The U.S. needs to create civic social networks

Whether an elected official is school board member in a small town or a U.S. Senator representing an entire state, constructive dialogu...

Library of Congress will no longer archive all public tweets, citing longer character limits

The Library of Congress announced today that it will no longer add every public tweet to its archives, an ambitious project it launched s...

Julian Assange’s Twitter account goes offline, returns

It’s a Christmas miracle of sorts. Julian Assange’s Twitter account disappeared from the site, returned, and now there’s a bouncing baby ...

Twitter will tell users if content was blocked to comply with local laws or legal demands

Twitter  will now display messages to inform users if blocked tweets were withheld to comply with local laws or court orders, which it ca...

Snap and Twitter now have roughly the same market cap

While we won’t call this a  huge  watershed moment per se, something nominally interesting in the world of Weird Social Media Things happ...

Twitter says Russians spent ~$1k on six Brexit-related ads

Twitter has disclosed that Russian-backed accounts spent $1,031.99 to buy six Brexit-related ads on its platform during last year’s Europ...

Twitter officially launches ‘threads,’ a new feature for easily posting tweetstorms

Twitter today is  announcing  the launch of a new feature that will allow people to more easily post tweetstorms – that is, those series ...