New Delhi: After reports surfaced that some of the top Indian politicians including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter accounts are infested with fake followers, the micro-blogging platform on Wednesday termed such reports as baseless. A recent “Twitter Audit” report claimed that Modi, Gandhi, BJP President Amit Shah and others lead […]
New York: False news on politics travels farther, faster, deeper and more broadly than the truth on Twitter because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it, finds a study led by three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scholars. Social media has created a boom in the spread of information, although little is known […]
San Francisco: Twitter will soon open the much-coveted blue tick verification process for all users on the platform who can prove their identity. “Twitter announced in a livestream that the company plans to offer its blue-check-mark verification badge to more of its users, an oft-requested feature,” Jack Dorsey, CEO, Twitter was quoted as saying by […]
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who threatened to quit Twitter after losing followers earlier this month, met some officials from the micro-blogging site to understand the digital platform. He says the working on the micro-blogging platform is very apparent. “The Twitter team came from across the seas to visit me at work and to explain to me […]
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has jokingly uploaded a job resume on Twitter emphasising on his height. The thespian, 75, took to Twitter, where he shared an article which read that actresses Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif are too tall for actors Shahid Kapoor and Aamir Khan. “Job Application: Name: Amitabh Bachchan, DOB: 11.10.1942, Allahabad, Age: […]
New Delhi: Twitter India recorded over 14 lakh budget-related conversations in the past week (January 26 to February 2), with healthcare being the most talked about topic followed by demonetisation, the company said on Friday. “Conversations on Twitter lit up globally as politicians, well-known personalities and the public took to the platform to express their opinions […]
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he sometimes posts on Twitter while in bed, defending his use of the social networking tool as necessary amid “a lot of fake news” about him. The New York Times had previously revealed that Trump tweets from bed, and this is the first time the President admitted to it, […]
Twitter's 'privacy check-in' feature would take users through a series of questions that help them think about how public or private they want to be on the platform.
San Francisco: Sidestepping once again whether Donald Trump’s tweets violates its terms of service, the micro-blogging platform has clarified that it will not block the US President’s tweets because he is a world leader. In a blog post called “World Leaders on Twitter”, the company said on Friday that there has been a lot of […]
Mumbai: Shah Rukh Khan’s social media on Twitter has extended to 32 million. Shah Rukh on Tuesday tweeted: “Naye saal ki sabko shubh kamnayein. Sab raho khush aur aabaad aur 32 million ke liye bahut bahut dhanyawaad. Waah Hindi main likha toh kuch kavi sa hogaya. (Good wishes to all for the New Year. Please stay […]
San Francisco: A month after Twitter doubled its 140-character restriction for people to express more in a tweet, users were divided on the new 280-character limit with only 38 per cent approving the change, a new survey has found. According to the survey by London-based market research company YouGov, four in 10 said they liked […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s radio programme “Mann Ki Baat” was the most trending hashtag on Twitter in 2017, followed by #jallikattu and #GST, the micro-blogging platform said on Thursday. #Mannkibaat sparked a great deal of commentary all over the year, including a tweet from cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar that went viral. “Mann Ki […]
San Francisco: After increasing the character count in a tweet, Twitter has found a new way to let people express themselves more by making it simple for them to string several tweets together. “We’ve made it easy to create a thread by adding a plus button in the composer, so you can connect your thoughts […]
San Francisco: Twitter’s decision to do away with the 140-character limit a month ago seems to have struck the right chord with the users as early data suggests that people are liking and retweeting the longer tweets at a rate approximately double that of their shorter counterparts. The data seem to put to rest the […]
San Francisco: After a successful trial in the Philippines, Twitter is rolling out its data-friendly “Lite” Android version in 24 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Available in Google Play Store, Twitter “Lite” (under 3MB size) loads quickly on 2G and 3G networks and offers offline support in case users […]
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