The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, was a man who had built his brand around efficiency and who had a reputation for taking decisions and letting the chips fall where they may. Of course ...

Despite weeks of talk about migrating to Mastodon, here they were, still arguing with the new owner of Twitter on Twitter. Mastodon now has a million users; Twitter still has 250 million.

Elon Musk, the world's richest person and new owner of Twitter, is asking the social network's users to pay him for a safety-focused feature that already exists — and is currently free.