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Jack Dorsey, who is stepping down after six years as Twitter’s chief executive, is one of the tech leaders who seem to have grown tired of managing their empires.
Jack Dorsey, who is stepping down after six years as Twitter’s chief executive, is one of tech leaders who seem to have grown tired of managing their empires.
Even among Silicon Valley’s oddball geniuses, Jack Dorsey still stands out for his eccentricities. “He’s almost like one of those Russian dolls, with a new outer shell put on every couple of years,” Nick Bilton, author of “Hatching Twitter,” told The Post of Dorsey’s fashion sense. “He went through a phase where he wore these…
The social media pioneer, whose name has become synonymous with the company, was replaced by Twitter’s chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal.
The social media pioneer, whose name has become synonymous with Twitter, is also the chief executive of another company, Square.
The Duke of Sussex has claimed that he warned the boss of Twitter about a coup being staged against the US on the platform just a day before the deadly riots at the Capitol.
He asked whether he should sell 10 percent of his stock, and Twitter voters said yes. Stock options he was granted in 2012 are “a ticking tax time bomb,” one expert said.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has been told he should sell 10% of his shares in Tesla, worth around $21bn, after asking people in a Twitter poll whether he should do so.
Elon Musk has asked his 62.5 million Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock.
The research underscores how online platforms based in the United States still struggle to police inauthentic behavior abroad.
Donald Trump has asked a federal judge in the US to force Twitter to restore his account, which was shut down after his supporters attacked the US Capitol in January.
Former President Donald Trump hasn’t made any new social media accounts since he was kicked off Twitter and Facebook earlier this year — but that’s not stopping alternative free speech-focused platforms from trying to recruit him. Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to Trump who is now CEO of a Twitter alternative called Gettr, told The…
The commission’s ruling provides further flexibility to social media giants to control what is shared on their platforms regarding federal elections.
Do you like using Twitter — but wish it cost money? Users can now pay to look at tweets from some larger accounts under a “super follows” feature the company started rolling out on Wednesday. The feature — which is currently only available to a select group of US and Canada users on Apple devices…
Ethiopia’s government is building its own social media platform to replace Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Zoom, the state’s communications security agency said on Monday. While the government doesn’t plan to block any of the American-owned platforms, it wants to reduce reliance on foreign technology firms that meddle in the country’s politics, Ethiopian Information Network Security…
In a statement, Twitter ducked the question of whether it would bar representatives of the Taliban’s Islamic fundamentalist government from getting their message out.
Twitter’s standards were called into question on Sunday after users pointed out that a key Taliban spokesman has been using the platform to give updates about the group’s advance within the country while former President Trump’s account remains permanently suspended.
Ms. Greene violated Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy with a tweet on Monday, the platform said. She could be permanently barred if she violates the policy again.
Twitter has said that “the UK was – by far – the largest country of origin” for racist abuse sent to England footballers following the team’s loss in the Euro 2020 finals on 11 July.
An account posing as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Road,” “No Country for Old Men” and “All the Pretty Horses” was mistakenly verified by Twitter.
Twitter will begin allowing businesses to showcase products for sale at the top of their profile page, the social networking company said on Wednesday.
Lawmakers are introducing a bill to hold social media companies like Facebook and Twitter accountable for the spread of health misinformation.
Wall Street’s main indexes rose Friday, helped by megacap technology stocks and strong earnings from social media companies, while a weak sales forecast from Intel hit chipmakers amid increasing supply-chain constraints. Twitter gained 1.3 percent after it reported higher quarterly revenue growth, while Snapchat-owner Snap Inc surged 22.9 percent on beating estimates for user growth…
Twitter on Thursday reported higher revenue growth than Wall Street had expected, as the social media platform rolled out ad targeting improvements and said changes by Apple to keep iPhone user data private had hit ad revenue less than anticipated. Shares of Twitter jumped 7 percent to $75 in trading after the bell. Since the start of the…
Twitter is testing a Reddit-style feature that allows users to “downvote” and “upvote” replies, the company said Wednesday.
The Republican lawmaker from Georgia cannot tweet for 12 hours, after the White House criticized social media sites for amplifying vaccine lies.
After facing a torrent of racist abuse online, Bukayo Saka said he didn’t want anyone to deal with such “hateful and hurtful messages.”
Similar to Snapchat and Instagram’s “story” features, Fleets allow users to create posts that appeared in a bar at the top of the Twitter timeline and were automatically deleted after 24 hours.
A unanimous 1974 Supreme Court decision said newspapers could not be forced to publish replies from politicians they had criticized.
Twitter didn’t explain Anne-Marie Brady’s suspension, other than posting a “This account is temporarily restricted” notice on the tweets.
Trump’s chances of success in court are slim at best, legal analysts said. Facebook and Twitter are both private firms, allowed to moderate content.
Donald Trump, who lost the 2020 presidential election, says he is launching a class action lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey, the chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter respectively, as well as their companies.
India has officially stripped Twitter of liability protections over user-uploaded content as the government cracks down on the social media platform.
In a similar vein to Instagram’s “Close Friends,” Twitter is mulling adding a feature called “Trusted Friends,” that would allow users to send tweets to only selected followers.
The ban comes after Twitter deleted a Tuesday post by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in which he said he would treat “those misbehaving today.”
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buharisuspended the country’s use of Twitter after the social media company deleted a tweet in which he threatened to punish secessionists.
Its new subscription service also adds features to make it easier to bookmark and organize posts.
Twitter on Thursday said it will roll out a new subscription service — initially in Australia and Canada — which will let paying users edit their tweets before posting and change the color theme of their app.
Twitter is adding a new topic to direct users to credible information about climate change
The new social media regulations give the government more power to police online content.
