Twitter DMs now have emoji reactions
Twitter is pouring a little more fuel on the messaging fire. It’s added a heart+ button to its direct messaging interface which lets users shortcut to a pop-up menu of…
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TechCrunch’s Top 10 investigative reports from 2019
Facebook spying on teens, Twitter accounts hijacked by terrorists, and sexual abuse imagery found on Bing and Giphy were amongst the ugly truths revealed by TechCrunch’s investigating reporting in 2019….
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Daily Crunch: Twitter will let you limit replies
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you…
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Facebook won’t ban political ads, prefers to keep screwing democracy
It’s 2020 — a key election year in the U.S. — and Facebook is doubling down on its policy of letting people pay it to fuck around with democracy. Despite…
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Twitter Rolls Out a New Ad Unit in the Explore Tab
Twitter is launching the Promoted Trend Spotlight, a takeover ad displayed at the top of the Explore tab. The Explore tab houses Twitter’s trending topics, which makes it one of…
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Twitter’s new reply blockers could let Trump hide critics
What if politicians could only display Twitter replies from their supporters while stopping everyone else from adding their analysis to the conversation? That’s the risk of Twitter’s upcoming Conversation Participants…
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Twitter offers more support to researchers — to ‘keep us accountable’
Twitter has kicked off the New Year by taking the wraps off a new hub for academic researchers to more easily access information and support around its APIs — saying…
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India’s ruling party accused of running deceptive Twitter campaign to gain support for a controversial law
Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling party in India, has been accused of running a highly deceptive Twitter campaign to trick citizens into supporting a controversial law. First, some background: The…
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Twitter Lets iOS Users Post Live Photos as GIFs
Twitter is rolling out a new feature to its iOS app, which lets users easily upload their live photos as GIFs. This feature is exclusive to iOS because live photos…
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Twitter is bringing back Election Labels to identify 2020 US election candidates
With just less than a year until U.S. Election Day, Twitter is bringing back its Election Labels, which provide information about political candidates — including which office they’re running for…
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