Twitter Is Profitable Again And Adding Users
Twitter posted its second consecutive profitable quarter on Wednesday thanks to renewed growth in its ad sales business.
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Twitter posted its second consecutive profitable quarter on Wednesday thanks to renewed growth in its ad sales business.
Jay Feely, who played for six NFL teams in his 14-year career, posted the picture on Twitter in which the pro athlete stood between his daughter and her prom date while holding the pistol.
Besides Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter also have giant platforms awash in personal information and their methods of serving ads against this sea of content may come under the microscope next.
Fox News host Sean Hannity says he will keep attacking late-night ABC comic Jimmy Kimmel until Kimmel apologizes for a segment in which he joked about first lady Melania Trump's accent.
Eleven minutes later, Amazon's stock had fallen into the red — and so had the Nasdaq.
The actor and comedian is being criticized on social media for a portrait he painted that is believed to be White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Twitter loves lies. A new study finds that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center says tech giants Facebook and Twitter are making efforts to police terrorists and hate groups on their sites but more work needs to be done.
Some women who've been viciously attacked on the site say the company hasn't put enough muscle behind protecting vocal female users.
Several safety measures are being taken by an East San Jose school district and San Jose police after a social media shooting threat.
CEO Jack Dorsey posted a series of tweets that addressed the toxicity and misuse of the platform and put out a call for proposals from experts on how to size up the platform's health.
Twitter is finally adding a feature its most devoted users have wanted for years.
A prominent white nationalist is suing Twitter for banning his accounts at a time when social networks are trying to crack down on hateful and abusive content without appearing to censor unpopular opinions.
Twitter made money for the first time in its nearly 12-year history, a milestone that satisfied investors in the short term but might not resolve the company's broader problems any time soon.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit that sought to hold Twitter liable for the deaths of two U.S. contractors in Jordan three years ago in an attack for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility.
The Twitter account for conservative TV host Sean Hannity disappeared for a few hours Saturday morning and it took only a few minutes for the conspiracy theories to start flowing.
Twitter's chief operating officer is leaving the social media giant to lead another company.
Lawmakers grilled executives Facebook, Google's YouTube and Twitter on Wednesday about what the companies are doing to prevent terrorists from using their platforms to spread propaganda and recruit new followers.
President Trump said that a program that protects immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children is "probably dead," casting a cloud over the negotiations days before a deadline on a government funding deal.
President Donald Trump's puzzling tweets about a key U.S. spying law threw the House into temporary disarray Thursday, but lawmakers ended up renewing the law.
The president tweeted Saturday that going from successful businessman to reality TV star to president on his first try "would qualify as not smart, but genius ... and a very stable genius at that!"
Twitter said Friday it will not block world leaders from its social media platform because they play a critical role in global and public conversations.
Under a law that took full effect in Germany on Monday, Twitter, Facebook and other social media companies can be fined as much as €50 million ($60 million) if they fail to remove hate speech and fake news posts quickly.
Twitter suspended the accounts of well-known white nationalists Monday, moving swiftly after putting into place new rules on what it sees as abusive content.
Twitter shares have surged more than 6% this week and are up nearly 40% this year.
