San Francisco: After the European Union’s new data privacy regulations came into effect on May 25, Twitter started suspending users who, it believes, joined the platform before turning 13, the media reported. But the process has become messy as this latest wave of suspension has affected many adults, including journalists, technology website Motherboard reported on […]
San Francisco: In a fresh attempt to prevent foreign interference in elections globally, Facebook and Twitter have announced new guidelines for political advertisements on their platforms, beginning with the US. Facebook has begun labelling all political and issue ads, including a “Paid for by” disclosure from the advertiser at the top of the advertisement. Advertisers […]
New Delhi: The micro-blogging platform registered over 30 lakh tweets related to Karnataka assembly polls in the past three weeks, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) garnering 51 per cent of the share of voice, Twitter announced on Wednesday. Congress registered 42 per cent and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) seven per cent of mentions on Twitter […]
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says he went to watch the latest Marvel Studios’ movie “Avengers: Infinity War”, which he failed to understand. The 75-year-old cine icon tweeted on Sunday: “Okay brother, don’t feel bad. Went to watch a film called ‘Avengers’, but didn’t understand what was happening in the movie.” T 2803 -T 2003 – […]
Mumbai: On the occasion of Mother’s Day on Sunday, filmmaker Karan Johar says he is proud to be a mother to his children Roohi and Yash. The “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” director welcomed his children in March last year. They were born via surrogacy. Karan, 45, tweeted: “I love mothers. I love my mother (Hiroo […]
New York: Nearly 90 per cent of Twitter’s ‘active’ users tend to spread falsehoods in the case of public emergencies or disasters, a study of more than 20,000 tweets has found. The researchers found that 86 to 91 per cent of the users spread false news, either by retweeting or “liking” the original post. Five […]
Mumbai: From Priyanka Chopra, Anushka Sharma to veteran filmmaker Shekhar Kapur – a slew of celebrities wished a “happily ever after” to newly wed couple actress Sonam Kapoor and businessman Anand Ahuja. A mehendi function on Sunday kicked off the wedding revelry, followed by a grand sangeet celebration on Monday, and a Anand Karaj wedding […]
San Francisco/New Delhi: Twitter has urged its 336 million users to change their passwords after the company discovered a bug that stored passwords in plain text in an internal system. “As a precaution”, Twitter on Thursday recommended its users to consider changing their password on all services where they have used the same password. The […]
Mumabi: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, one of the most widely followed Indian celebrities on Twitter, has questioned the micro-blogging platform’s management about how they manage to keep the number of followers constant. “Dear Twitter Management, it’s quite amazing how you manage to keep numbers of followers constant and not moving at all despite maximum activity??? Well […]
Mumbai: Producer-author and entrepreneur Twinkle Khanna believes in taking legal action instead of retaliating with “violent threat” online. “As a society do we really think it’s all right to threaten a woman with bodily harm for trying to raise funds for a charity by auctioning a uniform used in a movie, a piece of film […]
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, […]
San Francisco: For the second time this week, Twitter users around world faced difficulties in sharing their thoughts on the microblogging platform, the media reported. Twitter confirmed the problem on Friday and said it had resolved the issue. “Earlier today, people were unable to send Tweets for about 30 minutes. We’ve resolved the internal issue […]
San Francisco: In a bid to fight the prevailing gun culture, Twitter has changed its “pistol” emoji to a bright green “water gun”, following Apple, which launched a similar one in its iOS 10 update. The change is part of Twitter’s emoji update “Twemoji 2.6,” Tech Crunch reported late on Wednesday. “In doing so, the […]
Mumbai: Actor Tiger Shroff said that he won’t compromise with the tag ‘Hero’ as there is only one such figure and that’s his father Jackie Shroff. Filmmaker Subhash Ghai, who has directed Jackie in films like “Hero”, “Ram Lakhan”, “Khalnayak”, “Yaadein” and “Karma”, on Tuesday took to Twitter to praise the father-son duo. “A great […]
New Delhi: National carrier Air India on Thursday said that it has “restored” its official Twitter handle after it was hacked. According to a senior airline official, Air India has commenced its investigation into the matter. “The official Twitter handle has been restored (after it was hacked). We have commenced our investigation into the matter,” the […]
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