Microblogging

Twitter announces new rules to aggressively tackle violence and sexual abuse on the micro-blogging platform

Twitter's head of safety policy has emailed its Trust and Safety Council about new rules to promote free speech and curb violence and sexual harassment.

Tweets by Trump to stay on microblogging platform because of their newsworthiness: Twitter co-founder Biz Stone

Twitteratis are wondering why the platform did not remove Trump's latest controversial tweet on North Korea that clearly violated its guidelines.

Twitter testing tweetstorm feature in Android application that allows users to send a flurry of related tweets

Hidden inside the Android app is a way to write a "tweetstorm" and see it broken into distinct tweets and then tweet them all at once.

Twitter shares soar after posting better than expected user growth

Twitter reported yearly growth of 6 percent in monthly active users, a key performance indicator for social networking services.

Twitch introduces Pulse, a microblogging platform for streamers and their fans

Users can share videos, text updates, pictures and other kinds of content on Pulse, to increase interaction with their fans even when not streaming.

Sensational tweets tend to stay longer than logical and substantial tweets, says a study

Sensational content have more staying power than substantive posts on the microblogging platform Twitter, says a study.

Chinese microblogging website Weibo has overtaken Twitter in market cap

In a surpise for the social media fraternity, Chinese microblogging website Weibo has for the first time overtaken Twitter with its market capitalisation hitting $11.3 billion, surpassing Twitter's $11.1 billion.

US travel ban: Twitter employees donate $1.59 mn to ACLU to fight Donald Trump's policies

Despite US President Donald Trump being a prolific Twitter user, the employees of the micro-blogging site donated $1.59 million to an organisation to fight Trump, a media report said.

Gartner's 2009 Hype Cycle Special Report Now Available

Social software and microblogging sites have tipped over the peak and will soon experience disillusionment among enterprise users.

Enterprises Exploring Use Of Microblogging: Gartner

Gartner analysts predict that by 2011, enterprise microblogging will be a standard feature of 80 percent of social software platforms on the market.