When Twitter decided to shut down the six-second video app Vine five years ago, the online eulogies poured in. But Vine’s relevance had already slipped before Twitter pulled the plug. At the beginning of 2017—the year it was shut down—the app fell out of the top 100 free apps on Apple’s App ...

But it matters that Elon Musk now owns it.

Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please

Twitter is rolling out the ability to edit tweets to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

"I believe we’re far from reaching our full potential."

Evan Spiegel isn’t going down without a fight.

The turmoil associated with Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the company was a breaking point.

The purpose of the Edit Tweet feature is to "give people a short period of time to fix things like typos, add missed tags, and more" on Twitter

"Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale."

Imagine the company did want to monetize adult content. Would Apple let it?

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From 2019: How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

The Trump-backed Twitter lookalike looks near to launch, and for better or worse, this will draw more attention than ever to my favorite social network.

Influencers in the wild.

"Compared to online audiences, partisan TV news consumers tend not to stray too far from their narrow sets of preferred news sources."

Navigating a strange new world through tech.

I guess I’ll stop doing this, too.

With Snapchat for Web, you can send messages and snaps, and chat via video and regular calls. It also allows users to take advantage of messaging features.

Twitter Inc sued Elon Musk on Tuesday for violating his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform and asked a Delaware court to order the world's richest person to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 per Twitter share.

This deal was always headed to court. What happens next?

Land of the Giants explores the social media juggernaut in a moment of transformation.

Twitter Blue now supports custom navigation on Android.

You can set your "BFF," see who watched your story, and more.

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The Big Tech platforms drive us towards feelings of shame and profit off of that spiral of shame, explains Cathy O'Neil

In discussing the network topology of social networks — whether centralized like Facebook or federated like ActivityPub — I think the ult...

In what could be one of Twitter’s more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters, the company is preparing to launch a new feature that would support the direct publishing of long-form content on its platform. With Twitter Notes, as the upcoming feature…

Is this the end of short-form Twitter?

Musk wants Twitter to be the place where people "understand the nature of reality"