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Twitter shares plunged Monday in the first day of trading since Elon Musk abandoned his $44 billion agreement to buy the company – and one tech industry analyst warned of a potentially disastrous long-term scenario for the embattled social media firm. Twitter’s stock sank 11% as investors reacted to the exit. Musk’s move that sets up a lengthy court battle likely to weigh on company shares for months or years to come and added to the challenges facing CEO Parag Agrawal, according to Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives.

The Syrian opposition figure, Majdal-Din Al-Mahsoun, in an exclusive interview on Israeli TV::"أنا مستعد لمحاربة الروس في #أوكرانيا "I am ready to fight the Russians in Ukraine because they destroyed my city and my country, and there is an arena of blood between the Syrian and Russian peoples." .@kaisos1987 pic.twitter.com/U4I6wErSkY— جاي معيان Guy Maayan (@guy_telaviv) March 9, 2022 In clip he says, "Rivers of blood were shed because of the Russians."

Twitter has a dirty little secret, something CEO Jack Dorsey and his hundreds of millions of users — some of whom might even be real — don’t want you to know. Nobody cares what happens on Twitter. When I say “nobody,” I don’t mean people like you, gentle reader, who were probably too smart to ever get involved on the pond-scum platform. I don’t even mean people like myself, who fell in love with Twitter in its early days, but who finally quit when the oppressive Woke nonsense got to be too much. When I say “nobody cares what happens...

Basketball Hall of Famer John Stockton, the NBA’s all-time assists leader, didn’t score points with fans for appearing in an anti-vaccine documentary. In a clip from the series “Covid and the Vaccine: Truth, Lies and Misconceptions Revealed” making the rounds on social media Thursday, the former Utah Jazz guard brags about his supposed expertise on the coronavirus pandemic. “This isn’t a virus cheating us of this opportunity,” he says of COVID-19. “It’s the guys making decisions saying, ‘No, no we’re too scared. We’re going to shut everything down. Sit in your house and be careful.’ My kids and my grandkids...

"Federal law does not permit cooperating witnesses or informants to be charged with conspiracy, despite a baseless suggestion by Tucker Carlson that some co-conspirators of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol were not charged because they were undercover FBI agents" This is Twitter's fact check/disclaimer or whatever they call it. It show's at top when you click on the "Tucker Carlson" tranding topic.

Former President Trump on Tuesday applauded Nigeria’s Twitter ban and called on other countries to follow suit. Trump praised the West African country for banning use of the social media platform after the Twitter suspended the account of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari for comparing gunmen attacking national electoral commission offices to the Nigeria Civil War. The company deleted the tweet, saying it violated their abusive behavior policy. “Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President. More COUNTRIES should ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing free and open speech—all voices should be heard,”...

Rand Paul blasted Twitter on Tuesday for not immediately taking down Richard Marx’s tweet from Sunday in which he offered to buy drinks for the Kentucky neighbor who assaulted the Republican senator in 2017. Paul told Fox News that Marx's tweet may be to blame for a suspicious package that arrived at his door on Monday. The package contained a non-toxic white powder and a doctored image of Paul heavily bandaged with a threat to kill him. 'You know, hundreds of people on Twitter every day are wishing me violence, wishing my family violence,' Paul told Fox News on Tuesday.