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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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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…
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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…
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Trump says looking more and more like his campaign spied upon illegally
EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday that it was looking more and more like his presidential campaign was illegally spied upon.
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The company wants to broaden its appeal but has a tendency to talk promising ideas to death.
Why Twitter Can’t Pull the Trigger on New Products
EghtesadOnline: Two years after returning as Twitter Inc.’s chief executive officer, Jack Dorsey has pulled the company back from the brink, persuading people to spend more time on the micro-blogging…
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Why Twitter Let Noto Walk Away
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc.’s executives gathered from around the world this week at its offices in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood to discuss the state of the company, goals for the year, and…
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Ex-Twitter Engineer Seeks to Show Women Can Climb Only So High
EghtesadOnline: The way Tina Huang tells it, the path to her resignation from Twitter Inc. was a Kafkaesque experience. She said she was denied a promotion, led to believe her coding skills were…
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Twitter debate reveals concerns about diversity, political correctness
Black AI Workshop Becomes Latest Flashpoint in Tech’s Culture War
EghtesadOnline: An event designed to encourage greater participation by black researchers in artificial intelligence has become the latest flashpoint in the debate over diversity at the cutting…
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Iran Telecoms Minister Hints at Twitter Unblocking
EghtesadOnline: The new minister of Communications and Information Technology has said that Twitter’s blocking is not linked to moral and cultural factors, but to security issues and could be…
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Twitter no longer at 'death's door' as earnings report approaches
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc heads toward its quarterly earnings report on Thursday with a stock that has risen more than 40 percent since April when much of Wall Street was ready to write off…
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Iran Telecoms Minister Calls for Unblocking Twitter
EghtesadOnline: The Minister of Communication and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi has called for unblocking people’s access to Twitter.
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Facebook, Twitter Are Said to Seek World Cup Clips From Fox
EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Snap Inc. are seeking online rights to video highlights from next year’s World Cup, soccer’s most popular tournament, according to two people familiar…
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Twitter Briefly Suspends Al-Jazeera Arabic Amid Qatar Rift
EghtesadOnline: Social media platform Twitter briefly suspended the account of Al-Jazeera Arabic amid a wider diplomatic dispute between Qatar and Arab nations.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos Turns to Twitter for Philanthropy Ideas
EghtesadOnline: Jeff Bezos made a fortune selling stuff online to American consumers. Now he’s turning to the masses for ideas on how to give some of it back.
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Trump's blocking of Twitter users violates U.S. Constitution: rights institute
EghtesadOnline: A free-speech institute on Tuesday sent a letter to President Donald Trump demanding the prolific tweeter unblock certain Twitter users on grounds the practice violates the First…
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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,…
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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…
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Twitter Says It Would Love World Leaders to Use It Like Trump
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc. won’t attribute a bump in activity on its platform to U.S. President Donald Trump’s prolific usage. But the president’s tweets certainly put the company in the spotlight,…
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Twitter partners with Bloomberg for streaming TV news
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc is partnering with Bloomberg Media for a round-the-clock streaming television news service on the social networking platform, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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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…
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Twitter software helps find, ban users advocating violence
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it had stepped up efforts to rid its social network of posts from users advocating political or religious violence, and was increasingly using software…
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EU authorities demand changes from Facebook, Google, Twitter
EghtesadOnline: Social media companies Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter Inc will have to amend their terms of service for European users within a month or face the risk of fines, a European…
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Ahmadinejad Joins Twitter in Political Comeback Bid
EghtesadOnline: Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his most visible attempt at a political comeback, joining Twitter and posting a video request for followers in English.
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Snap IPO Values Photo-Chat App Maker at Twice Facebook’s Worth
EghtesadOnline: Snap Inc., maker of the disappearing photo app dependent upon the fickle favor of the millennial demographic, is going public at a valuation at least twice as expensive as Facebook…
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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…
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Twitter Plans to Hide Abusive Tweets, Block Repeat Offenders
EghtesadOnline: Twitter Inc. says it has come up with new ways to make abusive tweeters less effective: hiding their content and preventing banned users from creating new accounts.
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Twitter, Netflix Plan Brief Opposing Trump Immigration Order
EghtesadOnline: Technology companies including Twitter Inc. and Netflix Inc. plan to submit legal documents condemning President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, adding to the industry’s…
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Alphabet’s Google Buys Mobile App Tool Fabric From Twitter
EghtesadOnline: Google isn’t buying Twitter Inc., but it’s buying one of Twitter’s remaining parts. Alphabet Inc.’s online search division agreed to purchase Fabric, a Twitter business that provides…
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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…
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Twitter Co-Founder Ev Williams’ Medium Cuts One-Third of Staff
EghtesadOnline: Medium, the online publishing company started by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, is changing its business model and cutting a third of its staff.