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Undated: Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.[14] Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message Service (SMS) or its mobile-device application software ("app").[15] Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices around the world.[16]
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
-- 2018 --
July 14: Twitter has suspended two accounts allegedly used by Russian intelligence officers to share information obtained in hacks.
The Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks accounts were both suspended on Saturday, one day after special counsel Robert Mueller alleged in an indictment that the accounts were run by Russian military officers.
A Twitter spokesman told The San Diego Union-Tribune that the “account has been suspended for being connected to a network of accounts previously suspended for operating in violation of our rules.”
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/397045-twitter-suspends-guccifer-20-and-dcleaks-accounts-after
July 27: Twitter stock tumbles 15% after it purged fake accounts
https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/27/technology/twitter-q2-earnings/index.html
December 19: Twitter is 'toxic place for women,' says Amnesty International
Women have been telling Twitter for years that they endure a lot of abuse on the platform. A new study from human rights watchdog Amnesty International attempts to assess just how much. A lot, it turns out.
About 7 percent of the tweets prominent women in government and journalism receive were found to be abusive or problematic. Women of color were 34 percent more likely to be targets than white women. Black women specifically were 84 percent more likely than white women to be mentioned in problematic tweets.
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/4545802-twitter-toxic-place-women-says-amnesty-international
-- 2019 --
January 4: Twitter Moves to Stop Spread of Hacked 9/11 Lawsuit Files
In the latest enforcement of a recently adopted policy against the distribution of hacked materials, Twitter has moved to vanquish the account of a hacking group believed to have pilfered thousands of documents from an American law firm that litigated insurance claims stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The policy, which forbids the spread of stolen “private information or trade secrets,” is but one of several implemented this October in the face of heightened scrutiny by Washington lawmakers, due to what U.S. intelligence portrayed as the weaponization of social media by entities tied to the Russian government.
Black-hat hackers have for years spread stolen material on the platform, often with little or no consequence. Hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec are but two examples of popular accounts where, as far back as 2011, links to confidential data lifted from the servers of major corporations were openly shared.
With this latest action, however, Twitter is ostensibly confirming that an era of unchecked propagation of stolen secrets is now coming to a close.
https://gizmodo.com/twitter-moves-to-stop-spread-of-hacked-9-11-lawsuit-fil-1831446081
-- 2020 --
