Twitter was down for about two hours Tuesday morning due to technical issues. The problems started at around 8:30 a.m. (GMT) when the timelines sporadically reappeared for some mobile users. Today’s issue was one of the longest-lasting in the history of about ten years of the micro-blogging site. Regular outages […]

Following Google and Facebook, the Yahoo too has vowed to issue alerts to users if found their accounts have been attacked by state-sponsored hackers. The Guardian reports chief information security officer of the company Bob Lord has revealed in a blog about the new change. Lord wrote, “We’ll provide these […]

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is on the way to restructuring further the organization and about 8 percent of the employees will suffer layoffs, which will be primarily in the product and engineering functions. Dorsey took over the chair of permanent CEO last week. Globally the social platform had about 4,100 […]

Instagram has reached a new milestone. It has hit the 400 million monthly active users mark and this is much more than Twitter, which has little more than three million active users a month. The social platform took just nine months to add 100 million users. Among the new celeb […]

Social giants Facebook[NASDAQ:FB] and Twitter[NYSE:TWTR] have been warned by MPs against autoplaying videos of the Virginia double murder case. It is suspected the murderer, Vester Lee Flanagan, has posted the video in autoplay mode. On early Wednesday morning a 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker and 27-year-old cameraman Adam Ward from WDBJ7 […]

Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) can be better news tool: Williams Twitter has the potential to very much get better as a tool for real-time news and information, according to co-founder and current board member Evan Williams. Williams says news has been a core mission for the messaging platform for several years, […]