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U.S. far-right activists, WikiLeaks and bots help amplify Macron leaks: researchers

EghtesadOnline: U.S. far-right activists helped amplify a leak of hacked emails belonging to leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign, some researchers said on Saturday, with automated bots and the Twitter account of WikiLeaks also propelling a leak that came two days before France's presidential vote.
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Publish Date:07/May/2017 | 04:53

Families of San Bernardino shooting sue Facebook, Google, Twitter

EghtesadOnline: Family members of three victims of the December 2015 shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California, have sued Facebook, Google and Twitter , claiming that the companies permitted Islamic State to flourish on social media.
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Publish Date:05/May/2017 | 06:04

Twitter explores subscription-based option for first time

EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc is considering whether to build a premium version of its popular Tweetdeck interface aimed at professionals, the company said on Thursday, raising the possibility that it could collect subscription fees from some users for the first time.
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Publish Date:24/March/2017 | 11:08

Twitter advertising revenue falls, shares drop more than 10 percent

EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc posted the slowest revenue growth since it went public four years ago, sending shares down more than 10 percent on Thursday on fears that rivals Snapchat and Facebook Inc were winning the war for advertising.
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Publish Date:10/February/2017 | 24:49

Merkel Coalition Seeks to Punish Social Media for Hate Speech

EghtesadOnline: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government plans to fine social media networks such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. if they fail to combat hate speech, as German officials accuse media companies of being too slow to take action.
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Publish Date:14/January/2017 | 14:43
Throughout the campaign, automated propaganda accounts on Twitter leaned Republican, but that disparity increased in the race's final days.

Trump's Twitter Bots Turned Out on Election Day

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump’s supporters made a surprisingly strong showing on Nov. 8, and not just at polling places in the rust belt. Twitter bots accounted for nearly a quarter of all postings that included hashtags related to the election, according to an analysis by researchers at Corvinus University, Oxford, and the University of Washington published on Thursday.
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Publish Date:17/November/2016 | 18:22
Former employees of both companies are grappling with Facebook's and Twitter's role as a news filter.

Facebook and Twitter Contend With Their Role in Trump's Victory

EghtesadOnline: America just endured its first presidential election in which the majority of the electorate got its news from social media. And the outcome is already prompting soul searching by the companies that shaped it.
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Publish Date:10/November/2016 | 24:01
Twitter’s 'firehose' of a half billion tweets a day is incredibly valuable—and just as dangerous.

How Despots Use Twitter to Hunt Dissidents

EghtesadOnline: If you ignore all the self-promotion, ranting, and frog memes, it’s possible to see the Twitter that Jack Dorsey likes to talk about. It’s a “people’s news network,” he wrote in a memo earlier this year—a digital town square that connects voices from around the world.
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Publish Date:28/October/2016 | 16:04

Twitter 's shares slump on report that bids are unlikely

EghtesadOnline: Shares of Twitter Inc slumped more than 13 percent in premarket trading on Monday after a weekend Bloomberg report that the social media company was unlikely to receive any bids.
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Publish Date:10/October/2016 | 16:10

Twitter grabs average 243,000 viewers in NFL livestream debut

EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc attracted an average of 243,000 viewers to Thursday's National Football League livestream of the New York Jets triumph over the Buffalo Bills, the first time the social media platform has broadcast an NFL game.
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Publish Date:17/September/2016 | 08:24

White nationalists use Twitter with 'relative impunity': report

EghtesadOnline: White nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathizers located mostly in the United States use Twitter with “relative impunity” and often have far more followers than militant Islamists, a study being released on Thursday found.
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Publish Date:01/September/2016 | 07:13

Twitter Suspends Oil Minister’s Account

EghtesadOnline: Twitter has suspended Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh’s page on Monday, following the United States’ recent batch of sanctions targeting Iran’s petroleum industry.
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Publish Date:17/November/2020 | 14:57

Twists and Turns of Taxing Online Taxis: Report

EghtesadOnline: Over the past two days, CEOs of Iranian online taxi firms, government and municipality officials, as well as unionists have had a hectic time on Twitter clashing over the taxation of local transportation startups.
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Publish Date:29/September/2019 | 24:50

A Survey of Iranians Active on Twitter

EghtesadOnline: Iranian news website Digiato, with help from artificial intelligence text analysis service provider Vakavic, has reviewed 1 million tweets posted in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2019) to find the highly trending topics and those with the most followers.
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Publish Date:13/May/2019 | 13:51