On January 26th, 2026 with 32 comments
Earlier this month, the media site Press Gazette reported that now Google "is increasingly prioritising AI summaries, X posts and Youtube videos" on its...
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On January 11th, 2024 with 109 comments
SonicSpike shares a report from Forbes: X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, announced it would begin rolling out a peer-to-peer payment service...
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On July 13th, 2023 with 62 comments
Twitter has started sending out the first payouts to creators on the platform who are part of the company's revenue sharing program. The largest payout...
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On May 18th, 2023 with 17 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Bluesky Social, the popular new beta social network, is taking a big open-source step forward. On May 15th,...
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On March 31st, 2023 with 70 comments
Twitter blog: At Twitter 2.0, we believe that we have a responsibility, as the town square of the internet, to make our platform transparent. So today we are...
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On March 18th, 2023 with 69 comments
BGR reports:
Elon Musk seems to be close to making good on his promise to open-source Twitter's code. Well, at least part of it.
In a post on the social...
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On October 30th, 2022 with 80 comments
Noting that Elon Musk once called Dogecoin "the people's crypto," Reuters reports that on Saturday the price of Dogecoin surged more than 70%, "extending this...
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On October 29th, 2022 with 123 comments
"A pair of pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees tricked multiple media outlets Friday as the public anxiously awaited news on whether Elon Musk had...
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On May 5th, 2022 with 27 comments
Bluesky, Twitter's open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol. The Verge reports: The system is dubbed the...
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On April 27th, 2022 with 217 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Social media platform Mastodon, often seen as an alternative to Twitter, gained nearly 30,000 new users...
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On April 21st, 2022 with 255 comments
Elon Musk is exploring whether to commence a tender offer for Twitter, according to a new securities filing. From a report: The updated filing published on...
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On August 10th, 2021 with 334 comments
Twitter has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week following another violation of the platform's rules, the company said Tuesday. From a...
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On May 18th, 2021 with 261 comments
The Justice Department under President Trump secretly obtained a grand-jury subpoena last year in an attempt to identify the person behind a Twitter account...
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On March 30th, 2021 with 108 comments
A young child inadvertently sparked confusion over the weekend by posting an unintelligible tweet to the official account of US Strategic Command. The BBC...
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On March 25th, 2021 with 108 comments
The chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter faced criticism from U.S. lawmakers on Thursday about their approaches to extremism and misinformation in...
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On February 25th, 2021 with 72 comments
Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge their followers for access to additional content, and the ability to...
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On February 22nd, 2021 with 164 comments
ZDNet reports:
A handful of technology giants operating in Australia have agreed on a code of practice that aims to stem disinformation on their respective...
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On February 11th, 2021 with 53 comments
Twitter's finance chief said the social-media company has thought about how it might pay employees or vendors using the popular cryptocurrency bitcoin. From a...
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On January 25th, 2021 with 145 comments
Twitter unveiled a feature Monday meant to bolster its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation by tapping users in a fashion similar to Wikipedia...
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On January 17th, 2021 with 358 comments
CNN reports:
Twitter on Sunday temporarily suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeated violations of new rules the social media platform...
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On January 16th, 2021 with 237 comments
"This will be the account for my official duties as President," tweeted U.S. president-elect Joe Biden on Thursday — but from a new account at...
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On January 8th, 2021 with 147 comments
Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub, a site that offers a free gateway to paywalled research. The site is accused of violating the counterfeit policy...
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On December 20th, 2020 with 43 comments
"Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money," Elon Musk tweeted on Sunday, and then followed it up with another tweet. "One Word: Doge."
"The tweet sent shares...
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On November 24th, 2020 with 175 comments
Earlier this year, Twitter started flagging disputed and potentially misleading tweets. Now, it's expanding the feature so that you'll also get a warning if...
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On November 20th, 2020 with 116 comments
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have said they will join forces with fact-checkers, governments and researchers to try to come up with a new way of tackling...
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On November 5th, 2020 with 130 comments
A series of tweets by one Miami University student that were critical of a proctoring software company have been hidden by Twitter after the company filed a...
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On October 15th, 2020 with 580 comments
The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to issue a subpoena on Tuesday to Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey after the social-media company blocked a pair of New...
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On October 3rd, 2020 with 42 comments
Twitter is developing a new product called "Birdwatch," which the company confirms is an attempt at addressing misinformation across its platform by providing...
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On September 1st, 2020 with 34 comments
When authorities arrested Graham Ivan Clark, who they said was the "mastermind" of the recent Twitter hack that ensnared Kanye West, Bill Gates and others, one...
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On July 31st, 2020 with 102 comments
In a press conference on Friday, US authorities announced they arrested the main suspect behind this month's major Twitter hack. From a report: The suspected...
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