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Erin Woo
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Erin Woo
@erinkwoo
covering openai, google & ai @theinformation, previously @nytimes et al. tips: [email protected] or erinkwoo.07 on signal
if you're the assistant who had to go out and find a sink so elon musk could make this joke, dm meEntering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!
00:00- I am told that as the 5 p.m. deadline approaches, someone is playing "The Final Countdown" in Twitter's NYC office.
- scoop: as of mid-January, Twitter only had around 180k paid subscribers in the US, less than .2% of its monetizable monthly active users. with around 290k paying subscribers globally, this would imply just ~$28m in annual revenue — 1% of Twitter's total
- scoop: over 500 of Twitter's top advertisers have paused advertising since Musk took over, a Twitter senior manager told employees on Tuesday
- New: X is cutting half of its team focused on threat disruption and elections integrity, including the team’s head, after saying it would expand it
- SCOOP: Twitter intentionally suspended Tweetbot and other third-party apps, per internal Slack messages viewed by The Information.
- 🚨JOURNALISM TIP🚨 Q: How do you get sources to call you back? A: Start making lunch
- some personal news: Friday was my last day as a @nytimes fellow! In a few weeks, I’ll start as a reporter at @TheInformation, covering startups and venture capital. I’m thrilled to keep writing about tech alongside reporters and editors I really admire.
- Replying to @erinkwooset it up (a classic! a masterpiece!) has nothing on this
- Replying to @erinkwooAt least hundreds of employees appear to have left, based on the number of farewells in Twitter's Slack channel. I however will still be covering this beat! Send me tips at [email protected] (email me for my Signal #)
- all of the little reporters eating our little starbucks cheese boxes at the elizabeth holmes trial
GIF - Scoop: For months, Twitter delayed paying its AWS cloud bill. So Amazon threatened to stop paying its ad bill, staff was told. in which an unstoppable force (Elon's cost cuts) meets an immovable object (Amazon), and the unstoppable force pays up in part:
