US President Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from Twitter due to the “risk of further incitement of violence”, the social media giant has announced, days after his supporters stormed the US Capitol and caused the deaths of four civilians and a police officer. The unprecedented move by the California-based social media platform comes after […]
In a recent development, one that has not yet been publicly announced by Twitter, it turns out that the corporate behind the social media platform is trying to meddle with how users can access Twitter. This is a concerning issue for a lot of users, and Andrew Plotkin (Twitter handle: @zarfeblong) in a Tweet tried […]
Twitter has been fined €450,000 (~$547k) by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, commonly known as DPC under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for not declaring and documenting a breach of data. The decision is the first cross-border GDPR by the leading European privacy supervisor, Irish Watchdog. The company, Irish Watchdog, supervises many renowned companies and […]
Today, Twitter has announced that it is working on its upgradation with the newly added ‘Fleets’ feature, and it is now to expand this feature to Japan this time. This will then be followed out for a broader rollout for users all around the world. Fleet as a feature: Just like forums such as Instagram, […]
The government has shot off a stern letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, conveying its strong disapproval over misrepresentation of the Indian map, and asserted that any attempt by the micro-blogging platform to disrespect the country’s sovereignty and integrity is totally unacceptable. In a strongly-worded letter, IT Secretary Ajay Sawhney has warned the platform that […]
Twitter was wrong to block weblinks to an unverified political story, CEO Jack Dorsey said on Friday, as the company responded to criticism over its handling of the story that had prompted cries of censorship from the right. Straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix, he tweeted. […]
A recent report confirms, Twitter changing its plans and policy on the subject of content hacking. Earlier, Twitter had to delete a link related to the Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, which had led to an outburst of controversies. On this, the Twitter team said that the deletion was in order to protect against […]
Twitter locked the personal account of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany after she shared a news report regarding alleged corruption by the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, President Donald Trump has said. Trump and his campaign alleged that this was because of a story from the New York Post which made allegations […]
Audio tweets for users have already been introduced by Twitter in June. They now wish to introduce the voice DMs and will begin the testing of voice messages soon starting with Brazil. Twitter will thus allow users to record and send voice messages as a direct message. This feature has been already seen in apps […]
Twitter, according to its latest blog, is working towards making Twitter more inclusive and accessible also for people with disabilities. Earlier this year, Twitter had tested voice Tweets as a part of its new initiative. However, the first attempt had also brought to the front just how much work Twitter still has to do with […]
Twitter on Thursday said the account linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked, and it has now been restored. We’re aware of this activity and have taken steps to secure the compromised account. We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted. Advice […]