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.
Reports emerge during attempted military coup of people struggling to access social media in a country described as a ‘bastion of internet censorship’
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.
It’s the tech giant’s third machine-learning acquisition in as many years.
The fate of the social-media company is becoming much clearer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Short-lived return saw Tay tweet about smoking drugs in front of the police before suffering a meltdown and being taken offline
Weibo’s move comes a couple weeks after the revelation that Twitter intends to get rid of its trademark cap as well.
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.
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.