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Fake Kaz Hirai Twitter Account User Revealed as Englishman Mark Doherty

Posted By: Andrew McMahonon: June 15, 2018In: Tags: Fake Kaz Hirai, twitterNo Comments

Since 2011, Twitter users would always flock to one account following every notable gaming event or occurrence. No, it wasn’t a user that had the biggest scoops or hottest news, it was a parody account known as Fake Kaz Hirai. The account would dole out the best jokes about the gaming industry and its cliche, […] Read more

Twitter’s Fake Kaz Hirai to End Account with a Charity Drive for Gamers

Posted By: Andrew McMahonon: February 23, 2018In: Tags: Fake Kaz Hirai, twitter1 Comment

Last September, well known Twitter user Fake Kaz Hirai revealed they would be retiring the account in 2018. The accounts deactivation will occur simply because the user doesn’t want the parody account to become a parody of itself, choosing instead to go out on top. They are also choosing to do some good for charity before they are […] Read more

Twitter Exposed 700,00 People to Russian Propaganda

Posted By: Shelby Royalon: January 21, 2018In: News, TechTags: socialmedia, twitterNo Comments

Twitter released a statement on Friday concerning its investigation into Russian propaganda efforts during the 2016 presidential election. In the report, the social media platform announced that they contacted 677,775 users about interactions with over 50,000 troll accounts linked to the Russian government. With connections to the Kremlin, the IRA, or the Internet Research Agency, […] Read more

Dear David: Comic Artist Adam Ellis Believes a Dead Child is Haunting Him

Posted By: Andrew McMahonon: November 12, 2017In: Tags: Dear David, twitterNo Comments

For the past two months, a New York man has been posting to Twitter frequently, with the evidence he’s compiled in each tweet convincing him – and many others – one thing. His apartment is haunted by a dead baby named Dear David. The first tweet began back on August 7, 2017, as Adam Ellis […] Read more

Twitter Expands Character Count for the First Time Since Its Foundation

Posted By: Andrew McMahonon: November 08, 2017In: Tags: Tech, twitter1 Comment

Twitter has officially changed its character limit status for the first time since it was founded in 2006. The new expansion sees the character limit go from 140 to 280 characters per tweet, supporting all languages. The change was announced back in September, with the company noting that a longer character count will allow Twitter […] Read more

Twitter Suing US Government Over Anti-Trump Account Probe

Posted By: Andrew McMahonon: April 08, 2017In: Tags: twitter, United States1 Comment

The President’s favorite social media platform is suing his administration. This all comes following the Department of Homeland Security demand that Twitter reveals the identity of an account that has been critical of the Trump administration. The account @ALT_USCIS claimed it was being run by federal employees at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. […] Read more

Twitter Considering Premium Subscription Service

Posted By: Jason Greenon: March 25, 2017In: News, TechTags: socialmedia, twitter1 Comment

Twitter is one of the world’s largest social media platforms. Falling right next to Facebook, it offers users the ability to blast out quick messages in 140 characters or less. This may sound simple but it stretches far and reaches everyone around the world. Now, the social giant is thinking of releasing a subscription based […] Read more

Twitter Continues Efforts to Filter Abuse on the Platform

Posted By: Andrew McMahonon: February 08, 2017In: News, TechTags: Tech, twitter1 Comment

About a week ago, Twitter Vice President of Engineering, Ed Ho, tweeted that the social media site has steps to curb the online harassment. Today the company has begun to make good on that promise, introducing new filters to remove low-quality and harassing replies from the timeline and from search. Like most security and privacy […] Read more

Twitter Taking Steps to Curb Harassment on the Platform

Posted By: DJ Kinseyon: January 31, 2017In: Tags: socialmedia, twitterNo Comments

For all of its benefits bringing the latest news and hilarious jokes to the masses in almost real time, Twitter has also been accused of acting too slowly to curb online harassment via their platform. Remember last year’s controversy when legions of Ghostbusters “fans” inundated actress Leslie Jones’ Twitter account with racist trolling and sexist comments? That […] Read more

Twitter Loosens the Leash on 140-Character Limit

Posted By: David Pietrangeloon: May 25, 2016In: Tags: socialmedia, twitterNo Comments

Twitter has announced some fairly big changes to its tweet limits and media uploads today. Early on Tuesday, Senior Product Manager Todd Sherman released news on the tweaks coming to the social media platform’s 140-character limit. So, you can already do a lot in a Tweet, but we want you to be able to do […] Read more