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Twitter is struggling to turn relevance into revenue

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Jan 9, 2017
Despite it being the President-elect's main form of communication
A selection of recent Trump tweets. 
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Trump’s Toyota Twitter feud: does it matter?

by Lewis Wallace
Jan 6, 2017
Toyota is the latest company whose stock took a hit after the president-elect threatened to punish the carmaker for its plans to build Corollas in Mexico. Toyota’s planning to move production out of Canada, not the U.S. In any case, that makes Toyota his first foreign target for a tweet about tariffs. Michelle Krebs, a […]
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Why the biggest names in tech met at Trump Tower today

by Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood
Dec 14, 2016
Apple CEO Tim Cook was there... but Jack Dorsey of Twitter wasn't.
(L-R) Amazon's chief Jeff Bezos, Larry Page of Alphabet, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, President-elect Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, Tim Cook of Apple and Safra Catz of Oracle attend a meeting at Trump Tower December 14, 2016 in New York. 
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Reddit announces plan to curb "toxic users"

by Kai Ryssdal
Dec 1, 2016
CEO Steve Huffman announced he'll remove some users after he apologized for pranking them.
Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit.
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Twitter may be cleaning up its books for a new round of buyers

by Gigi Douban
Oct 27, 2016
But what's it actually have to offer?
   
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Here's why some of you couldn't get on Twitter today

by Kimberly Adams
Oct 21, 2016
Twitter, Spotify, and PayPal weren't actually the target of a DDoS attack today.
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What would Twitter's suitors get for $20 billion?

by Annie Baxter
Oct 5, 2016
The social media company is ripe for acquisition; exactly what does it offer buyers?
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Ev Williams wants to save internet comments

by Molly Wood
Oct 5, 2016
Molly Wood talks with the Medium CEO about his ongoing quest to get writing right.
Medium CEO Evan Williams speaks onstage during 'An Uneasy Marriage?—Tech, Media, and Money' at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 7, 2015 in San Francisco, California.
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Will NFL fans watch football on Twitter?

by Jed Kim
Sep 14, 2016
Fans may not watch on a tiny screen. For both Twitter and the NFL, it's an experiment.
Todd Gurley #30 of the Los Angeles Rams rushes against the San Francisco 49ers during their NFL game at Levi's Stadium on Monday in Santa Clara, California.
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How Twitter may treat white nationalists and ISIS differently

by Donna Tam
Sep 1, 2016
A new study shows that Twitter is shutting down the accounts of Nazi sympathizers less than those of radical Islamists.
Research from George Washington University suggests that Twitter users who self-identify as "white supremacists" often have a larger number of followers than ISIS member accounts.  
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