Today’s featured stories Microsoft and Amazon begin public rollout of first Alexa-Cortana integrations, promise more to come Cortana meets Alexa, Lesson No. 1: Keep your Windows 10 PC away from… Read More
Earlier this year Jeff Reifman — a veteran of the Seattle tech industry — contacted Grab Your Wallet co-founder Shannon Coulter with an idea. He had compiled lists of Twitter accounts… Read More
After four years as the VP of design at Twitter — and two years on his couch — Mike Davidson is returning to work, accepting a position as the head of… Read More
Twitter reported record profits and exceeded expectations for revenue in the second quarter, but a drop in user count due to the social network’s efforts to remove bots and fake… Read More
Today’s featured stories Amazon’s record quarter: $2.5B in profits is biggest ever as tech giant comes up just short on sale Trump targets Twitter, his favorite communication platform, following reports… Read More
President Donald Trump weighed in on reports that Twitter has been “shadow banning” prominent conservative figures, criticizing his preferred communication platform on the social network itself. Twitter “SHADOW BANNING” prominent… Read More
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has had enough of the “anger video game.” That’s how she describes what it’s like to be on Twitter in these days of heightened… Read More
Seattle-based social media sales intelligence firm Socedo is shutting down next month, and its four-person engineering team will join Azuqua, the cloud software integration and automation company, also based in… Read More
In Seattle, we loved Richard Sherman for “The Tip.” In San Francisco, they’ll come to love him for the unblock. Sherman, the former Seahawks star who signed with the 49ers… Read More
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Blocking people you don’t agree with on Twitter may be a good way to silence them in your social sphere, but when you’re president of the United States, it’s unconstitutional,… Read More
After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing some world-class systems for keeping the service alive. It announced… Read More
Steve Ballmer has sold all of his shares in Twitter — but not because he doesn’t believe in the future of the company — the former Microsoft CEO told CNBC… Read More
For years, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been on a dogged mission to dominate everything from e-commerce to space travel, from streaming entertainment to cloud computing. But there is one… Read More
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The majority of links on Twitter are shared by bots, a term for accounts that use automation in place of human decision-making. That’s according to a study released this week… Read More
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Twitter took down more than 1.2 million accounts for tweeting terrorism-related content between 2015-2017, the company announced in its biannual transparency report Thursday. The announcement is part of Twitter’s broader effort… Read More
The superhero mega-hit “Black Panther” isn’t just leaving its mark on the box office record books. The film is hashtagging its way to history on Twitter, too. Director Ryan Coogler’s… Read More
Washington, D.C. is extending an invitation to Silicon Valley. The Federal Elections Commission has asked the CEOs of Facebook, Alphabet, and Twitter to return to the nation’s capital and testify… Read More
A study published in the journal Science provides hard evidence that fake news — or, to use the researchers’ preferred term, false news — spreads via Twitter significantly more rapidly than verified… Read More
Shares of Twitter were up 25 percent after the company posted its first-ever profit for the fourth quarter of 2017. Twitter reported GAAP earnings per share of $0.12 on revenue of… Read More
Here’s some Friday internet advice for you: Skip the memo, and go with the mop. An apparently intoxicated gentleman armed with the business end of a mop tried unsuccessfully to… Read More
In a letter sent Wednesday, Congressional Democrats scolded the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter for failing to adequately investigate whether Russian-linked accounts amplified a campaign to release a controversial memo… Read More
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg’s corporate Twitter account has lain fallow like an Iowa farm field ever since he took over the top post in mid-2015, but now it’s time for… Read More
Twitter says it has followed through on its commitment to Congress by identifying and suspending more than 50,000 automated accounts linked to Russian agents – and alerting 677,775 Twitter users… Read More
Seattle grey is one thing. Amazon probably doesn’t want a giant, menacing, black, monster cloud thing hanging over its eventual second headquarters. On a day when the tech giant released… Read More
“Stranger Things” star David Harbour is continuing his social media love affair with fans. The actor, who plays Chief Hopper on the popular Netflix series, is mining Twitter for retweets… Read More
Google Chromecast, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and other streaming devices won’t be around in five years. That’s the prediction Twitter COO Anthony Noto made last week at CES on… Read More
Seattle writer — and viral baking sensation — Geraldine DeRuiter is back on Twitter after having her account taken over, wiped clean and locked by a hacker. DeRuiter is the voice… Read More