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Betsy DeVos defends herself on Twitter after being skewered for ’60 Minutes’ performance

After her morning television interviews, DeVos repaired to Twitter to take issue with one part of the CBS interview. It involved the performance of public schools in Michigan, DeVos's home state and the place where DeVos had spent decades and millions of dollars to encourage the spread of charter … Read …

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Gary Lineker and Geoff Shreeves in Twitter spat over Jamie Carragher spitting incident

GARY LINEKER and Geoff Shreeves collided on Twitter ahead of Stoke's clash with Manchester City. The Sky Sports reporter disagreed with a comment that the ex-England international made about Jamie Carragher. Lineker's post appeared to infuriate Shreeves. Getty Images – Getty. Lineker's post … Read More

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How to Make a Clean Break With the Clingiest Social Networks

Before you delete your Twitter account, you may want to download your archive. This will include all your tweets in a chronological order, which is great if you want to relive your first tweet, or see all those unanswered tweets you sent to celebrities. To download your archive, click your …

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Why Twitter Stock Gained 23.4% in February

If Twitter can continue to drive ad click-through while also keeping prices low for advertisers, the appeal of doing business on the platform will only continue to rise. The company also sees a long-term growth opportunity in its data licensing and enterprise segment, and an 11% year-over-year sales … Read More

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London mayor Sadiq Khan says Facebook and Twitter need to step up efforts on online abuse

London mayor Sadiq Khan says tech companies should show a “stronger duty of care” to live up to their promise of providing places where people can connect, and where information is shared equitably. According to excerpts of prepared remarks, Khan will excoriate platforms such as Facebook and … Read More

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Can You Believe It? On Twitter, False Stories Are Shared More Widely Than True Ones

Aral, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, says false stories on Twitter are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than the true ones. And the study found that bots — Russian or not — had very little do with it. "The bot results points to human …

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How to Find the Top Hashtags on Twitter

You may not know it but using the top hashtags on your Twitter posts could actually boost your user engagement and audience reach. With over 300 million monthly active users around the world, there is no doubt that Twitter offers some of the best opportunities to boost your content marketing …

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Twitter has started suspending accounts that steal tweets

"Tweetdecking is over. Our follower gains are gonna diminish," one tweetdecker told BuzzFeed in February, even before the latest crackdown. Many users are now praising the move to help eradicate the influx of falsely-boosted spam tweets. As noted by Twitter itself in a blog post last month, the service … Read …

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Xbox One Will Soon Be Able To Share Directly To Twitter

Ybarra announced to the public that those part of the Xbox Insider program are currently alpha testing the new Twitter sharing function that allows users to post images and DVR content directly to the social media service. In the thread, he starts by sharing an image of the game Samsara, …

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Texas Senator Lobs “Cruz Missile” at Twitter in Senate Hearing

On January 17th, 2018 during a Senate Committee hearing, Texas Senator Ted Cruz questioned representatives from social media giants YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter about political bias on their platforms. In one exchange, Cruz probed Twitter Public Policy Director Carlos Monje about political … Read More