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Hi everybody and welcome back to
the Elon Musk podcast on today's

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episode, we delve into the 
stormy seas, the Twitter Inc or 

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X Corp, as it's now, known is 
currently navigating will be 

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discussing everything from a 
multimillion-dollar lawsuit, 

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claiming Twitter failed to pay 
promised employee bonuses. 

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The new user policies shaking 
the twitterverse will dissect. 

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The transformative effect that 
musk's take over his head on 

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this social media Behemoth as 
well as how these drastic 

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changes are spurring user 
migration into surge in 

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litigation Ian from unexpected 
changes such as tweet access 

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restrictions aimed at combating 
data scraping to the 

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resurrection of previously, 
banned accounts. 

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Musk's leadership of Twitter has
been nothing. 

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If not eventful the platform. 
Now, faces mounting legal 

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challenges, a discontented user 
base and the departure of key 

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Evert sizers. 
Yet amidst the upheaval, some 

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competitors, such as Blue Sky 
are witnessing record, high 

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traffic. 
So stick around as we dive deep 

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into these developments. 
Applications for Twitter's 

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future. 
And what this means for the tech

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World At Large, but first, let's
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We'll be right back with the 
heart of the matter. 

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Twitter Inc, also known as X 
Corp once the epicenter of 

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online. 
Social dialogue is now mired in 

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legal disputes, a consequential,
Exodus of users and the 

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controversial reign of the new 
ownership from Elon Musk, and 

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with its acquisition by Tech 
tycoons. 

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Ilan last year, the platform has
seen drastic shifts. 

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It is Policies and conduct the 
social media giant. 

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Now confronts a class action 
lawsuit, alleging that it has 

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failed to deliver on promised 
employee bonuses. 

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The suit was filed on Tuesday by
Mark show Binger a former senior

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director of compensation at 
Twitter who exited the company. 

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Last month. 
In the suit alleges that Twitter

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had committed to giving 
employees 50% of their target 

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bonuses for 2022. 
Promises that the lawsuit claims

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have not been fulfilled and the 
clean. 

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It's towards a potential breach 
of contract on Twitter's part, 

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Twitter's official response to 
the legal action was 

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characteristically musk X. 
They offered up a poop emoji. 

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The media relations office, like
many other facets of the social 

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media. 
Giant has vanished since musk's 

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acquisition the legal 
representation for show Bender. 

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Attorney Shannon. 
Liz Riordan is no stranger to 

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Twitter's courtroom escapades 
this Riordan represents former 

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Twitter employees. 
Several other lawsuits in 

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approximately 2000 individual 
arbitration cases these stem 

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from musk's Mass layoffs last 
year, which led to accusations 

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of unfulfilled Severance 
packages. 

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It alleged discriminatory 
targeting a female and disabled 

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employees during the layoffs. 
Twitter has consistently denied 

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any wrongdoing in these 
instances and the influx of 

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legal troubles, doesn't stop 
with disgruntled employees, 

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many, landlords vendors, and 
Consultants have also brought 

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legal action against Twitter 
over unpaid bills, a legacy 

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inherited by musk upon 
purchasing the company. 

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And in another significant soup,
three, former Twitter, 

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Executives, including the ex-ceo
are, suing the company in 

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Delaware, they claim that 
Twitter reneged on an agreement 

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to reimburse over 1 million 
dollars in legal fees, incurred 

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in responding to government 
regulatory requests. 

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In a midst, This legal Quagmire 
musk announced. 

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A sudden change to Twitter's 
user policies to To combat data,

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scraping by AI companies, 
Twitter has temporarily 

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restricted, the number of tweets
users can access daily. 

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The limitation varies for 
verified and unfair of I'd 

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users. 
And it's unclear how long these 

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limits will last or the 
conditions required to lift them

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as per musk's declaration. 
Verified accounts can access 

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6,000 tweets per day. 
While unverified ones are 

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limited to 600 Now, new 
unverified users, who, Joined 

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post, the announcement are 
further, restricted to only 

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three hundred tweets per day. 
These rates are expected to 

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increase soon, according to 
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Now, musk's move followed his 
expression of concern, over 

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quote, extreme levels of data, 
scraping by artificial 

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intelligence companies, This 
directly affects chatbots like 

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chat. 
TBT the rely on substantial data

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servers typically, script from 
the internet and the impact of 

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these new restrictions and other
Twitter features such as their 

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audio conversation, platform 
spaces remains unclear, however,

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a surgeon error messages like 
quote rate limit exceeded on 

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users home feed suggest 
far-reaching implications user 

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reports of Twitter malfunctions 
on down detector spiked it a 

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a.m. eastern on Saturday and 
continued throughout that whole 

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day. 
At since purchasing Twitter for 

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forty four billion dollars, last
October musk has introduced a 

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slew of significant changes, 
he's restored previously. 

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Banned accounts including former
President, Donald Trump's 

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replace the verification system 
with a pay to verify model in a 

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pointed Linda. 
Yeah, kirino formerly of NBC 

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Universal as Twitter CEO. 
However, these changes have not 

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been without consequence. 
Others have departed and mass 

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raising questions about 
Twitter's future Revenue model. 

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Moreover, Twitter's frequent 
glitches and changing user 

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experience have spurred users to
migrate to similar platforms, 

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like mastodons, blue sky and a 
proposed Twitter clone by meta. 

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And in a Twist of irony, Blue 
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A platform backed by former 
Twitter, CEO, Jack Dorsey has 

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seen record high traffic after 
musk's announcement. 

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The app is described as a 
decentralized. 

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Social network and has been 
considered a potential Twitter 

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alternative. 
However it remains invite-only 

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at this time in another major 
policy shift. 

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Twitter is clamp down on the 
number of tweets per day. 

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The various accounts can read 
the new restriction aimed at 

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deterring extreme levels of 
data, scraping and system. 

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Manipulation was announced by 
Elon Musk Saturday. 

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Now the 6603 hundred numbers 
there are going to be changes to

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that however musk later, raise 
those limits to 10,000 for 

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verified users, 1004 unverified 
and 504, new unverified users. 

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He provided no additional Tours 
explanation to these changes. 

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The move follows Twitter's 
decision to make viewing tweets 

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and exclusive feature for its 
account holders must label. 

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This a temporary emergency 
measure and clip that hundreds 

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of organizations were scraping 
Twitter data, extremely 

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aggressively. 
Thus impairing the user 

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experience must frustrations are
not new and have been directed 

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towards artificial intelligence 
firms, including open AI, the 

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developer of chat, CBT is 
previously criticized them for 

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using Twitter. 
Data to train their large 

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language, models in the 
implementation of these changes 

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has not been without hitches on 
Saturday morning, Twitter 

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experience, a significant outage
with nearly 7,500 users 

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reporting issues. 
In other musk's ownership, 

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Twitter has made several 
attempts to regain advertisers, 

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who abandoned the platform. 
One such move has been 

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monetizing verification, check 
marks as part of the Twitter 

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blue program to boost 
subscription revenue and the 

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legal battles. 
In tumultuous policy changes 

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paint a really challenging 
Picture for Twitter future with 

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an increasingly disgruntled user
base and mounting legal 

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disputes. 
It remains to be seen whether 

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musk's drastic measures will 
lead to revitalizing the 

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platform or to continue to 
provoke instability and 

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discontent. 
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Musk podcast. 
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appreciate you spending the time
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