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Russian Twitter accounts helped opposition in UK election: Report

According to a new research, it has been revealed that Russian Twitter accounts pumped out messages in support of the opposition Labour party in an attempt to influence last year’s British election. About 6,500 automated accounts had sent messages praising opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his policies in the closing stages of the election […]

Twitter Founder Invests in Delhi based AI Startup

Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone has invested in his “personal capacity” in a Delhi based health startup that makes use of an artificial intelligence bot in its app, as he wants to contribute to a future where AI is seen as a “positive enhancement of humanity”. “Visit”, founded in 2016 is an on-demand healthcare service provider […]

Twitter Joins Facebook and Google in Banning ICOs

Reports emerged that twitter will put a ban on ads promoting blockchain tokens and initial coin offerings (ICOs). The news is not yet confirmed but speculations reported that a source close to twitter shared the information anonymously. According to the report, the source did not give additional details as to when the ban will be […]

Twitter Argument Between Elon Musk and Donald Trump

United States President, Donald Trump, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk started a political debate on Twitter concerning the import tax difference between China and USA on cars. It all started off from a tweet of US President over his promised tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum. On Wednesday, 7 March, the White House […]

Twitter Removes 2 lac Followers From Amitabh Bachchan’s Account

On what is termed to as Twitter’s bot crackdown by the outer world, many account holders including Amitabh Bachchan lost thousands of followers overnight. Twitter that is reviewing its services and making changes on the platform for a safer online social experience got into an argument with the users as many of them lost considerable […]

Know Why Twitter Shuts Down Its App For Mac

The most used micro-blogging application, Twitter has announced today, that it is ditching its application for Mac, thus moving the users to twitter.com, Tweetdeck or third party websites.  The company wants to focus on its efforts to provide great experience that stays consistent across platforms. They tweeted :   We’re focusing our efforts on a […]

Twitter Booked Profit For The First Time Since It Went Public

Twitter Inc for on Thursday, posted its first quarter results, which are rather surprising, as for the first time in its history as a public company it generated a hefty profit, thanks to its expansion outside the USA. As soon as the results were announced, the social networking platform experienced a massive boost of 12 […]

Twitter To Notify Users Exposed To Russian Propaganda During U.S. Elections

Twitter Inc, which is reviewing Russian interference during the 2016 U.S. elections, said on Friday it would notify some of its users whether they were exposed to content generated by a suspected Russian propaganda service. The company said it would email 677,775 people in the United States who followed, retweeted or liked content from accounts […]

Twitter Says World Leaders Like Trump Have Special Status

Twitter Inc on Friday reiterated its stance that accounts belonging to world leaders have special status on the social media network, pushing back against users who have called on the company to banish U.S. President Donald Trump. “Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be […]

Google, Twitter-Block Porn or Get Blocked

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]ndonesia has warned Google and Twitter, world’s largest social-media providers to block pornographic content in its country of face the blockage. Twitter Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and a host of companies have been put on notice by Indonesian Communications Minister Rudiantara, who threatened “all platforms” that if they don’t adhere to government requests to block content, […]