How social media has synchronized human civilization
Human activity, whether commercial or social, contains patterns and moments of synchronicity. In recent years, social media like Twitter has provided an unprecedented volume of data on the daily...
View ArticleTwitter adds more safety tools, will curb abusive accounts
Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment. Among other things, the service will attempt to identify offenders on...
View ArticleMcDonald's apologizes for hacked tweet slamming Trump (Update)
McDonald's apologized Thursday after it briefly posted on Twitter a blast criticizing President Donald Trump, which the company blamed on a hack from an external source.
View ArticleNational Archives to White House: Save all Trump tweets
The National Archives and Records Administration has told the White House to keep each of President Donald Trump's tweets, even those he deletes or corrects, and the White House has agreed.
View ArticleSaudi king earns more retweets than Trump, study says
Donald Trump may be lighting up Twitter with strange new words and attacks on allies but in the battle for most attention per tweet the US president is losing.
View ArticleWikiLeaks gave Trump edge in campaign, tweets show
Criticism of Hillary Clinton over documents posted by WikiLeaks played a key role in her failed US presidential campaign, analysis of social media suggests.
View ArticleHeat tweet: Users flock to Twitter when temperatures rise
For more than a decade, people have used social media to express themselves and inform and engage users across the globe. Now, a new study by Florida State University researchers examines the impact...
View ArticleMusk says government likes plan for high-speed tunnels
In a tantalizing Tweet, Elon Musk says he has "verbal government approval" to build a tunnel for high-speed transportation from New York to Washington.
View ArticleWhy Twitter won't ban President Donald Trump
Twitter has made it clear that it won't ban Donald Trump from its service, whether the president follows its rules against harassment or not.
View ArticleTaking it to the Tweets—statistics proves Twitter a powerful tool in...
Although most people don't broadcast in advance their intention to engage in criminal activity, University of Virginia Assistant Professor of Systems and Engineering Information Matthew Gerber has...
View ArticleCelebrity Twitter accounts display 'bot-like' behavior
'Celebrity' Twitter accounts - those with more than 10 million followers - display more bot-like behaviour than users with fewer followers, according to new research.
View ArticleSpray can stunt prompts Twitter to act on hateful tweets
An artist tired of seeing hateful tweets ignored by Twitter has managed to get the social network to remove or hide some of them—by spray-painting the offending posts in front of the company's German...
View ArticleHow social media can help keep tabs on ecosystems' health
Social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram could be a rich source of free information for scientists tasked with monitoring the health of coral reefs and other environmental assets, our new...
View ArticleAre your tweets feeling well?
In the future, public health workers could monitor trends on social media to quickly identify a rise of influenza, depression or other health issues in a specific area, thanks to research at the...
View ArticleCan Twitter aid disaster response? New research examines how
With over 500 million tweets sent every single day, new research from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) is investigating innovative ways to use that data to help...
View ArticleTwitter explains why Trump North Korea tweet wasn't removed
Twitter cited President Donald Trump's "newsworthiness" and the public interest as reasons why it declined to remove a tweet that added to the fiery rhetoric between the United States and North Korea.
View ArticleTwitter aims to boost appeal with new 280-character tweet limit
Twitter is testing allowing tweets to be expanded to 280 characters—double the existing limit—in the latest effort to boost flagging growth at the social network.
View ArticleTrump won't get expanded tweet space, for now
US President Donald Trump won't be part of the group testing the expanded character limit for messages on the Twitter the social network.
View ArticleTwitterverse atwitter over expanded tweet limit
Twitter's test of an expanded 280-character limit is aimed at luring new users, but some of the social network's passionate loyalists fear the change will strip it of its unique appeal.
View ArticleRussian group spent $274,000 on Twitter ads during US election
A Russian media group with links to the Moscow government spent $274,000 in 2016 on Twitter ads which may have been used to try to influence the US election, the social media firm said Thursday.
View ArticleTweets can help predict the outcome of soccer matches
New research shows that Twitter activity can help predict the result of football matches when combined with betting market prices.
View ArticleTweeting rage: How immigration policies can polarize public discourse
Before a border wall became a budget bargaining chip, before the presidential pardon of a controversial sheriff and before federal policies were announced on social media, there was Arizona Senate Bill...
View ArticleTwitter to double tweet limit to 280 characters (Update)
Twitter announced Tuesday it would double the limit for tweets to 280 characters, a bid to draw in more users and boost engagement at the social network.
View ArticleVideo: The art and science of glassblowing
If you've ever tapped a screen to send a tweet, opted for a glass bottled soda because of taste, or drooled over art glass in a gallery, then your life has been changed for the better by the...
View ArticleWe learn from our mistakes: how to make better predictions from tweets
Social media is viewed as a potential goldmine of information. The key is to work out how to mine this abundant source of public sentiment.
View ArticleObama trumps Trump in Twitter Top 10 of 2017
US President Donald Trump is perhaps the world's most famous Twitter user, but the most popular post of 2017 was from... Barack Obama.
View ArticleTwitter makes 'tweetstorms' easier with 'threads'
Twitter said Tuesday said it would make it easier for users to build "tweetstorms" by linking together posts in "threads" to expound at length at the famously short-form messaging service.
View ArticleUS Library of Congress backtracks on complete Twitter archive
The US Library of Congress has scaled back plans to archive every message ever sent on Twitter, sparking debate on the importance of social media in historical records.
View ArticleInformation extraction and visualization from Twitter considering spatial...
Social media is expected to be a good source of data for analyzing human behavior and statuses of locations. It is possible to provide location-based information simply by geospatially filtering...
View ArticleTwitter won't block world leaders, citing need for discourse
Twitter announced Friday it would not block the accounts of world leaders even if their statements are "controversial," citing a need to promote a "public conversation" on political issues.
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