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Twitter Accidentally Used Phone Numbers and Email Addresses For Advertising

Twitter is the latest company to admit to a privacy faux pas. In a statement Twitter informed users that phone numbers and email addresses intended for security may have inadvertently been used for advertising purposes. Twitter uses Tailored Audiences, a customized version of an industry-standard platform designed to allow “advertisers to target ads to customers […]

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Twitter has a ‘hide reply’ feature you may not be aware of

Twitter launched its ‘hide reply’ feature earlier this year (Getty Images) Twitter has a little-known feature that allows users to hide any replies to a tweet they don’t like. It was quietly introduced earlier this year with the idea of giving Tweeters a way to control the conversations they want to have on the platform.

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DataWallet Puts You In Charge of Your Data, Says CEO

“DataWallet is basically a digital wallet that holds all of your personal data,” says DataWallet CEO Serafin Lion Engel. “If Twitter was to give you a DataWallet you would see exactly all of the data that you create on Twitter. At the end of the day what DataWallet does is put you in control of

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News Roundup 4th October 2019

Google’s new data control features, Instagram launches ‘Restrict’, fewer women in executive marketing roles, Burger King under fire for tweet and Twitter testing ‘Stream Tweets’ This week has seen Google announce a slew of new features designed for helping users better manage their privacy and data, all of which are now being rolled out. Instagram

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Twitter and TweetDeck are experiencing partial outages – TechCrunch

It’s not just you, Twitter has gone wobbly again. Users of the social network in Asia and Europe are reporting a range of problems tweeting and viewing certain types of content this morning. Among the problems being reported are not being able to post certain types of content to the site (such as polls and

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Twitter Rolls Out Direct Message Anti-Abuse Feature

After a month and a half of testing, Twitter is rolling out a spam and abuse filter for Direct Messages (DM), according to a report by TechCrunch. The new filter is designed to protect users from seeing unwanted graphic images or abusive content. The filter does this by adding a new view to the Additional

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Campaigners create Twitter ‘fact avalanche’ to combat climate untruths

Environmental campaigners are taking an aggressive approach to fighting Twitter misinformation by bombarding climate change deniers with a “fact avalanche”.  Protect Our Winters Canada has launched an online tool, created by Sid Lee Montreal, that alerts people when an untruthful tweet about climate change has been posted on Twitter. The Fact Avalanche tool then invites

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