Twitter blocked in Nigeria over presidential tweet removal
Twitter has been suspended in Nigeria, after the microblogging service removed a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari about regional successionists in the country.
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Malcolm Owen
Square mulling a hardware Bitcoin wallet, CEO Jack Dorsey says
At a Bitcoin-centric conference in Miami, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says that his payment company Square is considering making a standalone hardware wallet for Bitcoin.
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Mike Peterson
Twitter Blue subscription service launching in Australia and Canada first
Twitter has launched subscription service Twitter Blue in Australia and Canada, adding additional features to users of the social media network.
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Wesley Hilliard
Twitter's $2.99 'Twitter Blue' monthly subscription introduces color themes, custom app icons, more
Twitter's rumored "Twitter Blue" subscription service has been unofficially confirmed through what appears to be an errant listing in the iOS App Store.
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AppleInsider Staff
'Twitter Blue' subscription may add 'undo' button to iOS app
Twitter will allow users to "undo" mistakenly-posted tweets in its app as part of its upcoming "Twitter Blue" subscription, a researcher has uncovered, with the $2.99-per-month service also potentially including other useful premium features.
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Twitter adds App Tracking Transparency prompt in latest update
Twitter has added a new splash page asking users to enable ad tracking in compliance with new Apple App Tracking Transparency rules in iOS 14.5.
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Supreme Court argument casts doubt on Facebook, Twitter free speech rights
In a ruling on a different matter, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has argued that social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter may not have a First Amendment right to regulate user commentary on their platforms.
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Twitter's Periscope officially goes dark on April 1
As scheduled, Twitter will officially shutter its Periscope livestreaming service on April 1, though most of the app's core functions have already transferred to Twitter Live.
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If you can't convert a file into a PDF, maybe you shouldn't be writing laws about technology
Not everyone can be trusted with the almighty power of a sudo command in the Terminal. Yet, politicians who know nothing about the inner workings of computers, software, or the internet at large have declared themselves super users, proposing dangerously misinformed policies and laws that could have disastrous effects.
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Neil Hughes
