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Twitter fury over ‘whiny man babies’ as MEN’S DAY starts trending on International Women’s Day

A TWITTER firestorm has been sparked by International Men's Day becoming a trending topic on the social media site – despite today being the official International Women's Day. The website has been flooded with angry tweets from men asking why there isn't an International Men's Day, even though … Read More

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Twitter is suspending some users who solicit crypto

Twitter is taking some steps to combat cryptocurrency scammers on its platform. But these are best classified as 'baby steps' at this point. The company does not currently have a specific ad policy relating to cryptocurrency and ICO related ads — which Facebook banned in January. “We allow ads that … …

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Twitter is suspending accounts that solicit cryptocurrencies

The social media network is following in the footsteps of governments around the world in taking a more hardline approach to cryptocurrencies. Specifically, Twitter has started banning accounts that solicit cryptocurrencies from users. As Reuters reports, Twitter shut down an account last month claiming … Read More

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Eagles DE Michael Bennett reacts to the trade news on Twitter

Now that the details on the Philadelphia Eagles latest move have been out for a little while, the trade is starting to sink in. Yes, the Eagles snagged yet, another seasoned veteran in a deal for a late-round pick added with a bottom of the barrel wide receiver. In other …

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Twitter Asks: Has Malusi Gigaba Contracted ‘LIE-steriosis’?

Twitter managed to cross the line immediately, as always. The prevailing theory among the twitterati is that eating state-owned "Enterprise" has left him with a case of "Lie-steriosis". Tweets also poked fun at him for getting caught playing "Candy Crush" during President Ramaphosa's state of the nation … Read More

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The Big, Bad Bot Problem

In the early, innocent days of social media, it took just 138 minutes for nine Twitter accounts to execute a small conspiracy. On January 15, 2010, a group of users with names like @BrianD82 and @Leann_az bombarded people with messages about Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, … Read More

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Ready Player One Parody Posters Get Trashed on Twitter

Those familiar with Warner Bros.' Ready Player One already know that the movie leans rather heavily on nostalgia from classic 1980s and 1990s films, but a dozen new parody posters may have taken things too far. Instagram user Jeff Avery noticed a series of posters for Ready Player One where …

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Twitter Taking Action to Halt Crypto Scams

Following the perpetration of various cryptocurrency-related scams on its platform, social media website Twitter is taking steps to halt and prevent the spread of misleading and potentially harmful misinformation. As per a report by Bloomberg, a Twitter spokesman admitted that the company was aware of … Read More

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Twitter rips Uyang’thanda Na hopeful to shreds over ‘auto-delete’ WhatsApp comments

This after Moshe asked if he could see what Mbuso and his crush were talking about the night before. Twitter could not believe that such a feature existed on the texting app, well at least in Mbuso's world it does. Tweeps flooded the social media platform with comments that ripped …

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Kim Kardashian Defends Kanye West In Epic Twitter Rant

“Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single 'Famous' on her Twitter account,” they told People. “She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, 'I made that bitch …