Zuckerberg says Musk ‘not serious’ about cage fight

Doubt hangs over the billionaires' fight plans, but Musk suggests he is open to a bout on Monday. More »

Italy could host Musk v Zuckerberg cage fight

The culture minister says he has spoken to the X boss about hosting the showdown as a charity event. More »

Elon Musk to auction Twitter signs and other memorabilia

The move comes just weeks after he dropped the blue bird logo and replaced it with a black and white X. More »

Zuckerberg ‘not holding breath’ over Musk cage fight

The tech billionaires have also been going head to head over their rival platforms, X and Threads. More »

Excitement over Threads fades but users return to app

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg expresses pride in the launch of his new social media app. More »

Is Elon Musk right to ditch the Twitter bird logo?

Rebrands can pay off - but it's a risky move to replace a famous icon at an organisation in turmoil. More »

Threads app signs up 100m users in less than a week

Meta's rival to Twitter has surpassed a record set by Open AI's ChatGPT app since its launch. More »

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight

Earlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter. More »

Russia slows Twitter’s speed after protest row, threatens total block

FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Twitter logo displayed in front of Russian flag is seen in this illustration picture MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday it was slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for its alleged failure to remove banned content a... More »

Twitter disables Trump tweet over copyright complaint

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twitter Inc disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint. The video, which included music from the group Linkin Park, disappeared from the president’s Twitter feed late S... More »

Twitter launches labels, warnings on misleading COVID-19 information

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19, the company said on Monday, as part of a new approach to misinformation that will eventually extend to other topics. Tw... More »

Twitter bans posts that ‘dehumanize’ people in connection with diseases

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that “dehumanize” people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age, a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus. The company to... More »

Elliott targets Twitter, seeking CEO Dorsey’s removal: sources

(Reuters) – Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp has amassed a stake in Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and is pushing for changes, including removal of the social media company’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday. Twitter is ... More »

Twitter tests labels, community moderation for lies by public figures

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Thursday that it was testing a new community moderation approach that would enable users to identify misleading information posted by politicians and public figures and add brightly colored labels under those tweets. NBC News ea... More »

Financial market website Zero Hedge knocked off Twitter over coronavirus story

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of the fast-spreading coronavirus last week. Zero Hedge said it received a notificat... More »

Twitter to experiment with limiting replies in effort to combat online abuse

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Wednesday it will test new features early this year that would allow users to control who can reply to their tweets, as it looks to limit abuse and harassment on the platform. Social media firms are under pressure to ad... More »

Twitter suspends accounts linked to Saudi spying case

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Weeks after U.S. authorities brought a spying case against three Saudi nationals for digging up dissidents’ personal data at Twitter, the company suspended tens of thousands of accounts that appear to be linked to one suspect’s compan... More »

Ex-Trump ally Bolton says Twitter account ‘liberated’ from White House control

By Katie Paul, Jonathan Landay and Steve Holland SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said on Friday that Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) had returned control of his personal account to him after ... More »

Twitter CEO’s hacked account sends racist tweets before being secured

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The account of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) Chief Executive Jack Dorsey was hacked on Friday afternoon, sending public tweets and retweets including racial slurs and curse words to 4 million followers before Twitter secured the account. The s... More »

Twitter urges all users to change passwords after glitch

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch caused some to be stored in readable text on its internal computer system rather than disguised by a process known as “hashing”. The social network disclosed... More »

Twitter to notify users exposed to Russian propaganda during U.S. elec

FILE PHOTO: People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo (Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), which is reviewin... More »

Twitter suspends Russia-linked accounts, but U.S. senator says response inadequate

Twitter (TWTR.N) said on Thursday it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 U.S. election, but an influential Democratic senator slammed its steps as insufficient. More »

Russian broadcaster defends its Twitter ad purchases: RIA

The editor-in-chief of Kremlin-backed media outlet RT said on Friday its purchase of advertisements on Twitter was standard commercial practice that was being falsely presented as Russian meddling in U.S. affairs, RIA news agency reported. More »

Chatty billionaire Ackman grabs bigger megaphone with Twitter account

William ‘Bill’ Ackman, CEO and Portfolio Manager of Pershing Square Capital Management, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Bayliss More »

U.S. Homeland Security probes possible abuse in Twitter summons case

FILE PHOTO: People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo The U.S. Homeland Security Department’s inspector g... More »

Twitter explores subscription-based option for first time

FILE PHOTO: The Twitter logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is considering whether to build a premium version of i... More »

Twitter software helps find, ban users advocating violence

FILE PHOTO: People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Tuesday it had stepped... More »

Olympics, smartphones push Twitter revenue up 30 percent in Brazil

The Twitter logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Twitter Inc has found a bright spot in Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy, even as... More »

FBI request for Twitter account data may have overstepped legal guidelines

The Twitter Inc. logo is shown with the U.S. flag during the company’s IPO on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, November 7, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo The FBI appeared to go beyond the scope of existing legal guidance in seeking... More »

Twitter`s China boss Kathy Chen quits after 8 months

The Twitter logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) executive Kathy Chen, brought in to run Greater China just over eight months ... More »

Sony Music`s Twitter hacked, fake Britney Spears death tweets sent

Britney Spears performs at iHeartRadio Jingle Ball concert at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California U.S., December 2, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni – RTSUFOU Sony Music Entertainment’s Twitter account was hacked on Monday, publishing fake statements that pop... More »

Twitter grabs average 243,000 viewers in NFL livestream debut

People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken in Warsaw September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo Twitter Inc attracted an average of 243,000 viewers t... More »

Microsoft apologizes for offensive tirade by its ‘chatbot’

LOS ANGELES Microsoft is “deeply sorry” for the racist and sexist Twitter messages generated by the so-called chatbot it launched this week, a company official wrote on Friday, after the artificial intelligence program went on an embarrassing tirade. The bot, ... More »

Twitter users decry reported plan to prioritize tweets

NEW YORK The hashtag #RIPTwitter became the top trending U.S. item on Twitter on Saturday, after a report from BuzzFeed said the company is planning to change how it displays users’ tweets. The BuzzFeed report, which went live on Friday night and did not discl... More »

Twitter suspends over 125,000 accounts for ‘promoting terrorist acts’

WASHINGTON Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) has shut down more than 125,000 terrorism-related accounts since the middle of 2015, most of them linked to the Islamic State group, the company said in a blog post on Friday. Twitter has said it only takes down accounts when th... More »

Among White House hopefuls, Trump least likely to hit ‘follow’ button on Twitter

NEW YORK The millions of Twitter users following Donald Trump shouldn’t expect a “follow back” from the Republican presidential front-runner anytime soon. Trump’s campaign account @realDonaldTrump has nearly 6 million Twitter followers, the most of any candida... More »

Factbox: 2016 presidential candidates on social media

NEW YORK The 2016 contenders for the White House have used social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as campaign tools to an extent not seen previously in U.S. presidential politics. But usage and tactics vary widely across the campaigns of the 11 to... More »

News Corp denies rumors of Twitter bid

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp said rumors about the company’s interest in buying microblogging site Twitter Inc or building a stake in it were untrue. Twitter’s shares, which rose as much as 14 percent on Wednesday, pared some gains and closed up 4.1 percent at $... More »

Twitter account of pharmaceutical executive Shkreli hacked

Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive facing U.S. charges of securities fraud, lost control of his Twitter account to hackers on Sunday, hours after he took to Twitter to plead his innocence, his spokesman said. “It was hacked,” Craig Stevens, a spokesm... More »

Dorsey’s Twitter stock gift well-timed to stem brain drain: recruiters

SAN FRANCISCO Twitter (TWTR.N) Chief Executive Jack Dorsey’s novel move to give a third of his company stock to an employee equity pool is a smart gesture to restore confidence in a company that lost its way, according to recruiting and compensation experts. B... More »

Lyft, Uber poach key Twitter engineers, managers amid turmoil

SAN FRANCISCO Ride services Lyft and Uber have poached dozens of key Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) employees over the past year, including top engineering managers, to help personalize their apps. Twitter’s management turmoil and 44 percent stock fall over the last 12 ... More »

Security researcher who hacked moving Jeep leaves Twitter

SAN FRANCISCO The security researcher who hacked into a moving Jeep earlier this year has resigned as an engineer at Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) after three years on the job, a person familiar with the matter said. Charlie Miller, a former National Security Agency ha... More »

Twitter confirms purported Bloomberg story is false

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Twitter tops Wall Street revenue target, user growth slows

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Thursday the social media company is signing up users as quickly as most of last year after a fourth-quarter slowdown, boosting its shares 11 percent. Twitter beat Wall Street’s profit and revenue targets ... More »

Twitter CEO wins breathing room from Wall Street critics

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc’s (TWTR.N) forecast of re-accelerating user growth helped lift its stock on Thursday, but the goodwill will only temporarily take the heat off embattled Chief Executive Dick Costolo, analysts said. The Internet company sai... More »

French bank, Twitter team up for money transfers via tweets

PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – One of France’s largest banks is teaming up with social network Twitter Inc. (TWTR.N ) this week to allow its customers to transfer money via tweets. The move by Groupe BPCE [BPCE.UL], France’s second largest bank by customers, coin... More »

Twitter sues U.S. Justice Department for right to reveal surveillance requests

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N ) sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, intensifying its battle with federal agencies as the Internet industry’s self-described champion of free speech seeks the right to reveal the extent of U.S. governm... More »

Twitter assuages growth concerns for now as shares soar 35 percent

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N ) halted a slowdown in user-growth in the second quarter with the help of product tweaks and services built around the summer’s World Cup, assuaging concerns for now that the online messaging service had peaked. Sh... More »

Twitter to unveil new metrics to show wider reach: WSJ

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc, which has been struggling to revive flagging user growth, is expected to introduce new metrics to show that its microblogging service has a wider audience who may not necessarily be logged in to their accounts, the Wall Street Journal ... More »

Twitter to take India election innovations global

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – U.S. social networking company Twitter is planning to replicate parts of its India election strategy across countries that go to polls this year, after it emerged as a key tool for politicians and media companies during the world’s larges... More »

Venezuela’s Maduro hits Twitter milestone, still lags mentor Chavez

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has hit a Twitter feed milestone of 2 million followers, though his cyber popularity still lags far behind that of his charismatic predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez. “Today I reached 2 million followers o... More »

Do-it-yourselfers inspire hardware renaissance in Silicon Valley

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – In the shadow of Internet monoliths such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, it’s easy to forget that Silicon Valley got its start from hard-scrabble tinkerers building radios, microchips and other devices. Now, a proliferation of high-t... More »

Twitter shares plumb new lows as stock lock-up expires

(Reuters) – Shares of Twitter Inc sank 18 percent to a new low in frenzied trading on Tuesday, wiping out more than $4 billion of its market value, as early investors sold stock in the messaging service for the first time after a six-month “lock-up” expired. T... More »

Twitter freshens up its user profile pages

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc unveiled a redesign of its user profile pages on Tuesday, the latest in a series of steps promised by the company to bring new users to the seven-year-old service. In response to an all-time low in user growth figures duri... More »

Turkey blocks Twitter days before vote as PM fights scandal

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s courts have blocked access to Twitter days before elections as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan battles a corruption scandal that has seen social media platforms awash with alleged evidence of government wrongdoing. The ban came hours ... More »

Turkish assets fall as Twitter ban raises political tension

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish assets dropped on Friday after Turkey’s courts blocked access to Twitter, unnerving investors and raising uncertainty just days before local elections. The lira weakened to 2.2387 against the dollar by 0951 GMT, from 2.2371 late on... More »

Twitter CEO Costolo to make first China visit

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc CEO Dick Costolo will meet Shanghai government officials, academics and students in his first visit to China, signaling Twitter’s interest in cracking a lucrative but thorny market with 600 million Internet users. Twitter,... More »

A missing plane and emotional reunion, played live on Twitter

(Reuters) – Hours before Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was scheduled to depart on Saturday, a U.S. woman tweeted to her co-worker who was on a business trip that she was feeling ill and overworked. He agreed to pick up the slack and missed his Kuala Lumpur-to... More »

Analysis: Twitter must move faster to counter fears of plateau

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter, whose shares had soared more than 150 percent since their November debut on Wall Street, stunned investors this week with a one-two punch of bad news: near-flat user growth and a drop in engagement among its 241 million membe... More »

Fidelity funds buy 2.4 million Twitter shares, showing cautious bet

BOSTON (Reuters) – Mutual funds run by Fidelity Investments bought a modest 2.4 million shares of Twitter Inc in the days after its public debut, revealing that they were not willing to take any early, big bets on the microblogging site. Fidelity’s Contrafund ... More »

Disney cuts CEO pay, adds Twitter co-founder to board

(Reuters) – Walt Disney Co has slashed Chief Executive Bob Iger’s fiscal 2013 compensation by 15 percent with a bonus cut, and named Twitter Inc co-founder Jack Dorsey an independent board director. Dorsey, widely credited with creating Twitter alongside fello... More »

Twitter backtracks on block feature after users revolt

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc was forced to nix a change to its “block” feature on Thursday after attracting a wave of protest from users who said the new policy empowered perpetrators of online abuse. The humbling reversal on one of the most sensitive... More »

Cyber experts uncover 2 million stolen passwords to Web accounts

BOSTON (Reuters) – Security experts have uncovered a trove of some 2 million stolen passwords to websites including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo from Internet users across the globe. Researchers with Trustwave’s SpiderLabs said they discovered the crede... More »

Twitter stock gets mixed reviews from IPO underwriters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc shares slipped on Monday after some of the five lead underwriters of its initial public offering said the social media firm may not achieve Facebook-like scale and its stock may not rise much higher. In their first researc... More »

Active but orderly debut for Twitter options

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Trading in options of Twitter Inc was dominated by put volume with a mixture of selling, hedging and speculative activity in an overall orderly debut on the U.S. options market, a week after the social media company’s stock started trading.... More »

Short sellers test the waters on Twitter

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Short sellers are starting to circle around Twitter shares in their first chance at betting against the micro-blogging site’s stock, a sign some investors think the share price will fall. Data on Wednesday showed the cost to borrow Twitter... More »

Twitter IPO sparks speculation on who could follow

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – For technology executives weighing market flotations for Silicon Valley startups, this week’s gangbusters Twitter Inc initial public offering sent a powerful signal: full speed ahead. About a dozen private companies are valued at more... More »

Analysis: Twitter gives NYSE momentum in IPO battle versus Nasdaq

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Twitter Inc’s successful debut on the New York Stock Exchange could help the Big Board win a title it has never held before: the No.1 U.S. listing venue for technology companies. Nasdaq OMX Group had easily scored the most tech initial pub... More »

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