Elon Musk says his last 3 months were 'extremely tough' because he had to 'save Twitter from bankruptcy'

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Elon Musk acquired Twitter on October 27.

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I work in party hostels all around the world. I clean gross rooms and host all-night pub crawls in exchange for a free place to live — here's what it's like.

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Laid-off Google employees are turning to a Discord server with nearly 18,000 members for emotional support and financial advice

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Google employees who were laid off have rushed to Discord to vent and get financial advice.

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Elon Musk proposes a monthly $100 charge for developers who want to access Twitter's API, saying it would clean up 'bad' bots

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Twitter owner Elon Musk proposed charging $100 a month for access to Twitter's API.

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A laid-off Meta worker says she's struggling after not getting the 16 weeks of severance her fellow employees received: 'I'm going through my kids' closet and selling their old clothes'

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Brit Levy completed about seven months of her year-long program with Meta before they laid her off.

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TikTok's opposite approach to Instagram is winning the social media race.

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Instagram got popular by favoring big brands over cool content — which is why it's now losing to TikTok

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Instagram is a victim of its own success. The reason it became popular is the reason it can't beat TikTok.

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Instagram is becoming as uncool as Facebook — and it has only itself to blame

Mark Zuckerberg is finally embracing his new role as Meta's Chopper-in-Chief. Here are the plans he just laid out to further cut costs in 2023.

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Meta is slashing its costs by another $4 billion, and investors are thrilled

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Meta said it would spend less in 2023 — and investors cheered big-time, sending the stock up nearly 19% in after-hours trade.

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Snap plunges 11% on ugly earnings and analyst warnings that 'issues are intensifying' at the social media company

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Snapchat announced on Monday it plans on introducing mid-roll ads in select Snap Stars' public stories.

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