Articles in #Twitter
A Decentralised Social Network
Twitter, one of the most active social media platforms, has been working on a new, decentralised social network, (called Bluesky) for a couple of years now, and earlier this…
Disappearing Tweets & The Return Of Verification
Twitter made two recent announcements about changes to the platform, one of which was the launch of their new "Fleets" messaging, which allows users to send a series of short…
Advertisers Working With Social Media To Curb Harmful Content
3 months after a major advertiser boycott which led to massive brands such as Coca-Cola, The Hershey Co., Unilever, Verizon, Honda, Birchbox, Ben & Jerry’s, The North Face, REI,…
Twitter Tests Flags For False Tweets
With increasing concerns about the proliferation of false or misleading information on social media, Twitter appears to be planning a way for users to provide feedback by…
Facebook Moves Against Bullying With Keyword Blocking
Under pressure for some time already to combat the growing problems of bullying and harassment on Facebook, the platform has announced that they will begin to allow users to block…
Technology For Fake Video Improving Rapidly
So-called fake news has been one of the hottest topics for the last year, and platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have working on addressing threats posed by…
Twitter User Numbers Down
Hot on the heels of Facebooks reported slow-down of growth for Q2, Twitter followed suit by reporting not just that growth had slowed, but that they actually lost 1 million active…
Twitter Testing 280 Character Tweets
The Twitter character limit has always been a thing. Except in countries where the written word makes use of an alphabet where characters can convey more meaning than mere letters…
Posting Smart On Facebook: Socially Responsible Advertising
Social media comes with many privileges, and just like any other medium, these privileges come with responsibilities. Finding the balance between freedom of expression and social…
Twitter Users Offer To Buy Company
If you've been following along, Twitter has been experiencing the corporate version of existential angst for quite some time already. After the heady days of it's IPO of $26 a…
Twitter To Provide Tool To Curb Abuse
In the wake of ongoing scandals surrounding the use of the social media network Twitter in online abuse and bullying, Twitter this month announced that they would be rolling out a…