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Twitter permanently bans its most abusive user Milo Yiannopoulos

The move came after Yiannopoulos led an online troll against Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones

Twitter signs pact with Bloomberg to live stream financial news

The partnership includes live streaming of shows along with the network's daily stock market coverage

Twitter to livestream US Democratic, Republican conventions

The site has permission to broadcast the CBSN feed and anyone online can watch for free even if they do not have a Twitter account

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account hacked

Last month, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was hacked on Twitter and Pinterest

Twitter ropes in Facebook veteran to revive fortune

As many top-notch executives have quit the company in the recent past, Twitter is going through a major overhaul under Jack Dorsey

Silicon valley tech titans fear tax burden

A tech tax proposal is the latest manifestation of resentment against proliferation of high-paid tech workers and on rising residential prices

Twitter selling ad spots linked to NFL for over $50 million

Twitter paid for the right to stream 10 of the NFL Thursday night games, with CEO Jack Dorsey hinting that the deal would help earn better traffic

Twitter acquires Magic Pony machine learning startup

A report said that Twitter paid nearly $150 million for the company, including bonuses

More than half links shared on Twitter are never clicked: Study

The study concluded that social sharing is less directly connected to news impact than has been widely assumed

Microsoft-LinkedIn deal ignites Twitter speculation

At one point this week, Twitter shares were up 17% on deal speculation, pushing the company's market capitalisation to nearly $11.5 bn

Twitter invests $70 million in music streaming service SoundCloud

Nearly two years ago, the micro-blogging site had planned to buy SoundCloud but since then, had gone silent on this

Hackers selling stolen Twitter log-in data

Twitter was adamant that its computer systems had not been broken into by hackers

Twitter appoints Ross Hoffman as global media team head

Hoffman, who came to Twitter from YouTube in 2010, will report to Ali Jafari who oversees Twitter's media and partnership efforts

Twitter co-founder Evan William's account hacked

This hack has added another name in list of high-profile people whose accounts have been compromised recently

Twitter's Android app gets new look

App is now split into four tabs - Home, Moments, Notifications and Messages

Twitter consumer product chief Jeff Seibert to be replaced

Ed Ho, a senior engineering director, who has been at Twitter for 2 years, will replace the role on an interim basis

Twitter holds merger talks with Yahoo!: Reports

According to the report, Twitter appeared mainly interested in taking information out of Yahoo! and it bowed out of the bidding process soon

That vicious little bird

When Rajdeep Sardesai quit Twitter recently or when Barkha Dutt focused attention on the sexist comments of trolls on her Twitter timeline, these journalists brought to the fore a long-acknowledged problem with social media: its tendency to descend into the virulently abusive.But a new trend, one less explicit but equally sinister, is afoot. Consider the evidence: Abhishek Bachchan leaves his wife Aishwarya's side at the premiere of Sarbjit and social media goes ballistic over whether this meant their marriage is over. Fardeen Khan is photographed at a private event and Twitter trends over the actor's weight gain. Aditi Rao Hydari enters the wrong side on a Mumbai road, and for days her oversight becomes a matter of grave discussion.Welcome to the 24x7 world of social media bombardment, where every look, nod, flick of the wrist is analysed to death to get pointers on what it might mean for the status of a relationship, the psychological state of a celeb, or perhaps simply, the level of

Sexist comments on Twitter come equally from both men and women: Study

Researchers found over 200,000 tweets using the terms like "slut" and "whore", which were sent to 80,000 people over a period of three weeks

Twitter drops photos, videos from 140-character limit

Twitter said the change, part of its efforts to simplify its microblogging service, will happen in the next few months