It’s been 11 years since Twitter acquired TweetDeck for $40 million. In the intervening years, the company has methodically killed off all of the TweetDeck apps. First, Twitter discontinued the iOS, Android, and Adobe Air apps in 2013. Next came the death of the Windows app back in 2016. And now, at long last, the …
Right now, more than 22 million Twitter users follow President Biden’s official @POTUS account on the service. That might sound impressive — until you stop to consider the newly released findings of a Twitter spam audit which found that almost half of the president’s Twitter followers seem to be fake. The software firm SparkToro quantified …
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been toying around with the idea of buying Twitter for years. On Monday, he followed through. Musk is buying Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash in a transaction valued at around $44 billion. Some people are excited about the prospect of the world’s richest man owning and …
Some of you seriously need to put down Twitter and go pet a dog or something. The reaction way too many of you had to the Elon Musk Twitter takeover announced on Monday — which will mean the company soon losing the oversight of public markets — is to correspondingly lose your minds. For my …
Twitter is reportedly planning to accept Elon Musk’s offer of $43 billion to buy the company as early as Monday. The Wall Street Journal reported that the two sides “worked through the night” in order to finalize the details. Musk initially made his bid on April 14th, calling it his “best and final offer” at …
Back on April 1, a single tweet sent the community of users on Twitter spiraling. The tweet, which was sent from the official Twitter account, simply said “we are working on an edit button”. Despite the day the news was shared, and even Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey saying it would probably never be a thing, …
If you were bummed that you couldn’t show off your pricey NFT (non-fungible token) enough, then your prayers have been answered. Just as Facebook and Instagram start looking at bringing NFTs to their users, Twitter beat everyone to the punch. The social network lets you display your NFTs as profile pictures that are visible and …
After two runs as CEO of one of the world’s most popular social networks, Jack Dorsey stepped down on Monday. Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will replace him as CEO. The news isn’t quite surprising for fans of Twitter or Dorsey, as the now-former Twitter CEO faced increased pressure from some investors to choose between Twitter …
A team of researchers analyzed Twitter mentions of pneumonia and dry cough, two common coronavirus symptoms, to determine the arrival of COVID-19 in Europe. The scientists found a statistically significant increase in mentions of COVID-19 symptoms in early 2020, weeks before the first cases were confirmed in several European countries. Using geolocation data, they also …
Twitter just announced Birdwatch, a community-based feature meant to address the misinformation spreading on social networks. Users can sign up for Birdwatch, at which point they’ll be able to annotate tweets spreading misleading news. The service will run separately from Twitter initially and won’t impact the visibility of the tweets that are addressed in Birdwatch. …
