Twitter unveils new feature
Earlier this week, social media network Twitter announced that it would be unrolling a new feature called Fleets. Fleets, a portmanteau of the words ‘tweet’...
Social media abuse drives girls off Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Online abuse is driving girls to quit social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, with nearly 60% experiencing harassment, a global study showed on...
Twitter says about 130 accounts were targeted in cyber attack this week
Twitter Inc said late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week, an incident in which profiles of many...
Twitter hacking spree alarms experts concerned about the platform’s security
The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts, is drawing questions about the platform’s...
Twitter silences some top accounts after internal systems hacked
Twitter said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian,...
Trump move could scrap or weaken law that protects social media companies
President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook, in...
Twitter apologises for flagging Chinese ambassador’s account as spam
The Twitter account of the Chinese ambassador in Nicosia was reinstated on Thursday after being suspended for two days because it was flagged as spam...
Akinci warns of fake Twitter account in his name
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci announced Wednesday that false accounts have been opened on social media using his name. In a post on his Twitter...
Financial market website Zero Hedge knocked off Twitter over coronavirus story
Twitter Inc has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the...
Twitter blocks accounts of Raul Castro and Cuban state-run media
U.S. social media firm Twitter Inc has blocked the accounts of Cuban Communist Party Leader Raul Castro, his daughter Mariela Castro and Cuba’s top state-run...
Twitter CEO’s hacked account sends racist tweets before being secured
By Elizabeth Culliford SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 30 (Reuters) – The account of Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey was hacked on Friday afternoon, sending public...
Twitter says it may have used user data for ads without permission
Twitter Inc said on Tuesday that it may have used data for personalized ads without a user’s permission due to issues with the microblogging website’s settings....
Social media platforms ban satirical rap video after Singaporean government complaint
Facebook and other social media sites have restricted access to a satirical rap video in Singapore after the wealthy city-state’s government requested the removal of...
Facebook, Twitter face U.S. Congress over politics and the internet
Top Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc executives will defend their companies before U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday, with Facebook insisting it takes election interference seriously and...
Facebook, Twitter dismantle disinformation campaigns
Facebook Inc , Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc collectively removed hundreds of accounts tied to an alleged Iranian propaganda operation on Tuesday, while Facebook took...
False news 70 percent more likely to spread on Twitter
False news stories spread much more quickly and widely on Twitter than truthful ones, an imbalance driven more by people than automated “bot” accounts, researchers...
Twitter may notify users exposed to Russian propaganda during 2016 election
Twitter may notify users whether they were exposed to content generated by a suspected Russian propaganda service, a company executive told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday....
Twitter to put warnings before swastikas, other hate images
Twitter said on Monday it would begin putting a warning in front of pictures that show Nazi swastikas and other items it determines are hateful...
Britain urged to prosecute social media firms over online abuse
Social media companies should face prosecution for failing to remove racist and extremist material from their websites, according to a report by an influential committee....
Snapchat outage prompts complaints on Twitter
Snapchat faced a worldwide outage for at least four hours on Monday, prompting a flood of complaints on rival mobile application Twitter a day before...
