
There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground.

There is very little surprising about Elon Musk’s methods of running X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, seemingly into the ground.
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Threads’s chess match against X, formerly called Twitter, continues with the launch of its polls and GIF features on Thursday.

My oh my, what a year it’s been. After several months of back-and-forth between billionaire and tech tycoon Elon Musk and social media company Twitter, the former officially took over as owner of the platform one year ago on Oct. 26, 2022.

Ever since Elon Musk took over X, formerly known as Twitter, this time last year, plenty of decisions ranging from head-scratching to plain bad have been made. Now, one year later, there is clear data indicating that those decisions have done next to nothing except destroy the once massive and respected platform’s…
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Elon Musk has been on a mission to transform X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) from what was once the world’s most successful microblogging platform into an “everything app”—a sort of one-stop shop of web services.
It’s been an unusually busy week in spaceflight, with the chatter restricted to rockets still on the ground. In a particularly festive update, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is gearing up for the launch of its Vulcan Centaur rocket on Christmas Eve.