Google and Salesforce place interest in bids to acquire Twitter
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Acquisition possible before end of year

In a recent turn of events on Friday, Google and Salesforce have made offers to acquire San Francisco-based social media giant Twitter to an estimated sum of $30 billion.

Turks by-pass government Twitter ban
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Friday, 22 July 2016 13:06

Turks by-pass government Twitter ban


Getting the message out

While the Turkish government is desperate to stop its citizens talking about the coup, its brutal crackdown afterwards and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s corruption, it is fighting an uphill battle.

AI assistant turned fascist sex slave on Twitter
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You have to be careful what you learn from whom

Microsoft’s had a wizard idea about getting its AI robot to learn about humans from Twitter. The program was so good that it quickly turned into a conspiracy theorist, Hitler-loving, incest sex-promoting Trump supporter.

Twitter experiences widespread outage
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Tuesday, 19 January 2016 12:50

Twitter experiences widespread outage

Over 2.5 hours, mostly concentrated in Europe

On Tuesday, visitors to the website were greeted with the "Something is technically wrong" including the infamous blindfolded android robot image. Twitter chose to communicate the problem via a tweet. Some users took to Facebook to complain. Yet for others, the site appears to be permanently inaccessible.

Tweets to get longer
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Wednesday, 06 January 2016 10:52

Tweets to get longer


10,000 characters

Twitter is building a new feature which will allow  allow users to post tweets as long as 10,000 characters.  Its current limit is 140-character limit.

Tech leaders will be jailed for reporting UK spying
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Two years in prison

The UK government is threatening to jail leaders of tech companies who warn their customers that they have been victims of government spying.

Tuesday, 02 December 2014 11:42

UK coppers use twitter to shame drink drivers



Everyone will know even if you are not convicted

Wednesday, 08 October 2014 13:18

Twitter sues US government over spy requests



Stop it, it is getting too silly

Wednesday, 20 August 2014 13:33

Twitter will stop you seeing dead people

If the relatives ask

Thursday, 12 June 2014 10:47

Twitter’s Tweetdeck has hole

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Tweets escape into wild