Twitter Stories for 2019

Would Social Media Have Made Life Worse For Richard Jewell? 81
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
Twitter Bans Animated PNG Files After Online Attackers Targeted Users With Epilepsy 78
Twitter Removes Nearly 6,000 Saudi-Backed Accounts For Platform Manipulation 28
Facebook, Twitter Shutter Pro-Trump Network That Used AI To Create Fake People and Push Conspiracies 136
Apple Used the DMCA to Take Down a Tweet Containing an iPhone Encryption Key 66
Twitter Is Funding Independent Effort To Develop an Open and Decentralized Standard For Social Media 58
How Pranksters Tricked Twitter-Scraping Sites Into Copyright Infringement 63
Jury Sides With Elon Musk, Rejects $190M Defamation Claim Over Tweet 101
Should Twitter Delete the Accounts of Dead People? 113
How Russian Trolls Spread Propaganda Using Uplifting Tweets 164
Twitter Prepares For Huge Cull of Inactive Users 47
Facebook and Twitter Users' Data Exposed Due To Third-Party SDK Bug 10
Twitter Will Finally Let Users Disable SMS as Default 2FA Method 9
Twitter Says It Will Let All Users Hide Replies To Tweets 49
Twitter Proposes Flagging Deepfakes, But Would Only Remove Content That Threatens Harm 16
Thousands of Bots Are Retweeting Claims of Voter Fraud In Kentucky 314
Mozilla Hits Google, Facebook For 'Microtargeting' Political Ads 31
Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia 32
Adobe and Twitter Are Designing a System For Permanently Attaching Artists' Names To Pictures 62
Twitter Is Banning Political Ads 100
Jack Dorsey Criticizes Zuckerberg Over His Free-Speech Argument 120
Twitter Says It's Better at Spotting Abusive Tweets Than Users 46
Just 6% of US Adults On Twitter Account For 73% of Political Tweets, Study Finds 80
Twitter Says It Will Restrict Users From Retweeting World Leaders Who Break Its Rules 76
Would You Give Up Google For $17,000 a Year? The Federal Reserve Wants To Know 140
Twitter Took Phone Numbers for Security and Used Them for Advertising 63
Twitter Executive Is Also A British Army 'Psyops' Soldier 43
Kamala Harris Asks Twitter To Suspend Donald Trump For 'Civil War' and Whistleblower Tweets 567
Twitter Outage Takes Down TweetDeck, Affects Images and DMs 36
Twitter's Stenciled San Francisco Street Tweets Illegal Graffiti, City Says 108
Twitter Disables SMS-to-Tweet Feature After Its CEO Got Hacked Last Week 20
Twitter's Jack Dorsey Has Own Account Hacked 32
YouTube Pressured To Ban Chinese State Media Ads That Spread Misinformation About Protesters 29
Twitter Blocks State-Controlled Media Outlets From Advertising On Its Social Network 100
Twitter is Blocked in China, But Chinese State News Agency is Buying Promoted Tweets To Portray Hong Kong Protestors as Violent 123
Twitter Leads $100M Round in Top Indian Regional Social Media Platform ShareChat 1
FBI Seeks To Monitor Facebook, Oversee Mass Social Media Data Collection 105
AMD Lands Google, Twitter as Customers With Newest Server Chip 57
Twitter Fesses Up To More Adtech Leaks 18
Twitter Users Are Escaping Online Hate by Switching Profiles To Germany 335
Guy Who Built Twitter's Retweet Button Admits Maybe That Was a Really Bad Idea 98
Twitter Rebuilds Website For 'Write Once, Run Everywhere' Philosophy 63
Twitter is Down [Update] 160
Twitter Says it Will Label Tweets From Trump and Other Leaders That Break Its Rules 473
Twitter Will Remove Precise Location Tagging In Tweets, Citing Lack of Use 5
Study Claims Using Twitter Erodes Your Intelligence 142
Russian Trolls Fueled Anti-Vaccination Debate On Twitter, Study Finds 209
Purism Introduces A New Social Network Named 'Librem Social' 114
Twitter Has Started Researching Whether White Supremacists Belong on Twitter 543
Elon Musk on Twitter: 'Trains Should Be On Surface, Cars Below' 221
White House Launches Tool To Report Political Bias On Social Media Sites 402
Twitter Opens Developers Labs Program To Test New API Products 20
Twitter Bug Shared Location Data For Some iOS Users 9
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Blames His Resignation Partly On Social Media 137
Censorship 'Can't Be The Only Answer' To Anti-Vax Misinformation, Argues EFF 313
10% of Twitter Users Create 80% of the Tweets 67
Scientists Live-Tweet Chilling Faux Asteroid Impact Scare 72
Elon Musk Makes Deal With SEC Not To Discuss Tesla's Finances Without a Lawyer's Approval 110
Why Won't Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. 925
Is It Time To Rethink the Fundamental Dynamics of Twitter? 143
Twitter Has Been Secretly Verifying Thousands of Accounts, Even Though It Insists Its Verification Program is on Hold 97
Starz Goes on Twitter Meta-Censorship Spree To Cover Up TV-Show Leaks 55
Why Social Media Users Have Trouble Reclaiming Hijacked Accounts 64
Facebook, Google, Twitter To Face US Lawmakers About Tech 'Censorship' 176
Linus Torvalds on Social Media: 'It's a Disease. It Seems To Encourage Bad Behavior.' 305
Elon Musk Continues To Amuse Himself On Twitter, Sharing Song, Duck Emoji 101
Devin Nunes Faces an Uphill Battle in His Lawsuit Against Twitter 162
Twitter Cracks Down on API Abuse, Will Charge B2B Developers 33
North Korea Advertises Military Hardware On Twitter and YouTube, Defying Sanctions 61
Twitter Teases Hiding 'Likes' and 'Retweets' Counts, Color-Coded Replies in Biggest Set of Changes To Its Social Media Service Since it Launched in 2006 48
Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time 376
To Disrupt America's 2020 Elections, Russian Internet Trolls Amplify Divisive Messages, Assemble 'Massive' Followings 331
Machine Learning Can Use Tweets To Spot Critical Security Flaws 13
Facebook, Twitter, and Google Still Aren't Doing Enough About Disinformation, EU Says 110
Twitter Confirms It's Working On a 'Hide Tweet' Feature 26
BlackBerry Sues Twitter For Patent Infringement 49
Elon Musk Should Be Held In Contempt For Tweet, SEC Tells Judge 274
Even Years Later, Twitter Doesn't Delete Your Direct Messages 30
After Calls For an Edit Button, Twitter Says it is Considering a 'Clarification' Feature 71
How Hard is it To Have a Conversation on Twitter? So Hard Even the CEO Can't Do It. 140
Twitter Still Can't Keep Up With Its Flood of Junk Accounts, Study Finds 39
Microsoft Project Manager Says Mozilla Should Get Down From Its 'Philosophical Ivory Tower,' Cease Firefox Development 444
Twitter Might Punish Users Who Tweet 'Learn To Code' At Laid-Off Journalists 418
Amid Chaos Venezuelans Struggle To Find The Truth, Online 260
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Says Biometrics May Defeat Bots 60
Russia Tries To Force Facebook, Twitter To Relocate Servers To Russia 83
Mark Zuckerberg's Mentor 'Shocked and Disappointed' -- But He Has a Plan 140
Twitter Bug Exposed Some Android Users' Protected Tweets For Years 13
Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Meme Could Train Facial Recognition Algorithms On Age Progression, Age Recognition 38
Do Social Media Bots Have a Right To Free Speech? 170
Politicians Cannot Block Social Media Foes, US Appeals Court Rules 220
Germany Reportedly Seeks US Assistance After Hacking Breach 40