Twitter partners with Yandex for real-time search
Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of real-time information. Twitter will give Yandex access to its so-called firehose of all public tweets, the two companies said on
Twitter slaps limits on sales of its pricey stock
While Facebook prepares to go public, Silicon Valley's other buzzy social startup, Twitter, is doing everything in its power to stay private. In pursing that goal, it has slapped its shareholders with an unusual restriction: No one who holds stock can sell more than 20% of their shares. The rule -- which has been in place for more than a
Student denies racially abusing Stan Collymore on Twitter
A law student denied has denied racially abusing ex-footballer Stan Collymore on Twitter. Joshua Cryer, 21, of Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, faced a public order charge following a complaint from the football pundit. Cryer, a student at Newcastle University, appeared before city magistrates to deny sending messages that were 'grossly
Cupid targets the Fed with early Valentine tweets
It isn't often you see the words 'love', 'romance', and 'Federal Reserve' in the same sentence.But on Friday, the central bank and many economists who spend countless hours monitoring its decisions began their Valentine's Day flirtations a bit early.It started with Justin Wolfers, an economist
The 20 most entertaining Super Bowl tweets
In the social media age, you don't need to be at a party to enjoy clever or catty comments about the Super Bowl.Twitter was ablaze Sunday evening with running commentary about every conceivable aspect of Super Bowl XLVI, from Patriots' tight end Rob Gronkowski's balky ankle to Madonna's acrobatic
Twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, study finds
Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires.They even claim that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges, people are more likely to give in to longings or cravings to use
The pope's on Twitter? 10 unlikely tweeters
Twitter says it has more than 100 million active users -- a pretty impressive chunk of the online population who are, if nothing else, checking in to see what other people are sharing.With that many folks on the six-year-old microblogging site, Twitter is always good for a few surprises.Sure,
Twitter CEO: You don't pull the batteries out of the microphone
Twitter did not participate in the recent online 'blackouts,' in which Wikipedia and others made their websites inaccessible to U.S. visitors for a day, because it would have been counterproductive, the company's CEO said Monday night.'You don't pull the batteries out of the microphone,' Dick
Twitter CEO says new policy is for transparency: report
Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo said the company's recently announced online content policy was meant to be a transparent way to handle government requests for the removal of certain content and did not mean it is actively monitoring Tweets, the Wall Street Journal reported.Twitter had said
Twitter CEO: Google has all the data they need
At the D:Dive Into Media conference, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told Peter Kafka that Google has all the data it needs to present Twitter data in its search results right alongside Google+ results. That has been the latest public response from Twitter after Google recently began pushing its own social
Twitter users beware: Homeland Security isn't laughing
Planning to make a joke on Twitter about bombing something? You might want to reconsider: according to a report from Britain, two British tourists were detained and then denied entry into the U.S. recently after they joked about destroying America and digging up Marilyn Monroe. The fact that the
The trouble with Twitter? Bad, bad advertising
Online advertising can be worth an awful lot. The ability to serve targeted ads is the engine of Google's financial juggernaut, and still responsible for almost all of its revenue. It's also what is driving Facebook's rumored IPO, which reports suggest see the company valued at $100
Twitter will censor tweets, but will try really hard not to
Twitter said Thursday that it has made changes to its network that will allow it to remove tweets in a specific country if required to do so by law, but assured users that it will try hard to avoid having to do so because 'the tweets must flow' , and said it will be as transparent as
Twitter to delete posts if countries request it
Online social networking site Twitter said Thursday it will begin deleting users' tweets in countries that require it -- but it will still keep those deleted tweets visible to the rest of the world.The move is significant because, until now, the only way Twitter could comply with countries' limits
Twitter faces censorship backlash
The social network Twitter is facing a storm of criticism from users, after revealing that it has implemented a system that would let it withhold particular tweets from specific countries.The company has insisted that it will not use the gagging system in a blanket fashion, but would apply it on a
Twitter able to censor tweets in individual countries
Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.The additional flexibility announced on Thursday is likely to raise fears that Twitter's commitment to free speech may be weakening as the short-messaging company expands into new countries in an attempt to
Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future
Twitter made an interesting acquisition on Thursday, when it bought a young Canadian startup called Summify, a company whose service (as its name implies) was designed to cut through the noise of all those social-media streams and summarize the content that matters. More than anything, this is
Sopa is bad legislation, tweets EU's internet tsar
The EU's internet tsar has added her voice to resistance to the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in an unusually open comment on US legislation.Neelie Kroes, the EU commissioner for the digital agenda, tweeted on Friday: 'Glad tide is turning on Sopa: don't need bad legislation when should be
