Twitter is a great place to get up-to-the-minute news, find thoughts posted live by public figures, and more. But the app reveals more than you may think. If you create a Twitter account, the default ...

If you keep your direct messages open on Twitter, you may have noticed an unnatural quietness in your notifications lately. But it’s not related to rate limiting. Instead, Twitter began rolling out a ...

Twitter is one of the most open social media platforms on the web, which is why it might be easier to ignore the privacy settings. Admittedly, Twitter doesn’t offer the level of granular control as, ...

Generally speaking, the purpose of social media platforms like Twitter (rather X now) is to broadcast your opinions and interests out into the wider world and allow just about anyone anywhere the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Twitter users are once again finding out that something has changed within their accounts after ...

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Now what? If you have a Twitter account, that’s likely a question you’re asking as you skim the latest headlines around Elon Musk assuming ownership of one of the world’s largest social media ...

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According to Elon Musk, Twitter is still seeing negative cash flow, “due to a drop in advertising revenue” - and that might explain the platform's new hard, desperate push to get more users to sign up ...

Twitter has evolved from a simple SMS text-based service to a strong micro-blogging platform. Most people use this service to find a piece of breaking news, share links, and create memes but it is ...

Twitter has released a free game to draw attention to its rewritten privacy policy and security features. It isn't great, but at least it's more interesting than almost anything else to do with ...