For a lot of people, the term “Twitter bot” carries some negative connotations. But a fascinating research project coming out of the U.K.'s University of Glasgow is doing its bit to change that — by using algorithmic online communications not to tweet out controversial messages, but to carry out some … …

Sometimes social media goes above and beyond its remit – and not in a good way. What starts as a way to keep in touch with family and friends becomes all-encompassing, and all of a sudden you're living your life through a screen. Perhaps you want to delete your social …

Twitter is working on a camera-first feature that will combine location-based photos and videos with “Twitter Moments”, a report by CNBC has revealed. This move is likely to make the platform more visual- than text-centric, building competition against Snapchat for advertising revenue. The product is in … Read More

Twitter is testing a new feature that assembles timelines based on major news stories, and presents them at the top of your feed above tweets from the people and brands you follow. The trial (which has been rolled out to a small set of users in the US) involves stories …

Last month, Twitter announced that it was ending support for its desktop Mac Twitter client. The app had been abandoned for months (years?) before that, so it wasn't exactly a huge loss, but it meant that I needed to migrate to a new app. Believe it or not, I've used …

Twitter has gone from singing Musa Mseleku's praises to seeing that he's a human being also layered with underlying, unresolved issues especially where his daughter, Sne, is concerned. Uthando Nes'thembu has grown to be a firm favourite with viewers and so far Musa has been hitting all the right … Read …

GLENDALE, Ariz. — A little over a week ago, the White Sox Twitter account announced an interesting new social promotion. … Matt Davidson just activated Twitter and Instagram accounts this spring, and teams like it when players have social media accounts they can tout and promote. But this idea of … …

Once a mere nuisance for Twitter, accounts created by software programs pretending to be human — “bots” — have become a major headache for the social network. In October, Twitter's general counsel told a Senate committee investigating disinformation that Russian bots tweeted 1.4 million times … Read More

Over the past year, Twitter stock has staged a major comeback, soaring 135% to around $36 per share. Market sentiment seems to have changed, with founder Jack Dorsey back at the helm, and with daily active users steadily growing. Unlike in 2015, when there was no good reason to buy …

Over the next six days, in a series of 34 tweets, writer and artist Candace Jean Andersen used the reach of Twitter to find out the identity of the woman in the photo. Fascinated after discovering the tweets, we wove our way through her thread and began to see some …