Twitter Stories for 2017

Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' 152
A Reporter Built a Bot To Find Nazi Sock Puppet Accounts. Twitter Banned the Bot and Kept the Nazis 648
The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Every Public Tweet On January 1st 79
Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks 133
Twitter Rolls Out Stricter Rules On Abusive Content 261
Ajit Pai Taunts Net Neutrality Critics. Mark Hamill Taunts Ajit Pai 346
Twitter Officially Launches 'Threads,' a New Feature For Easily Posting Tweetstorms 47
Twitter Says It Accidentally Banned A Bunch Of Accounts 25
Vine Co-Founder Dom Hofmann Says He's Working On 'a Follow-Up To Vine' 54
Jack Dorsey Responds To Serial Killer Who Found His Victims Through Suicidal Twitter Posts 73
Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists 707
Twitter Officially Expands Its Character Count To 280 Starting Today 98
Twitter Exploit Let Two Pranksters Post 30,000-Character Tweet 65
'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' 402
9.6% of Facebook's Users 'May Be Fakes' 96
Advice To Twitter Worker Who Deactivated Trump's Account: 'Get A Lawyer' 271
Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account 377
Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia 176
TechCrunch Argues Social Media News Feeds 'Need to Die' 154
Twitter Says It Overstated Monthly-User Figures For 3 Years 36
Justice Department Demands Five Twitter Users' Personal Info Over an Emoji 59
Tech Firms Seek Washington's Prized Asset: Top-Secret Clearances 147
Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two 293
Senators Announce New Bill That Would Regulate Online Political Ads 232
Twitter Is Crawling With Bots and Lacks Incentive To Expel Them 95
EU Gives Ultimatum To Facebook and Twitter: Obey Us Or We'll Start Regulating 335
Twitter Suspends Hundreds of Accounts Linked To Russian Operatives 235
Twitter Tests Doubling Character Limit For Tweets To 280 132
Twitter Suspends 300,000 Accounts Tied To Terrorism In 2017 69
Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News 108
67% of Americans Use Social Media To Get Some of their News 71
Twitter is Just Randomly Deleting People's Lists -- and No One Knows Why 115
Some Instagram Employees Sell Verification For Thousands of Dollars 56
Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival 530
Trump Can Block People On Twitter If He Wants, Administration Says 214
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News 144
Twitter Added Zero New Users Last Quarter Despite Trump Tweets 310
Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in 'One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network' 53
Twitter Users Blocked By Trump Sue, Claim @realDonaldTrump Is Public Forum 430
CNN Warns It May Expose An Anonymous Critic If He Ever Again Publishes Bad Content 944
Twitter Detects Riots Faster Than Police, Study Says 49
Social Media Giants Step Up Joint Fight Against Extremist Content 181
New Study Explains Why Trump's 'Sad' Tweets Are So Effective 272
Tableau Software Drops Its 'Twitter Crowd Favorite' Data Viz Contests 21
'COVFEFE Act' Would Make Social Media a Presidential Record 322
The Public Is Growing Tired of Trump's Tweets, Says Voter Survey 489
Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? 390
Can Twitter Survive By Becoming A User-Owned Co-Op? 124
Twitter Isn't Removing Enough Hate Speech, Complains The EU 201
A Bug in Twitter's Old Vine App May Have Exposed Your Email 6
Facebook and Twitter 'Harm Young People's Mental Health' 120
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Is Returning to the Company 35
'Weaponized' Twitter Bots Spread Info From French Campaign Hack 255
Some of the Biggest Economies Aren't a Big User Of Social Media 78
Twitter Allegedly Deleting Negative Tweets About United Airlines' Passenger Abuse 233
The Trump Administration No Longer Wants Twitter To Reveal the Owner of an Anti-Trump Account 92
Twitter Co-Founder Ev Williams Is Selling 30 Percent of His Stock For 'Personal' Reasons 42
Twitter Sues US Government Over Attempt To Unmask Anti-Trump Account 248
Twitter To Developers: Please Love Us Again 143
Twitter Is Ditching the Egg 75
'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter 416
Twitter Will No Longer Count Usernames Against a Tweet's 140-Character Limit 77
UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It 444
Twitter Considers Premium Version After 11 Years As a Free Service 84
Twitter Suspended Hundreds of Thousands of Accounts Amid 'Violent Extremism' 202
Hundreds of Verified Twitter Accounts Compromised, Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content 289
Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again 135
Report: Up To 15% Of Twitter Accounts Are Bots 50
Blogger Wins Libel Damages Over Columnist's Tweets 115
Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls 183
'Social Media Needs A Travel Mode' 144
Web Comic 'Pokey The Penguin' Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary 67
Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone 507
Magic Leap CEO Defends His AR Company After Leaked Photo 62
Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) 341
How Tech Ate the Media and Our Minds 82
Maybe It's Time For Jack Dorsey To Pick a Company 37
Tor's Ooniprobe, Now Available On Android and iOS, Helps People Track Internet Censorship 27
72% of 'Anonymous' Browsing History Can Be Attached To the Real User 67
97 Tech Companies Including Apple, Google, Microsoft Call Travel Ban Unlawful In Rare Coordinated Legal Action 626
Twitter Releases National Security Letters 16
Twitter Scrambles For Next Big Feature, Bets On Merging Tweets, Hashtags, Moments 47
Researchers Discover Massive Networks of Fake Twitter Accounts 91
Tech Firm Creates Trump Monitor For Stock Markets 203
Twitter Just Sold Its Developer Platform To Google 27
App.net is Shutting Down 30
WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info 211
Obama Administration Releases Searchable Archive of Social Media Posts 110