Twitter unveils 'community-driven' effort to fight misinformation
Twitter announced a new initiative Monday to enlist users to flag misinformation on its platform through a project known as Birdwatch.
Jan 25, 2021
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Twitter announced a new initiative Monday to enlist users to flag misinformation on its platform through a project known as Birdwatch.
Jan 25, 2021
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Twitter on Tuesday apologized after "inadvertently" using phone numbers and email addresses for advertising even though the personal data was provided for account security.
Oct 9, 2019
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Elon Musk has surpassed former US president Barack Obama as the most followed account on Twitter, five months after he bought the platform in a tumultuous takeover.
Mar 30, 2023
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In a strong response to a recent Twitter poll posted by Elon Musk, users of the platform have called for him to relinquish his position as CEO. Musk has responded that he'll step down when he "finds someone foolish enough" ...
Dec 23, 2022
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Elon Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it's now called—and it's a woman. He did not name her but said she will be starting in about six weeks.
May 11, 2023
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Elon Musk on Friday defended his controversial pay model for Twitter, claiming that any social media platform that didn't follow suit would fail because they would be swarmed by bots.
Apr 1, 2023
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Elon Musk reportedly wants employees at Tesla and SpaceX to return to the office or find another job.
Jun 2, 2022
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk will need sophisticated, nuanced forms of artificial intelligence if his dreams of a new dawn for Twitter are to come true. That's according to Professor David Reid, an AI and Spatial Computing specialist ...
May 2, 2022
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Dr. Ashish Jha started 2020 thousands of miles from home, taking a sabbatical in Europe from his academic post at Harvard. Then the coronavirus pandemic arrived in the U.S.
Dec 31, 2020
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Elon Musk announced Saturday that Twitter will soon allow media publishers to charge readers on a per-article basis, a move he says could be a "major win-win" for readers and media outlets.
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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" since the use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses the direct use of Twitter.
Twitter is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa's web traffic analysis. Although estimates of the number of daily users vary because the company does not release the number of active accounts, a February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social network based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits. In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth of 1,382 percent, Zimbio of 240 percent, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228 percent. However, only 40 percent of Twitter's users are retained.
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