Tag: Twitter

US spy agency joins Facebook, Twitter

The CIA, which has long trolled social media to try to uncover global trends and track evil-doers, officially joined Twitter and Facebook on Friday. The...

CIA opens Twitter and Facebok accounts

WASHINGTON- Central Intelligence Agency, the secretive US spy agency joined the world of social media Friday and quickly had the Twitterverse talking. “We can neither...

Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud: report

Twitter Inc has been in talks with Berlin-based online music platform SoundCloud in its efforts to add a music service to its offering, the...

Adult movie star strikes back at PTA official for blocking twitter...

American adult movie star Miriam Weeks, a.k.a.  Belle Knox , has reacted strongly to her twitter account being blocked from access from within Pakistan,...

Twitter honours PTA’s requests, blocks ‘blasphemous’ and ‘unethical’ content: NYT report

NEW YORK- Twitter.com blocked five links to ‘blasphemous content’ in Pakistan on request of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), a first in the history of the...

Twitter tool to gauge your emotions

SYDNEY- Australian researchers unveiled on Tuesday a Twitter tool to map moods around the world in real-time to help improve the allocation of mental health...

Twitter lets users ‘mute’ unwanted tweets

SAN FRANCISCO- Twitter on Monday began letting users ´mute´ posts from people they are not interested in hearing from at the popular one-to-many messaging...

Erdogan wants Twitter ban ruling overturned

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that a constitutional court ruling that lifted a previous ban on Twitter was wrong and should...

Twitter remains blocked in Turkey despite top court order

ANKARA- Turkey's government faced growing pressure Thursday to quickly implement a top court order to unblock Twitter, which it had banned after damaging leaks had...

Turkish court upholds appeal to end a blockage of Twitter

ANKARA- A Turkish court upheld an appeal on Wednesday to end a blockage of Twitter (TWTR.N) which has provoked public outrage, local media said, though...

Turkish president says Twitter ban to be lifted ‘soon’

ISTANBUL Turkey’s president said the government would soon lift its ban on Twitter, which has sparked criticism at home and abroad. “It is not legally possible...

Turkey blocks Twitter days before election as PM fights corruption scandal

Erdogan says he does not care what international community says about Twitter ban Turkey’s courts blocked access to Twitter late on Thursday, just days before...

Twitter notes 22% jump in account information requests from governments

As social media network Twitter reported a year on year 26 per cent growth in timeline views, it noted that governments were increasingly requesting...

India minister’s wife died ‘unnatural’ death: autopsy

An autopsy report on Saturday said Indian minister Shashi Tharoor's wife, who was found dead in a luxury hotel after accusing her husband of...

Pak-India Twitter fiasco: Pakistani journalist denies claims of Indian minister’s wife

Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar has denied allegations of being involved with Indian human resources Minister Shashi Tharoor after his wife Sundana Pushkar Tharoor alleged...

“Wait and see,” Bilawal tweets to opponents

The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday cautioned his opponents to ‘wait and see’ what he can do from parliament. The...

Twitter Wants You to See Who’s Tweeting Around You

Twitter is quietly exploring the use of geolocation with a new “Nearby” feature on its mobile app. This week some users — who allow Twitter...