Twitter CEO defends Trump ban, says it was right but sets a ‘dangerous’ precedent

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has defended his company's decision to ban President Donald Trump, while acknowledging that the move stems from its failure to...

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Twitter briefly restricts Trump campaign account, Republicans decry company’s actions

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign’s Twitter account was briefly restricted on Thursday, causing an outcry from Republican lawmake...

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Twitter says it’s looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply

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Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thurs...

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Twitter blames ‘coordinated’ attack on systems for hack of Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Joe Biden

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Twitter accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, among other prominent handles, were compromised on Wednesday in what Twitte...

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey pledges Ksh.100B of his personal wealth to coronavirus fight

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Twitter Inc Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey on Tuesday pledged $1 billion (approx. Ksh.100 billion) of his stake in Square Inc, the payments proce...

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Twitter to ban all political ads from next month

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Twitter has announced that all political advertisements will be banned from the platform starting next month. The company CEO Jack Dorsey made the ...

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Facebook not invited to White House social media summit

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Facebook Inc said on Monday that it had not been invited to a White House summit on social media being held later this week. The White House has re...

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Why did prosecutors drop all charges against Jussie Smollett?

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Police said investigators had more than enough evidence to convict actor Jussie Smollett but in an unexpected turn of events, prosecutors decided to d...

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Of Twitter A-Z and why some people should stick to Instagram, Facebook

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By Kimani Mbugua If you have never used the Twitter application on your phone and have been thinking about using it, you might want to think hard b...

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2018 was the year Facebook and Twitter grew up

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When a young person turns 18, in most countries they are considered adults, liable for their mistakes and misdeeds. 2018 was the year social media an...

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Google fails to thread the China needle, again

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Dragonfly is dying. Google's secret project to build a censored search engine to get back into the Chinese market is on its last legs -- if not alr...

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Google’s top Washington lobbyist stepping down

By Ruth Leonorah,

Google’s top lobbyist in Washington is stepping aside as the U.S. technology company faces criticism on Capitol Hill on issues including privacy pro...

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Twitter Purge: Obama, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry hardest hit

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Katy Perry was one of the biggest losers in the Great Twitter Follower Purge of 2018, losing about 2.8 million followers overnight. The pop singer,...

Why you should change your Twitter password now!

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Twitter has urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch caused some to be stored in readable text on its internal c...

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Twitter, Bloomberg team up for streaming news channel

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Twitter is launching a 24-hour streaming news channel in partnership with the Bloomberg Media, in a major expansion of the social media firm's video o...

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Twitter advertising revenue falls, shares drop more than 10 percent

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Twitter Inc  posted the slowest revenue growth since it went public four years ago, sending shares down more than 10 percent on Thursday on fears tha...

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Twitter changes product head for third time in a year

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Twitter Inc <TWTR.N> appointed Keith Coleman, founder of startup Yes Inc, as head of its product team, the third executive to lead the division ...

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Twitter shares plunge on report bidders are scarce

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Twitter Inc's shares plunged more than 19 percent in early trading on Thursday after technology website Recode reported that Alphabet Inc's Google doe...

Twitter begins discussions to explore a sale- source

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Twitter has initiated talks with several technology companies to explore selling itself, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday, as the soci...

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Twitter changes its character limit

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Twitter has officially changed its 140 character limit. But, that does not exactly mean you can start writing a 1,000-character Twitter message. Th...

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