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Casey Newton

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Email salesman at Platformer and podcast co-host at Machine Gods, coming this October in partnership with NPR.

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1Nov 15, '22NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter’s Slack channels were fired overnight over email. “We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,” 63.5×090k12k2k
2Nov 6, '22Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴61.2×089k11k1.7k
3Nov 10, '22According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night. An employee says it will be up to enginee40.9×050k10k1.7k
4Jan 11, '23I'm told Twitter employees were just walked out of its Singapore office — its Asia-Pacific headquarters — over nonpayment of rent. Landlords walked employees out of the building26.5×4.3M23k4.4k373
5Nov 19, '22Multiple ex-Twitter sources telling me that Robin Wheeler, the sales leader who Musk begged to stay at the company days ago when she tried to resign, has now been fired25.4×041k4.1k681
6May 19, '22At a Twitter all-hands right now, execs told employees that they are not open to renegotiating the purchase price with Elon Musk. I’m told that champagne was popped in the New York21.4×036k3.1k455
7Feb 17, '23This is completely false. We stand by our reporting21.3×3.5M32k2.6k330
8Nov 4, '22Tweeps are just hanging out in Slack saying nice things to each other until their access is cut off. I’ve never seen anything like it. Some really incredible people leaving Twitter14.3×023k2k514
9Nov 13, '22Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include 10.9×013k3.4k442
11Feb 15, '23Elon Musk ordered major changes to Twitter this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did. Inside the secret system that's showi10.2×1.7M6.9k1.5k230
14Nov 8, '22More news from Twitter today: Elon Musk and David Sacks have both discussed putting all of Twitter behind a paywall eventually, @platformer has learned8.9×04.2k1.3k288
17Feb 4, '21India is threatening put Twitter employees in jail for *seven years* just for letting journalists tweet about protests. It’s a worrisome omen for our splinternet battles yet to com7.8×07.2k3.4k135
19Nov 24, '22One of the people fired Musk’s latest purge was Ikuhiro Ihara, a highly respected senior software engineer who helped lead the push to expand tweets to 280 characters.7.3×010k1.8k370
20Apr 30, '21About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today after a contentious all-hands meeting. I’m told more are coming.6.7×07.5k1.2k287
21Feb 9, '23NEW: Elon Musk fired a top engineer over his declining view counts. Plus the reason the site went down yesterday, fears about an upcoming FTC audit, and more. From @ZoeSchiffer and6.6×1.1M3.1k793137
22Mar 6, '23NEW: Twitter went down today because its migration to a paid API has a single site reliability engineer attached to it. Here’s @ZoeSchiffer and me on the high price of cutting cost6.2×1M2.9k855161
23Jan 9, '21Wait until Google finds out what’s on YouTube6.1×010k1.4k50
24Nov 18, '22I’m reading this email and the part where he goes, “please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screen6.1×010k692195
27Dec 30, '20An ongoing shame in American newsrooms is that so much great journalism is buried in absolutely sadistic web design.5.2×08.7k74479
28Dec 14, '22NEW: Twitter has a plan to force you to opt in to personalized ads to continue using this app. @ZoeSchiffer and me in @platformer:5.1×03.2k1.7k225
31Nov 15, '22NEW: On Nov. 1, Twitter’s trust and safety team prepared a 7-page document warning Musk and his team about exactly how the rollout of the new “verified” badge would go wrong. They 4.8×05.8k1.5k378
32Jul 25, '23Why would Elon Musk destroy billions in brand value just to rename Twitter to X? Because the whole point, from the very beginning, has been to erase the old Twitter and everything 4.5×738k3.6k1.1k231
33Jun 8, '21If you refuse to get the vaccine but installed the iOS 15 developer beta, I want to hear from you4.5×07.8k69548
37Apr 25, '22I’ll never forget where I was the moment that Elon Musk bought Twitter (I was on Twitter)3.9×06.8k60732
40Oct 30, '22Some news from inside Elon’s war room: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users pay $4.99 a month to keep their badges. Many questions remain. Subscribe to read ➡️3.7×01.9k505103
41Nov 9, '22The fact that the new verified badge looks exactly the same as the old one, and verifies exactly nothing about an account, is really just one of the all-time avoidable design mista3.7×06.2k60086
42Feb 14, '21A common mistake I see people making on Twitter is trying to have a conversation about anything3.7×06.3k454104
43Apr 11, '23This weekend's events at Twitter made it clearer than ever: Elon Musk has no idea what he is doing3.4×552k2.9k55878
45Apr 24, '22Trying to get banned from Truth Social. Wish me luck3.2×05.7k22840
46May 4, '21During Friday’s all-hands meeting, Basecamp’s head of strategy denied that white supremacy existed at the company. 30 minutes later, he had been suspended. This weekend, he resigne3.1×03.2k673446
47Apr 28, '21For more than 10 years, some Basecamp employees maintained an open list of customer names that sounded “funny” to them. Last year, amid a broader reckoning over diversity and inclu3.1×03.8k582344
48Jan 4, '23Katie Marcotte, a 10-year Twitter employee and the company's acting head of human resources, just announced that she is leaving the company in a tweet on her private account. "Root2.9×465k2.6k40837
49Nov 9, '22Some real “my passion is graphic design” vibes for this checkmark rollout2.7×04.8k30748
51Nov 5, '22Wheeeeee2.7×02.7k242150
52Jan 7, '21Facebook restricts Trump’s account indefinitely. Good.2.5×03.1k55337
53Jun 3, '21Trump’s near-instant abandonment of blogging illustrates that the real power of platforms isn’t “free speech” — it’s free reach. It’s never been clearer what stunts like the Florid2.4×03.2k730127
54Feb 8, '21The threat of an antitrust lawsuit is truly the most powerful and benevolent product manager in all of tech2.4×04k50255
56May 16, '22I don’t want to make too much of a literal shitpost but what the hell is going on with this cursed acquisition2.4×04k28098
57Nov 21, '22More layoffs hit Twitter’s sales team this morning, per someone affected. Account managers and client partners started to be informed last night. Comes a day after Musk held a shor2.3×03.3k47596
58Jun 1, '21It’s June 1, which means all your Google Photos upload now count against your storage limit! Thanks to all the paid services that died along the way to create this market opportuni2.3×03.5k46379
60Oct 28, '22I have come into possession of Twitter information so silly that I have no choice but to write a bonus Friday newsletter2.2×03.7k242124
61Nov 2, '22My favorite silly story of the day: David Sacks’ Twitter calendar is currently not set to private, and employees are analyzing his meeting schedule in an effort to determine what’s2.1×03.8k131129
62Nov 16, '22Twitter engineer Eric Frohnhoefer was fired for correcting Elon Musk. I talked to him about Twitter’s culture, Musk’s paranoia, and whether the service will crash and burn. Subscri2.1×02.8k450193
63Jan 20, '21So far my favorite thing about the Biden Administration is the sense that it’s not trying to kill me and everyone I love2.1×03.5k37514
65Nov 12, '22You know, in the ‘70s when this sort of thing happened we got Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” out of the deal2.1×03.2k50159
67Jul 28, '22Some news: Instagram is temporarily walking back some its changes amid mounting criticism. The full-screen feed beta is going away, and the number of recommendations is going down 2.0×02.2k416171
69Dec 2, '22I imagine that Google will begrudgingly, belatedly catch up to the sort of stuff that you can do today with ChatGPT, but it’s amazing how stagnant and prehistoric Google now looks 1.8×02.9k143225
70Dec 6, '22Parents — the holidays are almost upon us, and kids will soon have more free time on their hands than usual. Here’s how to prevent them from interviewing Sam Bankman-Fried1.8×03.2k24825
71May 13, '22I’m trying to think of a more obvious lie in the history of American business1.8×02.9k25344
72May 13, '21The CDC announced that fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to add "socially distanced, of course!!" to every social media post1.6×02.9k21716
73Jul 18, '22BeReal is the first social network where every single post is bad. Every day, the same haggard faces in the same three rooms of their houses. Anti-aspiration for people trying to r1.6×02.8k86110
75Jan 3, '22This victory belongs to all of us — families who bought iCloud because the entry-level phone only came with 64GB of storage, developers paying 30 percent of their revenue in perpet1.6×02.5k28435
76Nov 23, '21Wow, they made a list of the dumbest people at Google1.6×02.3k35043
77Nov 22, '22Magazine feature I would LOVE to read: a look at the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen diaspora 18 months after they left and tried to make it on their own using YouTube and Patreon. Feels 1.5×02.7k105138
78Apr 25, '22Choosing to remain on Twitter for one simple reason: I am not hot enough for Instagram1.5×02.6k19819
79Apr 22, '21Straight people: are your men also putting vaccine brands in their Tinder profiles or is this unique to my community1.5×02.7k10341
80Mar 23, '21Hearing that the New York Times just dropped the hammer on any new newsletters from staff, paid *or* free, unless they get prior approval from a committee. Paid I get; free I don’t1.5×02.1k15995
81Feb 13, '22I want to formally apologize to Netflix for failing to return the Jack Reacher DVD I borrowed in 20121.5×02.7k7934
82Jan 8, '21In STILL OTHER news, @Discord says it has banned server The Donald, which was connected to TheDonald dot Win and the Donald subreddit. Made decision "due to its overt connection to1.4×01.7k49518
84Jun 14, '21Google is gradually moving from introducing new communication apps every four months to simply renaming existing ones twice a year. But the overall goal remains: to ensure that und1.3×02k30248
87Sep 20, '21This ad is all over SF and I can’t decide what I dislike more: the wild overpromising or the total lack of information about what it does1.2×02k6845
88Apr 14, '21Welcome to Taking Credit for Coinbase Day on Twitter. What did you do to help Coinbase get to this point? Please leave an absolute lie in the replies. Let’s complicate the narrativ1.2×01.9k7927
89Jul 8, '22“I will see you in the Delaware Court of Chancery!!” — my new comeback for every situation1.1×02k14831
90Feb 7, '22Yesterday I: - tried to make a simple transaction using Ethereum; - had to buy Ethereum to make the transaction; - waited ~20 hours for the transaction to complete - the transactio1.1×01.8k6962
91Jul 28, '22Something wild is going on with Twitter recommendations right now. One of my alt accounts is now like 30 percent ‘shirts that go hard,’ 20 percent ‘no context brits,’ and then some1.1×02k5337
93Mar 12, '22The constant forced reversion to the home timeline is Twitter’s worst product decision in ages. I’m here for the latest tweets, not the greatest tweets!1.1×01.6k20223
95May 17, '21Apple and Amazon using their unlimited cash flow to subsidize ‘free’ lossless audio to music customers has big ‘Google offering free photo storage just long enough to starve its in1.0×01.6k19133
96Dec 13, '21Today Peloton introduced the concept of Schrödinger’s Big, a character who may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead as a result of his fate being linked to opposing cor1.0×01.8k12933
97Jan 1, '22Wishing a Happy New thanksgiving to everyone working on the iOS predictive text keyboard1.0×01.8k11715
98Apr 25, '22None of this would be happening if you all simply did as I do, and pay Twitter $3 a month for no reason1.0×01.8k7619
99Aug 31, '21This sucks. I met my wife on LinkedIn Stories1.0×01.8k617
100Dec 6, '21Devin Nunes, who sued Twitter because someone pretending to be his cow made fun of him there, will now be running some sort of Trump social platform. Excited to read the community 0.9×01.6k12114

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