Twitter on Thursday announced to appoint Yu Sasamoto as Vice President for Japan, South Korea, and Asia Pacific (JAPAC) region from May 1. Yu will succeed Maya Hari, who has been promoted to a global role as Twitter’s Vice President of Global Strategy and Operations (GSO). “I’m looking forward to bringing more people, communities, brands […]

Twitter on Tuesday announced to appoint Apurva Dalal as Director of Engineering in India, as the micro-blogging platform expands its engineering team in the country, a priority market and one of its fastest-growing markets globally. Dalal has more than two decades of engineering experience spanning global organisations such as Uber, Google, and eBay, who last […]

In a bid to assess racial and gender bias in its artificial intelligence/machine learning systems, Twitter is starting a new initiative called Responsible Machine Learning. Terming it a long journey in its early days, Twitter said the initiative will assess any “unintentional harms” caused by its algorithms. “When Twitter uses ML, it can impact hundreds […]

Micro-blogging platform Twitter reportedly tried to acquire the invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse for nearly $4 billion but the talks failed, the media reported. According to TechCrunch which “confirmed the discussions took place from a source familiar with the conversations,” the talks occurred over the past several months but they’re no longer taking place. Alarmed […]

Launching its first “Global Impact Report” on Wednesday, Twitter said it aims to be the “most inclusive and diverse” technology company. By 2025, Twitter aims to have at least half of its global workforce to be constituted by women and at least a quarter of its US workforce by underrepresented minorities. Women earn 100 percent […]

As Twitter grapples with government scrutiny globally including in India over the presence of bad accounts, a Russian court has fined Twitter $116,778 for violating the country’s Internet legislation by failing to remove banned content banned. Part of the content in question urged minors to take part in illegal protests, promoted drug use, and spread […]

Already available on Android and iOS under testing, the new Clubhouse-like audio chat rooms feature called Spaces by Twitter will soon be available on desktops too. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong first spotted the arrival of Spaces on the web version. “Twitter is working on @TwitterSpaces preview cards for the web app,” she posted in […]

Twitter has announced that it is adding stickers to its ephemeral, Snapchat Stories-like Fleets, which are available for Android and iOS platforms. While making a Fleet, users will be able to add stickers by tapping the smiley face icon on the bottom row of the screen. “Your Fleets just got an upgrade,” the micro-blogging site […]

A few weeks ago, Twitter launched Spaces which is a lot like Clubhouse, but to give significant competition to the app. Before that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tweet about the app, Clubhouse made the stocks for the same to skyrocket; not only that, the download numbers moved beyond over 8M after just a single tweet. […]

Twitter compose button menu clicking, which launches options to either join Spaces, share photos or gifs, was an exclusive for the iOS app. According to the reverse engineer, Jane Manchun Wong, the button is coming to the Android app of Twitter. As per Wong’s tweets, the social media platform is currently working on the button, […]