Twitter Stories for 2020

New York Post's Hunter Biden Laptop Source Sues Twitter for Defamation 468
Twitter Will Make Joe Biden's @POTUS Account Start With Zero Followers 151
Elon Musk Tweeted About a Bitcoin Rival. It Soared 20% 43
Dutch Prosecutors Find a Hacker Did Successfully Log Into Donald Trump's Twitter Account 96
Twitter Is Shutting Down Its Periscope Apps 6
Twitter Disabled 'Likes' and 'Replies' on False Trump Tweets. Inadvertently. 191
Twitter App Code Indicates That Live Video Broadcasting App Periscope May Get Shut Down 11
Twitter Users Complain of Timelines Being Overrun With 'Promoted Tweets'; Twitter Says It's Intentional 91
Twitter Will Warn You If You 'Like' Misleading Tweets 175
Social Media Companies All Starting To Look the Same 26
Twitter Verification Returns Early Next Year 21
Twitter's Launch of Fleets: Lag, Some Crashes, Bugs, Skepticism and Cat Pics 30
Google, Facebook and Twitter Threaten To Leave Pakistan Over Censorship Law 37
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter Align To Fight Covid Vaccine Conspiracies 116
Twitter Launches Disappearing 'Fleets' Worldwide 52
Twitter Names Famed Hacker 'Mudge' as Head of Security 14
Trump Will Lose His Twitter 'Public Interest' Protections In January 375
Proctoring Software Company Used DMCA To Take Down a Student's Critical Tweets 130
Netflix Targets Critical 'Cuties' Tweets With Copyright Takedown Requests 72
Jack Dorsey Keeps Twitter CEO Job 20
Dutch Hacker Says He Logged Into President Trump's Twitter Account 99
Stupid Russian Disinformation Campaign Targets Oxford Vaccine 147
Senate To Subpoena Twitter CEO Over Blocking of Disputed Biden Articles 580
Twitter, Like Facebook, To Remove Posts Denying the Holocaust 300
Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features To Fight Election Misinformation 97
Judge Orders Twitter To Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy 132
SEC Sues John McAfee Over Promoting Cryptocurrency On Twitter 29
Twitter Hashtag For Far-Right Group Taken Over By Gay Men 257
Twitter Is Building 'Birdwatch,' a System To Fight Misinformation By Adding More Context To Tweets 42
Twitter Says You Cannot Tweet That You Hope Trump Dies From COVID-19 308
Twitter Wants To Tackle Its Biased Image Cropping Problem By Giving Users More Control 31
Thailand Launches Its First Legal Action Against Facebook and Twitter 19
While Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Announce Hate Speech Action, Some Advertisers Remain Skeptical 184
Twitter Is Bringing Its 'Read Before You Retweet' Prompt To All Users 48
Twitter Warns of Possible API Keys Leak 9
Twitter To Start Testing Voice DMs 10
Apparent Racial Bias Found in Twitter Photo Algorithm 119
Twitter Orders Politicians, Journalists To Fortify Passwords Before Election 32
On Twitter Usernames With Lots of Numbers 49
Russians Again Targeting Americans With Disinformation, Facebook and Twitter Say 249
A Saudi Prince's Attempt To Silence Critics On Twitter 30
Twitter Hack May Have Had Another Mastermind: A 16-Year-Old 34
Surprise News About Superhero Actor Chadwick Boseman Becomes Most-Liked Tweet Ever 41
Trump Asks Supreme Court To Let Him Block Critics on Twitter 245
Spies in Silicon Valley: Twitter Breach Tied To Saudi Dissident Arrests 10
The Attack That Broke Twitter Is Hitting Dozens of Companies 32
Silicon Valley Game-Plans For a Messy Election Night 286
Twitter's Reply-Limiting Feature is Now Available To Everyone 48
Could Twitter Outbid Microsoft for TikTok? 21
Twitter Says Security Flaw May Have Exposed Android Users' Direct Messages 5
Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Loud Music and Porn 71
Twitter Says Android Security Bug Gave Access To Direct Messages 4
Twitter Faces FTC Probe, Likely Fine Over Use of Phone Numbers For Ads 23
A 17-Year-Old's Journey: Minecraft, SIM-Swapping Bitcoin Heists, Breaching Twitter 135
A Florida Teen Just Got Arrested for Twitter's Huge Hack 102
Twitter Permanently Bans White Supremacist David Duke 393
Twitter Says High-Profile Hack Was the Result of a Phishing Attack 23
Twitter Temporarily Limits Donald Trump Jr.'s Account 270
Trump Blasts 'Trending' Section On Twitter: 'Really Ridiculous, Illegal, and, of Course, Very Unfair!' 354
Twitter's Security Woes Included Broad Access To User Accounts 20
More Than 1,000 People at Twitter Had Ability To Aid Hack of Accounts 29
Twitter Is Considering Subscriptions Amid An Advertising Slump 68
AI System Detects Posts By Foreign 'Trolls' On Facebook and Twitter 62
Twitter Takes Down 7,000 Accounts Linked To QAnon 277
Coinbase Says It Prevented Over 1,000 Customers From Sending $280,000 Worth of Bitcoin To Twitter Hackers 30
Many New Details Emerge About Twitter's Breach 32
What Twitter's Worst Hack Means For Its Bottom Line 42
Who's Behind Wednesday's Epic Twitter Hack? 75
Is Twitter Shifting the Balance of Power From Companies to Their Employees? 64
Police Surveilled Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr 68
Jack Dorsey Donates $3 Million To US Mayors For Universal Basic Income Pilot Programs In 15 Cities 216
Twitter is Working on a Subscription Platform Codenamed Gryphon 19
US Tech Giants Halt Reviews of Hong Kong Demands For User Data 45
Venture Capitalists' Critiques of Journalism Secretly Leaked to Journalists 118
Hundreds of Armed US Counter-Protesters Fall for 'Apparent Hoax' 390
Facebook, Twitter, Google Face Free-Speech Test in Hong Kong 62
Twitter Engineers Replacing Racially Loaded Tech Terms Like 'Master,' 'Slave' 350
JPMorgan Drops Terms 'Master,' 'Slave' From Internal Tech Code and Materials 285
Twitter Flags Trump Tweet of Protesters For Including 'Threat of Harm' 382
Facebook and Twitter Remove Manipulated Video From Trump's Accounts After DMCA Complaint 202
Twitter Labels Trump Tweet As 'Manipulated Media' 404
Justice Dept. Urges Rolling Back Legal Shield for Tech Companies 247
Twitter Adds Ability To Record Audio in Tweets 30
Jack Dorsey's Radical Experiment for Billionaires to Give Away Their Money 204
On Twitter, President Trump Tries -- and Fails -- To Target Comcast 232
Disney Almost Bought Twitter in 2016 16
How an Online Mob Doxxed an Innocent Man 158
Twitter Deletes Over 170,000 Accounts Tied To Chinese Propaganda Efforts 48
New Twitter Feature Nags You For Sharing Articles Without Opening Them 77
Twitter To Launch a Revamped Verification System With Publicly Documented Guidelines 20
Musk Says 'Time To Break Up Amazon,' Escalating Feud With Bezos 129
Protesting Mark Zuckerberg Comments About Fact-Checking, Fake News About Mark Zuckerberg Goes Viral 172
What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230? 519
Senator Ted Cruz Calls For Criminal Investigation of Twitter 161
Twitter, Reddit Challenge US Rules Forcing Visa Applicants To Disclose Their Social Media Handles 47
Twitter Flags Trump and White House Tweets About Minneapolis Protests for 'Glorifying Violence' 603
Trump To Order Review of Law Protecting Social Media Firms After Twitter Spat 420
Anti-Porn Filters Stop Dominic Cummings Trending On Twitter 162
Proposed Bill Would Ban Microtargeting of Political Advertisements 120
Trump Threatens To Shut Social Media Companies After Twitter Fact Check 682
Twitter Refuses To Delete Trump's Baseless Claims About Joe Scarborough 335
Twitter Struggles To Label Misleading COVID-19 Tweets 95
Nearly Half of Twitter Accounts Pushing To Reopen America May Be Bots 288
Twitter is Testing a Feature That Limits Who Can Reply To Your Tweets 96
Doctors Are Tweeting About Coronavirus To Make Facts Go Viral 98
Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever 86
Twitter To Label Disputed COVID-19 Tweets 86
William Shatner Upset By Police Who Drew Guns Upon Stormtrooper On May 4th 431
Twitter Runs a Test Prompting Users To Revise 'Harmful' Replies 90
Tesla's Stock Drops Billions After Elon Musk's Tweetstorm Friday 206
Disney Claims Anyone Using a Twitter Hashtag is Agreeing To Their Terms of Use 91
Twitter Turns Off its Original SMS Service in Most Countries 6
Facebook Will Warn Users Who 'Liked' Coronavirus Hoaxes 132
Twitter Can't Reveal Number of US Surveillance Requests, Judge Rules 53
Twitter Accused of Obliterating Its Users' Privacy Choices 102
Conspiracy Theories Provoke 30 Arson and Vandalism Attacks Against UK Cellphone Towers 161
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Sets Aside $1 Billion In Square Equity For Coronavirus Relief 22
Twitter Removes 9,000 Accounts Pushing Coronavirus Propaganda Praising the United Arab Emirates 19
Twitter Discloses Firefox Bug That Cached Private Files Sent or Received via DMs 42
Twitter Seeks More Verified Coronavirus Experts, Automates Machine Learning-Enhanced Content Screening 19
Twitter Broadly Bans Any COVID-19 Tweets That Could Help the Virus Spread 169
Twitter Rewrites Developer Policy To Better Support Academic Research and Use of 'Good' Bots 13
Jack Dorsey To Stay at Twitter 25
Twitter Bans Posts That 'Dehumanize' People In Connection With Diseases 161
Twitter is Testing Ephemeral Tweets 32
Twitter Advises 5,000 Global Employees To Work From Home 31
Major Republican Donor Seeks Ouster of Twitter's CEO 164
A High School Student Created a Fake 2020 Candidate. Twitter Verified It 64
Facebook, Google and Twitter Rebel Against Pakistan's Censorship Rules 74
How China Is Hunting Down Coronavirus Critics 207
Russian Trolls Now Just Push Divisive Content Created By Others 213
A Quarter of All Tweets About Climate Crisis Produced By Bots 129
Twitter is Testing New Ways To Fight Misinformation 80
Twitter Locks WikiLeaks Official Account With 5.4 Million Followers, Days Before Julian Assange's Extradition Hearing 75
Twitter Ran Ads For Human Organs Because Money Is Money 54
Twitter and Facebook Criticized For Not Removing False Claims About Iowa Voters 109
Facebook's Twitter Account Gets Breached 15
Twitter Will Ban Deepfakes and Other Manipulated Media That Could Cause 'Serious Harm' 56
Stephen King, Elon Musk Criticize Social Media Policies 97
Hackers Target NFL Teams On Twitter Ahead of Super Bowl 17
Twitter Tells Facial Recognition Trailblazer To Stop Using Site's Photos 45
Twitter Will 'Probably' Never Offer the Option To Edit Tweets, Says CEO Jack Dorsey 74
Twitter Will Soon Let You Choose Who Can Reply To Your Tweets 61