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CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to answer questions about Twitter. Personally, I'm not convinced that this will result in any noticeable improvements to Twitter's harassment problem. Representative Diana DeGette asked Jack Dorsey some questions about how Twitter is dealing with harassment. She pointed out the Amnesty International report titled “Toxic Twitter: A
People who use both Facebook and Twitter may have noticed that they cannot crosspost their tweets to Facebook anymore. The reason is because crossposting tweets to Facebook has been disabled. Reuters tweeted a video in which they reported that Twitter users will now be required to copy the URL of any tweet that they want to share on their Facebook
Twitter announced that it is removing locked accounts from follower counts across profiles globally. This is being done as part of Twitter's ongoing effort to build trust and encourage healthy conversation on Twitter. Over the years, we've locked accounts when we detected sudden changes in account behavior. In these situations, we reach out to the owners of the accounts and
Twitter announced a new approach to how they will handle troll-like behavior that is intended to distort and detract from public conversation on Twitter, particularly in communal areas like conversations and search. Twitter will not remove such content from its service, but will instead put those comments under a “show more replies” link. People will not see those tweets unless
Twitter has expanded the number of characters that can fit into a single tweet from 140 to 280. This change is being rolled out “to languages where cramming was an issue.” Twitter points out that “Japanese, Korean, and Chinese will continue to have 140 characters because cramming is not an issue in these languages. In fact, these languages have always
All social media platforms have their problems, but I thought this one from Twitter took the biscuit. One tweet from 29 June and 4,100 followers. Does no-one check before following back? Perhaps 600 people did check, hence the discrepancy, but that's a pretty good (or bad) ratio depending on your point of view. If you follow someone first, 87% of
Twitter is introducing something that could be a good thing – or a bad thing – depending on your perspective. It is introducing a Promoted Account campaign where Twitter users can pay $99 a month to have their tweets promoted without creating ads or managing campaigns. The program is currently in a private beta (or closed beta) and Twitter is