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Linda Yaccarino last week announced she is stepping down as the CEO of Elon Musk-owned social media platform X, two years after joining the firm.  Yaccarino was hired by Musk to run X in 2023, after the billionaire took over the platform, then known as Twitter, in a $44 billion deal in 2022. Amidst Linda's resignation, here's looking why Twitter was rebranded as X.

The Goverment of India blamed X for keeping the Reuters account suspended in India. The Government continuously engaged and vigorously pursued with 'X' from the late night of 5th July 2025, it said.

The X platform went down in a massive global outage as users were unable to access the micro-blogging platform.

Users from across the world --UK, United States, Canada, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Australia were reported to be unable to access the microblogging app.

A report in the Bloomberg on Monday revealed that Chinese officials are in preliminary discussions regarding the acquisition of TikTok’s US operations by Elon Musk, incase the popular social media platform faces a ban in the US.

Gautam Gambhir addressed the media before BGT, however, Sanjay Manjrekar was not happy with the press conference as he criticized Gambhir’s media demeanor, suggesting that BCCI should assign press duties to others and not him.

According to the company, If your posts are set to public, accounts you have blocked can see your posts.

Ramiz Raja faced backlash on social media again after comparing Babar Azam to Sir Vivian Richards. Earlier, he was criticized for mocking Pakistan's red-ball captain, Shan Masood.

Rishabh Pant's late-night cryptic post on X, asking if he'd be sold at auction, went viral, sparking humorous reactions from fans. Scroll down to check some of the hilarious reactions. 

Shikhar Dhawan, fondly known as "Gabbar," has officially announced his retirement from international cricket, leaving behind a legacy of memorable performances and match-winning knocks. Over his illustrious career, Dhawan became known for his fearless batting and ability to rise to the occasion in high-pressure matches. Here are six of Dhawan’s most iconic innings that cricket fans will never forget:

Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan announced his retirement, sparking emotional tributes from fans. Dhawan retires as one of only eight ODI batters to have scored over 5,000 runs with an average above 40 and a strike rate over 90. 

Gary Rooney had been working at Twitter’s Ireland unit since September 2023, as reported by fortune.

The Indian men’s hockey team was warmly welcomed back from the Paris Olympics 2024 after securing bronze under captain Harmanpreet Singh. The team’s historic achievement, marking their second consecutive Olympic medal

Microsoft Windows Global Outage has thrown several services into a total disarray.

The ongoing global outage of the US tech giant Microsoft has affected millions of users across the world, including in India, where airlines and airport services are majorly hit.

The massive global outage at Microsoft has led to serious impact on Indian airline companies too, with check-in services being impacted in Mumbai.

BSOD error or Blue Screen of Death on the platform are frequently trending on the social media as global cybersecurity platform CrowdStrike has suffered massive global outage.

Twitter employees had to justify their roles and even assess whether their colleagues should be retained.

After this change, the X users will not be able to see the posts that other users have liked on the platform.

He has also spoken out against Meta's Facebook and Instagram, arguing that these platforms have enabled child exploitation through their features.