Trump was deprived of control over his Twitter account

On the eve of the presidential elections in the United States, Republican candidate Donald Trump was removed from managing his own account on the Twitter microblog. This decision was made by his press advisers, who consider the billionaire's posts on microblogging "too colorful" or "counterproductive," writes The New ...

Twitter moved to the new limit when counting characters in tweets

Microblogging network Twitter has lifted restrictions on the length of one message when using any media applications, including photos, videos, animated GIFs, polls and quoting other tweets. In addition, the 140-character limit will no longer include usernames that begin with the sign ...

From September 19, Twitter will change the rules for counting characters in tweets

From September 19, Twitter will be making changes to the character count when tweeting. Added media files (photos, videos, gifs, polls) and mentions of other users at the beginning of the message will no longer count in 140 characters of the tweet, writes The Verge. Also, microblogging will remove the restriction ...

Twitter users from the United States will be able to earn on their videos

The microblogging service Twitter will pay its users for videos that advertise. This was reported in a press release from the company. “Part of the advertising revenue will be transferred to the creator of the video,” the message says. From the statement of the social network it follows that part of the profit can be obtained from the advertising of Twitter partners posted ...

33 Millions of Twitter Passwords Up for Sale

A database of over 32 million Twitter accounts has been put up for sale on the digital black market. The LeakedSource portal reports. LeakedSource experts randomly checked the records containing email addresses and passwords: 15 out of 15 passwords were found to be valid. ...

Twitter changed the limit of 140 characters to messages

The management of the microblogging network Twitter has officially announced the change in the action of the limit of 140 characters in messages. According to the blog of the company's senior manager Todd Sherman, tweets will no longer count all media applications - videos, GIFs, photos and other images. Before…

Twitter will not include photos and links under the limit in 140 characters

The social network Twitter intends to allow its users to publish full text messages in the size of 140 characters, even if there are links or pictures in tweets. Currently, additional elements take up to 23 characters of space even with automatic compression. As Bloomberg reports, ...

Racism, sexism, homophobia: the most biased cities and states of the USA

The American portal Abodo published data from a study based on approximately 12 million tweets posted by users on the social network Twitter from June 2014 to December 2015. The purpose of this work was to study the mood of US residents, which they use in their tweets, including the indication of races, ...

Islamic State Hackers Threaten Zuckerberg and Dorsey

A group of hackers linked to the extremist organization Islamic State issued threats against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey after major social networks removed content posted by terrorist supporters. A group calling itself the "Sons of the Caliphate" posted a 25-minute video...

What happens to the microblogging service Twitter

  Twitter is stagnating. According to the data for the third quarter of 2015 (information for the whole year will be published only in February), the company has practically stopped recruiting new users (320 million active visitors against 316 million a quarter earlier) and continues to suffer losses despite the growth in revenue. All this was before Jack returned ...

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