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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg will have to be postponed. The Tesla founder shared an update about recent health issues, revealing that he will be getting an MRI on his “neck & upper back tomorrow,” which means he might need to undergo surgery and will not be able to go against the Meta CEO.The update comes after Mark explained that he was “ready” to fight Elon, but didn’t expect it to be soon, as there had yet to be a confirmed date.

Mark Zuckerberg is firing back at Elon Musk and throwing some jabs at the X, formerly known as Twitter, owner after he announced their fight would be live-streamed on the aforementioned platform.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Meta turned in a healthy 11% uptick in revenue for the second quarter of 2023, topping Wall Street expectations and signaling the social giant’s ad business is recovering after last year’s doldrums. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram posted revenue of $32.0 billion and net profit of $7.79 billion ($2.98 per share), up 16%. On average, analysts expected revenue of $31.12 billion and earnings per share of $2.91, according to Refinitiv data.

Meta’s revenue beat estimates in the second quarter, rising by 11% to $32 billion, as the company also touted investments in its Twitter rival, Threads, as well as in new AI products.

Threads is making a big change as it continues to grow exponentially as an alternative to Twitter. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri took to the micro-blogging platform to announce that they would be implementing rate limits to combat bots.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Twitter was experiencing unexplained technical problems Wednesday, as key features of the Elon Musk-owned social network appeared to be not working correctly. Problem reports with Twitter began spiking around 10:30 a.m. ET on July 12, according to uptime-monitoring service Downdetector. In the U.S., user-reported errors for Twitter’s website and app shot up to more than 7,100 complaints by 10:36 a.m. ET. Of the user reports, 50% were related to the Twitter; 43% were related to the website; and 7% were problems associated with the server connection, according to Downdetector. One of the main problems users reported was the inability to see an account’s tweets from their profile page, at least on the desktop (web) version of the Twitter service. According to Twitter’s API status monitoring page, all systems were operational as of Wednesday morning.

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is throwing a little shade at Threads after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his platform had crossed 100 million signups in less than a week.

On Thursday, a lawyer for Elon Musk’s Twitter accused Meta of leveraging “trade secrets” to launch its Twitter competitor, Threads, which garnered more than 30 million sign ups in its first 24 hours of operation. Musk’s threats, however, did nothing to slow adoption of the new platform. In fact, user takeup increased.

Things are getting feisty on social media!

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Should you ditch Twitter in favor of Instagram’s Threads — which looks quite a lot like a clone of Twitter? Meta launched Threads, a “conversational” text-centric app tied to Instagram, on Wednesday, a day earlier than expected. The internet giant sees an opportunity to take on Twitter, controlled by tech mogul Elon Musk, which has been beset by various technical and business issues since he acquired the company. “I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Threads post. “Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.”

popular YouTuber, whose legal name is Jimmy Donaldson, shared an impressive transformation snap to Twitter on Thursday, adding to the list of tycoons getting shredded for summer.“Woke up and realized I was obese so I started lifting and walking 12,500 steps a day,” he tweeted, along with the side-by-side shirtless photos, eliciting more than 640,000 likes. “Still got a long way to being yoked but I’m happy with my progress so far,” Donaldson, 25, added.The YouTuber’s latest tweet is the most recent update on his yearlong fitness journey, which he previously divulged this month.“I’ve been lifting religiously for 10 months (with trainer, 12k steps a day, good sleep, good diet) and I’ve gone from obese to just lean.

Could Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg face off at Italy’s most iconic landmark?

the Minister of Culture has reportedly reached out to Twitter and Tesla head Elon Musk and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to coordinate a fight at the historic Colosseum in Rome, Italy.The Post has reached out to the Italian Minister of Culture for confirmation.In response, Musk, 52, entertained the idea by tweeting, “Some chance fight happens in Colosseum.” Both tech moguls have been training with Lex Fridman, an Artificial Intelligence researcher who hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, a podcast and YouTube series. He also practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu and holds a first-degree black belt.After Musk tweeted earlier this month that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet with the caption “send me location.”Zuckerberg’s team reportedly passed on the message to Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White, whose people contacted the Italian Minister.Italian government officials reportedly offered up the 2,000-year-old venue as a battleground for the historic cage fight.

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are stepping into the ring.

William Earl In totally normal news, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk might be duking it out in a high-profile fight. It all started with a Musk response on a Jun. 20 Twitter thread mocking Zuckerberg, which stated, “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.” The crack was in response to a user saying Zuckerberg “does the ju jitsu [sic] now,” a reference to his recent medaling in a Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament.I’m up for a cage match if he is lol On Wednesday evening, Zuckerberg responded on his own platform, Instagram, by posting a Story which included a screenshot of the Tweet and responded with, “Send Me Location.”

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Apple this week announced Vision Pro, its augmented-reality and VR headset priced at a cool $3,500, seven times the price of Meta’s upcoming Quest 3 headset. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, apparently, was not blown away by the Apple reveal. “From what I’ve seen initially, I’d say the good news is that there’s no kind of magical solutions that they have to any of the constraints on laws and physics that our teams haven’t already explored and thought of,” Zuckerberg told employees at an all-hands meeting Thursday, per a report by the Verge. Apple’s Vision Pro will use a higher-resolution display than Meta’s Quest 3, Zuckerberg noted. The Vision Pro will deliver 23 million pixels across two displays, more pixels for each eye than a 4K TV. However, with the high-end display “and all the technology they put in there to power it, it costs seven times more” than a Quest 3, slated to ship in the fall of 2023, and “requires so much energy that now you need a battery and a wire attached to it to use it. They made that design tradeoff and it might make sense for the cases that they’re going for,” Zuckerberg said.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor About half of Americans are in favor of the U.S. government banning TikTok, the hugely popular video app owned by China-based internet giant ByteDance. Amid intensifying scrutiny of and antagonism toward TikTok, a newly released survey by Pew Research Center found that 50% of Americans support a U.S. government ban on the app, with 22% opposed and a sizable share (28%) unsure, according to a newly released survey conducted by Pew Research Center. Among those who actually use TikTok, just 19% support a ban. Given TikTok’s popularity among teens, it’s worth noting that Pew’s survey was fielded among U.S. adults (those 18 and older). Americans who are aware that TikTok is owned by the ByteDance are particularly likely to support banning it: About 60% of those surveyed who know TikTok’s parent company is based in China support the U.S. government banning the app, compared with 27% of those who are unaware of TikTok’s Chinese ties, according to the Pew survey.

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta is laying off 11,000 staff — about 13% of the social median giant’s entire workforce.

Kanye West has reportedly been banned from Instagram, leading him to make a comeback on Twitter after two years away.NBC News confirmed that the rapper was barred from the social photo-sharing platform, with a representative for Meta – the company that owns Instagram – saying he was restricted from posting, and had content removed by a moderator, after violating the rules and guidelines. It was not specified exactly what posts were removed by Meta, but as NBC noted, one deleted yesterday (October 8) saw West share anti-Semitic sentiments.It came after Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs responded to West’s recent gaffe at this year’s Paris Fashion Week – where he wore a shirt emblazoned with the phrase “White Lives Matter”, a slogan tied to white supremacist movements – and West shared screenshots of a text exchange between the two rappers to Instagram.

J. Kim Murphy Instagram has placed a restriction on Kanye “Ye” West’s account after deleting content for a violation of the platform’s policies. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the decision to Variety, sharing that temporary restrictions on posting, commenting and messaging are standard practice for accounts that regularly violate the social media platform’s policies. The company did not indicate which specific posts were the cause behind the restriction. West, who uses the handle @kanyewest on the platform, recently shared a now-deleted post featuring a screenshot of a message, allegedly sent to rapper Diddy, that had been criticized as antisemitic by Jewish advocacy groups like the American Jewish Committee.