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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he is donating €1 billion help the fight against Covid-19

Dorsey pledges $1 billion of Square stake for relief

Business / 08 Apr

Twitter has ordered all its staff around the world to work from home

Twitter staff ordered to work from home over virus fear

Business / 12 Mar

The video shortened a statement by Joe Biden, changing its meaning

Twitter: Biden video retweeted by Trump 'manipulated'

News Lens / 09 Mar

Twitter would match the disappearing posts first made popular by Snapchat and later adopted by Facebook

Twitter testing tweets that vanish after 24 hours

News Lens / 04 Mar

Staff and contractors working in the company's offices in the city centre worked from home today

Majority of Google staff to work from home again

Coronavirus / 03 Mar

Twitter could give users 'points' for flagging misleading content

Twitter testing new community moderation features

Business / 21 Feb

Twitter has reached $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time

Twitter reports first $1 billion quarterly revenue

Business / 06 Feb

The changes are taking place ahead of the US Presidential election

Twitter to label synthetic and manipulated posts

Business / 05 Feb

WhatsApp user numbers rise 5% as Twitter growth stalls

Business / 15 Jan

As of now, users have few options to limit replies, such as making their account private or by directly blocking people

Twitter to test limiting replies to tackle online abuse

witter chief executive Jack Dorsey has promised since 2018 to increase the "health" of public conversation

Twitter to experiment with limiting replies

Business / 09 Jan

The new policy changes will take effect ahead of the UK general election and globally in early January

Google tightens political ads policy to thwart abuse

World / 21 Nov 19

The Conservative Campaign Headquarters press office account was renamed during the debate

Tories criticised over Twitter 'factcheckUK' rebranding

UK Election 2019 / 20 Nov 19

Mark Zuckerberg stands by decision to allow political ads on Facebook

Zuckerberg defends Facebook decision on political ads

World / 31 Oct 19

The move comes with Facebook under pressure to apply fact-checking to politicians running ads with debunked claims

Twitter to ban political advertising from 22 November

World / 30 Oct 19

Twitter seeing advertising problems including product bugs and unusually low demand over the summer

Twitter revenue hit by weaker advertising, low demand

Business / 24 Oct 19

Fiona Ryan and her fiancé Jonathan Mathis received death threats after appearing in a Lidl ad campaign

Twitter disputes claims over couple abused online

Politics / 09 Oct 19

Twitter did not release an official statement on the status update of the outage

Twitter, TweetDeck back up after suffering outage

Business / 02 Oct 19

The filter is also intended to catch messages with spam or offensive content

Twitter to let users sideline unwanted direct messages

Science and Technology / 01 Oct 19

Article was published in 2018 when the lira plummeted against the dollar

Bloomberg reporters in Turkey court over economy story

World / 20 Sep 19

It appeared that the tweets were posted on Jack Dorsey's account for around half an hour before they were removed

Twitter CEO account hacked, offensive tweets posted

World / 31 Aug 19

Social media companies have faced criticism about the spread of misinformation on their sites

YouTube disables 200 videos over Hong Kong demos

World / 23 Aug 19

Twitter has apologised for not respecting users' choices

Twitter admits some users' data used without permission

News Lens / 07 Aug 19

Twitter reported second-quarter profits of $1.1 billion compared with $100m a year earlier

Twitter beats on revenue, sees rise in ads

Business / 26 Jul 19

Donald Trump is facing international criticism over his tweets

Trump continues Twitter tirade against congresswomen

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