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Everything You Need to Know to Get Started Using Twitter Spaces

In this post, we give you a complete guide on everything you need to know in order to use the audio-only platform Twitter Spaces.

By Sagar Naresh – May 25, 2021

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Twitter Removes Photo-Cropping Algorithm After Racial Bias Analysis

After complaints that its photo-cropping algorithm showed a racial bias, Twitter is removing the tool and letting users crop the photos.

By Laura Tucker – May 24, 2021

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Twitter Super Followers Brings Calls of “RIP Twitter”

Twitter found some unhappy users when it announced its new “Super Followers” feature to monetize the site. It brought cries of “RIP Twitter.”

By Laura Tucker – Feb 26, 2021

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Twitter May Start Paying You for Viral Tweets

twitter may start paying users for viral tweets. But how popular does your tweet have to be for it to be considered viral enough to get paid for it?

By Laura Tucker – Feb 12, 2021

You can send disappearing tweets, using Twitter's new Fleets feature.

How to Send Disappearing Tweets in Twitter

Twitter has launched a new self-destructing tweets feature. We cover everything you need to know, including how to post your first fleet.

By Jessica Thornsby – Feb 9, 2021

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How to Download Your Personal Data on Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter

All the tech giants have plenty of information on you. Find out how to download your personal data from Google, Facebook, Apple, and more.

By Jessica Thornsby – Nov 18, 2020

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Racial Bias Noticed in Twitter Picture-Cropping Algorithm

Fingers are being pointed at Twitter after its picture-cropping algorithm is showing a racial bias. They are promising to work on it.

By Laura Tucker – Sep 22, 2020

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Twitter Explains Further How Internal Systems Were Hacked

Twitter published tweets and a blog post to give further details of how several high-profile accounts were hacked in a Bitcoin scam on July 15, 2020.

By Laura Tucker – Jul 31, 2020

News Twitter 2fa Featured

Twitter’s New Two-Factor Authentication No Longer Needs Phone Numbers

Twitter users will no longer need their phone nubmers to authenticate in 2FA. Now there will be a choice of three ways to authenticate.

By Laura Tucker – Nov 25, 2019

News Twitter Down Featured

It Wasn’t Your Connection – Twitter Goes Down for an Hour

Twitter went down for nearly an hour on Thursday, with the big disruption due to just an “internal configuration change.”

By Laura Tucker – Jul 12, 2019

News Twitter Location Data Featured

Bug Caused Twitter to Accidentally Share iOS Users’ Location Data

Twitter recently blamed a bug for IOS users’ location data accidentally being shared with an advertising partner. Only zip codes and cities were shared.

By Laura Tucker – May 14, 2019

Viral Birth Year Twitter Hoax Will Lock You Out of Account

The viral birth year Twitter hoax promises a Twitter advantage if you change your birth year in your profile, but what really happens is you get locked out of your account.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 27, 2019

Twitter Keeping Your DMs Even After You Think They’re Deleted

Twitter has been accused of holding on to direct messages (DMs) well past the time of when you delete your account, making them still available.

By Laura Tucker – Feb 18, 2019

How to Delete Saved Searches on Twitter [Quick Tips]

Are you trying to figure out how to delete saved searches on Twitter? Look no further. Read this tutorial to find out how.

By Mike Tee – Feb 17, 2019

New Malware Uses Twitter Memes as Command Center

A new malware was discovered that uses Twitter and meme as its command center. Here’s how it works and how to protect yourself.

By Simon Batt – Dec 24, 2018

How an Elon Musk Impersonator Made Off with $180k in Bitcoins on Twitter

Twitter has always had a bit of an impersonation problem. A recent Twitter account impersonating Elon Musk made away with $180K in Bitcoins.

By Simon Batt – Nov 20, 2018

Useful Tools to Help You Unfollow Non-Followers on Twitter

Keeping tabs on your followers and those you follow is necessary for cutting the noise. Here are some useful tools to help you unfollow non-followers on Twitter

By Tracey Rosenberger – Sep 22, 2018

How to Delete a Tweet

Deleting a tweet in Twitter is pretty easy. Find out how.

By Ryan Lynch – Aug 6, 2018

Twitter Suggests You Change Your Password After They’re “Unmasked in an Internal Log”

Do you know your Twitter password by heart? That’s great, but the problem is there may be more people than you that know it as well.

By Laura Tucker – May 4, 2018

How to Use Twitter Bookmarks to Save Your Favorite Tweets

Twitter introduced a new feature call Bookmarks that allows you to save tweets easily. Here is how it works.

By Fabio Buckell – Mar 7, 2018

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ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

Jun 9, 2026

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

Jun 9, 2026

Stunning underwater shot of tiger sharks swimming among fish in the ocean depths.

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Jun 9, 2026

French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

Jun 9, 2026

A person using a smartphone with a green screen surrounded by fresh fruits and vegetables in the kitchen.

When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many

Jun 9, 2026

Starry night with radio towers and the Milky Way galaxy visible overhead.

When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked up its signal in January 2018 while hunting for a classified spy satellite, and the spacecraft turned out to be still spinning, still powered, and still trying to phone home after 13 years of silence.

Jun 9, 2026

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