Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.
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The mega guide to ideal image sizes for Facebook, LinkedIn and all your social media posts
How exactly should your image look so it fits in the News Feed, timeline, or stream? Here is a guide to ideal image sizes ...
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Why this funky 80s graphic generator is taking over Twitter
Oh Twitter, wonderful place on the internet. Sometimes you can be a cesspool of darkness, and sometimes you can be pretty ...
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Twitter finally relaxes 140 character limit, but with a catch
Twitter is finally, at long last, relaxing its 140 character limit with a move it should have made years ago. The company ...
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Twitter is being spoiled by one type of user
As much as I love Twitter, there's one type of user I really can’t stand on the platform. They irritate the hell out of ...
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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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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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🚡 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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Coindar is the nifty cryptocurrency trading tool that every investor should use
Coindar is a cryptocurrency calendar for your desktop with a direct line to the developers of blockchain projects - which ...
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John McAfee will pay you $100K if you get into his 'unhackable' crypto-wallet
McAfee says he will give $100,000 to anyone who can break into the 'Bitfi' wallet, the supposedly ‘unhackable’ cryptocurrency ...
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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 ...
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No, Twitter isn't 'shadow banning' conservative voices. Here's what's really going on.
President Trump today took to Twitter to do what he does best: Make false, inflammatory statements as loudly as possible. ...
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Open thread: Should Twitter users automatically delete old tweets?
After multiple baseball players were forced to apologize this month for old tweets containing racist and homophobic slurs, ...
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Researchers find tons of red flags in Bitfi’s ‘unhackable’ cryptocurrency wallet
An ad-hoc collective of security researchers and hackers has revealed that the Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet is full of spyware ...
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Ripple booked Bill Clinton for a speech and Twitter won't shut up about it
It seems Ripple is really into celebs. After announcing Bill Clinton as keynote speaker of its Swell conference, Twitter ...
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Fitbit’s lousy period feature proves the need for more women in tech
Fitbit's recently released female health feature faces backlash over limited period tracking and this could be because there's ...
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Why the lobster emoji has become an unlikely ally to the trans community
The trans community have teamed up with an unlikey ally for representation, the lobster emoji. #ClawsOutForTrans campaign ...
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And then there was Twitter
Having been banned by Apple, Spotify, Facebook, and YouTube -- and having a significant amount of his content removed on ...
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Inside Google's plan to stalk your social media accounts
Google, once again, is excited about social media. But not in the ways you might think; this isn't about another in a failed ...
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Watch this 15-year-old hacker play DOOM on John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ crypto-wallet
John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ cryptocurrency wallet has been cracked to run the iconic game DOOM, courtesy of a teenage ...
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Bitcoin dev finds potentially crippling security flaw in Bitcoin Cash
A massive security vulnerability was found in Bitcoin Cash that, if exploited, would have crippled its blockchain with a ...
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Twitter is now recommending users follow cryptocurrency scambots
Despite constant pressure to ban them, Twitter has been recommending users follow obvious cryptocurrency scambots impersonating ...
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SEC ruling suggests cryptocurrency airdrops violate securities law
Recent SEC documents suggest that popular cryptocurrency airdrops and marketing bounty programs might be violating securities ...
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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 ...
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Over 50k people have blocked Twitter's biggest advertisers over the Alex Jones debacle (and you can too)
Alex Jones can't win these days. As the unofficial mascot of conspiracy theorists everywhere, Jones -- the man who answers ...
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Anti-semitic vandals rename Manhattan ‘Jewtropolis’ on Snapchat
New Yorkers using apps including Snapchat, Citi Bike, or The Weather Channel will have noticed that this morning New York ...
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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 ...
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Twitter CEO's comments will ignite the right, context be damned
Stripped of context, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's comments sound a bit like an admission. Speaking to members of congress, Dorsey ...
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It's National Video Games Day, and everyone's being nosy about my gaming habits
So today is National Video Games Day, apparently. I know, I know...I was waiting with bated breath for it too, because ...
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Twitter will soon let you switch between algorithmic and real-time feeds
Twitter today announced a change to the way it shows tweets to users. The announcement detailed a future that includes ...
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Instagram is testing a 'regram' feature to natively repost content
On Twitter there's the retweet button. Facebook has the share icon. On Instagram, nothing. To date, users have had to ...
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Gaming Twitter showed its strength and rage after Telltale's catastrophic closure
Telltale Games announced on Twitter last week, with little warning, that it'd be shuttering its doors. The news drew a not-unexpected ...
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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 ...
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Will the algorithmic timeline be the death of social media?
A built-in stopping point provided a sense of control over our social timelines and newsfeeds. Do you miss the days of chronological ...
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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 ...
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This Google project visualizes the global effect of #MeToo's first year
The #MeToo movement is one year old and Me Too Rising, a Google product, visualizes the movement's global effect from October ...
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Twitter's privacy settings, explained
Twitter is one of the most open social media platforms on the web, which is why it might be easier to ignore the privacy settings. Admittedly, Twitter doesn't offer the level of granular control as, for example, Facebook. But it does have some decent options for controlling what other ...
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Twitter is sorry about that whole 'Kill all Jews' thing
Many New Yorkers awoke to a bit of a surprise when "Kill all Jews" briefly made an appearance in their Twitter sidebar. On ...
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Hate speech is still too easy to find on social media
If social media sites want to avoid becoming vectors for hate speech, plagues of hateful ideas, and memes, they need to step ...
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This Japanese extension will disguise Twitter as Slack so you can pretend to work
Pretending to work is a rite of passage, so be thankful someone has designed an extension that makes Twitter look like Slack. ...
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Here's how to find your old embarrassing tweets
Twitter doesn’t allow you to simply scroll to the bottom of your personal feed — it only shows your last 3,200 tweets. ...
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Twitter suspended someone for tweeting as George Bush Sr. in hell
George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States, died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease on November ...
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Twitter finally banned misgendering transgender people
Last month, Twitter banned misgendering transgender people as a part of a wider update to its hateful conduct policy. The ...
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The internet is toxic because humans are toxic
No matter how well we code, no matter how convincingly we simulate and augment reality, there's no software that can make ...
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This study shows why people fall for fake online profiles
The first step in online propaganda and misinformation campaigns is a fake social media profile. According to this study, ...
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Twitter's 2018 recap was an odd mix of dogs, pop music, and 'Wakanda forever!'
Twitter today released its year-end recap, shining a light on what was most popular on the platform in 2018. Usually, one ...
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Tumblr's new algorithm is flagging innocent posts as NSFW
Tumblr's recent controversial announcement on purging all pornographic and NSFW content from its platform has also resulted ...
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Twitter, Pornhub and other platforms ban AI-generated celebrity porn
'Deepfakes', the latest trend in online pornography is about to take a hit as Twitter and PornHub are banning its distribution ...
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Twitter might soon slide encryption into your DMs
A peek into an installer for Twitter's Android app revealed a 'Secret conversation' feature with encryption keys - indicating ...
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Researchers show how data science techniques can find Twitter 'amplification bots'
It's easier than you might think.
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How social media dilutes scientific discoveries into clickbait
Scienceploitation is embodied in especially egregious “click-bait” headlines. For example, equating a glass of red wine ...
