JUST IN – Twitter bans sharing images or videos of private individuals without their consent, just one day after former CTO Parag Agrawal was named CEO.
8,437 tweets early hours of Thursday #ResignLeo Then down, down, down, down @TwitterDublin what alternative reality is it when a tally goes down instead of up? Please look into this trend interference please. pic.twitter.com/YOV83EQk4T
This has made my day. Did you all see this? Barack Obama followed a random man in Kerry on Twitter. When the man was asked did he follow back? He said ‘Didn’t want to give him the satisfaction’. MOST IRISH REACTION EVER. Superb local story…
Twitter user Sophia Cadogan has challenged Irish actor Paul Mescal’s title of having the most liked tweet on Irish Twitter in 2020
This afternoon.
Lads they’re saying that @mescal_paul has the most likes of Irish Twitter 2020 at 130k when my tweet is right there at 1.6M. Who will support me in my quest for justice ?
In a contentious hearing, the CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, from top: Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey were questioned by Senators over their content moderation policies.
Via CNN:
[Republican Senator] Ted Cruz angrily went after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, pressing him on the platform’s decision to restrict content posted by the New York Post. He concluded by shouting at Dorsey: “Mr. Dorsey, who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report and what the American people are allowed to hear, and why do you persist in behaving as a Democratic super PAC silencing views to the contrary of your political beliefs?”
People keep asking #WhyAreTheyDoingThis?, and rightly so. Well here (above) is just one reason (in simplified form) – in a sense they have no choice, politically.
Further to a late night tweet from his account mentioning a newspaper photograph of former Green Party candidate Saoirse McHugh skinny dipping….
Luke Ming Flanagan MEP writes:
The Directorate-General for Security and Safety of the European Parliament (DG SAFE) are assisting me with a police investigation into the unauthorised use of my Twitter account which took place from a location in Belgium.
A Parliamentary assistant of mine along with an appointed investigator from DG SAFE met with the Belgian Police on Wednesday morning.
I have now established that my Twitter account had been logged into on a third party app called Tweetcaster.
This app allowed an individual to tweet from my account using an old password. This app was used twice to access my Twitter account from Belgium on September 28. The same day that an unauthorised tweet was posted and then deleted from my account.
At the time the tweet was posted and then deleted I was in Ireland and have been since March of this year due to Covid 19 restrictions.
The police have been provided with the Belgian IP address associated with the use of my account on the Tweetcaster app on that day. They are now working with me to establish the exact location and identity of the individual who has carried out this malicious act of vandalism on my good name.