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• Twitter's bot purge led to a 9M drop in users last quarter

  Twitter's just revealed that its user base has shrunk from last quarter by a sizable nine million monthly users - and that's ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Twitter now shows if a tweet was deleted for policy violations

  Twitter recently announced it’s rolling out a feature to provide context around deleted tweets - including who deleted them and why. It's a small change, but it's the latest in a series of moves Twitter is making in an effort to bolster transparency. https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1052592173785509889 Up ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Twitter releases 10M Iranian and Russian propaganda tweets ahead of US Midterms

  Twitter recently released millions of tweets from thousands of accounts associated with election interference and political ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Twitter's new policy aims to eradicate 'dehumanizing speech'

  Twitter today announced it'd be altering its hateful conduct policies to prohibit "dehumanizing speech." By doing so, it intends to patch a hole in its rules against hate speech to account for tweets that don't specifically target anyone, but which are nonetheless demeaning. It's ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• California law would make political bots illegal – unless they admit they're bots

  California state Senator Robert Hertzberg's controversial bill would make it illegal to use a bot for to influence voters ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Twitter fixed the biggest problem with its promoted political tweets

  Twitter announced it was making a change to its policy on political ad tweets, and in doing so it's fixed on of the biggest problems with those promoted tweets -- namely, that the information about them wasn't easily accessible. The policy applies to ads that "advocate for legislative ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Twitter should try a new approach to tackling misinformation already

  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is reluctant for the company to become 'the arbiter of truth.' But its lax approach to misinformation ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• This hilarious Twitter account triggers film fans with fake criticisms

  This Twitter account shows us that, sometimes, a joke is funnier when a bunch of people don't get it. Deadpan isn't dead, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How to automatically delete your old tweets

  Online sleuths have spent the past several years uncovering some of our deepest and darkest secrets. Secrets that, for whatever ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Twitter's newly commissioned health studies may be shots in the dark

  Twitter today announced it had selected two finalists in its months-long search for a "health metric" -- essentially a giant, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Here's how Afrika tweets during elections

  The latest "How Africa Tweets 2018" report by Portland, an international strategic communications agency, has revealed that ...

  • iAfrikan News

• Twitter to place new restrictions on its API to stop abuse

  Twitter has announced it's tightening control over its API in order to protect the platform from spam and abuse. The Twitter ...

  • Matthew Hughes