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Last year, Elon Musk So far, he doesn't appear to have made much progress. Cheq, a cybersecurity firm, carried out an analysis to help its 15,000 clients decide on advertising strategies on Twitter. It found roughly 12% of ad traffic was driven by bots in the first quarter of both this year and last, per the WSJ. "It's clearly the case that bad bots remain pervasive on Twitter," Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University, who did an in-depth study into the platform, told the Journal. The apparent prevalence of Twitter Blue, Musk's new subscription service for the platform, was

Twitter chief executive Linda Yaccarino’s arduous balancing act has begun. In Elon Musk’s leadership, vowed to make Twitter “the world’s most accurate real-time information source” as well as a place for celebrating “new voices” and reaching “across aisles.” Her message, which Yaccarino also relayed in In large part, it has been Musk’s Twitter takeover, and perhaps his own tweets, that have caused major brands to Those posts are not entirely incompatible with the “Twitter 2.0” project put forward by Yaccarino, even if they hamper her ability to balance Musk’s free-speech absolutism with the feelings of wary advertisers—namely, the big-spenders who account for the vast majority of Twitter’s revenue. “Elon knew space exploration and electric vehicles needed transformation, so he did it,” wrote Yaccarino. “It’s also becoming clear that the global town square needs transformation—to drive civilization forward through the unfiltered exchange of information and open dialogue,” she continued, adding, “You should have the freedom to speak your mind.” Still, it seems unlikely that Yaccarino, a former advertising executive at NBCUniversal, can make Twitter both an anything-goes content exchange and a desirable destination for corporate ad spending. If anything, her introductory statement was a repackaged version of Musk’s past comments, with Yaccarino deferring to his view of Twitter as the “global town square,” a term Musk has used to justify the presence of far-right content and u...

A lot has happened since Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter last month — layoffs of thousands of employees, firings of engineers critical of him and an impersonation of an official Eli Lilly account that caused the pharmaceutical company's stock to drop. It's all part of the chaotic saga that began this spring, when Musk first put in motion a plan to take control of the social media platform. Here’s a complete timeline of what’s happened so far. April 2022 On April 5, Musk discloses he has purchased more than 9% of Twitter's shares on the open market. At first, he is offered a board seat. That plan quickly falls through — and Twitter Musk subsequently "Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it," he adds. Musk says he would fund the deal By April 25, “The Twitter Board conducted a thoughtful and comprehensive process to assess Elon’s proposal with a deliberate focus on value, certainty, and financing,” Twitter’s Independent Board Chair Bret Taylor says in a statement. “The proposed transaction will deliver a substantial cash premium, and we believe it is the best path forward for Twitter’s stockholders.” People walk outside Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on Nov. 4. Jeff Chiu / AP file May - June 2022 On May 13, Musk tweets he is putting the deal to acquire Twitter "temporarily on hold" pending additional information about the volume of fake and spam accounts on the platform. That's despite regular disclosures by Twitter stretching back years f...