Communications Major

It's been one year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter. And it has not been a good year.

Dozens of studies of posts on X from multiple organizations have shown a similar trend: an increase in harmful content during Mr. Musk’s tenure.

Threads, from Meta, looks and feels like Twitter -- without the hate (so far).

New start-ups and other social platforms sense opportunity as Twitter grapples with changes from Elon Musk, its new owner.

Tech’s big shots have learned again and again that free speech isn’t so simple. What happens when Mr. Musk owns Twitter?

A new MIT study shows why Twitter’s fake news problem will be so hard to solve. The study analyzed millions of tweets sent between 2006 and 2017 and came to this chilling conclusion: “Falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information.” It also found that “the effects were more pronounced for false political news than for false news about terrorism, natural disasters, science, urban legends, or financial information.”

On Thursday night, Trump's account was briefly deactivated by a rogue customer support employee on their last day of work at Twitter. The fact that a single Twitter employee could shutdown the account of a major public figure without oversight raises serious questions about the site's security.

President Trump turned his morning tweetstorm about the travel ban into a Facebook video and the result was ... not good. It seems you can now create a "video" from tweets and old campaign photos. Who needs PowerPoint!?

"Twitter is making the news dumber. The service is insidery and clubby. It exacerbates groupthink. It prizes pundit-ready quips over substantive debate, and it tends to elevate the silly over the serious — for several sleepless hours this week it was captivated by “covfefe,” which was essentially a brouhaha over a typo."

Vine was a place for people with talents across different disciplines — it allowed artists-slash-comedians-slash-musicians to flourish.

Deleting an inaccurate or otherwise problematic tweet is a seriously flawed solution, especially in cases where the original tweet was newsworthy, or when it has already circulated widely. But editing a tweet after the fact changes the context of retweets and other shares...

I don't know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering

Twitter’s first three months under the empire of Elon Musk. Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use it for their own ends — then one made himself the CEO

. . . and for staying

Inside the alternate reality of the president’s Twitter account, where he absorbs and amplifies a noxious stream of disinformation.

Twitter's experiment with doubling the maximum tweet length was apparently a success. The social network is expanding support for 280-character tweets to all users.

Barack Obama's tweet condemning racism following the violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has become the most-liked in Twitter history.

A late night "butt tweet" freaks out America.

Whoops! A so-called "twitter rally" in support of the President quickly turned into a Trump "bash".

During the Olympics, Twitter will let users temporarily receive tweets about events they care about.