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If you have actually ever longed for the simpler days of Twitter, before it was the floating dumpster of a social media site we’ve all submitted to like slaves with Stockholm Syndrome, you’re not alone. But the bright side is that you can go back again, albeit briefly. Read More

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey interviewed Edward Snowden today, and the big topic was technology. During the QA (which was broadcast live from the Pardon Snowden Periscope account) Snowden discussed the data that many online companies continue to collect about their users, creating a “quantified world” — and more opportunities for government surveillance. …

With the Trump administration looming a hazy, ominous shade of toxic creamsicle orange on the horizon, some in tech are lining up single file. Others won’t go so quietly, especially when it comes to the apparently hyperpartisan issue of facilitating genocide. After The Intercept’s Sam Biddle asked tech companies if they …

The polls for the 2016 election are beginning to close and Twitter is aflame. As the trashfire of this election burns itself to cinders, we got out of fetal position and took a break from counting down to the potential end of days with Twitter. Here are some tweets keeping us sane on #ElectionNight. 1) …

Twitter just announced that Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain is departing. Bain has been with Twitter since 2010, building the company’s ad business and becoming COO last year at the same time that founder Jack Dorsey was named CEO. Bain tweeted that he’s now “ready to change gears and do something new outside …

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Many of the polls forecasted an easy win for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election, but we now know their prediction models were flawed. While data scientists are scrambling to figure out what went wrong, a number of social media analytics firms are touting the fact that …

In the wake of the U.S. Election, as Facebook and Google come under fire for the dissemination of fake “news” in their News Feed and search results, Twitter is tackling another area that’s been a flashpoint issue not only recently, but for years: the social media platform today is unveiling some major updates to its safety policy, aimed at helping users …

The FBI has publicly disclosed its intent to get at the “mission critical” Twitter firehose through third party monitoring service Dataminr. But Twitter, which has a 5 percent stake in Dataminr and of course has sovereign control over the firehose, recently told the company to stop providing data to intelligence …

Snapchat appears to be moving forward in its plans to go public early next year with the company filing confidentially for its IPO, according to a report from Reuters. In recent years, companies have begun filing confidentially for their initial public offerings well ahead of revealing their financial guts in …