Twitter will be open-sourcing the tweet recommendation code by the end of the month. Elon Musk said the code is in an embarrassing state and isn't even understood by engineers at the company.
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Twitter boss Elon Musk who complained of low visibility is trending on the platform more than ever. Thanks to a glitch, his tweets and replies are flooding people's For You feeds across the globe.
Twitter has updated its terms, saying that users can only send out up to 2,400 tweets in a single day. Some users got an error message Wednesday saying they had actually hit that limit.
Community Notes, Twitter's means to combat misinformation on the platform, is now rolling out globally to users worldwide. This allows moderators to add helpful notes to tweets to improve context.
Twitter owner, Elon Musk, tweeted about a decline in the number of hate speech impressions on the platform. He argues that the spike in offensive content on Twitter has now been controlled.
Elon Musk has just confirmed that the ability to attach long-form texts to tweets is coming soon. However, the feature might work slightly differently than what many of us thought it would.
Twitter has confirmed a few more restrictions that will be put in place for people using editable tweets. The purpose is to prevent misuse of a capability that could lead to the spread of fake news.
Twitter has announced that it has begun testing editable tweets internally, and you may start seeing them on the platform. The feature will be rolled out exclusively to Twitter Blue later this month.
Twitter has rolled out an improved and simplified ALT Badge for all its users. It offers descriptions for images that users embed in their Tweets. The network won't rely on auto-generated text.
Twitter has time and again attempted to tweak users' Tweet feed or timeline with its own algorithms. However, the micro-blogging network is shelving the "tabbed interface" for now.
President Trump established a direct relation between mail-in ballots and rigged elections. Consequently, Twitter went on to flag those tweets as false claims, and Trump responded strongly to it.
The new feature will categorize DM requests that contain offensive content under "additional messages" in the inbox. From there, users will be able to delete the messages without opening them.
Twitter has announced that it's suspending the ability to send tweets via SMS while it addresses a vulnerability, with the help of mobile carriers. It comes after Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, got hacked.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in a company event last week, announced that he intends to get rid of the 'like' button for tweets. It isn't clear when this move will actually be made, however.
The social media platform has released "bookmarks" feature for mobile users, which allows them to save the tweets for future references. The functionality has been in testing since November last year.
AI or human eye; Twitter has been training a neural network to impersonate the human eye, recognising faces, animals, text and other objects to tailor image previews and avoid awkward auto-cropping.
First, the social media giant moved to a double-the-size character count. Now, Twitter is adding a promised feature making it easier for users to post their stream of consciousness on a given topic.
Twitter says this is a new record for a debate. Most of the tweets from last night were related to Donald Trump's attitude towards women and his disagreement on foreign policy with his VP.
Twitter will begin rolling out changes to the way its character limit determines how many characters a user can tweet. The changes will allow users to type 140 character messages more easily.
Being a politician anywhere inevitably puts you in the public spotlight, and up until recently there were Twitter accounts that tracked their "woopsies!" for public record. Not any more.
Unlike Bing, Google has largely avoided social integration in its search results. This may be changing soon, however, as Google is reportedly going to start embedding tweets in the near future.
After experimenting for a long time, Twitter has finally decided to fully adopt Microsoft's Bing translation engine and allow users to translate tweets that are in different languages.
Twitter is rolling out one of its new major features, which highlights 'the best' tweets that were shared while users were offline. It's a step towards a new Twitter and that's a mixed package.
If you're a French citizen and have a bank account, starting tomorrow you'll be able to transfer money to anybody with just one tweet. This is available thanks to partnership between Twitter and BPCE.
Following Microsoft's relaunch of MSN.com, it has now introduced a new breaking news banner with Twitter on its homepage, which shows tweets from trusted sources as major news events are developing.
Twitter has announced that a record-breaking 388,985 tweets per minute was reached during the final moments of the World Cup's Brazil v Chile game; over 16.3 million tweets had been sent.
Twitter has seen a sudden explosion of malicious tweets from compromised accounts using third party apps and services over the last 24 hours, with thousands of users apparently affected.
Twitter Alerts has launched in the U.K. and Ireland, with 57 organisations, including police forces and government agencies, signing up to share critical information quickly when it is needed most.
Twitter is planning to experiment with tailored ads, beginning in the United States and spreading the idea elsewhere if it proves successful. Oddly, they also explain how to get out of tailored ads.
MySpace Tom has been very active on Twitter lately and has been answering a lot of tweets that have headed his way, one of which has sparked quite the response from tweeters worldwide.
Ever wanted to download an archive of all your tweets? Although the new feature has rolled out to a very small group of users, it will be generally available before the end of this year.
Ever wanted to send a tweet by e-mail without resorting to a Twitter client? In the coming weeks you will be able to e-mail a tweet from the website to anyone, whether that person uses Twitter or not.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says that the company is working on a way to let its users download all of their older posts in a file, but didn't say when that feature will launch.
LinkedIn has announced that, due to tighter restrictions put in place by Twitter, LinkedIn users won't be able to publish their Tweets to their LinkedIn profile anymore.
Klouchebag does exactly what it says on the tin: measures just how much of a Klouchebag you might be on Twitter.
A high school senior was expelled for using a school computer to post tweets containing swear words, despite those tweets being made to the student's personal account, in the middle of the night.
A student who made racially offensive comments on Twitter about footballer Fabrice Muamba, who suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed during a televised match earlier this month, has been jailed.
Twitter celebrates its sixth anniversary today with word that the service now has over 140 million active daily users and generates over 340 million "tweets" a day.
With the fifth anniversary of the launch of Twitter on March 21 fast approaching, the social networking site has released a few statistics to illustrate the site's phenomenal growth. In a blog post, Twitter's Carolyn Penner...
Twitter’s analytics team posted a blog entry about how well they are performing, in terms of how many “tweets” there are at any given time. The Twitter team said that they are seeing 50...
