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Entrepreneur Elon Musk acquires Twitter, Inc. in a $44bn deal. Musk fires Twitter's chief executive officer Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, and the head of legal policy Vijaya Gadde upon taking over.
2022-10-27

The Tokyo District Court sentences serial killer Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the "Twitter killer", to death, for murdering nine people at his apartment in 2017 and dismembering their bodies. Shiraishi, who was found mentally competent, pled guilty and told the court his crimes had a sexual motive.
2020-12-15

Several Google services go down without warning around 11:50 UTC, including YouTube, Google Search, and the Google Play Store. The chatting app Discord and mobile video game "Pokémon Go" also go down. The cause was revealed to be an “authentication system outage” by the Google Cloud Twitter account.
2020-12-14

Twitter says it will label state media, official government accounts and their staff. State-funded media outlets with "editorial independence", such as the National Public Radio in the U.S., or BBC in the UK, will not be among those labelled, according to a spokesman for the social media site.
2020-08-6

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security withdraws its order that Twitter unmask a user whose tweets are critical of President Donald Trump following the company's court filing to block the order on constitutional grounds.
2017-04-7

The United States stock market undergoes a flash crash (similar to 2010) of 1 percent when the Twitter feed from the Associated Press news agency is hacked and erroneously states that several explosions have injured President Barack Obama.
2013-04-23

Phil Hogan says Fine Gael and the Labour Party have agreed a draft of a proposed Programme for Government as talks between the political parties resume at Government Buildings in Dublin following the recent general election.
2011-03-5

John Gormley, leader of the ruling coalition's Green Party and former Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, is eliminated in the Dublin South–East constituency.
2011-02-26

Pearse Doherty of Sinn Féin wins a by-election for the Donegal South–West constituency in the Irish parliament reducing the majority of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party to two.
2010-11-26

A British Conservative Party councillor is questioned by police and suspended by his party after posting a comment on Twitter calling for the Asian journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to be stoned to death. She had earlier spoken on radio concerning the issue of human rights in China.
2010-11-11