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• Instagram may finally add DMs to desktop with Messenger-like interface

  People don't really use Instagram on their PCs. The platform is clearly aimed at mobile users, with a relatively sparse desktop UI and small images given the large amount of desktop real estate. Worse, Instagram tends to add new features to the web version months after it hits the ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Twitter says it used your 2FA info to advertise by accident

  Twitter today revealed it may have misappropriated its users private info by giving it to advertisers. The information in ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• NBA stands to lose billions as China lashes out over tweet supporting Hong Kong

  The NBA boasts some 600 million fans in China and rakes in billions of dollars from lucrative TV and merchandising contracts with the PRC. But that could all change because of a single tweet. Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, took to Twitter last week in ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Twitter's refusal to dox a cow stymies Republican's $250M lawsuit

  US Rep. Devin Nunes can't seem to catch a break. First, despite his memo blaming Obama and the FBI for all the evils in the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Twitter suspends SMS feature after CEO Dorsey's account was hi-Jack-ed

  Twitter has temporarily suspended the ability to tweet via SMS following high-profile hack of its CEO Jack Dorsey and a number ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account has been hacked

  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's had his account hacked. Several tweets have been sent from his verified @Jack account, many of ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts

  Google yesterday announced it'd banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery was “consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter.” If you're not an avid reader of social ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Louisiana State University Twitter warns of armed intruder, tells students to “Run, Hide, or Fight” UPDATE: Normal operations have resumed on campus

  The official Twitter account for the Louisiana State University (LSU) today tweeted a warning to students, faculty and staff ...

  • Tristan Greene

• China is paying Twitter to publish propaganda against Hong Kong protesters

  Twitter has found itself in a tight spot after it was caught running ads from China's state-backed media outlet Xinhua attacking ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• (Update: out now) Twitter is testing a safety feature to detect and hide offensive DMs

  The safety feature will hide the message’s content and replace it with: “This message is hidden because it may contain ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Teen finds way around parents' tech confiscation: Tweeting from the smart fridge (Update: bogus)

  Having your tech confiscated feels close to the end of the world. But this teen did what any future genius would do — tweet ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Twitter's trying really hard to make itself a news app

  There's no secret that a bunch of people, use Twitter to keep up with the news. Now, the company is trying to further establish ...

  • Ivan Mehta