Twitter: Business Issues

Twitter’s ad revenue jumps 18% as marketers invest more on the platform

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Twitter saw an 18% increase in ad revenue year-over-year, generating $679 million during the first quart of 2019 according to its earnings report released on Tuesday. Total revenue was also up 18% year-over-year at $787 million. “We’ve never been more confident in our strategy and execution and see a great opportunity to grow our audience and […]

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Twitter hires Google exec to head US agency development

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Doug Brodman. Image: Twitter Twitter has hired Doug Brodman as its U.S. agency development director. Brodman comes to Twitter from Google where he spent the last five years on Google’s U.S. agency team. Why you should care In his new role, Brodman will lead the team that works with the big holding companies and their

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Twitter looks to crowdsource content policies

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Twitter has launched a user survey asking for feedback on its policies defining dehumanizing language before it makes the policy part of its Twitter Rules. Survey questions include “How would you rate the clarity of the dehumanization policy?” and “How can the dehumanization policy be improved?” — as well as a request citing examples of

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Twitter: A bug may have sent some direct messages to business account developers

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On Friday, Twitter began alerting some users that their direct messages or protected tweets may have been sent to Twitter developers who were not authorized to receive them due to a bug identified nearly two weeks ago. The company says it identified the bug on Monday, September 10. What happened? In a developer notice posted

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Facebook, Twitter grilled by Senate committee; Dorsey says company may label bots

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via C-SPAN Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday appeared before a Senate committee to face questions over their companies’ failure to keep bad actors off of their platforms, allegations of bias against conservative content, and what they’re in fact doing to address lawmakers’ concerns. Google, which was also asked to testify, chose not

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Twitter to enforce new rules around issue ads starting September 30

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Twitter announced it will begin enforcing a new policy for US-specific issue ads starting September 30, along with a new certification process for the advertisers promoting such ads. The move is part of the company’s initiative to improve the health of its platform and rid its feed of bad actors looking to influence US political

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Facebook, Twitter & Google take down malicious content originating from Iran

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Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s security teams are staying busy. All three companies reported this week that they had removed malicious items from their platforms that had originated in Iran — Facebook took down 652 Pages, groups and accounts, Twitter removed 284 accounts and Google disabled a total 42 YouTube channels, 16 Google+ accounts, six Blogger

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Tweetbot & Twitterrific remove features no longer available as Twitter rolls out API updates

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Last December, Twitter announced it would be deprecating access for app developers to its site stream, user stream and some direct messaging features. Twitter’s API platform updates are rolling out this week, impacting the functionality of apps like Tweetbot and Twitterrific. Without the ability to connect to streams in real time, Twitter timelines displayed over

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Twitter shares how it ranks search results after being accused of shadow banning accounts

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After being accused last week of “shadow banning” accounts — a deliberate move to hide an account’s content from everyone except the person who posted it — Twitter said it has since fixed a bug in its search system and shared insights into the ranking factors it uses for accounts in search results. Twitter says

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Twitter tightens access to API platform & restricts number of daily actions an app can perform

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Twitter is following through on its commitment to improve the health of its platform. Tuesday, the company announced that all new requests to access the company’s API platform will be required to apply for a developer account. It is also restricting the default number of apps registered to a single account to 10 and limiting

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