Barber: Using Twitter Professionally
Twitter is the place to be. With 330 million monthly users and 500 million tweets sent out every day, the thriving Twitter-verse is one of the popular social media platforms. If you haven't already jumped on the Twitter train, it's not too late. Social media is absolutely crucial to your …
FDA wants Facebook and Twitter to crack down on opioid sales
Gottlieb says that the FDA has found offers to purchase opioids and other drugs on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Google, Yahoo and Bing. He added that in a report from the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, investigators found that "'it was easy to find fentanyl advertised … Read More
Richie Incognito fires his agents on Twitter
Richie Incognito turned Twitter into his own personal boardroom Wednesday, delivering pink slips to his agents in the form of a tweet. “@AthletesFirst You are Fired!” the Bills guard posted from Scottsdale, Ariz. “I wish you guys nothing but the best moving forward. Thank you for all of your help …
Star Wars in 2028? Hilarious Twitter hashtag looks ahead
Star Wars hit Earth with A New Hope just over 40 years ago, and the franchise is still going strong with the latest sequels The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. But Twitter is starting to wonder just how long the Force can continue to strike back. (Yeah, you try …
‘A 3rd Grade Anal Joke’: Comedians Savage Mike Huckabee’s Twitter Feed
Few feeds on Twitter reliably produce as many office-wide groans as the one belonging to two-time presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. It is, at its core, a steady stream of hokey dad jokes shoehorned into political and social commentary. Often, the jokes fall painfully flat. Read More
Twitter Seems to Be Suspending Accounts for Old Tweets That Suggest Physical Harm
Social networking giant Twitter, much like counterparts such as Facebook and WhatsApp, is going through a rough patch with incidents of fake news and controversies around user verifications on the rise on the microblogging platform, while fighting a long-term battle against abuse. Gadgets 360 has … Read More
RCMP Shifting Focus to Single Provincewide Twitter Account
The RCMP is encouraging Twitter users to follow its RCMP Newfoundland and Labrador account for the latest on traffic and other incidents in the province. Some social media followers had expressed dismay when the Holyrood Detachment's once-active Twitter account fell silent after the recent … Read More
Facebook and Twitter may be forced to identify bots
Twitter and Facebook are all too aware that they've been infiltrated by Russia-backed bots. Twitter, for its part, has purged tens of thousands of accounts associated with Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. The company also said it would email notifications to hundreds of thousands … Read More
“I Unfortunately Have The Equivalent Of 5 PhDs In Twitter Harassment”
The CEO of video game company Giant Spacekat, she became a primary target of Gamergate–the loose-knit campaign by trolls against prominent women in the gaming industry–in 2014. Wu was threatened with rape and death on Twitter and Facebook and had her personal information doxed on 8chan … Read More
This “sorrow-scope” Twitter account is for every pessimist who secretly wants to know their horoscope
Horoscopes are my safe space. When every day was a bad day at age 16, I would come home from school and sandwich my body on my bed while simultaneously opening up a horoscope app. It was my post-school snack and I was always ravenous. In college, after my first …