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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 reason, we decided to make public. It's fair game. Once you tweet something publicly, it's available to anyone who feels like doing a little digging. ...
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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, figurative dipstick by which it can tell how well everyone's getting along on the site. Twitter selected researchers with dazzling bona fides, but the company ...
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Here's how Afrika tweets during elections
The latest "How Africa Tweets 2018" report by Portland, an international strategic communications agency, has revealed that during elections in Afrikan countries, over 50% of those tweeting about them are from outside the country where elections are taking place. The report, which ...
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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 API allows third-party developers to build software that interacts with the service. Starting from today, anyone who wishes to access it will face a stricter ...
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🚡 is no longer Twitter’s most unpopular emoji
The aerial tramway was the least used emoji after 77 days as of yesterday. Thanks to @leastUsedEmoji, the ABCD emoji is officially ...
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Twitter bots are running amok with your public Venmo data
Here's another reason why you might want to double-check your privacy settings: transactions you may have thought were private ...
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The Daily Caller's doxxing of Sleeping Giants was a dick move
Irony is when you attempt to harm an organization by doxxing its founder but only end up empowering it's hundreds of thousands ...
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Yes, you're losing Twitter followers. No, it's not because you're an asshole (probably).
Twitter today announced it'd be removing locked accounts from users' follower counts. If you've noticed a precipitous drop in follower counts today, it's not you -- it's your followers. Reports surfaced earlier this week that Twitter had suspended a multitude of fake accounts in ...
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Twitter suspended over 70M accounts since May. Here's a better solution.
Twitter has gone to war with fake and suspicious accounts -- for real this time. According to a report from The Washington ...
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How to engage with influencers on Twitter for your brand
I’m sure you’re no stranger to the growing popularity of influencer marketing among brands and marketers today. The significant growth in the number of people showing interest in “influencer marketing” during recent years is proof enough. However, have you ever wondered ...
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A tale of two Elons: Why this superhero should get banned from Twitter (but won't)
Depending on who you are, Elon Musk is either a hero or a villain, and little about him or his actions makes us believe he ...
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Fake news tools helped us unravel a viral infidelity video
Viral videos are a funny thing. Thousands are uploaded every day, yet one good one has the ability to unravel your entire day's work and take over your life. That's what happened to me this week when my colleague sent me along the following video: In the clip, a woman gets ...
