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Twitter Defends Giving David Duke a Platform: He’s ‘Not Currently a Member of the KKK’

Why is David Duke, a white supremacist and former Klansmen, allowed to spout hateful anti-semitic, anti-trans, and anti-Black things on Twitter? According to the company, one reason Duke is not banned is that he’s not currently a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Seriously. Duke announced his endorsement of Donald Trump for re-election on Twitter…

Social Media Matt Novak Jul 10

Disney CEO Explains Twitter Perfectly: ‘Why Am I Doing This? Why Do I Endure This Pain?’

It’s no secret that Disney was very interested in buying Twitter back in 2016, but the House of Mouse never went through with the deal. Disney CEO Bob Iger has explained the company’s thinking about Twitter in his new book, The Ride of a Lifetime, and he really speaks for all of its regular users.…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 23

Twitter Executive: ‘A Lot of What People Consider Abusive on the Service Doesn’t Actually Violate Our Policies’

Twitter is so close to understanding the problem. So close. “A lot of what people consider abusive on the service doesn’t actually violate our policies,” Twitter executive Kayvon Beykpour admitted on Monday. “Because what Kara finds abusive is different from what you find abusive and so on and so forth,” Beykpour continued. Beykpour, who serves…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 11

The 13 Most Notorious Deleted Tweets in History

Everyone makes a bad tweet now and then. And sometimes a tweet is so bad, that the user has to delete it forever. But the internet never forgets. On Monday, Chase deleted a tweet that blamed the average person’s financial troubles on buying coffee rather than, say, the inherent inequality of a system where Chase…

Tech News Matt Novak May 1

This Viral Photo of a Homeless Person Freezing on the Street Is Actually From 2013… in Canada

It’s a heartbreaking photo. But it doesn’t show what you think it does. The viral photo, which shows a person sleeping on the sidewalk and covered in snow, has been making the rounds on politically conservative social media this week in an attempt at commentary on immigration. It’s been tweeted by actor James Woods, retweeted…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 31

Twitter Suspends Pro-Saudi Bots Spreading Propaganda About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Anyone who tweeted about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the past two weeks saw major pushback on Twitter from accounts in Saudi Arabia. But that could slow down in the coming days. Twitter has now reportedly banned an unspecified number of alleged bots that were pushing pro-Saudi propaganda. The revelation comes from an NBC…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 19

President Trump Weighs in on Reality Winner Sentencing, Calls Her Leak ‘Small Potatoes’

President Trump is awake, angry, and tweeting this morning, which wouldn’t normally be newsworthy. But Trump just weighed in on a case that strikes close to his legitimacy as president: The Reality Winner leak. And he seems to think that it wasn’t a big deal. “Ex-NSA contractor to spend 63 months in jail over ‘classified’…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 24

Twitter CEO Defends Giving Alex Jones a Platform to Spread Lies

Alex Jones and his conspiracy theory empire InfoWars have officially been booted from Apple, Facebook, and YouTube. But Twitter is one of the last big social media companies that has declined to ban Alex Jones. And Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his decision to allow Jones on the platform in a series of tweets last…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 8

Roseanne Blames Ambien for Her Racism, Then Deletes the Tweet [Updated]

Roseanne Barr’s show was canceled yesterday after she tweeted a racist joke against a former advisor to President Obama. She even threatened to quit Twitter after the incident. But Barr is more active of the site than ever, retweeting supposed hypocrisy by Disney, and even partially blaming the sleep drug Ambien for her racist tweet.…

Tech News Matt Novak May 30

Federal Judge Rules President Trump Can’t Block Users From Seeing His Shitty, Shitty Tweets

A federal judge in New York has ruled that President Trump cannot block users from seeing his tweets. His shitty, shitty tweets. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan issued the ruling against Trump and his social media manager Dan Scavino today, which has the potential to impact other cases where public officials have…

Tech News Matt Novak May 23

What’s Going on With US Cyber Command’s Twitter Account? [Updated]

NORAD, the agency that tracks missile threats to the US and Canada, just sent out a tweet welcoming the US Cyber Command to the big leagues. The US Cyber Command was elevated to a combatant command today, the country’s 10th, after previously working under the US Strategic Command since 2009. But we have just one…

Tech News Matt Novak May 4

Conservative Twitter Users Lose Thousands of Followers, Mass Purge of Bots Suspected [Updated]

Twitter suspended thousands of accounts overnight and conservatives on the platform aren’t happy about it. Twitter has yet to make a public statement about the issue, but right-wing users believe that they’re being targeted in a mass purge of suspected Russian bot accounts. Conservative Twitter has even started a hashtag called #TwitterLockOut to talk about…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 21

Twitter Made a Profit for the First Time Ever

Twitter, the social media service that gave us a Trump presidency and a potent weapon of the New Cold War, has announced that it turned a net profit for the first time in the company’s history. Twitter’s stock rose in pre-market trading. But while profits are up, the total number of Twitter users is flat.…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 8

Does President Trump Tweet From the Bathroom?

President Trump is the most famous Twitter user in the world. But there remains some mystery about how he tweets. Does he dictate all his tweets to assistants? Is he tweeting himself? And when he’s tweeting for himself is he sitting on a big, golden toilet? The American public has a right to know. We…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 29

Library of Congress Gives Up Collecting All Tweets Because Twitter Is Garbage

In 2010, the Library of Congress started archiving every single public tweet that was published on Twitter. It even retroactively acquired all tweets dating back to 2006. But the Library of Congress will stop archiving every tweet on December 31, 2017. Why is it stopping? Because tweets are trash now. The Library of Congress issued…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 26

Twitter Halts All Verifications After Verifying Charlottesville Neo-Nazi Rally Organizer

Yesterday, Twitter decided to verify Jason Kessler, an organizer of the August neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville that left one woman dead. Shortly after her death, Kessler even tweeted that the woman was a “fat disgusting Communist” and characterized her murder as “payback time.” But Twitter refuses to explain why it verified Kessler—and users are so…

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 9

Twitter Suspends Rose McGowan’s Account After She Speaks Out Against Sexual Abuse

Rose McGowan’s Twitter account was suspended overnight after she spent the past few days exposing the systematic sexual abuse of women in the entertainment industry. McGowan had most recently told Ben Affleck to “fuck off,” called Harvey Weinstein a “POS,” and called for the board of the Weinstein Company to be dissolved. McGowan’s account was…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 12

Congressional Shooting and London Fire Trend on Twitter, Twitter Promotes #HappyDeathDay

The country woke up to scary news on Wednesday. A gunman had opened fire on a Congressional baseball practice, injuring House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and several others. A catastrophic fire in London had killed at least six people. And Twitter sponsored trending section had decided to promote a very unfortunate hashtag: #HappyDeathDay. Oh, there’s…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jun 14

A Middle Eastern Airline Is Scorching Trump’s Electronics Ban on Twitter

Starting this week, anyone flying on Royal Jordanian’s routes to the United States from cities like Amman won’t be allowed to bring any electronic device bigger than a smartphone into the cabin. And Royal Jordanian is expressing its displeasure with some next-level subtweets. The airline just tweeted a list of “12 things to do on…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 23

A Senator Is Tweeting at Trump to Set Up National Security Meetings Because Everything Is Broken

Remember last month when we told you about how Senator Chuck Grassley was tweeting randomly, hoping that someone at the White House would see it? Well, it’s happening again. Because everything is weird and this is just how our fucked up government works now. The whole ordeal starts with Chuck Grassley tweeting about something he…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 20

our garbage twitter

Twitter Defends Giving David Duke a Platform: He’s ‘Not Currently a Member of the KKK’

Disney CEO Explains Twitter Perfectly: ‘Why Am I Doing This? Why Do I Endure This Pain?’

Twitter Executive: ‘A Lot of What People Consider Abusive on the Service Doesn’t Actually Violate Our Policies’

The 13 Most Notorious Deleted Tweets in History

This Viral Photo of a Homeless Person Freezing on the Street Is Actually From 2013… in Canada

Twitter Suspends Pro-Saudi Bots Spreading Propaganda About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi

President Trump Weighs in on Reality Winner Sentencing, Calls Her Leak ‘Small Potatoes’

Twitter CEO Defends Giving Alex Jones a Platform to Spread Lies

Roseanne Blames Ambien for Her Racism, Then Deletes the Tweet [Updated]

Federal Judge Rules President Trump Can’t Block Users From Seeing His Shitty, Shitty Tweets

What’s Going on With US Cyber Command’s Twitter Account? [Updated]

Conservative Twitter Users Lose Thousands of Followers, Mass Purge of Bots Suspected [Updated]

Twitter Made a Profit for the First Time Ever

Does President Trump Tweet From the Bathroom?

Library of Congress Gives Up Collecting All Tweets Because Twitter Is Garbage

Twitter Halts All Verifications After Verifying Charlottesville Neo-Nazi Rally Organizer

Twitter Suspends Rose McGowan’s Account After She Speaks Out Against Sexual Abuse

Congressional Shooting and London Fire Trend on Twitter, Twitter Promotes #HappyDeathDay

A Middle Eastern Airline Is Scorching Trump’s Electronics Ban on Twitter

A Senator Is Tweeting at Trump to Set Up National Security Meetings Because Everything Is Broken

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

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