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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

Donald Trump has more than 43m followers on Twitter

UK criticises Trump for retweeting anti-Muslim videos

Apple chief executive Tim Cook at the launch of the iPhone X

Apple pulls Skype app from Chinese app store

Business / 21 Nov 17

Twitter has around 330 million monthly active users around the world

Twitter to roll out 280-character limit to most users

Technology / 07 Nov 17

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey

Twitter nears first profitable quarter as expenses cut

Business / 26 Oct 17

Twitter said the changes to its election ads would take effect first in the US and then globally

Twitter set to label election ads

Business / 25 Oct 17

New rules set to include an expanded definition of non-consensual nudity

New Twitter restrictions on abusive images

Technology / 18 Oct 17

The spread of illegal content on the web has sparked a heated debate in Europe

EU pressures web firms to remove illegal content sooner

Business / 28 Sep 17

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