Tag: Twitter

San Francisco: Twitter has warned of “unusual activity” from state-sponsored actors based in China and Saudi Arabia after it found a bug that could have revealed the country code of users’ phone numbers or if their account was locked. The revelation led to Twitter stock dropping nearly 7 per cent on Monday. In a statement, […]

San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has confirmed that a third party software provider is responsible for the series of cryptocurrency-related hackings on its platform. A Twitter spokesperson said attackers exploited a third-party marketing solution to blast fake Bitcoin giveaway links from a slew of verified accounts, The Next Web reported on Friday. The confirmation comes […]

New York: People’s social media usage, which largely mirrors daily work schedules and school calendars, is causing a huge amount of “social jet lag” and disrupting their biological clocks, reveals a study that analysed patterns of activity on the social media platform Twitter. Social jet lag — a syndrome related to the mismatch between the […]

San Francisco:Twitter is rolling out an update for iOS users in the US where they can see tweets they care about the most in the search tab via new “sections”. Currently, the Twitter search tab in the iOS app offers a vertically scrolling list of trending topics. The users can now move horizontally to view […]

New Delhi: As the nation gears up for the Assembly polls in Chattisgarh, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana, conversations and debates on Twitter in the past week alone recorded 1.2 million tweets related to #AssemblyElections2018, the microblogging site said. Among the initiatives that Twitter launched for the state elections include special emoji, #ElectionOnTwitter events, […]

San Francisco: Twitter has recorded over 10 million tweets about voting since October 1 as the US midterm elections loom. “This has already been the most tweeted-about US midterm election ever. Nearly 15,000 US users even have ‘vote’ in their display name,” Bridget Coyne, Senior Public Policy Manager, Twitter, said in a blog post on […]

San Francisco: Twitter has said that it is giving its users more freedom to report fake, suspicious accounts to intensify crackdown on online spamming activities a few days ahead of US midterms elections. Twitter announced the new measure through its official safety account by saying that it will not allow any attempts to manipulate or disrupt […]

San Francisco: Twitter has apologised for failing to act on threatening tweets made by Cesar Sayoc who is suspected of sending improvised explosive devices to Democratic leaders and critics of US President Donald Trump. “We are investigating what happened and will continue to work to improve how we handle concerns raised by anyone on Twitter,” […]

San Francisco: Twitter will now highlight when it takes an action on a bad tweet – making its over 330 million users understand that the tweet was forcibly taken down and not deleted by its user owing to public outrage. According to the micro-blogging platform, once it requires a tweet to be deleted, it will […]

Mumbai: Actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja has taken a break from the micro-blogging site Twitter as it’s “too negative”. “I’m going off twitter for a while. It’s just too negative. Peace and love to all,” Sonam tweeted on Saturday. Earlier this week, a Twitter user wrote: “Sonam, it’s because of people like you, who don’t use […]

San Francisco: Twitter still remains a hotbed for accounts spreading fake news, suggests a new study that looked into how fake and conspiracy news flourished on the microblogging site both before and after the 2016 US presidential election. More than 80 per cent of the Twitter accounts linked to spread of disinformation during the 2016 […]

San Francisco: Microblogging site Twitter has rolled out its latest update for iOS users with the “data saver” feature that would give users the option to decide how the amount of data they intend to invest on a specific content. When this option is enabled, videos would not autoplay and images would initially load in […]

San Francisco: To further protect the integrity of elections, Twitter on Tuesday said it will now delete fake accounts engaged in a variety of emergent, malicious behaviours. As platform manipulation tactics continue to evolve, the micro-blogging platform said it is expanding rules to better reflect how it identifies fake accounts and what types of inauthentic […]

San Francisco: Ahead of the US mid-term polls in November, Twitter has launched #BeAVoter campaign that will be featured in top US trends and in a prompt in users’ timelines on its platform. Through the campaign, Twitter would connect users to TurboVote — a non-profit organisation that could help them register to vote, sign up […]

San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter is now mailing and checking facts with all the developers who may have been impacted by a bug in its “Account Activity Application Programming Interface” (AAAPI). The bug-affected API allowed registered developers to build tools to better support businesses and their communications with customers on the micro-blogging platform. The bug […]