Sources: Musk ordered Twitter homepage to be changed to show the Explore page to logged out users, not a sign-up form, which was quietly implemented on Friday (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk’s Twitter bio reads “Chief Twit”, as he visits the company’s San Francisco office; memo to employees: “you’ll all hear directly from him on Friday”  —  Elon Musk made his presence felt at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters Wednesday …

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google adds Lens to the google.com homepage, letting users search by image, after rolling out the feature to the desktop in 2021  —  Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today.

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
WhatsApp begins rolling out a Message Yourself feature, letting users send notes, reminders, and shopping lists to themselves  —  WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature to let you chat with yourself.  Sending messages to your own account can be a way to keep a piece of information easily accessible …

James Vincent / The Verge:
Some Twitter users say the option to sign up for $8 Twitter Blue has disappeared from its iOS app; an error message says it will be available “in the future”  —  Twitter users are reporting that the option to sign up for the company’s new $7.99 subscription service, Twitter Blue …

Chris Kerr / Game Developer:
Twitch is testing Elevated Chat, letting users make one-time payments of $5 to $100 to highlight a message in select chats from 30 seconds to 2.5 minutes  —  Twitch wants to help viewers support their favorite content creators by allowing them to pay up to $100 to elevate their message in chat.

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees  —  After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter’s 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again.