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Twitter Archive

Archives for August 2016

Twitter is finally paying its best users to create videos
Technology

Twitter’s 70/30 revenue split is better than YouTube’s deal.

By Kurt Wagner
R.I.P. Facebook Trending headlines, favorite punching bag of Media Twitter
Technology

Writer Shares Thoughts About Discontinuation of Social Networking Website Feature

By Eric Johnson
This web app will warn you if you are a Twitter troll
Technology

An intern at Intel created it as part of the “Hack Harassment” effort.

By Ina Fried
Twitter’s lack of urgency is dragging it down
Technology

Jack Dorsey’s 2015 to-do list remains largely undone. Here’s my own to-do list for Twitter in mid-2016.

By Jan Dawson
Twitter hasn’t solved its abuse problem. But it’s found a way to mask it.
Technology

Twitter now lets you block mentions from people you don’t know.

By Kurt Wagner
Twitter has deleted 235,000 terrorist-related user accounts in the past six months
Technology

Twitter is trying to keep bad guys off its service.

By Kurt Wagner
Twitter has a new kind of ad: Stickers
Technology

Twitter: Mo’ money, fewer problems.

By Kurt Wagner
Evolving Twitter:  A message from our CEO
Technology

Jason Calacanis stepped up to write a memo to Twitter’s user base “for their CEO, Jack.”

By Jason Calacanis
Twitter and former CEO Dick Costolo push back against BuzzFeed’s report on Twitter’s abuse problems
Technology

Twitter isn’t saying what, exactly, is inaccurate, though.

By Kurt Wagner
Who owns Twitter? A look at the players who could make or break a deal.
Technology

Ev. Jack. Ballmer. The Prince.

By Kurt Wagner
Technology
Full transcript: ‘Magic and Loss’ author Virginia Heffernan on Recode MediaFull transcript: ‘Magic and Loss’ author Virginia Heffernan on Recode Media
Technology

“I made the split between me and my avatar, not out of being evolved, but out of fear of pain.”

By Eric Johnson
Twitter will soon let anyone create a Twitter Moment
Technology

You can make a moment. And you can make a moment. And you ....

By Kurt Wagner
Technology
Ghostbuster Leslie Jones is tweeting the Olympics, and it’s pure gold — are you listening, Twitter?Ghostbuster Leslie Jones is tweeting the Olympics, and it’s pure gold — are you listening, Twitter?
Technology

Highlighting these tweets is (and has always been) Twitter’s challenge.

By Kurt Wagner
Twitter loses another key comms executive: Jim Prosser is headed to SoFi
Technology

Twitter’s communications team is changing very quickly.

By Kurt Wagner
Twitter comms VP Natalie Kerris is out after less than six months
Technology

Another exec is leaving Twitter.

By Kurt Wagner