Twitter Stories for 2021

How Chinese Police Track Critics on Twitter and Facebook 61
Trump Got Free Speech Wrong in Suit Over Ban, Twitter Says 272
Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Would-Be Slack Rival Quill 14
Twitter Admits 'Coordinated and Malicious' Activity Weaponizing Its New Privacy Policy 169
Twitter Expands Safety Policy, Bans Posting Images of People Without Their Consent 126
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Steps Down 49
Twitter Rolls Back AMP Support, No Longer Sends Users To AMP Pages 34
Twitter is Launching a Dedicated Crypto Team, Part of Its Push Toward Decentralization 5
Twitter Algorithms Amplify Right-leaning Political Content More Than Left-leaning, Company Says Citing Own Research 137
You Can Now Play 'Doom' Via Twitter 23
Twitter Adds Bitcoin Tipping, Pushes Further Into NFTs 18
Twitter To Pay $809.5 Million To Settle 2016 Lawsuit Over Growth Projections 6
Russia Fines Facebook, Twitter for Not Deleting Banned Content 57
Twitter Reopens Its Account Verification Process After Another Pause 16
Twitter For iOS Beta Lays Groundwork For Bitcoin Tips 29
Twitter Will Auto-Block Harassers in Bid To Curb Abuse 88
Twitter's New Font, Chirp, Is Apparently Giving Some Users Headaches 77
Twitter Algorithm Prefers Slimmer, Younger, Light-Skinned Faces 45
Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's Account for One Week 334
Twitter Now in Compliance With India's New IT Rules, Government Says 10
A Grandfather Died in 'Swatting' Over His Twitter Handle, Officials Say 141
Facebook, Twitter and Other Tech Giants To Target Attacker Manifestos, Far-right Militias in Database 197
'Disinformation for Hire' is Becoming a Booming Industry 148
Twitter Sees Jump In Government Demands To Remove Content of Reporters, News Outlets 17
Twitter Sees Jump in Govt Demands To Remove Content of Reporters, News Outlets 17
Twitter is Killing Fleets, Its Expiring Tweets Feature 14
Twitter Has Lost Liability Protection in India, Government Says 185
Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten To Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws 92
Judge Blocks Florida Law That Would Punish Social Media Companies for Banning Politicians 254
Twitter Considers New Features For Tweeting Only To Friends, Under Different Personas and More 11
Intern's Email Goof at HBO Max Inspires Hundreds to Show Support on Twitter 62
Twitter Accused of 'Deliberately' Defying Indian Government's New Social Media Rules 85
Florida's Fired Covid-19 Data Manager 'Permanently Suspended' From Twitter 99
Twitter Restricts Accounts In India To Comply With Government Legal Request 48
Nigeria Suspends Twitter Indefinitely After President's Tweet is Deleted 95
Twitter Debuts Subscriptions To 'Super Users' in New Revenue Push 47
Twitter and Facebook Admit They Wrongly Blocked Millions of Posts About Gaza Strip Airstrikes 156
Twitter Could Be Working On Facebook-Style Reactions 7
Twitter Decries India Intimidation, Will Press for Changes 50
Russia Raises Heat on Twitter, Google and Facebook in Online Crackdown 36
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates 402
Police In Delhi Have Descended On Twitter's Headquarters In The Country 83
Twitter Reopens Its Verification Process For First Time Since 2017 29
Trump Justice Dept. Tried To Use Grand Jury To Identify Nunes Critic on Twitter 261
'How Lies on Social Media Are Inflaming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict' 362
Confronting Disinformation Spreaders on Twitter Only Makes It Worse, MIT Scientists Say 79
Army of Fake Fans Boosts China's Messaging on Twitter 70
Twitter and TikTok are Losing the War Against COVID Disinformation 146
Twitter Begins To Show Prompts Before People Send 'Mean' Replies 93
Elon Musk Teased on Twitter with Ideas for SNL Comedy Sketches 65
New Florida Law Could Punish Social Media Companies for 'Deplatforming' Politicians 336
English Soccer Teams Have Started a Four-Day Social Media Boycott To Protest Online Abuse 59
Oracle VP Ken Glueck Suspended by Twitter for Doxing a Reporter 81
As Outbreak Rages, India Orders Critical Social Media Posts to Be Taken Down 110
Twitter Held Discussions To Buy Clubhouse For $4 Billion 10
Justice Thomas Argues For Making Facebook, Twitter and Google Utilities 236
Putin's Plan For Controlling the Internet In Russia 63
Amazon's Twitter Army Was Handpicked For 'Great Sense of Humor' 54
Child Tweets Gibberish From US Nuclear-Agency Account 108
Amazon Argues With US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on Twitter 255
Big Tech CEOs Told 'Time For Self-Regulation is Over' By US Lawmakers 108
Twitter Is Exploring the Use of Facebook-Style Emoji Reactions 14
Facebook and Twitter Must Do More To Fight Anti-Vaccine Misinformation, a Dozen State Attorneys General Demand 153
Jack Dorsey Sells First Tweet As NFT For $2.9 Million 67
Man Loses $560,000 in Bitcoin Scam From Fake Elon Musk Account 221
Twitter Asks: When Should We Cut Off Rule-Breaking World Leaders? 263
Security Researcher Hides ZIP, MP3 Files Inside PNG Files On Twitter 24
Teen 'Mastermind' Behind the Great Twitter Hack Sentenced To Three Years in Prison 62
Twitter Bug Automatically Suspends You If You Tweet the Word 'Memphis' 95
Russia Says It's Slowing Down Twitter To Protect Citizens From Illegal Content 51
Twitter Sues Texas AG Paxton, Claiming He "Retaliated" Over Trump Ban 383
Twitter Is Testing An 'Undo' Option After Sending Tweets 18
Twitter Announces Paid Super Follows To Let You Charge For Tweets 72
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter Agree to Australia's Misinformation-Fighting Code 164
Twitter's Misinformation-Fighting Tool 'Birdwatch' Makes Mistakes 83
Twitter Has Studied Using Bitcoin, CFO Says 53
Twitter Blocks Accounts in India as Modi Pressures Social Media 36
Twitter's Jack Dorsey Wants To Build an App Store for Social Media Algorithms 36
Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content 42
Myanmar's New Military Government is Now Blocking Twitter and Instagram 65
Twitter Blocks Numerous High-Profile Accounts in India Following Government's 'Legal demand' 25
Corporate Trolls? A Covert, Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign on Social Media 46
Twitter Acquires Newsletter Startup Revue To Expand Business 2
Twitter Launches 'Birdwatch,' a Forum To Combat Misinformation 145
Twitter's Decentralized Social Network Project Takes a Baby Step Forward 24
Tesla Is Hiring People To Handle Complaints People Tweet At Elon Musk 55
Turkey Slaps Ad Ban on Twitter Under New Social Media Law 37
Twitter Temporarily Suspends Account of US Representative 358
Online Misinformation Dropped Dramatically After Twitter Banned Trump 265
Are Tech Companies Ducking Responsibility For The Need to De-Platform? 134
US President-Elect Biden Starts New Twitter Account, Criticizes Policy on POTUS Account 237
Jack Dorsey Defends Twitter's Trump Ban, Then Enthuses About Bitcoin 171
Poland Plans To Make Censoring of Social Media Accounts Illegal 530
Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook and Twitter 250
Trump's Twitter Ban Prompts Outcry From Germany and France 536
Twitter Shares Fall 7% Following Permanent Trump Ban 214
Sci-Hub Founder Criticises Sudden Twitter Ban Over Over 'Counterfeit' Content 147
Twitter Locks President Trump's Account For 12 Hours, Warns of Permanent Suspension 583