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OpenAI rejected the offer and Altman subsequently posted on Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want".
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
“Re: my father: well, now you know why I refused to give him the password to his own twitter account for a decade lol” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
“And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk posted on the site.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
At the beginning, people didn’t “tweet” — it was “I’m going to twitter this,” Bilton recalled.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
In one of the big red oaks, a small screech owl started his eerie twitter.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
African wild dogs have thus evolved to stay under the radar, communicating in twitters best captured by wild dog ears, and steering clear of places where lions and hyenas — and now humans — abound.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Looking like a miniature killer whale, it twitters in flight.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2020
We startle a chunky little woodcock that's sheltering in the long grass and it twitters its indignation shrilly.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2020
In an age of 24/7 rolling news, blogs and twitters, we are on constant call wherever we are.
From Time ● Feb. 22, 2012
The teepee filled with the twitters of a bird and distant traffic.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
As the orange ball of the sun rose on the horizon and birds twittered in the eucalypti, Baumgarten showed up—a fit, poised, attractive guy in his 40s.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 2, 2020
He twittered on about last night’s screening, then asked me to think of a piece to write for Vogue, so that’s a relief.
From MSNBC ● Nov. 15, 2017
He shows how observing the nesting larks that twittered above 'no man's land' and natural cycles such as the seasons gave a sense of renewal, and how animal 'troops' were inspirationally loyal.
From Nature ● Nov. 15, 2016
Greeks showered him with love, twittered over his looks, and wrote adoring satires of his glamorous life and wide-ranging talents.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2015
And even then, in the quiet darkness inside the caravan, the pretty bird chuckled and twittered and trilled, and, once, it even hooted like a little owl.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
It helps nurture a slower, older way of life, with pocket flocks and modest dairy herds enclosed by thick hedgerows foaming with cow parsley and twittering songbirds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
On a long low wall alongside the Liangshui river in Beijing, a trader has several small cages with tiny twittering birds.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
And the twittering masses erupted in debate again hours later when the Los Angeles Police Department announced it was not investigating the matter because Rock had declined to pursue criminal charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2022
Comical flocks of guinea fowl scampered back and forth, twittering.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2021
“What have we become, when kings and high lords must dance to the twittering of sparrows?”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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