[512][513] During a February 2009 discussion on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition, the journalist Daniel Schorr stated that Twitter accounts of events lacked rigorous fact-checking and other editorial improvements. [423][424] The lawsuit was revised in August 2016, providing comparisons to other telecommunications devices. The accounts were reported to be a part of a larger group of 88,000 accounts engaged in spammy behavior. [99] In April 2020, Twitter removed accounts which defended President Rodrigo Duterte's response to the spread of COVID-19 in the Philippines. [112], In December 2020, Twitter launched Spaces, a new feature to compete with rival audio-only social media platform, Clubhouse. Called Blue Sky, the use of such an open protocol would relieve companies of the sole responsibility for being centralized curators of content. [458] And in 2012, Twitter introduced strict usage limits for its API, "completely crippling" some developers. 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During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000. ", "Thingsdarkiessay causes a Twitter storm", "Meet Moments, Twitter's Most Important New Feature Ever", "Twitter launches Moments, its dead-simple tab for browsing the best tweets", "Twitter opens its Moments feature up to everyone", "Inside Twitter Clients – An Analysis of 500 Million Tweets", "Why Twitter Verifies Users: The History Behind the Blue Checkmark", "Announcing an Application Process for Verified Accounts", "Twitter's Authentication Policy Is a Verified Mess", "Twitter suspends blue check mark verifications", "Verification was meant to authenticate identity & voice but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance. [258] According to comScore only eleven percent of Twitter's users are aged twelve to seventeen. However, only 30 of these do their own tweeting, more than 80 do not subscribe to other politicians and many do not follow any accounts. [444] The New York Times states, "They have sleep-wake cycles so their fakery is more convincing, making them less prone to repetitive patterns that flag them as mere programs. The application, now called "Twitter" and distributed free of charge, is the official Twitter client for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". [250], Daily user estimates vary as the company does not publish statistics on active accounts. [49] By late November 2010, an average of a dozen updates per day were posted on the astronauts' communal account, @NASA_Astronauts. [521][522] According to The Atlantic writers Benjamin M. Reilly and Robinson Meyer, Twitter has an outsized impact on the public discourse and media. [510], In 2009, Nielsen Online reported that Twitter had a user-retention rate of forty percent. [491], Additionally Twitter serves as a real-time sensor for natural disasters such as bush fires and earthquakes. [443], Twitterbots are capable of influencing public opinion about culture, products, and political agendas by automatically generating mass amounts of tweets through imitating human communication. [82], On February 11, 2015, Twitter announced that it had acquired Niche, an advertising network for social media stars, founded by Rob Fishman and Darren Lachtman. [114] Android testers were given access to the platform in early March 2021. In response, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone published a blog post suggesting the possibility of legal action against the hacker. 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