Elon Musk and his many feuds.

Leaked Messages Seem to Show Elon Musk Using Twitter to Punish His Enemies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter has already had to re-suspend at least two reprehensible right-wingers whose accounts were reinstated by Elon Musk.

Twitter Is Quietly Re-Suspending the Lunatics Elon Musk Let Back On

By Noor Al-Sibai

Desperate Twitter Auctioning Off Its Used Office Supplies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's lawyers are trying to get an impending securities fraud trial moved from San Francisco to Texas since most prospective jurors hate his guts.

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Says San Francisco Hates Him Too Much for a Fair Trial

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk-owned Twitter has been accused of intentionally shadowbanning a journalist — just after they reported on a pileup caused by a self-driving Tesla.

Journalist Critical of Elon Musk Allegedly Shadowbanned on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Toilet paper is a pretty baseline office ask. But apparently, those remaining at Elon Musk-owned Twitter's New York HQ are privy to no such luxury.

Twitter Employees Beg Elon Musk for Toilet Paper as Horrid Stench Seeps From Bathroom

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Disgraced astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is trying to claim that one of his old tweets was doctored — but he's either wrong, or lying.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Says He Never Tweeted This Thing That He Definitely Tweeted

By Noor Al-Sibai

Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler was able to impersonate US senator Edward Markey with a verified Twitter account — and it's not the first time.

It’s Still Easy to Impersonate a Senator on Twitter After Elon Musk Promised Verification Was Fixed

By Victor Tangermann

It appears that Twitter has taken to suspending space-watching journalists for posting rockets, which is an integral part of their jobs.

Twitter Suspends Multiple Space Journalists for Posting Rockets

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter's offices in San Francisco are quickly turning into a smelly, body odor-infested rat's nest, The New York Times reported last week.

Twitter HQ Marinates in Stench After Elon Musk Fires Janitors, Forces Engineers Back to Office

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese protest content posted to Twitter was impossible to find due to bots, ultimately rendering Elon Musk's Twitter an ineffective ally to protestors.

An Overwhelming Number of Porn Bot Accounts “Drowned Out” Chinese Protest Content on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

George Hotz, the infamous hacker-turned-entrepeneur-turned-Twitter-intern, just left his internship role at Twitter as a direct result of Elon Musk's chaos.

Even Twitter’s Intern Just Resigned in Disappointment

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter CEO Elon Musk's latest poll asking his millions of followers whether he should step down is seriously flawed for a number of reasons.

Elon Musk Seems to Be Trying to Weasel Out of Vote to Resign

By Victor Tangermann

Despite what Elon Musk claims, police reportedly can't seem to find a link between ElonJet and an alleged stalking incident that occurred last week.

It Turns Out Elon Musk’s Stalking Incident Had Nothing to Do With ElonJet

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The second richest man in the world polled his millions of followers Sunday evening if he should step down as CEO. Milllions of people said yes.

Elon Musk Polled Twitter to Ask If He Should Resign, and the Results Were RESOUNDING

By Victor Tangermann

Things seem to be going really well for Elon Musk, who reportedly brought his former supermodel mother to a recent client meeting.

Elon Musk Brought His Mommy to a Big Business Meeting For Some Reason

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a fit of rage, Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk suspended the accounts of over a dozen journalists from publications including CNN and The New York Times.

Elon Musk Conducts Poll, Doesn’t Like Results, Conducts New Poll, Still Doesn’t Like Results

By Victor Tangermann

Newly-minted Twitter owner Elon Musk is mass suspending the accounts of journalists who have written critically about him. Here's why.

Free Speech Champion Elon Musk Is Mass Suspending Twitter Accounts of Journalists Who Criticized Him

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk has once again sold an insanely large amount of Tesla stock post-Twitter purchase — even as the EV maker's stock value continues to go down.

Elon Musk Quietly Unloads Billions in Tesla Shares as Price Plummets

By Noor Al-Sibai

Self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced limits to free speech on his recently acquired social media platform.

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Announces New Limits on Free Speech

By Victor Tangermann

ElonJet, a Twitter account that tracked Elon Musk's private jet using public data, has now been suspended just a month after Musk said he wouldn't ban it.

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Bans College Kid Who Annoyed Him

By Frank Landymore

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has refused to pay the rent for Twitter's San Francisco HQ for several weeks now, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Squatter Elon Musk Reportedly No Longer Paying Rent at Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk has used his platform to falsely insinuate that Yoel Roth, forced to flee his home, was implicit in a partisan muzzling of former president Trump.

Former Twitter Employee Flees Home After Elon Musk Whips Up Mob

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla share are on yet another nosedive this week — and investors are getting increasingly furious at CEO Elon Musk for failing to actually run the company.

Tesla Investors Furious at Elon Musk for Vanishing During Crisis to Play With Shiny New Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

The sign of someone who is sincerely not getting owned, is the deletion of their own tweet explaining why they were not getting owned.

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Clarifying That Actually, Only Ten Percent of the Crowd Was Jeering Him

By Frank Landymore

Who better than to call Elon Musk out on extremely gross, transphobic behavior than fellow Space Dude and Outspoken Guy, former US astronaut Scott Kelly?

Elon Musk Rages as NASA Astronaut Calls Out His Transphobia and Conspiracy Theories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter owner Elon Musk might have a new way to solve his App Store problem: just charge iOS users 30 percent extra for a Twitter Blue subscription.

Elon Musk’s Ingenious Plan to Avoid Apple’s 30% Fee: Charge 30% More

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk got booed by thousands of people at a Dave Chappelle show in San Francisco on Sunday night.

Video Shows Elon Musk Wilting as Huge Crowd Boos Him Off Stage

By Victor Tangermann

A longtime janitor at Twitter's San Francisco HQ claims he was told by a member of the Elon Musk team that soon, robots would be taking over their jobs.

Fired Twitter Janitor Says Elon Musk Crony Told Him He’d Be Replaced Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

After obliterating Twitter's workforce, the company's new CEO Elon Musk is desperately trying to piece together a workforce to keep the lights on.

Elon Musk Is Hiring Relatives at Twitter in Literal Nepotism

By Victor Tangermann

2022 has not been the greatest year for Tesla. It might be one of its worse. But has been an amazing one for those shorting it stock.

Tesla Short Sellers Are Suddenly Making Money

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of Twitter's chaotic exchange of power, Facebook-turned-Meta is reportedly hoping to fill the Twitter void — by going back to its roots.

Inspired by Twitter’s Struggles, Facebook Considers Making an App Where You Can Post Text. Wait a Second…

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is hellbent on turning the company's San Francisco's offices into a place where he and his "hardcore" employees can live full time.

Elon Musk Installs Washing Machine at Twitter HQ So Overworked Employees Can Wash Their Filthy Rags

By Victor Tangermann

Bloomberg reports that Twitter's janitorial staff is officially on strike. The acquisition has been a total mess — now, the building will match.

Twitter HQ May Sink Into Literal Filth as Its Janitors Go on Strike

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To realize his "hardcore" vision, Elon Musk reportedly turned conference rooms of Twitter's offices in San Francisco into "sad hotel rooms," Forbes reports.

Elon Musk Reportedly Building “Sad Hotel Rooms” at Twitter HQ for Exhausted Employees

By Victor Tangermann

One of Twitter's cofounders seems to have some serious beef with its new owner Elon Musk — and has taken to the platform to air his greivances.

Twitter Cofounder Says Elon Musk Is “Not a Serious Person”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is adding the Twitter Files as a new feather in his "free speech absolutist" cap — and thinks their reveal could put him in danger.

Elon Musk Thinks It’s Likely that “Something Bad” Will Happen to Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk seems to have reneged again on his "free speech absolutism" when deciding to ban the rapper formerly known as Kanye West from Twitter.

Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Discovers That Some Speech Is Unacceptable After All

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter alternative Hive Social has had to pull all of its servers offline in light of some serious security vulnerabilities.

Twitter Competitor Shuts Down App When It Turns Out Hackers Can Read Users’ Private Messages

By Victor Tangermann