Elon Musk Buys Twitter

From the initial tweet, to the final acquisition, and beyond, TechCrunch covers the takeover of Twitter, and its rebranding to X, in our Elon Musk Buys Twitter series.

In Brief

Elon Musk’s X will pay Trump $10M to settle lawsuit over 2021 ban
Maxwell Zeff

Feb 12, 2025
Social

Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of Infowars’ X accounts to The Onion
Maxwell Zeff

Nov 26, 2024

Social

CEO claims X, formerly Twitter, is close to ‘break even’
Amanda Silberling

Aug 10, 2023
Social

Want to pay less for your X ads? Just place them next to spam
Amanda Silberling

Aug 9, 2023
Media & Entertainment

BBC is testing being on Mastodon, says fediverse better fit for public purposes than Twitter or Threads
Natasha Lomas

Aug 1, 2023
Social

Elon Musk’s lawyers accuse nonprofit of colluding with Twitter rivals
Amanda Silberling

Jul 31, 2023

Social

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg should cage fight over whose rebrand is worse
Amanda Silberling

Jul 24, 2023
Social

Twitter competitors soar after yet another bad Musk move
Amanda Silberling

Jul 3, 2023
Apps

Block Party’s anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on hiatus
Amanda Silberling

May 30, 2023
Social

Elon Musk appoints new Twitter CEO, NBCU’s Linda Yaccarino
Amanda Silberling

May 12, 2023

Social

Linda Yaccarino leaves NBCUniversal, adding fuel to the Twitter CEO fire
Ingrid Lunden

Amanda Silberling

May 12, 2023
Social

Sex workers explain why blue check stigma and #BlockTheBlue aren’t so straightforward
Amanda Silberling

May 2, 2023
Social

Blue checks reappear on Twitter if you update your bio, lmao
Amanda Silberling

May 1, 2023
Social

Elon Musk may have accidentally leaked his burner account
Amanda Silberling

Apr 25, 2023

Social

Twitter removes ‘government-funded’ news labels after NPR and other flubs
Amanda Silberling

Apr 21, 2023
Social

Twitter quietly removes policy against misgendering trans people
Amanda Silberling

Apr 18, 2023
Social

NPR leaves Twitter due to misleading ‘government-funded media’ label
Amanda Silberling

Apr 12, 2023
Social

Twitter, Inc. is now X Corp.
Amanda Silberling

Apr 11, 2023

Social

Twitter Circle tweets are not that private anymore
Amanda Silberling

Apr 10, 2023
Social

Twitter won’t let you retweet, like or reply to Substack links
Amanda Silberling

Apr 7, 2023
Apps

Twitter’s new label makes it hard to differentiate between legacy and paid verified accounts
Ivan Mehta

Apr 3, 2023
Social

Twitter is dying
Natasha Lomas

Mar 28, 2023

Apps

More layoffs at Twitter, and loyalist Esther Crawford isn’t spared
Rebecca Bellan

Feb 26, 2023
Privacy

Musk’s Twitter is facing tricky questions over data deletion
Natasha Lomas

Feb 8, 2023
Social

Twitter Circle glitches have users worried about privacy
Amanda Silberling

Feb 3, 2023
Featured

Deconstructing ‘The Twitter Files’
Devin Coldewey

Jan 13, 2023

Social

Twitter lays off employees in public policy, engineering
Amanda Silberling

Dec 22, 2022
Transportation

Tesla stock plunges as investors fear Twitter dramas, loss of China sales
Rebecca Bellan

Dec 20, 2022
Social

Censorship, lockdowns, arbitrary bans — Twitter is turning into the China of social media
Tim De Chant

Dec 16, 2022
Social

On Dropbox, Slack pings and Twitter moderation
Alex Wilhelm

Dec 16, 2022