Tag: Twitter
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Twitter starts enforcing new rules on hateful conduct, abusive behaviour
The new rules announced in November on hateful and abusive content and behaviour went into effect on Monday, Twitter said in a press release. “Today, we will start enforcing updates to the Twitter Rules announced last month to reduce hateful and abusive content on Twitter,” Twitter said on Monday. The company said the new rules…
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Twitter to let users make tweet threads more easily
Twitter said it would add a pair of buttons that will allow users to more easily see and add new tweets to existing ones on the same topic. With the new feature, users who create threads, stitching tweets together to tell a longer story, need no longer reply to previous tweets to do so. It…
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Twitter says Trump’s anti-Muslim videos remain undeleted for a reason
Twitter has explained why they failed to remove offensive and unverified anti-Muslim tweets shared by President Donald Trump. The site has claimed its decision not to remove violent far-right Britain First videos retweeted by the US president had nothing to do with the episode making global headlines. A row erupted between Theresa May and the…
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Obama cautions leaders to think before tweeting
Former US president Barack Obama said Friday that social media powers like Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter are leading to “snap judgement to complex issues” and warned leaders to think before tweeting. Obama was repeatedly asked about his successor, President Donald Trump, at a New Delhi symposium, but stuck to a general warning to all high-profile…
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Members of President Trump’s Arts Council tender resignation via Twitter
The entire members of President Donald Trump’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities have tendered an open letter of resignation, using the president’s favourite public space: Twitter. They say the resignation is in protest of his “support of hate groups and terrorists who killed and injured fellow Americans in Charlottesville,” and his failure to support…
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Toke Makinwa should not be taken seriously -Fans declare
Media personality, Toke Makinwa just knows how to set social media ablaze via her inept controversial opinions on relationships The light skinned damsel in a recent edition of her Vlog urges women not to take men who call them via Whatsapp serious. Her opinion as expected generated various reactions from Nigerians on Twitter. https://www.instagram.com/p/BXlHi6ghe84/?taken-by=thenewsgurung…
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Etisalat Nigeria: Subscribers apprehensive as firm’s crisis deepens
Subscribers on the Etisalat network have become apprehensive as the crisis rocking the “Not Just a Network, It’s an Attitude!” telecoms firm shows no signs of an end. The protracted $1.2 billion debt crisis has left UAE-based Etisalat Group, which gave Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services (EMTS) the right to operate in Nigeria as Etisalat Nigeria,…
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Did you receive the Jayden K. Smith message?
I did as did some millions of Facebook users who received the warning message about a friend request from some Jayden K. Smith. Globally, Facebook and Twitter users have been sent into a frenzy being warned not to accept an unsolicited friend request from one mysterious Jayden K. Smith, who is not Will Smith’s son…