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Tag Archives: Twitter
Twitter rolls out new anti-trolling tools, promises quicker abuse investigation
Twitter is making changes which should make it easier and quicker for users to report abuse or flag inappropriate content.
If the government confiscates your spyware, where does it end up? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly “60 Second Security” video. An entertaining way to turn news into knowledge…and it only takes a minute!
Twitter to start snooping at which apps you have installed – here’s how to opt out
Twitter is set to start peeking on users’ iPhones, iPads and Androids in order to see what apps they have downloaded. It’s opt-in by default, so here’s how to opt out.
Twitter exec Anthony Noto reveals secret company plans in direct message goof
Don’t worry, you’re not the only one to ever hit “reply all” and then run through the office screaming at people to delete it. Even Twitter execs can mistakenly push out public Tweets that were supposed to be private, direct messages.
Hackers blamed for unusual tweets from Jeremy Clarkson, Columbian FARC rebels
TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson and Colombian militia group FARC may not have much in common, but this week they were linked by headlines blaming hackers for potentially embarrassing Twitter messages.
How to delete your old, embarrassing, now-much-easier-to-find tweets
Now might be a fine time to scrub your Twitter timeline to get rid of the more embarrassing tidbits – or perhaps take a fire hose to it, depending on just how messy your life and your tweeting history has been for the past 8, now fully indexed, years. 
Jailed Twitter troll: ‘It was disgusting what I did’
A woman who was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for sending abusive tweets to journalist Caroline Criado-Perez has spoken of her regret over the abuse she dished out on Twitter.
Twitter invites us to say goodbye to passwords, use Digits instead
Twitter’s new credentials handling scheme is called Digits, and it’s hoping that mobile app developers use it to enable their users to sign in with their phone numbers as identifiers, along with one-time passwords SMSed to the phones. 
Twitter sues US federal agencies in attempt to remove the gag around surveillance
Twitter doesn’t want its transparency report to be fuzzy to the point of meaninglessness, full of “broad, inexact ranges” about how many times the US government has shaken it down in its surveillance operations, it says – or example, by counting them to the nearest thousand.