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Dominic Raab made his comments at a tech industry meeting

Raab admits not understanding importance of EU trade

Brexit / 08 Nov

Twitter said its quarterly advertising revenue jumped 29% from a year earlier to $650m

Twitter ad sales surge in third quarter, shares jump

Business / 25 Oct

Twitter announced it had discovered activity related to the accounts early this year, but kept their details private

Twitter releases data from 'state-backed' operations

Science and Technology / 17 Oct

Internet platforms will also be required to take proactive measures, such as developing new tools to weed out abuse

EU pushes internet firms to remove extremist content

technology / 12 Sep

Alex Jones had almost 900,000 followers on Twitter before he was banned

Twitter bans Alex Jones for 'behaviour' violations

Facebook, Twitter and other technology firms have been on the defensive for many months over political influence activity on their sites as well as concerns over user privacy

Congress grills tech firms over foreign influence

Business / 05 Sep

Jack Dorsey said Twitter failed to deal with campaigns of manipulation

Dorsey says Twitter was 'unprepared' for fake news

Social Media / 05 Sep

Twitter has been under pressure from regulators in several countries to weed out hate speech, abusive content and misinformation

Twitter to focus on fixing platform over user growth

Business / 27 Jul

Twitter said most users will see a follower count drop of four followers or fewer

Twitter set to remove millions of accounts

Twitter / 13 Jul

Donald Trump has more than doubled his followers since taking office

Trump tops world leaders on Twitter

News Lens / 10 Jul

Twitter recently began taking more steps to clean up spam and automated activity, and "close the loopholes they'd exploited"

Twitter to combat bot accounts with added verification

The judge ruled that Donald Trump had violated the free speech rights of Twitter users

Trump violated constitution by blocking Twitter users

Twitter shares had risen 26.9% so far this year

Twitter beats estimates as growth moves overseas

Business / 25 Apr

Wetherspoon closes Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts for its head office and almost 900 pubs in Britain and Ireland.

JD Wetherspoon drops social media in protest

Business / 16 Apr

The reach of Irish journalists on Twitter is growing with the top 100 journalists listed having a combined 3 million followers

Top 100 Irish journalists on Twitter have 3m followers

Business / 11 Apr

Researchers said that about 500 of highly active bots are responsible for a disproportionate share of the tweeted links

Study: Automated accounts dominate Twitter conversation

News Lens / 09 Apr

Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet, according to the report

Twitter removes 270,000 accounts 'promoting terrorism'

Twitter is concerned about possible investor losses from speculation in cryptocurrencies

Twitter to ban cryptocurrency ads

Business / 26 Mar

The researchers examined around 126,000 stories shared on Twitter from 2006 to 2017

False news 70% more likely to spread on Twitter - study

technology / 08 Mar

The EU executive and consumer protection authorities said the three firms have only partially addressed concerns over their liabilities

Facebook, Google and Twitter told to do more for users

Business / 15 Feb

The number of people using the social network fell short of expectations as Twitter shut down fake accounts

Twitter shares soar after reporting first net profit

Business / 09 Feb

82-year-old Dalai Lama announced the new app to his 16.6m twitter followers

Dalai Lama turns to iPhone to spread app-iness

World / 15 Dec 17

According to the Ipsos MRBI Social Messaging Quarterly, the number of adults here who have WhatsApp has risen three percentage points to 61%

WhatsApp has biggest growth among social messaging apps

Business / 14 Dec 17

The top news stories have been revealed for Ireland

What got you talking in 2017? Ireland's trending tweets

News Lens / 05 Dec 17

Theresa May said Donald Trump was wrong to retweet the Britain First posts

Trump 'wrong' to retweet anti-Islam videos - May

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