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• New algorithm can identify misogyny on Twitter

  Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia have developed an algorithm that detects tweets ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Twitter's new API encourages devs to craft powerful third-party apps and useful bots

  Twitter's had a rocky relationship with third-party developers creating apps on top of the service. Over the years, it has introduced limitations for apps such as the active number of tokens and the number of actions (you know, tweets, retweets, likes, and DMs) within a time frame, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Twitter begins labeling state-affiliated media and government officials

  In the age of social media, Twitter is one of the primary ways governments and politicians speak to their constituents--and how they can potentially spread propaganda. Following a similar move by Facebook, Twitter will soon begin to label accounts strongly associated with governments. Twitter ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Study: Instagram's algorithm favored Trump over Biden

  The Tech Transparency Report (TTP) found that Instagram pushed searches about Joe Biden towards negative hashtags, but blocked ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Prosecutors claim to have caught teenage mastermind behind Twitter hack

  An investigation has allegedly turned up the perpetrators of the July 16 Twitter hack. The apparent mastermind is a Florida ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Algorithm reveals which new emoji Twitter users most desire

  Researchers from the Haslam College of Business and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are tracking the most requested ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Twitter says this new app for copying others' timelines violates its rules — but it may live on

  If you've ever wanted to know what someone else's Twitter timeline is like, you'd have to replicate their 'following' list, one user at a time. In the past couple of weeks, Vicariously, a service built by entrepreneur Jake Harding, is helping people with that task automatically. As ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Dear Twitter, can we get encrypted DMs already?

  We don't need any more signals that enabling end-to-end encryption for DMs is the logical next step for Twitter in the evolution ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Linkin Park gets Twitter to take down a video Trump retweeted

  Twitter has taken action on another Donald Trump tweet. This time, it wasn't for misinformation about mail-in ballots or ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 130 Twitter accounts were targeted by hackers in the grand Bitcoin scam

  Yesterday was probably one of the busiest days for Twitter's security team, as a hacker managed to get hold of high-profile ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• The giant Twitter hack is being investigated by the FBI

  Yesterday, Twitter saw its most brazen hack ever, in which one or more hackers were able to access the accounts of some ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Everything we know about how Twitter’s biggest hack went down

  If you're waking up just now like me, all of us missed Twitter's most dramatic and biggest hack of all time. Here's what ...

  • Ivan Mehta