Twitter Updates

Twitter reported a loss of one million monthly active users (MAUs) in Q2 2018 — and says that it expects to lose millions more in Q3. At the same time, its total revenue is up by nearly 7% — which the company says could, perhaps, be the result of thisContinue Reading

Twitter today followed up on its March request for proposals to measure the health of its network with announcements of a new approach to how it will handle abuse on its platform. In a statement written by VP of Trust and Safety, Del Harvey, and Director of Product Management, Health, David Gasca,Continue Reading

Last week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the company is soliciting applications from people who’d like to help study Twitter’s health as a platform for conversation. Or should we say, #health. Today, the CEO took to Periscope — Twitter’s live streaming video app — for a mobile panel of himselfContinue Reading

Have you ever seen an article, thread, Tweet, or GIF on Twitter and thought, “I really want to save this for later?” Until now, the only way to save a Tweet was to like it, copy the link somewhere, or screenshot it. Now, there’s an easier way. Twitter just announcedContinue Reading

In a series of tweets sent out yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the social network would be enlisting the help of outside experts to measure its health. Acknowledging that the network has become more divisive — abused and leveraged for judgment rather than conversation — Dorsey also spokeContinue Reading

Twitter announced today that it will impose major restrictions on the use of automation and bulk-tweeting tools. It’s the latest in a series of moves by Twitter to combat the spread of spam, false information, or bots on its network.  The motivation behind these new restrictions is to significantly limitContinue Reading