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Twitter to test 280-character tweets, busting old limit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The days of Twitter Inc limiting messages to 140 characters, a signature of the social network since its launch in 2006, may be numbered. Twitter said on Tuesday that it would...
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Twitter looks to toughen rules on online harassment, abuse
By Angela Moon and Arjun Panchadar REUTERS – Twitter Inc plans to toughen its rules on online sexual harassment and impose stronger penalties for misconduct, according to an email it sent to a group of...
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Twitter to label election ads after U.S. regulatory threat
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it would add labels to election-related advertisements and say who is behind each of them, after a threat of regulation from the United States over...
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Twitter says Trump’s account deactivated by employee leaving company
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was deactivated by a Twitter Inc employee who was leaving the company on Thursday and was down for 11 minutes before it was...
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Twitter to roll out 280-character tweets worldwide
(Reuters) – Microblogging website Twitter Inc , known for its iconic 140-character tweets, said on Tuesday it would roll out 280-character tweets to users across the world. Twitter said it ran a test...
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Trump, Obama dominate Twitter year, but chicken nuggets prevail
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump continued to dominate Twitter in 2017 even though former President Barack Obama’s tweets were more liked and both were blown away by one man’s quest for free...
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Twitter to let users make tweet threads more easily
(Reuters) – Twitter said on Tuesday it would add a pair of buttons that will allow users to more easily see and add new tweets to existing ones on the same topic. With the new feature, users who create...
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Twitter to put warnings before swastikas, other hate images
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Monday it would begin issuing a warning before a user can see pictures with Nazi swastikas and other items it determines are hateful imagery, as well as...
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Twitter says world leaders like Trump have special status
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Friday reiterated its stance that accounts belonging to world leaders have special status on the social media network, pushing back against users who have...
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Twitter surprises with revenue turnaround, shares surge
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Thursday delivered its first quarterly profit and an unexpected return to revenue growth helped by expansion outside the United States, pushing shares in the social network...
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Twitter bars tactics used by ‘bots’ to spread false stories
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it would no longer allow people to post identical messages from multiple accounts, cracking down on a tactic that Russian agents and others have...
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Twitter seeks proposals to improve content quality on its platform
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Thursday sought help to improve the quality of conversations on its micro-blogging site in a bid to address rising criticism against social media companies for failing to...
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Twitter’s new bookmarks feature lets you save tweets so you can read them later
Twitter has become a cavalcade of information on a plethora of subjects, however, when it comes to finding a story, photo or video you glanced at earlier the task is nigh on impossible, until now. The...
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False news 70 percent more likely to spread on Twitter – study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – 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 said on...
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Twitter to ban cryptocurrency ads from Tuesday as online crackdown widens
LONDON (Reuters) – Twitter Inc will start banning cryptocurrency advertising from Tuesday, joining Facebook and Google in a clampdown that seeks to avoid giving publicity to potential fraud or large...
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Twitter bans ads from Russia’s Kaspersky Lab
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Friday that it has banned ads from Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, saying the cyber-security company’s business model conflicts with advertising rules and citing U.S....
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WARNING: Twitter urges all users to change passwords after glitch [video]
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch caused some to be stored in readable text on its internal computer system rather than disguised by...
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Twitter changes strategy in battle against internet ‘trolls’
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Tuesday revised its strategy for fighting abusive internet “trolls,” saying it would use behavioral signals to identify harassers on the social network and then...
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Tweeting about banking troubles? You’re a fraudster’s dream
LONDON (Reuters) – Customers who use social media to vent frustration at their banks when services go down are inadvertently making themselves targets for fraudsters, law enforcement officials and...
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Twitter updates app to highlight big events, news stories
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it is changing its service to give more space to major events such as the World Cup, earthquakes, royal weddings and elections in a bid to make...
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