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Social network Twitter is using its upcoming 8th birthday to help users discover their first tweets. Twitter launched a website called first-tweets.com, allowing users to search their own account or other accounts to find their first tweet. Users are also encourage to use the hashtag #FirstTweet. “Millions of prolific tweeters have made Twitter an exciting, Continue Reading →

Twitter has shelved a project that would have made it more difficult for the government to intercept users’ private messages without a court order, sources tell The Verge, a sudden reversal for a company that has been ahead of the curve on privacy at a time of creeping surveillance. Most of Twitter’s content is public, Continue Reading →

Twitter’s Discover tab is a dream that never quite came true. Designed to help tweets break free from the tyranny of chronology, the Discover tab promises to bring you news of the day from the people you follow, the people those people follow, and other major events from the day. But Discover suffers from the Continue Reading →

Twitter is experimenting with a new feature called “Fave People,” which allows you to keep track of your favorite Twitter users and accounts in a separate timeline. This feature, essentially a more user-friendly version of Twitter’s “Lists,” recently appeared in the alpha version of Twitter’s Android application – the app where the company tests new Continue Reading →

As part of its continued effort to evolve and broaden its advertising capabilities, Twitter is now touting itself as a platform for effective direct response advertising. The microblogging platform wants advertisers to use Twitter to generate leads, drive app downloads, collect consumers’ email addresses and induce incoming calls from customers, all with the click of Continue Reading →

Vine on Thursday announced an update to its Rules and Terms of Service that prohibits explicit sexual content. The Twitter-owned app says the change will affect less than 1 percent of its users. “As we’ve watched the community and your creativity grow and evolve, we’ve found that there’s a very small percentage of videos that Continue Reading →

Twitter, the microblogging service that held an initial public offering last year, paid $36 million to acquire 900 patents from IBM according to a filing. The agreement, which was was signed in December and announced in January without financial details, resolved a dispute that prompted IBM to write to Twitter about possible infringement of at Continue Reading →

Twitter mistakenly told thousands of users that their accounts had been hacked Monday night. Emails sent from password@twitter.com told the Twitter users that their accounts “may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter.” The email also instructed them to create a new password, saying that Twitter had proactively reset their Continue Reading →

This year, it seems like Twitter has won the Oscars. Ellen DeGeneres’s epic Oscars group selfie has become the most retweeted tweet of all time, surpassing a whopping one million retweets (update: it has now passed two million) and overtaking the record set by US President Barack Obama’s election victory tweet in November 2012. Twitter Continue Reading →

The line between youthful rebelliousness and something more dangerous is not always clear. But in her angry musings on Twitter, Alba González Camacho, 21, who describes herself as a “very normal girl,” sailed across it. After she posted messages calling for a far-left terrorist organization to return to arms and kill politicians, Spain’s national court Continue Reading →