After Elon Musk's ultimatum, Twitter employees start exitingThe departures highlight the reluctance of some of Twitter's 3,000 or so employees to remain at a company where Musk earlier fired half of ...
18 Nov, 2022, 04.15 PM IST
Twitter's Kayvon Beykpour speaks out after being ‘asked’ to leave by CEO Parag AgrawalWhile Twitter employees fear if Elon Musk will scale back the site's vast content monitoring system, Kayvon Beykpour lauded his team for th...
13 May, 2022, 10.42 AM IST
View: GoI may be justifiably concerned about hashtags that threaten an already volatile law and order situationSection 153 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) ‘punishes anyone who by words or expression promotes enmity’ or ‘commits an act which is prejudi...
12 Feb, 2021, 11.54 PM IST
Bye bye, Periscope! Twitter all set to drop live stream app due to declining usagePeriscope features have been woven into Twitter over time, the team noted.
16 Dec, 2020, 06.14 PM IST
Twitter to shut down Periscope mobile app by March 2021Periscope will be removed from app stores in March, and users were told they will be able to download archives of broadcasts prior to it.
16 Dec, 2020, 09.34 AM IST
U.S. Senate panel approves sending subpoenas to CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, GoogleThe hearing is likely to discuss reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which offers tech companies protection from liabi...
01 Oct, 2020, 09.34 PM IST
Twitter shares rise on record yearly growth in daily usersTwitter's average monetizable daily active users (mDAU) increased 34% year over year to 186 million, above analysts' estimate of 176 millio...
23 Jul, 2020, 11.12 PM IST
Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk hacked in Bitcoin scamThe ruse included bogus tweets from Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West & Joe Biden as well.
16 Jul, 2020, 08.40 PM IST
Biden, Gates, other Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scamUnidentified hackers have broken into the Twitter accounts of technology moguls, politicians, celebrities and major companies in an apparen...
16 Jul, 2020, 10.16 AM IST
Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, other Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scamThe ruse included bogus tweets from former President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a num...
16 Jul, 2020, 09.47 AM IST
Twitter admits users data may have been used for advertisingThe US-based company noted that it could not say "with certainty" how many people were impacted by this, but asserted that "no personal dat...
09 Oct, 2019, 08.24 PM IST
Battling BJP's #MainBhiChowkidar: Congress to enter social media campaign arena next weekThe party has hired three agencies – DesignBoxed, Niksun and Silver Push – to drive its media and outdoor campaigns.
21 Mar, 2019, 09.12 AM IST
IT ministry calls for Indian users' cyber safety after attacks by Legion hacker groupThe Legion group, which also hacked into the Twitter accounts of the Indian National Congress, liquor baron Vijay Mallya, journalists Barkh...
17 Dec, 2016, 08.03 AM IST
Facebook is dominating Google, Yahoo, and Amazon in this one niche areaThink about the last time you signed up for a digital product or service. Did you make a new account or did you skip the hassle by register...
03 Aug, 2015, 12.11 PM IST
Oxford names 'hashtag' children's word of the yearThe use of hashtag to add an extra meaning at the end of a sentence has become commonplace following its prolific use on Twitter.
29 May, 2015, 01.15 PM IST
Parliamentary panel slams government over vague internet lawsIt also pulled up the government for its inability to ensure compliance by companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter.
28 Mar, 2013, 04.15 AM IST
- Facebook anticipates mobile users to leave behind PC users
Facebook anticipates its mobile users growth to outpace PC users growth in "foreseeable" future on the back of India, Brazil and the US.
04 Nov, 2012, 02.54 PM IST