Jack Dorsey, the CEO and co-founder of Twitter, is headed to South Africa as part of a four-nation, month-long tour of the African continent.
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An outage has hit Twitter, preventing some users from tweeting, receiving notifications and viewing direct messages.
Underscoring the importance of social media to South African smartphone users, Telkom has unveiled a series of new “social bundles”, offering access from as little as R1.
Twitter has launched a new filter tool which can hide spam and abusive messages that are sent to users via the platform’s direct messages feature.
Facebook posts by MPs can break the usual rules on the social network because they are newsworthy, according to the technology giant’s communications head Nick Clegg.
Twitter is temporarily suspending users’ ability to tweet via text message, after the social media company’s own CEO was hacked through that method last week.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account has been hacked, sending racist and vulgar tweets to his 4.2 million followers.
Hopes of an edit button flying onto Twitter anytime soon are fading after a senior executive indicated that it is not a primary concern for the social network.
Twitter has revealed it may have used some people’s personal data to target them with advertising without their permission because of issues within the platform’s settings.