Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and product director David Gasca indicated during a Periscope live-stream on Thursday, March 8, that the company wants all users to sport a verification badge. Their intent arrives as scammers take to the social platform to steal money from unsuspecting victims through … Read More

The live-streaming matches begin this weekend on Twitter via @UnivisionSports and @MLS. Univision is producing the games out of Miami. The first MLS match to be streamed on Twitter will feature Real Salt Lake hosting expansion club Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) this Saturday, March 10, … Read More

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looked at more than 126,000 stories tweeted millions of times between 2006 and the end of 2016 — before Donald Trump took office but during the combative presidential campaign. They found that “fake news” sped through Twitter “farther, … Read More

Optimizing your website for keywords, building links and publishing great blog posts aren't the only methods you can use to improve your website SEO. You can also leverage your Twitter account. Did you know that Google and Twitter have a strong partnership? This partnership gives Google access to … Read More

A blue checkmark on Twitter is seen by some as status symbol, but as the platform becomes an increasingly hellish space to navigate—one proliferated with fake profiles and bots—CEO Jack Dorsey announced yesterday that the company intends to make verification available to all users. “The intention … Read More

False information spreads much faster and farther than the truth on Twitter-and although it is tempting to blame automated “bot” programs for this, human users are more at fault. These are two conclusions researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology drew from their recent study of how news … Read More

In a Periscope stream yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey expressed an interest in offering up verification to all of its users, not just the ones it deems important. According to the Verge, Dorsey remarked, “The intention is to open verification to everyone, and to do it in a way that's …

Larry Madowo is a Kenyan broadcast journalist and writer. What's happening? Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey seems to have finally accepted that his platform has become a raging dumpster fire. But if Twitter looks like a corrosive, hate-filled deluge of filth in the West, it's even worse in my part …

When a blue tick appears on a Twitter account, it means it's a person of interest who's been verified as genuine. It's usually only reserved for high-profile people like celebrities, politicians, and journalists – to help users know they're legit. But Twitter's CEO now says he thinks the authentication feature … …

False information on the social media network Twitter travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people, according to a new study. And it's not bots peddling falsehoods – it's us, say the authors of the largest study of online misinformation. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of … …