The Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), in a report, revealed that the Federal Government and China’s Cyberspace Administration office discussed plans of building a Nigerian internet firewall, just after the ban of Twitter in Nigeria. This was disclosed in a report by the FIJ on Sunday. They added that Nigerian reps in the meeting included Ibrahim Gambari, […]
Micro-blogging platform, Twitter has explained why it deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet, which had been received with mixed reactions. The controversial tweet, which was part of a thread by Buhari on Tuesday, reads: “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the […]
The account, @DJTDesk, was suspended for violating Twitter’s policies. Twitter barred Trump from the site earlier this year after the Capitol insurrection. Twitter blocked former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to get back on the social-media site. A new account called @DJTDesk on Thursday morning said it had been suspended for violating Twitter’s rules. In […]
Donald Trump has launched a new “communications” website, which says it will publish content “straight from the desk” of the former US president. Mr Trump was banned by Twitter and suspended by Facebook and YouTube after the Capitol riots in January. The former president has since been releasing statements by press release – which the new […]
Twitter often champions itself as a platform for public conversation, and over time, it has made changes to its user experience to make discussions more transparent. These include labels to identify heads of state and state-affiliated media accounts, as well as a community-driven approach to curb the spread of misinformation. Now, the firm has announced that it is opening a new […]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has sold a digital version of his first tweet for more than $2.9 million more than two weeks after he announced a digital auction for the post. The tweet from March 2006, which says “just setting up my twttr,” was bought by Bridge Oracle CEO Sina Estavi, according to Valuables by […]
For a while now, Twitter has been trying to find ways to monetize itself, and it seems that they might have figured out how with a new paid feature called Super Followers. With this new feature, Twitter users can charge their followers a fee in which it would give them access to additional content, like […]
Twitter and Facebook suspended Donald Trump’s accounts for the first time, finally escalating their crackdown on the president’s social media posts after he encouraged and supported rioters at the US Capitol. Twitter required Mr Trump to delete certain posts after “repeated and severe” violations of its rules on election misinformation, including a video sending love […]
Bitcoin scammers won’t be the last people to take over verified accounts — and we should be very, very worried about who else will You can’t say you didn’t see it coming. Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most catastrophic security breach in company […]
Twitter, the famous 140-character instant message based social network might soon lose its identity as the company has decided to increase the character limit. Users might soon get close to 280 words for tweeting but why is the brand favoring the character increase is not an easy guess.Twitter with its 140-character limitation has pushed brains […]
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