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21 votes
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Twitter has ambitious plans to change the way we tweet by limiting snark and improving the "health" of interactions, but so far it's gone nowhere
15 votes -
For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
@jeremyburge: For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
43 votes -
15 non-obvious HPC experts to follow on Twitter
2 votes -
All Medium paywalled stories are now free and unmetered when you’re coming from Twitter
@ev: All @Medium paywalled stories are now free and unmetered when you're coming from Twitter.
20 votes -
A silly Google Maps origin story about how “Satellite” was almost named “Bird Mode”
@btaylor: Here's a silly Google Maps origin story about how "Satellite" was almost named "Bird Mode
9 votes -
By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers
@jensimmons: By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers, strengthening privacy without your having to do a thing." https://t.co/cqpQbSe9Ko
69 votes -
Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete your direct messages
4 votes -
Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted how difficult it is to follow a conversation on Twitter
10 votes -
The Knight Foundation commissioned a study to analyze bot accounts that spread fake news on Twitter. This is what they found.
13 votes -
Twitter's Android app disabled "protect my tweets" when other settings were changed, potentially making private tweets public
12 votes -
Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants: A Q&A with Twitter’s CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he’d do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.
11 votes -
Tom Scott warns viewers that Brave donations do not reach him
@tomscott: This warning is prompted by a company called Brave, who've been taking cryptocurrency donations "for me", using my name and photo, without my consent. I asked them not to, and to refund anyone who's donated; they said "we'll see what we can do" and that "refunds are impossible".
33 votes -
Crowdsourced Twitter study reveals shocking scale of online abuse against women
20 votes -
Twitter is considering removing its "like" button
28 votes -
Time is different now
12 votes -
The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
8 votes -
An error message in Windows 10 is a mistake from 1974
@foone🏳️⚧️: It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974.This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate. pic.twitter.com/pPbkZiE57t
32 votes -
Good use for Twitter?
I hear a lot about how Twitter is a bad concept, because the character limit means things can be oversimplified, taken out of context, and posted without a source. I've never used it myself, but...
I hear a lot about how Twitter is a bad concept, because the character limit means things can be oversimplified, taken out of context, and posted without a source. I've never used it myself, but recently I've been wondering if it can be useful to me. For example, some bloggers I follow might post some insights on Twitter that they don't anywhere else, and help me discover other interesting blogs.
Have you found a good use for Twitter besides as a social network or news aggregator?
13 votes -
Saudis’ image makers: A troll army and a Twitter insider
7 votes -
Twitter makes datasets available containing accounts, tweets, and media from accounts associated with influence campaigns from the IRA and Iran
8 votes -
Belgium has regional elections on Sunday, voting machines use USB sticks and store votes on a Linux partition which users will be prompted to format when using Windows, deleting all the votes
@rubenvanassche: Belgium has it's regional elections this sunday, the voting machines are using USB sticks and store the votes on a separate Linux partition. But the stick should also be used on windows which wil ask the users to format it and so it will delete all the votes. 😮
32 votes -
Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and influence campaigns on Twitter
13 votes -
Twitter's return to a chronological timeline won't be enough to recapture its original magic
7 votes -
Mastodon is better than Twitter: Elevator pitch
32 votes -
Nearly 600 Russia-linked accounts tweeted about the health law
9 votes -
Twitter bars Alex Jones, citing harassing messages
16 votes -
Twitter was going to ban Alex Jones — until its CEO stepped in and protected him
19 votes -
Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets
15 votes -
A small group of American Amazon employees is being paid to defend and promote the company on Twitter
16 votes -
This is what filter bubbles actually look like
13 votes -
Jack Dorsey says he’s rethinking the core of how Twitter works
23 votes -
Twitter puts Alex Jones's account in "read-only mode" for a week, so he can't tweet, retweet, or like content
11 votes -
Twitter says Infowars hasn't 'violated our rules.' It looks like that's not the case
13 votes -
Quantifying the impact of the Twitter fake accounts purge - a technical analysis
6 votes -
The Most Powerful Publishers in the World Don’t Give a Damn
21 votes -
DAS Keyboard banned a guy on forums for providing open source alternatives for their keyboards
@sebirdman: So I got banned from the @daskeyboard forums for telling people there's an open source alternative to the windows only software they provide. I'll never buy one of these keyboards again.
17 votes -
538 shares largest dataset of Russian troll tweets, compiled by two professors at Clemson University
17 votes -
11,000 Wikileaks Twitter DMs have just been published for anyone to read
10 votes -
Twitter turns to academics to improve conversational health on the platform
8 votes -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admits platform not a place for 'nuanced discussion' as top New York Times reporter quits after abuse
28 votes -
The Elon Musk impersonators of the internet - For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud
7 votes -
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project
7 votes -
The woman in the #PlaneBae saga says she's been 'shamed, insulted, and harassed' since the story went viral and asks for her privacy
4 votes -
Battling fake accounts, Twitter to slash millions of followers
7 votes -
Twitter is suspending more than one million accounts per day in latest purge
27 votes -
Twitter 'Smytes' customers
13 votes -
SpaceX is achieving high bandwidth, 25ms latency with Starlink test satellites
@elonmusk: @nitantbhartia @ninoles @medickinson @thephysicsgirl Pretty good. TinTin A & B are both closing the link to ground w phased array at high bandwidth, low latency (25 ms). Good enough to play fast response video games.
31 votes -
I don’t know how to waste time on the internet anymore
19 votes -
President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking users @realdonaldtrump
20 votes