Google and Salesforce place interest in bids to acquire Twitter
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
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
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
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
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
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.
UK coppers use twitter to shame drink drivers
Everyone will know even if you are not convicted
Twitter sues US government over spy requests
Stop it, it is getting too silly
Twitter will stop you seeing dead people
If the relatives ask
Twitter’s Tweetdeck has hole
Tweets escape into wild