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Twitter, Facebook move quickly to stem celebrations of Nice attack

Twitter Inc moved swiftly to remove posts from Islamic extremists glorifying a truck attack in Nice, France, watchdog groups said on Friday, in a rare round of praise for a platform that has often struggled to contain violent propaganda.

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Social media may have been blocked during Turkey coup attempt

Reports emerge during attempted military coup of people struggling to access social media in a country described as a ‘bastion of internet censorship’

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Twitter users debating Brexit with both sides have more influence: study

​Twitter users sending messages to those who share their views and others with opposing viewpoints about Brexit are most likely to influence dialogue on the social network, according to a study published Thursday by the Imperial College London.

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Will Google Or Facebook buy Twitter?

​The fate of the social-media company is becoming much clearer.

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Microsoft, reasserting its muscle, buys LinkedIn for $26.2 billion

Microsoft’s blockbuster $26.2 billion takeover of LinkedIn might be an attempt to travel through time. Specifically, to the heady heights of yesteryear’s technology valuations.

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Why Microsoft’s $26.2 billion Linkedin acquisition is good news for Twitter

It’s a vote of confidence for Silicon Valley, which has been shy to make deals this year. And it makes a Twitter acquisition a lot more likely.

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Twitter, Trump's trusty weapon, could backfire

This theory is not exactly bunk. It’s true that Mr. Trump’s Twitter feed, with its staccato cadences and unending exclamation marks, can be irresistible even to his critics.

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Twitter appoints new Greater China head as number of Chinese advertisers triples

Pioneer microblogging service Twitter has named a new head for its Greater China operations, following a more than 300 per cent growth in the number of its Chinese advertisers the past year.

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Microsoft's racist chatbot returns with drug-smoking Twitter meltdown

Short-lived return saw Tay tweet about smoking drugs in front of the police before suffering a meltdown and being taken offline

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Weibo, beating twitter to the punch, lengthens its 140-character limit

Weibo’s move comes a couple weeks after the revelation that Twitter intends to get rid of its trademark cap as well.

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U.S. Central Command's Twitter, YouTube accounts hacked

​The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the United States military command that oversees operations including those in the Middle East were hacked Monday by a group of people claimed to be supporters for the Islamic State.

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Hacked AP Twitter account sends bogus news about Obama injury, stock market plum

The main twitter account of the Associated Press was hacked on Tuesday afternoon, sending out a false news claiming that Obama was injured in a White House explosion, which caused a sharp drop and a quick rebound in the U. S. stock market.