The industry body representing Google, Facebook and Twitter has rejected proposals for an industry code of conduct on fake news, warning that the recommendation would turn...
Social media giants, Twitter has moved to stop accepting adverts from state-controlled news media entities, it said in a blog post on August 19. This policy...
Have you been seriously wondering how social media platforms handle accounts of users when they die? Over the years, online platforms built for the living increasingly...
When computer technology made electronic communication possible, the “new media” emerged: email, chat rooms, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and so much more. It looked, perhaps, like...
Twitter said Thursday it has removed 4,779 accounts linked to the Iranian government and will add more data from account take-downs to a public database. That...
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Monday got involved in a hilarious hot exchange on social media platform, Twitter, with The Church of Satan which...
Twitter has acquired the technology startup Fabula AI, which uses machine learning to help detect the spread of misinformation online. This is part of Twitter’s strategy...
Twitter users have lashed out at popular actor turned politician, Desmond Elliot, for commissioning a toilet in his constituency in Surulere, Lagos on Thursday. The actor...
Bad news for Twitter users, as the company has just admitted that it recently discovered a bug that may have affected Android users since November 3,...
Twitter users in China are facing threats, lengthy interrogations and even days in a detention center after posting messages critical of the Chinese government, according to...
Twitter apologized for the way it responded to Rochelle Ritchie, a former congressional press secretary, when she first alerted it about an apparent threat made against...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before the US House Energy and Commerce Committee on September 5th about the company’s use of algorithms and how it...
Social media giant Twitter has explained why it will not ban Alex Jones on its platform after YouTube, Facebook, Apple and others came down hard on...
Senior executives of Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google will testify before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Sept. 5, Senator Mark Warner, the...
Social media giants, Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) suspended more than one million accounts a day in recent months to reduce the flow of misinformation on the platform,...
Twitter Inc. advised users to change their passwords after the company found a bug in its systems that exposed passwords in plain text internally. The company...
Not-for-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of digital rights groups have called on big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google, to explain decisions...
About 24-hours ago, Twitter put out a tweet through its @TwitterSupport account urging users to change their account password(s) as a precautionary measure. The call to...
More facts have continued to emerge about Moscow’s influence in the last US election after Twitter revealed that Russia linked bots retweeted Trump 470,000 times during...
The verified Twitter account of India’s top diplomat to the United Nations was briefly taken over by suspected Turkish hackers early on Sunday, 14 January, morning....
Super Eagles and Leicester City midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi has warned his fans to be wary of the multiple Facebook accounts that are being run in his...
Social media giants, Twitter is blaming a bug for accidentally banning a bunch of accounts by accident. In the past 24 hours, the company has “banned”...
Social media giants Twitter are investigating the brief deactivation of US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account @realdonaldtrump which went down for 11 minutes. On Thursday evening,...
Social media giants Twitter is taking new steps to ban certain advertising after revealing that bots linked to Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election...
Twitter this afternoon publicly posted its schedule for instituting fixes and changes to longstanding abuse and harassment issues that have plagued the social network for years....
In a series of threaded tweets Friday night, founder and CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey said the social media platform would announce new rules centered on...
Twitter board member Hugh Johnston has left Twitter’s board to join Microsoft’s board. Johnston’s replacement at the microblogging company is Patrick Pichette, a former CFO of...
A Japanese Twitter user has had his account flagged and frozen after he contravened the service’s rules by making a death threat – against a mosquito....
Social media giants, Twitter is aiming to combat the spread of fake news which has become a major issue on social media. Reports say the platform...
A recent attack on Skype which witnessed an outage that left users frustrated and unable to log in, make voice calls or receive messages has been...
Hypertek Records signee Oyindamola Emmanuel popularly known as Dammy Krane is now cooling his heels in a Maimi prison after he was arrested by cops in...
An unknown number of Vine users may have had their email addresses and phone numbers exposed for up to a day, it’s been revealed. Twitter, which...
Twitter is expanding its live broadcasting services and has partnered with Bloomberg to create a 24/7 video news channel. The new breaking news network will be...
In the history of trends on social media, rarely does a hashtag trend for two days consecutively in the social media space. However, #KeepTheChangeBae which set...
Social media giant Twitter has revealed that it has suspended the accounts of 636,248 users on its platform as the company steps up efforts to counter...
Controversial media personality Kemi Olunloyo is at it again; this time, the ever vocal journalist cum internet troll recycled a tweet she posted in November 2016...
Social media giants Twitter has more worries to contend with as its VP of diversity and inclusion Jeffrey Siminoff is leaving the company at the end...
Moments after a US Court of Appeal denied an appeal application filed by the US justice department seeking to unblock a travel ban on seven mainly...
A Florida man has been arrested by cops after he allegedly posted a message on his Twitter time-line threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump. The man...
Twitter executive exodus continues as Kathy Chen, head of its business in China has quit her post. Her exit comes after CTO Adam Messinger and COO...
Social media giants, Twitter has decided to take action against some of Trump’s most-rabid automated followers by suspending them. This week, the platform targeted several bots...
Chocolate City rapper and Vice President Jude Abaga aka M.I says he stands with media chatterbox Toke Makinwa after she released her book entitled “On Becoming…”...
There seems to be a rising interest for single Nigerian musicians by equally single female fans using social media to express their undying love for music...
Republican President-elect Donald Trump has sent fear down the spines of Muslim migrants in America by appointing Michael Flynn, who once used the phrase “Islamic ideology...
Twitter says it is working out ways to put an end to social network harassment and abuse on its platform, as it says its users will...
Nollywood actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde is in support of Senator Dino Melaye’s move to sponsor a bill to stop tribal marks incision on kids which was mooted...
Nightlife on the island got a new meaning when Club Quilox berthed on the scene providing a luxurious style of nightclubing and in no time it...
Finally, Nigerian gay rights activist, public speaker, blog writer and HIV/LGBT advocate Bisi Alimi has exchanged wedding vows with his male lover, Anthony days after taking...
Organisers of a forthcoming New Media Conference may now be biting their fingers after a second high profile panelist withdrew from the event after self- proclaimed...
As it approaches its third quarter earnings release, Twitter is reportedly planning to announce extensive job cuts this week. The ailing social platform may cut approximately...
