Twitter’s direct messages now support emoji reactions, the company has announced. To use them, you can either tap the small “heart and plus icon” that appears to the right of each message received, or else you can double tap a message on mobile to access the emoji reactions menu. Research engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who […]
Twitter has apologized after the BBC found that the company’s ad platform could be gamed to target neo-Nazis, Islamophobes and other hate groups. In a report published on Thursday, the BBC says it was able to use Twitter’s advertising tools to broadly identify groups of people who may have been interested in topics like white […]
Twitter users have been asking for the option to edit tweets ever since the service launched in 2006, but the company has always prevaricated, saying it’s looking into the problem, or considering it deeply, or a hundred other ways of saying “please stop bothering us about this, please.” Jack Dorsey himself has gone back and […]
Twitter is set to enable you to control replies to tweets further as it continues its battle to improve what it calls “conversational health” on the platform in other words, preventing people having the opportunity to interject abuse and unwanted comments into conversations. With the new feature, you’ll be able to restrict the replies to […]
Twitter has banned all animated PNGs (APNGs) from its platform to stop trolls using the images to trigger seizures in photosensitive people. The site has discovered a bug that lets users bypass its autoplay protections, allowing multiple animated images in a single tweet using the file format. “We want everyone to have a safe experience […]
Twitter introduced labels that appeared on US election candidates’ profiles and tweets in order to identify the office they were running for. Twitter announced today that it will be applying similar labels to candidates’ profiles and tweets for the 2020 US elections. On Twitter when you see the special label on a candidate’s profile or […]
Twitter is notifying users that it’ll start removing accounts that haven’t signed in for at least six months. It’ll begin the purge after December 11th, although a Twitter spokesperson stressed that the account closures will take place over “many months” you won’t see legions of usernames become available on December 12th. You don’t have to […]
If you’ve used your Twitter or Facebook account to log in to another app on your phone, some of your personal information could have been accessed by shady developers. Twitter published a notice on its website that says that some third-party developers may have used a software development kit called oneAudience to obtain your email, […]
Twitter has foutlined how its ban on political ads will work, and it’s considerably clearer if not as clear as some would like. When the ban takes effect on November 22nd, it’ll bar ads for anything referring to candidates, parties, existing officials, legislation, regulation, ballot measures and referendums. They also can’t rally for votes or […]
Yesterday Twitter acknowledged the “frustrating” issue, and now an update to address it is rolling out via the App Store. It’s unclear if it was supposed to be a seamless addition of new tweets that simply didn’t behave properly, but now users should be able to decide whether or not the tweet they’re looking at […]
Twitter has found a way to get around the ethical questions surrounding political ads like TikTok, it’s getting rid of them entirely. Jack Dorsey has announced that the social network is stopping all political ads outside of non-partisan exceptions, whether they come from candidates or interest groups. It’ll provide the finished policy on November 15th, […]
Twitter published a blog post explaining how it approaches tweets from world leaders, stressing that world leaders are not entirely exempt from its moderation policies. There are a few specific scenarios in which world leaders would face enforcement action from Twitter, according to the social media company. Don’t expect harsh action in other cases, though. […]
Twitter this week said it recently realized that some e-mail addresses and phone numbers submitted for account security purposes (two-factor authentication, for example) may have actually been used for targeted advertising purposes. We recently found that some email addresses and phone numbers provided for account security may have been used unintentionally for advertising purposes. This […]
Twitter is acting on plans to filter potentially offensive direct messages. It’s rolling out the filter to all users on Android, iOS and the web. As during the test, there isn’t much mystery to how this works. If a message contains questionable language or is likely spam, it’ll be put away in an “additional messages” […]
At the beginning of 2016, Twitter announced some good news: the formation of the Trust and Safety Council, made up of more than 40 outside groups and experts tapped for advice “to ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter.” By that point, the company had already spent years knee-deep in accusations that its […]