Elon Musk seems to be having trouble letting go. Despite having stepped down from the company, the former "Chief Twit" of continues to make decisions, both small and large, that haven't done the company any favors and are current CEO Linda Yaccarino's efforts to make the social media platform profitable. Twitter undermining The latest? the number of tweets users can read in a day. On paper, the move was designed to limit the "extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation" experienced by the platform (perhaps to OpenAI from feeding more training data into ChatGPT?), but in resulted in users being greeted with the " " messages. What followed were user complaints and hilarious tweets like this: Limiting prevent practice rate limit exceeded And then, in a further attempt to alienate the Twitter user base and truly turn the platform into a "pay-to-win" website, Twitter that only verified users will be able to access TweetDeck. This means that individuals and enterprises unwilling to pay $8/month and $1,000/month to remain verified, can kiss their access to TweetDeck bubye. announced All of this really begs the question: who really running Twitter? Is it Elon Musk, with his erratic decision-making and disregard for due process? Or Linda Yaccarino, who left NBC to head the social media company as its CEO just last month? is "This move signals to the marketplace that he's not capable of empowering her to save him from himself," Lou Paskalis, the founder of advertising consultancy AJL Advisory and former marketing boss at Bank of America, referring to Musk and Yaccarino, following the daily read limit on Twitter. said We couldn't agree more. Twitter ranked #7 on HackerNoon's this week. Tech Company Rankings Meta to Capture Disgruntled Twitter Users with 'Threads' 's social media rival, months in the making, is finally making its debut. Twitter Called 'Threads', the app is 's attempt at capturing disgruntled users that are tired of Elon Musk's and just want a platform that is " ." July 6, users can expect to be welcomed by a user interface eerily similar to that of Twitter's, the only difference being that people would have to log in using (also owned by Meta). In fact, Threads' official page on the calls it "Instagram’s text-based conversation app". Meta shenanigans sanely run Launching Instagram Apple app store According to , 'Threads' was originally the name of a 2019 app Meta launched to compete with the youth-focused messaging app Snapchat but later abandoned. The company has decided to revive the branding to take on Twitter instead. The Guardian Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Meta, was recently in the news for to fight Elon Musk some time in the future. Both billionaires have a bit of a history and really seem to dislike each other. With the launch of Threads, the animosity is only likely to increase, and if the Twitter rival ends up becoming more successful, there's no telling how Musk will react. agreeing HackerNoon the existence of Threads in March, with in June. At the time, Threads was referred to as 'Project 92' within Meta offices. first reported additional reporting The launch of Threads could indicate a softening of position for Zuckerberg's long-held ambition of ruling the world with VR, which has already the company billions of dollars and earned the ire of the company's shareholders. To course correct, the young CEO has announced of job cuts and is increasingly dabbling into promising avenues, including . cost thousands artificial intelligence Meta ranked #37 on HackerNoon's Tech Company Rankings this week. Instagram was #1, while was on the #6 spot. Facebook 👋 You’re reading of HackerNoon's Tech Company News Brief, a weekly collection of tech goodness that combines HackerNoon's proprietary data with internet trends to determine which companies are rising and falling in the public consciousness. went live yesterday. Prefer reading the whole thing a day early AND in one go? No problemo! Just subscribe to receive the newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday. part 2 Part 1 here complete In Other News.. 📰 Mastodon wins, loses: Elon Musk's are only the popularity of Twitter's rivals, including Germany's Mastodon. Twitter chaotic decisions boosting Subscription services at Snap . The legacy social media app recently revealed that its subscription service Snapchat+ hit 4 million members. The service, which costs $3.99/month, was launched in June of last year. seem to be working and were among a slew of investors that funneled about in Inflection AI, an AI startup founded by Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. Microsoft Nvidia $1.3 billion Binance is in Germany. not welcome U.S. regulators for rewarding online merchants that use its logistics services and punishing those that don't. plan to sue Amazon And that's a wrap! Don't forget to share this newsletter with your family and friends! See y'all next week. PEACE! ☮️ — Sheharyar Khan, Editor, Business Tech @ HackerNoon

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