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Tumblr Banning All Adult Content After its App down From Apple’s App Store

5Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Tumblr Banning All Adult Content After its App down From Apple’s App Store

Tumblr has said it is banning adult content from the Yahoo-owned blogging platform, which saw its app pulled from Apple's App Store last month over child pornography. Tumblr will begin enforcing its new policy on December 17, giving users who host unwanted explicit content an opportunity to take their imagery elsewhere, according to chief executive Jeff D'Onofrio. There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content," D'Onofrio said in a blog post Monday. Those looking for adult content may be better off Going Here instead of Tumblr from now on. "We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community." The decision to purge porn from Tumblr was made after "serious thought" regarding standards in the...

Twitter Suspends 70 Million Fake Accounts in Two Months

7Jul By AnkitaNo Comments

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Twitter Suspends 70 Million Fake Accounts in Two Months

Leading Microblogging website Twitter Inc. suspended over 70 million fake accounts in two months (May and June), as per the latest report revealed by the Twitter sources to The Washington Post. In the report of the Washington post, Twitter said that they are running a massive clean-up drive to clear out bots and trolls on the platform. The impact of this campaign is that the rate of suspension of accounts is doubled since October. Over 1 million accounts were suspended a day in recent months. Twitter is now on image makeover campaign, clearing all the fake and spam accounts on its website. The most popular blogging site between celebrities is looking to stop spam and abuse of fake accounts. However, these aggressive measures against unwanted accounts may impact the Twitter user...

Twitter Discontinue Engineering Tasks in India, Lay Off Employees At Bengaluru Development Centre

20Sep By AnkitaNo Comments

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Twitter Discontinue Engineering Tasks in India, Lay Off Employees At Bengaluru Development Centre

Microblogging site Twitter has decided to discontinue engineering tasks in India, a move that will lead to lay offs at its development centre in Bengaluru. The company, however, did not disclose the number of people being handed pink slips. When contacted, Twitter in an emailed statement said: "As part of our normal business review, we have decided to stop the global engineering work at the Bengaluru development centre. We thank the impacted individuals for their valuable contributions and are doing as much as we can to provide them a respectful exit from our company." The company "remains committed to India as a strategic market for users, partners and advertisers," it added. The company further said: "Today, India is one of our fastest growing markets worldwide and we continue to...

Twitter to keep 140-character limit, CEO Jack Dorsey says

19Mar By reutersNo Comments

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Twitter to keep 140-character limit, CEO Jack Dorsey says

Twitter Inc's 140-character tweets are here to stay, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Friday, ending speculation that the microblogging site might abandon one of its trademark features for a 10,000-character limit. "It's staying. It's a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity," Dorsey said on NBC's Today Show. A Twitter spokesman declined to elaborate. In January, technology news website Re/code reported that Twitter was building a new feature that would allow tweets as long as 10,000 characters. Twitter has declined to comment on the feature directly. But Dorsey tweeted the day of the report that the company had seen more screenshots of text posted as a way to get around the 140-character limit. "We're not going to be shy about building more utilit...