The U.S. Central Command Twitter account was yesterday hacked yesterday by a group posing as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), posting tweets that threaten families of U.S. soldiers and claiming to have hacked into military PCs.
Twitter, IBM form analytic apps partnership
IBM and Twitter have announced a partnership that will merge Twitter’s massive flows of social media data with Big Blue’s analytics software, including Watson.
Twitter acquires image search firm Madbits
Madbits, a year-old company that uses deep learning technology to assign relevant information to raw images, has sold itself to …
Twitter fights Turkey ban with freedom of speech lawsuit
Six days have passed since Turkey’s government blocked its citizens’ access to Twitter, and the network is now taking the country to court.
Twitter offers workarounds to users over Turkish ban
Twitter offered workarounds to users in Turkey after the country blocked Twitter over its alleged refusal to remove some Web links.
China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo files for $500M US IPO
One of China’s most popular social media services, Sina Weibo, filed papers on Friday for an initial public offering in the U.S. with the target of raising US$500 million.
TRA launches UAE government Twitter verification campaign
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has announced the launch of a new campaign designed to verify the official Twitter accounts of all UAE Government entities.
Syrian Electronic Army hijacks Microsoft's Twitter account, blog
The Syrian Electronic Army claimed credit for grabbing control of a pair of Microsoft company Twitter accounts and the firm’s primary blog for a short time Saturday.
User outrage spurs Twitter to reverse blocking policy
Twitter quietly changed its blocking policy on Thursday, but the ensuing user outrage caused the company to quickly backtrack and apologise for the change.
Twitter tightens security against unethical snooping
Twitter has implemented new security measures that should reduce eavesdropping on communications between its servers and users, and is calling on other Internet companies to follow its lead.
Twitter reports it won’t pay tax on the first $107 million of income
The federal deficit – the amount by which the US government’s total budget outlay exceeds its total receipts for a fiscal year – is estimated at $680 billion for 2013.
Wall Street Beat: Does Twitter IPO signal a tech bubble?
Despite the frothy headlines stirred by Twitter’s initial public offering, tech is not in a bubble of the sort that arose before the 2000 dot-com crash.
Twitter increases top-end share price to $25 as IBM alleges copyright violations
Twitter on Monday increased the price of shares in its initial public offering to a range of US$23 to $25 per share and also revealed that IBM has claimed the company has infringed on several patents.
Bing, Twitter continue their search party
Microsoft bills its Bing search engine as a social one, and to keep it that way it’s renewing a partnership with Twitter to keep tweets appearing in Bing search results, the companies said Friday.
Report: Twitter might go public on November 15
File this one under oops – Twitter may have inadvertently revealed, at an earlier point, its plans to go public on November 15, according to a recent PrivCo report.
Overseas, Twitter cites access, privacy and Kakao among its biggest challenges
Twitter doesn’t seem to have a problem attracting users in international markets, but it definitely has problems making money off them.
Going public gives Twitter a sustainable future, analysts say
The days of shrugging off Twitter may soon be over. Some 200 million users strong, the site is already one of the most prominent social networks, but going public could give it the muscle to become the next Facebook or Apple, one analyst said.
Topsy wants to become the Google of Twitter search
Searching through Twitter’s archive of tweets can be frustrating – they are sorted on the site by Twitter’s own algorithms, and older tweets tend to get buried. Google? Forget it. Topsy, an analytics company, wants to do it better.
Twitter acquires Trendrr to get a better handle on tweets about TV
Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a data analysis company, to better leverage users’ tweets about television to draw in more advertisers.
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Twitter, New York Times, others by modifying DNS records
Twitter, The New York Times and other prominent websites were struck by a powerful cyberattack that continued affecting other websites into Tuesday evening, directing visitors to a site purportedly controlled by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA).