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Top news of the week: 05.03.2023.

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@Jason shared
On Mar 1, 2023
BREAKING NEWS: 💨 🐓 🎈😂 now on @TwitterSpaces https://t.co/mXsf3I23L5
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Elon Musk held a 2 a.m. livestream to test a 'new mic' where he spammed listeners with fart and rooster noises for 10 minutes while laughing

Elon Musk held a 2 a.m. livestream to test a 'new mic' where he spammed listeners with fart and rooster noises for 10 minutes while laughing

Musk tried out a voice-changing software and spammed his audience of more than 42,000 people with a variety of sounds, from farts to roosters crowing.

@katieharbath shared
On Mar 4, 2023
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Elon Musk reopened Twitter for political ad business. But is it too late?

Elon Musk reopened Twitter for political ad business. But is it too late?

Both Republican and Democratic digital operatives said they expect Twitter advertising will eventually pick up as campaigns seek to meet voters wherever they are.

@CaseyNewton shared
On Mar 3, 2023
With apps like Notion and Snapchat bolting on paid ChatGPT features left and right, where is the real money to be made? I talked with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao https://t.co/5fzztCrSvc https://t.co/eFwo26Cqu7
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Winners and losers in the race to add AI

Winners and losers in the race to add AI

ChatGPT is now running inside Snapchat, Notion, and other apps. Will it give them a sustaining advantage — or just line OpenAI's pockets?

@DaveLeeFT shared
On Mar 4, 2023
"Twitter sales and marketing staff were told by their colleagues that Amazon had threatened to withhold payment for advertising it runs on Twitter because the social network for months refused to pay its AWS bills for cloud computing services." https://t.co/vNSLP8BSou
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Musk Delayed Paying Twitter’s Amazon Cloud Bill, Sparking Ad Threat

Musk Delayed Paying Twitter’s Amazon Cloud Bill, Sparking Ad Threat

Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter is squeezing to save money are also its advertising clients. As ...

@katienotopoulos shared
On Mar 1, 2023
Ok so there's several other big reasons why Eli Lilly finally is making insulin affordable, but I don't think you can totally overlook the effects of public shaming via fake verified Twitter prank. My story: https://t.co/LLpGS2LFay
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Eli Lilly Reduced The Price Of Insulin To $35 Per Month, And This Guy Who Trolled The Company Can Take Some Credit

Eli Lilly Reduced The Price Of Insulin To $35 Per Month, And This Guy Who Trolled The Company Can Take Some Credit

Writer Sean Morrow, pretending to be pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, tweeted “insulin is free now” in November. Now it almost is.

@thekenyeung shared
On Feb 28, 2023
Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub https://t.co/YJZQI6Q7qf via @techcrunch
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Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub

Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub

Flipboard's addition to the Fediverse has the potential to add a good number of users if its community chooses to embrace this new frontier.

@goldman shared
On Mar 1, 2023
Really good stuff from @danpfeiffer on Twitter. This part in particular is well observed. https://t.co/QwwLU8isQs https://t.co/4LazDAMrIY
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How to Use a Diminished Twitter in the Elon Era

How to Use a Diminished Twitter in the Elon Era

Twitter is now niche platform with declining relevance, but it still has some uses for communicators

@JohnPaczkowski shared
On Mar 2, 2023
RT @antonioregalado: Elon Musk brain-computer interface company Neuralink got rebuffed by the FDA when it asked to implant its gadget in human brains. Exhaustive story by Reuters. https://t.co/rligJ9ofpC
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U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks

U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks

Elon Musk says his brain-chip company will make the paralyzed walk and the blind see. But Neuralink still struggles to secure clinical-trial approval.