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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
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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
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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
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