Even without the busybody bots, fake news still spread at about the same rate and to the same number of people. Specifically, the researchers had found that truth rarely reached more than 1000 Twitter users. The most outlandish fake news, on the other hand, routinely reached well over 10,000 people. …

Twitter has scored a mini-coup over its social media competitor by nabbing the rights to stream Major League Soccer games for three years, reports Variety. The deal will allow Twitter to live stream at least 24 MLS games and other content throughout the year. That's surely a gut punch to …

Offering to verify everyone runs the risk of creating a de facto real-name policy for Twitter. While sounding good on its face, the fallout of this plan could be problematic. One of the defining characteristics of Twitter is that, unlike Facebook, it has no official real-name policy. Users are free …

Back in February, the Twitter team said it would remove the ability for third-party platforms such as Tweetdeck to like, retweet or post tweets from multiple accounts, making tweetdecking a lot more difficult for those involved in the practice. Under the new rules, accounts must refrain from “bulk, aggressive, … Read …

A Twitter "review" of an otter by the Oregon Zoo sparked what turned out to be one of the purest trends on social media this weekend, inspiring zoos and aquariums to share their own ratings of animals online. Sharing a photo of a sea otter using the hashtag, "#rateaspecies" the …

It's true that in past the verification was just for the high-profile accounts including politicians, celebrities, journalists, and other public figures, to let people know that the account was original. But this led the feature to emerge as a status symbol and a form of endorsement from Twitter, making a …

Indonesia's central bank has more followers on Twitter than any other monetary authority, beating out the Banco de Mexico, Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Reserve Bank of India. Bank Indonesia, which has about 626,000 Twitter followers, says it made a decision to adopt a more social … Read More

Tweetdecking is an explicit violation of Twitter's spam policy, which does not allow users to "sell, purchase, or attempt to artificially inflate account interactions". According to Twitter's rules, violating this policy is grounds for permanent suspension. (As is creating a new account to evade a permanent … Read More

In another step against bulk tweeting and manipulation of trends on the platform, Twitter has apparently suspended a number of accounts (it's unclear, how many of them) for engaging in the practice of “Tweetdecking”. The development was reported by BuzzFeed, which said that some accounts like … Read More

The social media giants are continuing with efforts to bring live sports action to their users, with both Twitter and Facebook announcing deals in recent days. While Facebook focuses on Major League Baseball with live coverage of 25 games starting this year, Twitter has inked a three-year deal with … Read …