Neowin News Feed for: Tweets

Twitter to open-source “embarrassing” recommended tweets code

Paul Hill — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 20:44:01 +0000

Twitter will be open-sourcing the tweet recommendation code by the end of the month. Elon Musk said the code is in an embarrassing state and isn't even understood by engineers at the company. Read more...

Elon Musk has suddenly appeared in everyone's Twitter feed and no one knows why

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 03:46:01 +0000

Twitter boss Elon Musk who complained of low visibility is trending on the platform more than ever. Thanks to a glitch, his tweets and replies are flooding people's For You feeds across the globe. Read more...

Twitter now has daily limits on how much you can tweet

John Callaham — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:26:01 +0000

Twitter has updated its terms, saying that users can only send out up to 2,400 tweets in a single day. Some users got an error message Wednesday saying they had actually hit that limit. Read more...

Twitter's Community Notes feature that adds context to tweets rolls out globally

Justin Luna — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:04:02 +0000

Community Notes, Twitter's means to combat misinformation on the platform, is now rolling out globally to users worldwide. This allows moderators to add helpful notes to tweets to improve context. Read more...

Elon Musk congratulates his team for fewer hate speech impressions on Twitter

Anushe Fawaz — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 19:54:02 +0000

Twitter owner, Elon Musk, tweeted about a decline in the number of hate speech impressions on the platform. He argues that the spike in offensive content on Twitter has now been controlled. Read more...

Elon Musk says long tweets are coming soon, but it may not be what you have thought

Rahul Naskar — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:02:01 +0000

Elon Musk has just confirmed that the ability to attach long-form texts to tweets is coming soon. However, the feature might work slightly differently than what many of us thought it would. Read more...

Twitter will soon allow you to edit tweets, but there's a catch

Usama Jawad — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 13:46:01 +0000

Twitter has confirmed a few more restrictions that will be put in place for people using editable tweets. The purpose is to prevent misuse of a capability that could lead to the spread of fake news. Read more...

Twitter has started testing editable tweets publicly but wants you to pay for it

Usama Jawad — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:04:01 +0000

Twitter has announced that it has begun testing editable tweets internally, and you may start seeing them on the platform. The feature will be rolled out exclusively to Twitter Blue later this month. Read more...

Twitter ALT badge offering image descriptions for enhanced accessibility now available

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 23:26:01 +0000

Twitter has rolled out an improved and simplified ALT Badge for all its users. It offers descriptions for images that users embed in their Tweets. The network won't rely on auto-generated text. Read more...

Twitter dumps tabbed timeline, users to get their latest-tweet-first feed back

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:52:01 +0000

Twitter has time and again attempted to tweak users' Tweet feed or timeline with its own algorithms. However, the micro-blogging network is shelving the "tabbed interface" for now. Read more...

Twitter flags Trump's tweets for misinformation and false claims for the first time

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 27 May 2020 07:02:01 +0000

President Trump established a direct relation between mail-in ballots and rigged elections. Consequently, Twitter went on to flag those tweets as false claims, and Trump responded strongly to it. Read more...

Twitter's filter for offensive messages now rolling out across Android, iOS and web

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:12:01 +0000

The new feature will categorize DM requests that contain offensive content under "additional messages" in the inbox. From there, users will be able to delete the messages without opening them. Read more...

Twitter disables the ability to tweet via SMS after CEO hack

Paul Hill — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:42:01 +0000

Twitter has announced that it's suspending the ability to send tweets via SMS while it addresses a vulnerability, with the help of mobile carriers. It comes after Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, got hacked. Read more...

Twitter is mulling over getting rid of the 'like' button

Sharath Ravishankar — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:06:01 +0000

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in a company event last week, announced that he intends to get rid of the 'like' button for tweets. It isn't clear when this move will actually be made, however. Read more...

Twitter now allows users to privately bookmark tweets

Gurkaran Singh — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 20:06:01 +0000

The social media platform has released "bookmarks" feature for mobile users, which allows them to save the tweets for future references. The functionality has been in testing since November last year. Read more...

Twitter deploys neural network to improve auto-cropping of images

Michael Firth — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:28:01 +0000

AI or human eye; Twitter has been training a neural network to impersonate the human eye, recognising faces, animals, text and other objects to tailor image previews and avoid awkward auto-cropping. Read more...

Twitter continues shift to blog style with Threads feature

John Keefer — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:50:01 +0000

First, the social media giant moved to a double-the-size character count. Now, Twitter is adding a promised feature making it easier for users to post their stream of consciousness on a given topic. Read more...

17 million tweets went out during last night's presidential debate, most of them about Trump

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:22:01 +0000

Twitter says this is a new record for a debate. Most of the tweets from last night were related to Donald Trump's attitude towards women and his disagreement on foreign policy with his VP. Read more...

Twitter introducing longer tweets on September 19th

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 02:18:01 +0000

Twitter will begin rolling out changes to the way its character limit determines how many characters a user can tweet. The changes will allow users to type 140 character messages more easily. Read more...

Twitter blocks 31 accounts tracking politicians' deleted tweets

Steven Parker — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 12:20:01 +0000

Being a politician anywhere inevitably puts you in the public spotlight, and up until recently there were Twitter accounts that tracked their "woopsies!" for public record. Not any more. Read more...

Google has reached an agreement with Twitter to start embedding Tweets in search results

Steven Johns — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 07:24:01 +0000

Unlike Bing, Google has largely avoided social integration in its search results. This may be changing soon, however, as Google is reportedly going to start embedding tweets in the near future. Read more...

Twitter adopts Microsoft's Bing to translate tweets

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:06:01 +0000

After experimenting for a long time, Twitter has finally decided to fully adopt Microsoft's Bing translation engine and allow users to translate tweets that are in different languages. Read more...

Twitter is rolling out 'Timeline Highlights' feature

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:22:01 +0000

Twitter is rolling out one of its new major features, which highlights 'the best' tweets that were shared while users were offline. It's a step towards a new Twitter and that's a mixed package. Read more...

Transfer money with just one tweet ...in France

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:56:01 +0000

If you're a French citizen and have a bank account, starting tomorrow you'll be able to transfer money to anybody with just one tweet. This is available thanks to partnership between Twitter and BPCE. Read more...

MSN.com gets a banner that delivers breaking news in the form of tweets

Andy Weir — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:38:02 +0000

Following Microsoft's relaunch of MSN.com, it has now introduced a new breaking news banner with Twitter on its homepage, which shows tweets from trusted sources as major news events are developing. Read more...

A record breaking 388,985 tweets a minute were sent during World Cup match

Daniel Hull — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 18:03:45 +0000

Twitter has announced that a record-breaking 388,985 tweets per minute was reached during the final moments of the World Cup's Brazil v Chile game; over 16.3 million tweets had been sent. Read more...

Twitter flooded with malicious tweets from compromised accounts

Shreyas Gandhe — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:09:46 +0000

Twitter has seen a sudden explosion of malicious tweets from compromised accounts using third party apps and services over the last 24 hours, with thousands of users apparently affected. Read more...

Twitter Alerts launch brings 'life-saving' emergency tweets to U.K. & Ireland

Andy Weir — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:23:16 +0000

Twitter Alerts has launched in the U.K. and Ireland, with 57 organisations, including police forces and government agencies, signing up to share critical information quickly when it is needed most. Read more...

Twitter to introduce tailored ads, kindly lets you opt out

Paul Ferson — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 20:10:10 +0000

Twitter is planning to experiment with tailored ads, beginning in the United States and spreading the idea elsewhere if it proves successful. Oddly, they also explain how to get out of tailored ads. Read more...

Need some ice for that burn? MySpace Tom scorches Twitter user

Jake Durasamy — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:33:17 +0000

MySpace Tom has been very active on Twitter lately and has been answering a lot of tweets that have headed his way, one of which has sparked quite the response from tweeters worldwide. Read more...

Twitter finally lets you download your entire Tweet history

Rob Schorman — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:13:23 +0000

Ever wanted to download an archive of all your tweets? Although the new feature has rolled out to a very small group of users, it will be generally available before the end of this year. Read more...

Twitter adds ability to e-mail tweets

Rob Schorman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:50:26 +0000

Ever wanted to send a tweet by e-mail without resorting to a Twitter client? In the coming weeks you will be able to e-mail a tweet from the website to anyone, whether that person uses Twitter or not. Read more...

Twitter to add way to download old posts

John Callaham — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:11:58 +0000

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says that the company is working on a way to let its users download all of their older posts in a file, but didn't say when that feature will launch. Read more...

LinkedIn users can't publish Tweets to their profiles anymore

John Callaham — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:47:26 +0000

LinkedIn has announced that, due to tighter restrictions put in place by Twitter, LinkedIn users won't be able to publish their Tweets to their LinkedIn profile anymore. Read more...

Are you a Klouchebag?

Paul Ferson — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:35:02 +0000

Klouchebag does exactly what it says on the tin: measures just how much of a Klouchebag you might be on Twitter. Read more...

High school student expelled for swearing on Twitter

Andy Weir — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:00:22 +0000

A high school senior was expelled for using a school computer to post tweets containing swear words, despite those tweets being made to the student's personal account, in the middle of the night. Read more...

Student jailed for offensive comments on Twitter

Andy Weir — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:11:07 +0000

A student who made racially offensive comments on Twitter about footballer Fabrice Muamba, who suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed during a televised match earlier this month, has been jailed. Read more...

Twitter celebrates six years with 340 million tweets a day

John Callaham — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:33:45 +0000

Twitter celebrates its sixth anniversary today with word that the service now has over 140 million active daily users and generates over 340 million "tweets" a day. Read more...

Twitter now handling one billion tweets per week

Matthew Jones — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:58:44 +0000

With the fifth anniversary of the launch of Twitter on March 21 fast approaching, the social networking site has released a few statistics to illustrate the site's phenomenal growth. In a blog post, Twitter's Carolyn Penner... Read more...

Twitter hits 50 million tweets a day

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:30:01 +0000

Twitter’s analytics team posted a blog entry about how well they are performing, in terms of how many “tweets” there are at any given time. The Twitter team said that they are seeing 50... Read more...