To cut down on spam, Twitter cuts the nu...

Twitter just took another big step to help boot spammers off its platform: it’s cutting the number of accounts Twitter users can follow, from 1,000 per day to just 400. The idea with the new lim

Twitter’s latest test focuses on m...

Twitter continues to experiment with ways to make conversations on its platform easier to follow. In addition to its prototype app twttr, which is testing threaded replies, the company also recently t

Twitter reverses stance and allows ad en...

Political ads on social networks have become a lot more complicated in France after the French parliament passed the so-called “fake news law” in late 2018. But the French government didn’t expect Twi

Twitter’s introduces a battery-sav...

As promised back in January by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the company today is rolling out an even darker version of the app’s existing dark mode. Before, Twitter’s dark theme was more of a

Twitter took over a user’s account...

At a time when tech giants have come under fire for failing to protect the private data of their users, Twitter took over one of its user’s accounts for fun and then tweeted jokes about reading

Where did social media go wrong?

For most of my life, the Internet, particularly its social media — BBSes, Usenet, LiveJournal, blogosphere, even MySpace, early Twitter and Facebook — consistently made people happier. But

Twitter cracks down on API abuse, will c...

To prevent its own Cambridge Analytica and make sure it’s getting paid for its data, Twitter will audit developers using its APIs. Starting June 19th, Twitter will require any app that calls a

U.S. lawmaker sues Twitter for 250 mln d...

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Xinhua) -- A prominent U.S. Republican lawmaker Monday filed a lawsuit against social media platform Twitter and several of its users for a total of more than 250 million U.S. d

Devin Nunes sues Twitter over mean tweet...

California Representative Devin Nunes announced that he will file a $250,000 lawsuit against Twitter, alleging that the company engages in “explicit censorship” and has allowed critics to

Twitter confirms a new ‘Subscribe ...

In addition to testing out a new format for conversations within a prototype app called twttr and other features like a “Hide Tweet” button, Twitter today confirmed it’s also develop