Twitter founder Jack Dorsey received his first salary - just 140 cents

Co-founder of Twitter Inc. Jack Dorsey received his first salary since returning to the position of CEO four years ago: it was 140 cents per year. This incredibly modest amount, released on April 8 according to the company's regulatory filings, equals the original quota limit ...

One tweet turned an empty cafe in Texas into one of the most popular places in the US

The Texan and his wife opened a donut shop called Billy's Donuts. Clients avoided her - then the owners’ son decided to intervene and help his parents, writes Meduza. He posted tweets with a photo of his sad father and the address of the donut shop, writing: “My father is sad because no one comes to his...

What posts and memes in Russia can go to jail

One of the distinguishing features of the modern law enforcement system in Russia is criminal cases under Article 282 of the Criminal Code (“Incitement to hatred or enmity”) for pictures on social networks; usually on VKontakte. Often Internet users are punished because of memes that some find offensive. ...

Millions of users around the world were left without Twitter

The official microblogging application Twitter stopped working on gadgets using the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. The social network turned out to be inaccessible to millions of users around the world, Izvestia writes. Twitter announced the end of support for its applications on Windows 10 and Windows Phone 8.1 systems from June 1 this year. Besides…

In the US, closed the popular TV series because of the racist statements of the actress

The comedian took to Twitter with offensive remarks about Valerie Gerrett, a former adviser to Barack Obama. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) has canceled a new television show by Roseanne Barr after she made racist comments about Valerie Jarrett, an African American who worked in the White House ...

The court forbade Trump to block followers on Twitter for criticism

US President Donald Trump has no right to block users on his Twitter microblog who leave comments criticizing him there. This decision was made on May 23 by a court in New York, writes NBC. Judge Naomi Buckwold has ruled that blocking Trump's page subscribers is ...

Who makes mistakes and skips commas in Donald Trump's tweets.

The White House team that runs President Donald Trump's Twitter account deliberately makes grammatical and stylistic mistakes in order to create the "author's" style of the head of state. This is reported by the Boston Globe with reference to its own sources. A staff of "tweet writers" creates "sketches" of messages. The most common mistakes they make ...

Loneliness in the network: the American company sells bots and fake subscribers

Jessica Richley is a Minnesota teen with a wide smile and wavy hair. Jessica loves to read and rapper Post Malone. On Facebook and Twitter, she writes about how bored she is, or exchanges jokes with friends. From time to time, like many teenagers, he publishes duckface selfies. However, there is a variety on Twitter ...

Trump's speech was the most cited on Twitter in the history of presidential messages to Congress

The message from US President Donald Trump to Congress, which he delivered on January 30, became the most quoted on Twitter among all similar speeches by US heads. Microblog users have quoted this speech on their pages more than 4,5 million times, writes TASS. So the current ...

How teens in the US earn thousands of dollars through secret groups

BuzzFeed reported on teens who sell retweets to advertising, corporate and regular Twitter accounts and earn tens of thousands of dollars. The phenomenon is called "tweetdecking" because members are grouped together through the Tweetdeck application, writes TJournal. According to the newspaper, the number ...

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