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Twitter CEO Solicits Product Feedback as He Takes Larger Role
EghtesadOnline: Jack Dorsey wants Twitter Inc.’s users to know he’s listening to them. His tweet Thursday soliciting product feedback from users drew hundreds of responses, highlighting concerns…
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Twitter CTO Messinger to Exit, Further Depleting Executive Ranks
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc.’s chief technology officer is leaving, another blow to the social-media company’s top ranks just weeks after its chief operating officer resigned.
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Trump team says Twitter too small to be included in tech meeting
EghtesadOnline: President-elect Donald Trump left Twitter off the invitation list for a meeting of technology company executives on Wednesday because it is too small, a spokesman for his transition…
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Facebook and Twitter’s real sin goes beyond spreading fake news
EghtesadOnline: Social media companies are taking heat for influencing the outcomes of the U.S. presidential election and Brexit referendum by allowing fake news, misinformation campaigns and…
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Web giants to cooperate on removal of extremist content
EghtesadOnline: Web giants YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft will step up efforts to remove extremist content from their websites by creating a common database.
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EU urges U.S. tech giants to act faster against hate speech
EghtesadOnline: U.S. tech giants including Facebook, Twitter, Google's YouTube and Microsoft will have to act faster to tackle online hate speech or face laws forcing them to do so, the European…
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ISIS Victim Suit Ties Twitter Ads to Terrorist Propaganda
EghtesadOnline: The family of a woman slain in the 2015 Paris attacks claims in a lawsuit that Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google profit from targeted advertising linked to terrorist propaganda…
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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…
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Twitter impresses advertisers with BuzzFeed U.S. election livestream
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc said it was able to deliver more viewers than promised to advertisers on a U.S. election night livestream, good news for the microblogging site as it tries to ward…
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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…
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Twitter says COO Adam Bain to leave, Noto to take his place
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain, widely credited with building a robust advertising business at the company even as it struggled with user…
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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…
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Twitter's video-sharing mobile app Vine to close
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc announced Thursday that it would discontinue the video-sharing mobile app Vine, as it moves to cut 9 percent of its workforce worldwide to keep costs down after beating…
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Twitter plans to cut about 300 more jobs: Bloomberg
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc may cut 8 percent of its workforce or about 300 people, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing people it said were familiar with the matter.
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Amazon, Facebook Seek Indian Cricket League Streaming Rights
EghtesadOnline: Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have joined a bidding war for rights to stream Indian Premier League cricket matches, seeking to tap into the nation’s growing…
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Disney Dropped Twitter Pursuit Partly Over Image
EghtesadOnline: Walt Disney Co. decided not to pursue a bid for Twitter Inc. partly out of concern that bullying and other uncivil forms of communication on the social media site might soil the…
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Salesforce Won’t Bid for Twitter, Saying Two Companies Don’t Fit
EghtesadOnline: Salesforce.com Inc. will not bid for Twitter Inc. because the business software company and the social media business would be a poor fit.
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Twitter charts solo path as Salesforce rules out takeover
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc faces an uncertain future after Saleforce.com Inc, the last of the companies believed to be interested in buying the troubled social network, said on Friday that it…
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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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Twitter Seeks New Path After Potential Bidders Said to Back Off
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc., struggling to find new users, will need to rely more heavily on its live video streaming strategy after top potential bidders were said to have lost interest in…
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Twitter to conclude sale deliberations this month - sources
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc has told potential acquirers it is seeking to conclude negotiations about selling itself by the time it reports third-quarter earnings on Oct. 27, according to people…
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Google Said to Tap Lazard to Review Potential Bid for Twitter
EghtesadOnline: Google is working with a financial adviser to consider a potential bid for Twitter Inc., as the social-media company continues to explore a sale, according to a person familiar…
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Twitter could take many forms, depending on new owner
EghtesadOnline: With speculation mounting that Twitter Inc will soon have a new corporate owner, the 10-year-old social networking service - which has long struggled to define its core purpose…
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Twitter initiates talks with tech companies over sale: source
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc has initiated talks with several technology companies to explore selling itself, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday, signaling the start of what is likely…
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Twitter Sued by Investor for Failing to Deliver on User Growth
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc. was sued by a shareholder over claims it misled investors on key growth metrics, including user count and user engagement, almost two years after touting plans to…
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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…
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Twitter launches video app for Apple and Amazon TV, Xbox One
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc launched a new video streaming application for Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc TV platforms, as well as Microsoft Corp's Xbox One gaming console as it brings its video…
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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…
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Twitter Seeks to Sublease Part of San Francisco Headquarters
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc. is offering about a quarter of the space at its San Francisco headquarters complex for sublease, adding to a growing amount of excess offices available in the city…
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Twitter revenue growth stalls, struggles to boost users
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc reported its slowest revenue growth since going public in 2013 and set a disappointing forecast, fanning concerns that faster growing social media services will make…