Category archives: Twitter

What you can learn from the struggling social site’s turnaround.

In this post, you’ll learn about how Twitter Promote Mode works and the results of a 30-day experiment.

Bahtiyar Duysak tells TechCrunch that he didn’t mean to briefly shut down Trump’s Twitter account on Nov. 2. ‘I didn’t do anything on purpose,’ he says.

Amid recent backlash over issuing verification to white supremacists, Twitter has updated its guidelines for verified accounts.

Trump’s account was deactivated by ‘a Twitter customer support employee…on the employee’s last day.’ It was back online 11 minutes later.

Twitter unveiled the new effort after U.S. senators introduced legislation that would require tech companies to add disclaimers to political ads.

Twitter’s handling of abuse is under fire once more after suspending actress Rose McGowan’s account.

The expanded tweet format is ‘only available to a small group right now,’ and aims to accommodate those whose languages take up more characters, such as English.

Ever thought about contraction subtraction?

To avoid garbage tweets, you can now disable Twitter notifications from people who don’t follow you and/or those with a new account.