A pop star has questioned the police's use of social media after officers posted a tweet about discovering a cannabis farm in a house. Former One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson accused West Yorkshire officers of "gloating" over the raid. In a Twitter post the Doncaster-born star said: "Surely as law … …

Twitter's CEO has officially waved the white flag and called for outside help fixing the site's toxicity. Specifically, he's asked for help defining a metric of “conversational health” on Twitter. While it's good to see Twitter attempt to find a system for controlling the behavior of its users, human beings …

The Twitter account of Instagram celebrity Claudia Oshry, who goes by the username Girl With No Job, has gone dark, after The Daily Beast unearthed political tweets from 2012 and revealed that her mother is right-wing provocateur Pamela Geller. Claudia and her sisters Jackie, Olivia and Margo Oshry, … Read More

According to Twitter's diversity data, “underrepresented minorities” — which Twitter defined as non-white and non-Asian — now make up 12.5 percent of the company's total workforce, up from 11 percent in 2016. But that 12.5 percent includes people who specifically declined to identify their ethnicity on … Read More

Facebook's self-regulatory contortions in the wake of fake news and trolling scandals have gone on, with little visible effect, for months. Now Twitter founder and Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has announced his company is going to try a different tack — but Dorsey's approach is arguably even more … Read …

Twitter is trying to get a better handle on the “overall health of the public conversation,” and the social network is actively seeking suggestions for metrics it should incorporate. Nonprofit research organization Cortico developed four indicators to measure conversational health— shared attention, shared … Read More

Yesterday, Twitter issued a call for proposals to measure its “contribution to the overall health of the public conversation” so that it could help “encourage more healthy debate, conversations, and critical thinking,” and discourage “abuse, spam and manipulation.” It's the kind of high-minded request that … Read More

In a blog post, Twitter (TWTR +1.2%) notes it is increasing diversity hiring goals for the coming two years. The company surpassed its 2017 goal of having women make up 38% of its workforce, hitting 38.4%. By the end of 2019, it's now targeting a 43% female workforce, writes Candi … …

Now Twitter founder and Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has announced his company is going to try a different tack — but Dorsey's approach is arguably even more far-fetched than his Facebook peer Mark Zuckerberg's: It's an attempt to view Twitter's social mess as an engineering problem. Read More

Twitter has asked for help in devising a "health check" to measure its contribution to public conversation. It said it hoped to work with "outside experts" and is inviting proposals. Its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, said the platform's "instant, public, global messaging" had "real-world negative consequences" … Read More