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Record breaking Partnership by Babar and Rizwan: Pakistan Won Semifinal and First Finalist of T20 World Cup 2022

Record breaking Partnership by Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan are at their best, putting the Black Caps to the sword in Sydney and making an achievable but challenging chase appear simple.

In the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup semifinal on Wednesday, Pakistan’s opening batsmen put on an outstanding display that helped their team defeat New Zealand.

Babar and Rizwan have received periodic criticism for their play, scoring rates, and group-stage performance, with the captain appearing particularly off-balance.

However, the pair’s statistics in 20-over cricket are astounding, as they broke another another record while preparing for their victory over New Zealand.

More than any other opening combo in the tournament’s history, the Pakistan openers’ 105-run stand marked their third century partnership in a Men’s T20I World Cup.

Their eighth century partnership in all T20Is was also an all-time high, easily surpassing the next-highest team of India’s KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma, who had five.

New Zealand versus Pakistan T20 World Cup 2022, Live Cricket Score, First Semifinal: After losing the toss, Pakistan seized control of the semifinal, with Devon Conway getting run out by Shadab Khan off the final ball of the powerplay and Finn Allen being removed by Shaheen Shah Afridi in the first over. As New Zealand finished at 152/4 in their allotted 20 overs, runs from Kane Williamson (46) and Daryl Mitchell (53), among others, helped the team out much.

Babar and Rizwan have combined to score 2509 runs for Pakistan in the Men’s T20I format, which is 621 runs more than any other duo, making them by far the highest-scoring partnership in the history of the competition.

Their current partnering average is 51.20. In order to put things into perspective, only three duos with over 1000 partnership runs have an average over 40, and none have an average above 50.

After witnessing his openers turn on the style, Pakistan coach Matthew Hayden stated, “Tonight was quite spectacular and a couple things came out for us.”

“Babar and Rizwan will be the talk of the town… the sky is the limit, and these two men have been serving Pakistan for a while.”

Rizwan was only recently knocked off the top spot in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s T20I Batting Rankings, and has appeared in somewhat better form than his skipper, scoring 49 against Netherlands and 32 against Bangladesh in the Super 12 stage.

But his 57 off 43 balls against the Black Caps was easily his biggest contribution of the tournament so far, and Rizwan afterwards stated that his knock was predicated on aggression up top and then a transition to an anchor attitude as the innings progressed.

“Of course, Babar and I opted to go after the new ball, and the pitch was tricky.”

“When we concluded the powerplay, we debated who of the guys should leave.”

Skipper Babar Azam (53) and Mohammad Rizwan (57) combined for 105 runs for the first wicket, effectively sealing Pakistan’s victory. The men in green eventually won the game with five balls remaining and seven wickets in hand.

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Twitter fires more than 90% of its Indian employees, leaving about a dozen

Twitter Inc. let off more than 90% of its employees in India over the weekend as part of Elon Musk’s global layoffs, significantly depleting its engineering and product personnel in a prospective growth region.

The company employed slightly over 200 workers in India, and the cuts reduced it to about a dozen employees, according to persons familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the situation.

India is an important growth engine for global internet companies like Twitter, Meta Platforms Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which rely on its vast potential pool of new online users. However, the companies are also subject to more stringent content laws aimed at limiting the country’s large digital firms.

According to one source, over 70% of the employees lost in India were from the product and engineering team, which worked on a worldwide mandate. Positions were also reduced in functions such as marketing, public policy, and corporate communications, according to the sources. Globally, the San Francisco, California-based company Twitter cut its workforce by approximately half, or 3,700 employees.

*Twitter Inc. let off more than 90% of its employees in India over the weekend as part of Elon Musk’s global layoffs*

Twitter did not respond immediately to an email requesting comment

On Twitter, India has one of the most heated political debates, with rival parties frequently hurling accusations at each other and accusing each other of spreading misinformation. On the service, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has over 84 million followers. It’s unclear how Twitter plans to manage that debate with its newly decreased employees in the country, which speaks more than 100 languages.

Twitter’s India offices are in New Delhi, Mumbai’s financial capital, and Bengaluru, India’s southern IT hub.

According to Bloomberg News, the company still employs approximately 3,700 people worldwide. Musk is pressuring those who remain to produce new features swiftly, and in some cases, employees have even slept at the office to fulfil new targets.

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Musk has threatened to deactivate Twitter account impersonators

Elon Musk announced on Sunday that any Twitter account that impersonates another will be permanently suspended.

The platform’s new owner issued the warning after some celebrities changed their Twitter display names — not account names — and tweeted as ‘Elon Musk’ in response to the billionaire’s decision to offer verified accounts to all comers for $8 per month while also laying off a large portion of the workforce.

“Any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly mentioning “parody” will be permanently suspended going forward,” Musk tweeted. While Twitter previously offered warnings before to suspensions, now that “widespread verification” is being implemented, “there will be no warning.”

In fact, “any name change at all” would necessitate the temporary loss of a confirmed checkmark, according to the world’s richest man.

Kathy Griffin’s account was terminated on Sunday after she changed her screen name to Musk. She admitted to a Bloomberg reporter that she had used his profile photo as well.

On Friday, November 4, 2022, people walk outside Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. On Friday, Twitter employees were braced for mass layoffs as new owner Elon Musk overhauled the social platform. Jeff Chiu/AP Photo

Bertinelli noted the original purpose of the blue verification tick prior to the prank. It was given away for free to those whose identities Twitter workers confirmed, with journalists making up a large share of the receivers. “It just meant that your identification has been validated.” Scammers would have a more difficult time imitating you,” Bertinelli observed.

“That is no longer true. “Best of luck out there!” She continued.

Musk believes that the $8 verified accounts are his approach of democratising the service. Users who “sign up now” for the new “Twitter Blue with verification” can obtain the blue check next to their names “exactly like the celebrities, companies, and politicians you currently follow,” according to a Twitter update for iOS devices featured on Apple’s app store on Saturday.

It stated that the service would first be available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. However, it was not available on Sunday, and no timetable was provided. Esther Crawford, a Twitter employee, told The Associated Press that it will be available “soon but not yet.”

On Sunday, Twitter did not respond to an email requesting comment on the verified accounts issue and Griffin’s suspension.

Musk later tweeted, “Twitter must become by far the most accurate source of global information.” That is our goal.”

If the firm removes blue checks from current verified users — which has not happened — this might encourage disinformation on the platform during Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Following layoffs that occurred on Friday that apparently affected roughly half of Twitter’s 7,500-employee workforce, some Twitter users, like Griffin, have already begun migrating away from the platform — Counter Social is another popular option. They are concerned that a breakdown in moderation and verification will result in a free-for-all of disinformation on what has been the internet’s primary channel for accurate communications from government agencies and other institutions.

Many businesses have delayed advertising on the platform for fear of it becoming more unruly under Musk.

In a Friday message, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, attempted to allay such fears. He claimed that the employment reduction had the least impact on the company’s front-line content moderation team.

Musk tweeted late Friday that there had no alternative but to terminate workers “when the firm is losing over $4M/day.” He did not disclose specifics on the daily losses at Twitter, but said staff who were let go were given three months’ pay as severance.

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Elon Musk admits to a ‘massive reduction’ in revenue, prompting Twitter layoffs

Elon Musk admits to a ‘massive reduction’ in revenue, prompting Twitter layoffs

Twitter temporarily closed its headquarters and restricted employees’ access to internal systems on Friday, a week after billionaire Elon Musk took over the social media network.

Musk announced the layoffs shortly after tweeting that the firm had seen “a big loss in revenue, due to activist groups pressing advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content filtering and we done everything we could to placate the activists.” Totally messed up! They are attempting to undermine free speech in America.”

According to internal sources, the “entire” curation team on Twitter had been fired, while system lockouts made confirmation difficult. Twitter’s curation staff is critical in covering “civic integrity” events like elections, breaking news, and sports, ensuring users receive validated content presented as moments, trends, and subjects items. Internally, it is seen as a critical filter against deceptive posts.

Flags from partner news organisations concerning probable misrepresentation on the platform, according to the staffer, went unanswered. “The platform is going to grow more poisonous with less healthy information to challenge the disinformation or misinformation narratives,” stated an anonymous employee.

Some employees awakened on Friday to find their laptops locked and their access to business Gmail and Slack terminated. “Well, this isn’t looking promising,” Chris Younie, who works for Twitter in entertainment partnerships in the UK, tweeted. I’m unable to access my emails. Mac will not turn on. But I’m grateful that this is happening at 3 a.m. I really appreciate your consideration on the time front, gentlemen…”

The policy on misleading content on Twitter involves labelling disputed posts and highlighting contextualising information next to such messages. The employee stated that they were notified through email that their position was being reviewed.

The layoffs were announced in an email to employees on Thursday. “We will go through the arduous process of decreasing our global workforce in order to put Twitter on a healthy path,” the email added. “We know that this will have an impact on a lot of individuals who have made significant contributions to Twitter, but this move is unfortunately required to ensure the company’s continued success.”

The abrupt manner of the layoffs may have also violated California employment law, and Musk is already facing legal action.

Employers with at least 100 employees are required to declare layoffs involving 500 or more employees under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (Warn) legislation, regardless of whether the company is publicly listed or privately held.

According to Barry White, a representative for California’s workforce development department, the government has not received any such notices from Twitter as of Thursday.

Former Twitter senior community manager Simon Balmain told the Guardian he was “shocked, but not surprised” by the company’s rapid employment layoffs. “I had finished work but still had my laptop open and we all received an email from the employer announcing a reduction in head count,” said Balmain, who had been with the company for a year. My laptop flashed and was deleted an hour later, and I lost access to my programmes.”

Twitter employees have been pushed to work 84-hour weeks and managers have slept at the office over the weekend in order to meet Elon Musk’s strict deadlines.

Elon Musk is considering making verification a Twitter Blue perk.

According to Platformer Casey Newton and The Verge, with Elon Musk in control, Twitter plans to raise the price of its Blue subscription plan from $5 to $20 per month and make it mandatory for verified users. If the plan is launched, verified users (celebrities, politicians, journalists, etc.) must sign up for the service within 90 days or lose the blue check mark. Employees working on the project have reportedly been told they will be fired if the improvements are not implemented by November 7th.

Twitter introduced Blue in the United States late last year for $3 a month but raised the price to $5 in July. It provides subscribers with benefits such as top articles, unique icons, and, most recently, the ability to modify tweets. The firm has not disclosed membership counts, revenue, or other statistics regarding Twitter Blue, but according to Investopedia, the great majority of its revenue (89 percent) comes from advertising.

Musk indicated the change in a tweet yesterday, saying that “the entire verification procedure is being rebuilt right now.” As Newton pointed out, Twitter’s @verified now follows approximately 428,000 accounts that have the blue check, representing a small percentage of the site’s 206 million daily active users.

Many of them have tweeted about the change, and many would not pay $20 to maintain their verified status. At the same time, users have expressed concern that the new approach may exacerbate Twitter’s bot and spam concerns, which Musk appears to despise. “The objective of Twitter verification is… to be able to verify their assertions are coming from them,” cosmologist and writer Katie Mack tweeted.” It’s meant to combat misinformation, not to be a status symbol.”

Musk has been very busy in his short days as “chief twit.” According to The New York Times, he has ordered company-wide layoffs. On Saturday, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO reportedly instructed managers to begin compiling lists of staff to lay off.

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She said of the man who attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband this week. “He was tweeting antisemitic tropes, he was exhibiting memes that depicted violence, and all of this election-denying, pro-Trump, MAGA-crowd stuff,” That’s what we’re up against here… I just don’t think that any individuals should be getting money off of spreading a lot of misinformation.”

She noted that whereas TV networks are required to filter advertising for incorrect information before they have been shown and published, companies such as Twitter are not subject to the same rules.

“We need to modify the requirements for these companies,” she explained. “They’re profiting from us.” They are profiting from the violence.”

Meanwhile, NBA superstar LeBron James said yesterday that the increase in N-word usage on Twitter since Musk’s takeover was “scary AF,” and he hoped Musk “and his staff takes this very seriously.”

This came to know after the Network Contagion Research Institute, a social media research organisation, reported that use of the N-word on Twitter increased 500% in the 12 hours after Musk took control.

“Freedom of expression.” “Liberal tears,” Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan tweeted on Friday. Jordan is a close ally of former President Donald Trump, whom the previous Twitter administration barred from the platform—and whom Musk may invite back.

According to Dataminr, which also analyses social media, antisemitic memes increased, as did the term “plandemic”—shorthand for a conspiracy theory in which elites use the pandemic to obtain power and profit from vaccinations.

Meanwhile, Texas Senator Ted Cruz told Fox News on Friday, “I think Elon Musk buying Twitter is one of the most momentous moves in modern times for free speech.”

“I am extremely delighted that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be ruled by Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs who actually detest our country,” Trump tweeted on his alternative social site Truth Social.

Podcaster Joe Rogan, for one, praised Musk, a self-described “free-speech absolutist,” on Saturday for seeking to restore a “reasonable exchange of ideas” on the platform.

“I think we have a serious problem with Twitter discourse,” he continued. “Some would like to quiet those who hold opposing views, and then you get all this great feedback from everyone who agrees with you.”

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Elon Musk closes a $44 billion Twitter deal, bringing an end to a months-long saga.

Elon Musk finally completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc., according to people who are familiar with this matter, the world’s richest man takes charge after long time of 6 months struggle with public and legal wrangling over the deal for the social network

Now Twitter will operate as a private company and the shareholders will be paid $54.20 per share.

The conclusion brings to an end a complicated process that commenced in January with the billionaire quietly accumulating a sizable investment in the company, his developing expression of how the way it’s handled and run, and an eventual merger agreement that he later spent months trying to unravel.

Musk agreed to proceed on his originally proposed terms On Oct. 4, and a Delaware Chancery Court judge gave the two sides until Oct. 28 to close the deal. That deadline was met, and now the CEO of both Tesla Inc. and SpaceX Elon Musk, also takes control of Twitter, a service he uses frequently but openly criticizes, and he has promised to modify dramatically. Stocks of the company’s shares are no longer expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange.

As the deadline is close, Musk began to stamp his mark on the company, posting a video of himself entering the headquarters and changing his profile descriptor on the platform he now owns to “Chief Twit.” He planned to address the staff on Friday and arranged the meetings in between Tesla Engineers and product leadership at Twitter. According to the people, Twitter’s developers could no longer make modifications to code as of noon Thursday in San Francisco, as part of an effort to guarantee that nothing about the product changes until the deal closes.

***Now Twitter will operates as private company and the shareholders will be paid $54.20 per share.***

Since the merger was revealed in April, Twitter staff have been bracing for layoffs, and Musk mentioned the concept of cost cutbacks to banking partners when he was initially fundraising for the deal. A person familiar with the subject earlier this month told some possible investors that Musk aims to reduce 75% of Twitter’s employees, which now numbers around 7,500, and expects revenue to double within three years.

According to people familiar with the matter said, while visiting the headquarters on Wednesday, Musk told all employees of Twitter that he does not intend to lay off 75% of the company’s employees when he takes over.

During an all-hands meeting in June following his acquisition deal, Musk stated that Twitter “needs to get healthy,” a reference to cost-cutting. He has also stated that only “extraordinary” employees will be permitted to work from home, with everyone else required to come to the office. Twitter, situated in San Francisco, was one of the first significant corporations to guarantee all employees the ability to work from anywhere “forever.”

Twitter has assisted him in some of his efforts. In May, the company declared a hiring freeze, shuttered or downsized many locations worldwide, and canceled a companywide trip to Disneyland in 2023.

It was long assumed that Agrawal would step down once Musk took over. Text conversations revealed during the case suggest that the two men had a contentious discussion early in the process, and Musk later criticized Agrawal for being on vacation in Hawaii during some of the early negotiations. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s efforts to get them back together after the merger was announced ended poorly.

The last six months have been difficult for Twitter employees, who have mostly followed the ups and downs of the roller-coaster agreement via news headlines.

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