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Now you can check Fleets while scrolling tweets
Micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday announced that its users can now check ephemeral, Snapchat Stories-like Fleets while scrolling Tweets on their timeline.The company said that it is rolling out the new feature on iOS and soon on…
Twitter suspends several high-profile accounts in India
Twitter on Monday suspended several accounts of high-profile celebrities and organisations, including actor Sushant Singh, Caravan magazine, Kisan Ekta Morcha, Tractor2twitr and several other politicians, farmer leaders, writers and…
Twitter permanently suspends Donald Trump handle
Social media giant Twitter announced that it is banning US President Donald Trump from its platform, citing "risk of further incitement of violence".On Twitter, Donald Trump's handle is now an empty white page, frozen with 51 followed…
Twitter allows hardware security keys for iPhones, Android
Twitter has rolled out hardware security key support for Android and iPhone devices, to help users keep their accounts more secure.Now anyone with a security key set up on their Twitter account can use that same key to log in from their…
Twitter kills threaded replies, shuts down beta app twttr
Twitter has turned off its threaded replies experiment as it made conversations hard to read and shut down its beta app called twttr, designed for experiments like threaded replies.The threaded replies experiment was meant to make replies…
After Twitter, Facebook to transfer presidential accounts to Joe Biden
After Twitter, Facebook has now confirmed it will also transfer the official POTUS account on its platform to President-elect Joe Biden after he is inaugurated on January 20, regardless of whether incumbent leader Donald Trump concedes…
Twitter removes Home Minister Amit Shah’s DP, reinstates
Micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday night removed the Display Picture (DP) of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. It, however, reinstated the picture after some time.
It turned out that Twitter took the action after someone claimed…
Eroding Section 230 can collapse Internet communication: Mark Zuckerberg
Ahead of the US House panel hearing on Wednesday, Twitter and Facebook CEOs issued prepared remarks where Jack Doresy took a hard stand against repeating the Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act while Mark Zuckerberg took a more…
Twitter allows iOS users to limit replies to their tweets
Twitter has rolled out a new feature for iOS users which will allow them to limit replies to their tweets on the platform.The micro-blogging platform first tested this feature with a limited set of users in May."In May, we tested a new way…
Twitter plans ‘Undo Send’ button with paid subscription service (Ld)
Twitter has started working towards its paid subscription service that will provide users options like "Undo Send" button (like an edit button) and ability to tweet longer and high-quality videos, among other features.The micro-blogging…