Tag: Micro Blogging

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Twitter introduces new feature to push more news links

San Francisco: Continuing its aggressive move into news, Twitter has now rolled out a new feature to highlight the links shared by your network into your Home timeline, BuzzFeed News has reported. The new feature also groups the tweets mentioning the link underneath it. The feature has rolled out to all Twitter users across iOS, […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Twitter blocks New York Times account, restores later

New York: Twitter last weekend blocked a New York Times account for almost 24 hours, stating a tweet by the account violated the micro-blogging website’s rules against hateful conduct. The tweet by @nytimesworld – the account of the international reporting team — had promoted an article about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s apology to indigenous people […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Twitter kills 90,000 fake accounts promising online sex

San Francisco: After a US-based digital security company alerted Twitter about a massive botnet campaign promising online sex to its users, the micro-blogging website has removed nearly 90,000 such fake accounts. Dubbed as ‘SIREN’, the fake botnet campaign was discovered by ZeroFOX, a Baltimore-based security firm specialising in social-media threat detection. “To our knowledge, the […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Twitter partners with Bloomberg for streaming news 24/7

New York: Micro-blogging website Twitter has partnered with Bloomberg Media to stream news round-the-clock on the social networking platform. “It is going to be focused on the most important news for an intelligent audience around the globe and it’s going to be broader in focus than our existing network,” The Wall Street Journal quoted Justin […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Twitter now lets you re-tweet with GIFS, images

San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has rolled a new feature that allows its 326 million users to add images, videos and GIFs to their re-tweets. Available for both Android as well as iOS users, the feature was announced on the micro-blogging site itself late on Monday. “It’s easy to express yourself by re-tweeting with a […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Twitter unveils 'Hide Replies' feature, global roll-out soon

San Francisco: You will soon be able to hide replies in the conversation thread on Twitter that are offensive, hateful or racist in nature. The micro-blogging platform is testing a feature called “Hide Replies”, beginning with users in Canada which will be rolled out globally. It is not the equivalent of a delete button but […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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