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• Twitter to ban cryptocurrency ads

  Twitter Inc will start banning cryptocurrency advertising from Tuesday, joining Facebook and Google in a clampdown that seeks to avoid giving publicity to potential fraud or large investor losses.

• Fake news spreads faster than real news: Twitter

  False news stories spread much more quickly and widely on Twitter than truthful ones, an imbalance driven more by people than automated "bot" accounts, researchers said on Thursday.

• Twitter asking for proposals to help improve the quality of conversations

  ​Twitter has sought help to improve the quality of conversations on its micro-blogging site in a bid to address rising criticism against social media companies for failing to protect users from online abuse and political manipulation.

• Twitter cracks down on tactic used to spread fake stories

  Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it would no longer allow people to post identical messages from multiple accounts, cracking down on a tactic that Russian agents and others have allegedly used to make tweets or topics go viral.

• Twitter reports unexpected profit, shares jump

  Twitter on Thursday delivered its first quarterly profit and an unexpected return to revenue growth helped by expansion outside the United States, pushing shares in the social network to more than two-year highs.

• Twitter may alert users exposed to Russian propaganda

  Twitter may notify users whether they were exposed to content generated by a suspected Russian propaganda service, a company executive told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday.

• Why are hackers breaking into politicians’ accounts and liking single tweets?

  What do you think?

• Twitter to let users tweet in 280 characters

  Microblogging website Twitter, known for its iconic 140-character tweets, said on Tuesday it would roll out 280-character tweets to users across the world.

• Social media execs to testify about Russia and U.S. election

  ​Executives from Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc's Google have been asked to testify about Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election before a House of Representatives panel on Nov. 1, a congressional aide said on Thursday.

• Tech companies to face new encrypted messaging laws

  The Federal Government is set to introduce new laws that will compel tech companies to help Australian security forces access encrypted messages.

• Twitter stops counting usernames in replies toward the 140-character limit

  This change is coming to Twitter’s iOS and Android apps as well as Twitter on the web.

• Twitter goes on the offense against online trolls

  Twitter is taking the offensive in its ongoing battle online trolls and hopes to identify them before users even turn them in.

• Twitter rolls back abuse fix few hours after protests

  Twitter rolled back a new fix aimed to prevent abuse a few hours after it met with protests, reflecting that the company is still scrambling to find solutions to the problem of harassment on its service, but is willing to make changes quickly in response to its users.

• ​2017 will be the year of AI: alternative intelligence

  Like many of you, I feel that I’ve spent most of January drinking from the fire hose of fake news and alternative facts about the changing political world order.

• Twitter fights back, again, against online trolls

  Twitter is extending its campaign to curb trolls and abuse on its social network, building on efforts it rolled out last fall.