Twitter Tutorials & How-Tos

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Posted by Tom Bedford on October 29, 2018

Twitter is planning to remove one of its core features

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Posted by Keumars Afifi-Sabet on October 17, 2018

Twitter faces GDPR probe over tracking query

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Posted by Tom Bedford on September 26, 2018

Twitter expands its definition of “dehumanising language”

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Posted by Tom Bedford on September 18, 2018

Twitter is bringing back chronological timelines

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Posted by Emma Sims on August 2, 2018

Twitter just permanently banned Alex Jones’ account

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Posted by Edward Munn on May 31, 2018

Twitter blocks users who were underage at registration, blames GDPR

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Posted by Alan Martin on May 24, 2018

Trump is banned from blocking people on Twitter, and the world should be very worried of the consequences

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Posted by Alan Martin on May 8, 2018

Melania Trump’s anti-cyberbully guide is one giant passive-aggressive subtweet for Donald

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Posted by Alan Martin on May 4, 2018

Twitter advises 330 million users to change passwords after security slip-up

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Posted by Alan Martin on April 25, 2018

High temperatures make us hotheads: Study finds the weather impacts how we “talk” on Twitter and Facebook

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on April 25, 2018

Google follows Apple, Twitter and Samsung in changing gun emoji to water pistol

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Posted by Edward Munn on April 19, 2018

US data firm leaks 48 million profiles built from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

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Posted by Robert Irvine on April 17, 2018

The best Facebook alternatives: Five ways to get your social fix without FB, Instagram or Twitter

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Posted by Alan Martin on April 16, 2018

JD Wetherspoon is mysteriously killing the Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts of its 900 pubs citing “trolling, etc”

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Posted by Alan Martin on March 21, 2018

Twitter a “toxic place for women,” says Amnesty International UK

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Posted by Alan Martin on March 8, 2018

It’s not bots, it’s us: False news is shared much faster than real stories on Twitter

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on March 1, 2018

Twitter Bookmarks finally lets you save tweets without liking them

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Posted by Alan Martin on February 23, 2018

How one tweet wiped $1.3 billion off Snapchat’s market value

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Posted by Victoria Woollaston on February 15, 2018

Twitter tool turns your tweets into an ever-evolving playlist: What’s your Twitter soundtrack?

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Posted by Alex Lee on February 14, 2018

Gmail’s contextual Smart Reply AI is coming to Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter – here’s how to get it

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Posted by Edward Munn on February 12, 2018

Consumer-goods giant Unilever threatens to withdraw from Facebook and Twitter

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Posted by Alan Martin on February 9, 2018

Twitter just turned a profit for the first time ever

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Posted by Alex Lee on February 5, 2018

AI taught to recognise hate speech to fight Twitter trolls

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on January 30, 2018

Twitter contends with the influence of Russian bots and fake followers

Google Bulletin app
Posted by Alex Lee on January 26, 2018

Google wants to salvage local news with its Twitter-style reporting app Bulletin

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Posted by Alex Lee on January 2, 2018

Germany’s new hate speech law has forced Twitter to block its first far-right troll

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Posted by Alan Martin on December 13, 2017

Twitter threads let you bore your followers senseless more easily than ever

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Posted by Alex Lee on November 29, 2017

Kids are better at identifying fake news than adults, but they’re breaking Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat’s terms in the process

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Posted by Alan Martin on November 16, 2017

Twitter gets in a muddle over its verified blue ticks

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Posted by Vaughn Highfield on November 10, 2017

Twitter suspends verifications amid White Nationalism controversy

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Posted by Victoria Woollaston on November 3, 2017

Rogue Twitter employee deactivates Donald Trump’s account, users rejoice

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Posted by Alan Martin on November 2, 2017

Twitter’s scientists want you to learn one crucial thing about their field

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 19, 2017

Twitter can automatically hide neo-Nazis and white supremacists, but chooses not to

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on October 16, 2017

Twitter slammed by MPs for failing to remove abusive tweets

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Posted by Alan Martin on October 13, 2017

“Stop funding rapists”: Rose McGowan attacks Jeff Bezos as Twitter struggles to explain why it suspended her account

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on October 10, 2017

Twitter is working on a bookmarking tool

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Posted by William Stanton on September 27, 2017

In other ‘features we don’t need’ news, Twitter now lets you have 50 characters in your display name

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Posted by Alan Martin on September 26, 2017

Twitter explains why it’s one rule for Trump and another for you

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Posted by Alan Martin on August 31, 2017

Twitter bans man for mosquito death threat

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Posted by Alan Martin on August 24, 2017

16 tweets where Citizen Trump accidentally burned President Trump

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Posted by Alan Martin on August 24, 2017

Mark Hamill backs the campaign to buy Twitter and ban Trump

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Posted by Curtis Moldrich on August 17, 2017

NASA asks Twitter to celebrate Voyager-1, hilarity ensues

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Posted by Emma Sims on August 9, 2017

Vigilante artist forces Twitter to face up to hate speech

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Posted by Grace Shallow on June 26, 2017

Twitter can predict a riot

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Posted by Alan Martin on May 22, 2017

Twitter’s co-founder changes his mind: The media, not Twitter, is to blame for Trump

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Posted by Alan Martin on May 12, 2017

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wants Donald Trump to keep on tweeting

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Posted by Alan Martin on May 3, 2017

Twitter is the latest company to ditch the Apple Watch

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Posted by Thomas McMullan on March 24, 2017

“It’s hard to imagine Abraham Lincoln using Twitter”: Douglas Coupland on free time, automation and Donald Trump

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Posted by Adam Shepherd on February 1, 2017

Twitter admits it “didn’t move fast enough” to fight abuse

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Posted by Emma Sims on January 20, 2017

The phone that bore a thousand tweets: Trump surrenders smartphone