‘Loud music and smiling faces’: Queen City marks 30 years of Pride
Published 6 hours ago
Queen City Pride celebrates its 30th anniversary with one of its largest parades to date.
Hong Kong protest planned to demand city leader steps down
Published 3 hours ago
Organisers of Sunday's protest said they hope more than a million people will turn up for the rally, similar to numbers they estimated for a demonstration against the proposed extradition bill last Sunday. Police put that count at 240,000.
Video shows Phoenix police holding family at gunpoint after 4-year-old allegedly shoplifts
Published 11 hours ago
Phoenix Police Department Chief Jeri Williams said in a video released Friday afternoon that she began an internal investigation as soon as she was made aware of the video.
Widespread Target cash register outage causes long lines, exasperated shoppers
Published 8 hours ago
The roughly two-hour outage periodically prevented Target's cashiers from scanning merchandise or processing transactions as long lines formed in some stores.
‘Raptor Foot’ gains traction as unofficial NBA Finals anthem
Published 3 hours ago
The infectious, reggae-infused sensation that started on the streets of downtown Toronto exploded in popularity this month, becoming an unofficial NBA Finals anthem for a country swept up in basketball fever.
Study: One-third of accounts tweeting about Alberta politics are bots
Published April 15, 2019 6:02 pm
An analysis of Twitter profiles using two hashtags related to Alberta politics revealed that nearly a third of those profiles are likely bots.
Election of ‘Twitter President’ Donald Trump ‘an enabling force’ for hate: scholar says
Published January 17, 2018 6:36 pm
The election of U.S. President Donald Trump - dubbed the first Twitter president - has exacerbated the problem, Stephen D. Smithsays.
Twitter suspends account that it says impersonated Vladimir Putin
Published November 28, 2018 10:46 pm
Twitter has suspended an account that it says impersonated Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Twitter is changing its privacy policy; here’s how to opt out of what it shares on you
Published April 25, 2018 11:25 am
Twitter is changing its privacy policy and will let users opt out of letting the social media platform share their data with its business partners ahead of major new rules set to come into effect next month in Europe.
Donald Trump responds after his Twitter account was taken down by employee on their last day
Published November 2, 2017 9:00 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was deactivated for 11 minutes on Thursday night due to "human error."
Twitter considering paid, premium version for professional users
Published March 23, 2017 8:45 pm
Twitter has 319 million worldwide users but has struggled to attract enough advertising revenue to turn a profit.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube working to remove New Zealand shooting content
Published March 15, 2019 9:08 am
A suspected gunman posted live footage of the attack on Facebook.
Twitter loves lies: False info travels faster than the truth, study finds
Published March 8, 2018 6:14 pm
“The more strange and more sensational the story sounds, the more likely they are going to retweet,” one expert said.
Twitter bug causes passwords to be stored in plain text — go change your password now
Published May 3, 2018 5:13 pm
Twitter is urging its 330 million users to change their passwords after discovering an internal bug in the system.
Twitter hands over 201 handles of Russian-linked accounts to Senate investigators
Published October 13, 2017 7:13 pm
The handover reportedly occurred this week.
Twitter says Alex Jones ‘hasn’t violated our rules’
Published August 8, 2018 9:11 am
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s decision not to ban right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his “Infowars” show, saying he did not break any rules.
Republican Devin Nunes sues Twitter, ‘Devin Nunes’ Cow’ and ‘Devin Nunes’ mom’ for $250 million
Published March 19, 2019 1:09 am
The California congressman accused Twitter and those users of negligence and defamation. He has also accused Twitter of shadow-banning conservatives.
Twitter suspends two accounts linked to 12 indicted Russian spies
Published July 14, 2018 11:05 pm
Social networking site Twitter on Saturday suspended two accounts linked to 12 Russian spies indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
A B.C. woman spotted a Twitter bot, and the face staring back was hers
Published February 7, 2018 12:18 am
She was alerted to the fraud by a U.S. investigative journalist researching Twitter bots and Russian influence in American media.
Humboldt Broncos Twitter account hacked
Published May 8, 2019 7:12 pm
The official Twitter account of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team was hacked on Wednesday, May 8.
Twitter bans Alex Jones, Infowars accounts after backlash, citing abusive behaviour
Published September 6, 2018 5:05 pm
Twitter says Jones won't be able to create new accounts on Twitter or take over any existing ones.
Twitter to test 280-character tweets, doubling the existing limit
Published September 27, 2017 7:58 am
Twitter says it's testing tweets that are as long as 280 characters with a random sample of users.
Twitter shuts down hundreds of suspected bots which shared pro-Saudi views on Jamal Khashoggi
Published October 19, 2018 2:01 pm
A network of hundreds of Twitter accounts was shut down after tweeting pro-Saudi sentiments regarding the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, NBC News reports.
New Twitter feature tackling vaccine misinformation an ‘important step’: N.S. chief medical officer
Published May 14, 2019 2:57 pm
Certain keywords linked to vaccines or vaccination in the Twitter app will now prompt a link to the federal government health website.
Twitter to no longer allow people to post identical messages from multiple accounts
Published February 21, 2018 11:00 pm
The San Francisco-based social network also said it would not allow people to use software to simultaneously perform other actions such as liking or retweeting from multiple accounts.