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Twitter struggles for profit, seeks ad dollars with live news, CEO tweets

Twitter launched a round-the-clock streaming news network with Bloomberg Media this week, which is designed to appeal to business people as well as a general audience

Twitter officially launches 'threads' to make 'tweetstorms' easier

The move comes just a month after Twitter rattled the twitterverse by doubling the limit for tweets in most languages to 280 characters

Modi world's most tweeted about leader after Trump; Obama the most popular

Three of Obama's were among the 10 most popular tweets of the year

Twitter rolls out data-friendly 'Lite' Android version in 24 countries

'Lite' loads quickly on 2G and 3G networks and offers offline support in case users temporarily lose connection

Twitter launches Lite Android app in India, 20 countries to save on data

The app, built for 2G and 3G networks which are still in use in several parts of India, helps a user save on data while using it

Russia to check Twitter compliance with data law

Last year Russia blocked access to social networking website LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, after a court found the firm guilty of violating Russia's data law

Twitter blocks NYT, says it was an 'error'

Twitter blocked a NYT account for almost 24 hours last weekend, saying a tweet violated the micro-blogging website's rules against hateful conduct

Twitter to add 'bookmarks' feature allowing users to save tweets for later

The feature will help users keep a separate list of items they want to refer back to, instead of using the heart (aka "favourite") button

Tweet, retweet and speculate: All well between Tewari and Hooda?

Manish Tewari's tweet led some in the Congress to speculate that all wasn't well between Tewari and Hooda

Twitter adds 4 mn users, losses dip in Q3

Twitter expects the next quarter to be profitable

Twitter toughens rules on abuse, ads. Can it enforce them?

On Thursday, Twitter reported a third-quarter loss of $21 million

Twitter to put abusive tweets from political leaders behind warning label

The labelled messages will not be removed from the service, the company said, because they are a matter of public interest

Govt warns Twitter of strict action if it fails to check hate messages

Govt has asked to ensure round-the-clock mechanism for prompt disposal of requisitions of law enforcement agencies

Twitter nears 1st profitable quarter as it slashes expenses and users grow

Twitter has never had a profitable quarter based on GAAP

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange's Twitter account briefly disappears

In November, United States President Donald Trump's account was briefly deactivated by a rogue employee on his last day of work

Russian bots retweeted Trump 10 times more than Hillary before US election

Twitter said at least 50,000 Russia-linked bots retweeted Donald Trump 10 times more than they retweeted Hillary Clinton

Russian bots shared Trump's tweets 470,000 times around elections: Twitter

Hillary Clinton's account got less than 50,000 retweets by the Russian-linked automated accounts during the same period of time

No more fake news! Twitter will live stream news during major events

Twitter live-streamed footage from Miami's WSVN 7 as the media outlet covered the shooting at a Florida school in which 17 people were killed on Wednesday

Twitter adds new Bookmark feature; now you can save tweets for later

With 'Bookmark' sharing becomes simplified as tweets can be saved privately now

Twitter hires IIT-Bombay alumnus Parag Agrawal as Chief Technology Officer

Microblogging platform Twitter has appointed Parag Agrawal as its chief technology officer, according to an update on the company's website. Agrawal, an alumnus of IIT-Bombay and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, succeeds Adam Messinger. Messinger had left the organisation in late 2016. As the CTO, Agrawal is "leading technical strategy for the company and overseeing machine learning and AI across our product and infrastructure teams", as per information available on Twitter's website. Agrawal had joined Twitter in 2011 as an Ads Engineer and has since then led efforts on scaling Ads systems, as well as creating and deploying a platform for online machine learning. Prior to joining Twitter, he did research in large-scale data management with collaborators at Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, and AT&T Labs. Emails sent to Twitter did not elicit a response.