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Twitter has posted an update about what happened regarding what they are calling their “security incident”. Not everything is being revealed right now, in order to protect the security of their efforts. Twitter said it will provide more details, where possible, in the future. The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter's
Those who looked at Twitter earlier today may have noticed some very unusual tweets from accounts that have a blue checkmark. TechCrunch reported that these high-profile accounts were simultaneously hacked and used to spread a cryptocurrency scam. According to TechCrunch, the hackers started by targeting cryptocurrency focused accounts like @bitcoin, @ripple, @coindesk, @coinbase, and @binance. It is possible that those
Twitter is rolling out a feature that will enable users to tweet with their voice. The ability to create voice tweets will be available to a limited group of people on Twitter on iOS to start, but in the coming weeks everyone on iOS should be able to tweet with their voice. Twitter is where you go to talk about
Twitter disclosed 32,242 accounts to their archives of state-linked information operations. The account sets recently published to the archives include three distinct operations that Twitter has attributed to the People's Republic of China (PRC), Russia, and Turkey. Twitter states that every account and piece of content associate with these operations has been permanently removed from the service. According to Twitter,
Facebook and Twitter are very different social media platforms. Recently, the differences have become vividly clear, as we see how each platform chooses how they will respond to controversial content posted by President Trump. The Verge obtained a recording of an extended conference with employees in which Mark Zuckerberg addressed accusations that Facebook allowed election misinformation and veiled promotions of
Twitter has done something that I never thought they would actually do. They corrected the misinformation in two of President Trump's tweets about mail-in ballots. According to The Washington Post, this is the first time Twitter has labeled Trump's tweets with a fact-check. CNN, which does not require a subscription in order to read things posted on their website, wrote
Twitter announced that it is testing new conversations settings. These settings give the person who posts a tweet more control over who can reply to it. Individual users will have the ability to choose who can reply to their tweet and who can join that conversation. Before you Tweet, you'll be able to choose who can reply with three options: